How Cheap Toys Made Millennial Parents Miserable | Business Insider Explains | Insider News

Senior correspondent Katie Notopoulos breaks down why toy prices are at an all-time low, and how cheaper toys are making life harder for millennial parents.

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00:00 - Intro
00:09 - Inflation Rates
00:41 - Cost Of Toys
01:41- Too Many Toys
02:51- Credits

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How Cheap Toys Made Millennial Parents Miserable | Business Insider Explains | Insider News

[FatPasta]

Yeah, toys are the reason, not inflation, not the wage gap, not home prices or healthcare or the need to be 100% present at work after hours. It's toys guys, she nailed it

[Eminetics]

No. The reason is because they are broke, wages have not kept up with costs and as such people who are having kids cannot actually afford the kids leading to financial crisis.

[bikedawg]

Most toys are complete GARBAGE that just fills landfill. The best toys are wooden things you can build with. The very best gifts are books which stimulate the imagination and just about the only way to combat ignorance and stupidity. The worst gifts are smartphones--once on social media, your kid is doomed.

[parrotcracker]

The basic ones are less than $10. It's called the Fashionista line. Tbh, they are POORLY made compared to my 90s to early 2000s Barbies. The plastic body is flimsy, they have no weight. What's worse is the color reveal Barbies. They are more expensive and their bodies are the worst.

[haaabero]

no one cares about enviroment but thinking about quality of toys. Plastic toys today are garbage!

[ab_]

Really? I was at our local store to buy a gift for my niece and all of the barbies were USD 15 and up

[magnanimus]

The only plastic toys that are actually good are Legos as you can make an infinite number of toy variations with the same volume of product.

[jamesbolen]

The “no gifts” invitation is less likely to be “we don’t want the toys” as it may be we understand that for a single mom, and there are a lot more of them now days, they really can’t afford a decent gift. Also to buy anything age appropriate of decent quality is a bank breaker for almost anyone.

[jewelsmarie]

I have an idea for you if you have too many toys, you can donate them you can give them to a daycare. You can’t even give them to the hospital.

[dqena]

People shouldn’t have kids if they’re not financially or mentally capable enough to secure their future for 18 years.

[thevirtuouscollector]

Thank you for wasting 3 minutes of my time on first world problems. "Oh no, I have too much toys, my life is ruined!"

[dantenapoles]

I kept thinking "if all she is worried about are toys, I guess she is doing real good", toys really? Who hired her and why was this produced? Toys?! The world is bracing for impact and toys?

[kylehamm]

I wish hot wheels would stop increasing in price. They aren’t 75 cents anymore or even 99 cents

[CloudTears]

Parents can also just not buy so many toys. Not necessary to have a house filled with them, unless you are spoiling the child.

[sov]

Kids want a phone these days, not plastic toys

[augustinf]

Ok; as a parent that was really really into my toys as a kid: they don’t make them as they used to. Take a hot wheel: the bottom is not metal anymore and they have no moving parts. Barbies: they are cheap plastic, the legs don’t bend. Si on and so on.. it’s a race to make everything cheaper and crapier ; the kids don’t care. Like take a transformer from 39 years ago; they were super evolved. Today they are cheap plastic and have very lazy mechanisms. Legos are lazy, much easier than they used to with over simplified manuals. There are no quality toys anymore. Obviously they are cheaper than they used to…

[Burnlit]

The issue is not with the high amount of toy but how they are a cheap source of entertainment that parents can give to their children right now when they are tired from life. Similar to how busy parents give tablets to their kids so they can go to sleep or whatever. The result of this is that the parent feels miserable cleaning up the aftermath of their kid(s) during their not so deserving break.

[ldFashioned]

We have 3 kids. We're drowning in toys! But by very little. So many people give them away and we just end up having so many.

[ProAlchemist]

Toys used to be marketed to kids on TV, especially Saturday mornings. Now toys are marketed to boomer grandparents on TV. Gotta keep those prices the same as when they bought the same toys in the 80s

[jerusalemspeaks]

Sorry for the loss of these brave men.