Ideal Bite

Um, when I was a kid, according to me mom, my favorite toys were canning rings. 

And if you think about it, they are pretty great toys:

Bang them together?  Make a lot of noise.

Chew on them?  They taste sort of metalic and make for good teething rings (OK, so I don't know if the metal is so healthy, but I turned out OK).

Throw them on the ground?  Make a lot of noise.

Sadly, not many people these days are canners, so there are woefully few canning rings around.  But the bigger point is this:

Toys are amazing.   Toys can be educational.

But boxes can be toys.  Do we really all need all this STUFF?

-Heather... off to try REALLY hard not to go completely broke buying toys for my brand-new, day-old nephew...

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