Grown-ups are buying more toys than preschoolers — to the tune of $1 billion

The New York Post ^ | March 30, 2025 | Raquel Laneri

[Buttons12]

I respect pet owners.
But pet collectors who substitute dogs and cats for children, that’s a whole different thing.

[9YearLurker]

I know what you’re describing, but I’m not sure how and why you draw the line on what’s acceptable.

If they didn’t have kids or pets, would that be better?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Check out Rod Stewart’s model train setup."

Thanks for the head's up. I'd not seen it before. Quite an art form in its own way.

[Chickensoup]

The squishmallows remind me of the little statues one could buy at every store that said things like I love you this much...

Popular in the early 70s

I once visited a lesbian I knew at her home and she and her girlfriend had hundreds of them on this display shelving. Along with nudes and seminude pin up pictures of women. You know like the Farrah Fawcett

[dakine]

My toy = Buying a PING driver. To each his own...

[Vaduz]

Indeed many a carpets got wet at 2:00am over those.

[BradyLS]

There’s a Youtube video where a team assembles a jeep drives it off a TV sound stage in…under four minutes!?!

[BradyLS]

😉🙂[In my best John Cleese:] “I see, I see! I get the picture! If I have a big model train setup, I’m a broken adult with an unhappy childhood! But if _Rod Stewart_ has one, it’s some sort of work of art!”

[MoochPooch]

I wish I still had a lot of my childhood toys, like my collection of real steel Tonka trucks.

Tonka trucks were great! Handsome & sturdy. My kid brother loved them!

[SunkenCiv]

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[FreedomPoster]

If you have dogs, the small Nyla-Bones are almost as bad as Legos.