*UPDATE! Photos and Final Tally*
My nearly scientific calculations are complete: you donated THOUSANDS of dollars and an entire BUS FULL OF TOYS!!! Thank you for making Christmas bright for so many kids this year!!!!
Photos...
*END UPDATE*
Notes:
🎅 2022 is our 13th annual Stuff-A-Bus Toy Drive.
🎅 Where: Sobeys Vaughan Harvey Boulevard
🎅 When: it happens from 6a to 6p on Thursday 1 December and Friday 2 December
🎅 More: we take your toy donations, gift cards, and cash donations and we stuff 'em in a Codiac Transpo bus. Then the Salvation Army gets your donation to a kid this Christmas!
🎅Thanks!
🎅 Bonus Toy Notes:
-- The Most Popular Toys of ALL TIME! (https://cossykids.com/blogs/cossykids-ideas/the-top-ten-best-selling-toys-of-all-time-a-sneak-peek-at-the-most-popular-playthings-of-all-time) ... including Rubik's Cube, Barbie, Lego, Teddy Bear, Tamagotchi, Star Wars Figures, and Yo-Yo!!
-- Toys to avoid donating:
1) The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab... from the 1950's/ contained ACTUAL URANIUM!/ link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_Laboratory)
2) Snacktime Cabbage Patch Doll... so bitey!/ link (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1997/01/07/mattel-pulls-plug-on-hair-eating-cabbage-patch-doll/4eb10f53-a923-44bc-a3b0-683ef5d764a9/)
3) Rollerblade Barbie... so much burning!/ link (http://web.mit.edu/hershey/www/humor/dave/dave3.html)
4) Moon Shoes... so bone-breaky/ link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_shoes)
5) Metal Playground Slides... hot hot hot!/ rusty and sharp!/ gave me lock jaw!/ link (https://nerdist.com/article/40-foot-tall-metal-giant-slide-detroit-hurts-people-video/)
-- BEST TOYS OF 2022... (https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/childrens-products/g39752807/best-new-toys-2022/)
-- if none of the above info appeals to you, perhaps you'd be interested in this suggestion brought to you by Johnson's Steak Knives and the Canadian Steak Knife Colition (*may contain affiliate links*)...
If you're still not sure of what kind of gifts the kids like these days, just go with a classic like steak knives... or for the younger kids, steak spoons. Also, you could go with gift cards.
-- Other toy donation ideas from past years include Frisbees (donations can be accepted from across the parking lot... just throw)... Drones (donations can be flown right into the bus and landed on the toy pile)... Avocados (this recommendation has been discontinued)... YoYos or YoYoYos (more modern)...
-- Want to give a classic toy? Maybe something from the Toy Hall of Fame!!
This year, these toys got voted in to the THF: the Top... Masters of the Universe/ He Man toys... and Lite-Brite.
This means that several finalists were NOT voted in this year... sorry, Bingo, Nerf, the piñata, and Phase 10 - it just wasn't in the cards. HIYOOOOO!!! (Phase Ten is a card game you guys.) If you want me to retire that joke, quit denying Phase Ten a spot in your weird museum." (https://apnews.com/article/2022-toy-hall-of-fame-winners-cd340d994366de66f756e52db88cc6eb)
This year, these toys got voted in to the THF: the Top... Masters of the Universe/ He Man toys... and Lite-Brite.
This means that several finalists were NOT voted in this year... sorry, Bingo, Nerf, the piñata, and Phase 10 - it just wasn't in the cards. HIYOOOOO!!! (Phase Ten is a card game you guys.) If you want me to retire that joke, quit denying Phase Ten a spot in your weird museum." (https://apnews.com/article/2022-toy-hall-of-fame-winners-cd340d994366de66f756e52db88cc6eb)
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