| I am one of the many who are being targeted | | | | can remember. But don't get me completely |
| for a trend in a particular sales pitch. What do you | | | | wrong, plastic toys were just becoming the fad |
| mean? You are probably asking. Well the baby | | | | and I had the likes of Airfix models and Action |
| boomers (which is becoming the buzz word in | | | | Man figures as presents too. |
| selling) are the generation born after the second | | | | Not all of the wooden toys I buy for my children |
| world war between 1946 and 1964, as the | | | | and grandchildren are because I have this nostalgia |
| wording means, this was a peek in children being | | | | ingrained deep down inside of me, no, it's to do |
| born. Thus a lot of sales are being targeted | | | | partly with the thought of how many years |
| towards these adults and trends are watched to | | | | plastic toys have been pumped out from the |
| see where best to put money into a product to | | | | production line and have been broken then |
| sell. | | | | discarded and put into landfill where they will last |
| Myself, have over the past four or five years | | | | forever never to degrade. |
| begun to buy toys for my grand children and my | | | | It is also to do with the environment, landfill is not |
| younger family. These toys have not been the | | | | forever, more places where products can be |
| type you would expect, they are a more | | | | converted to reclaim are essential and one way is |
| traditional type, natural wooden toys. So if a trend | | | | to use more products that will biodegrade or can |
| becomes apparent, just like more sales in natural | | | | be recycled. Wood has both these benefits, it will |
| wooden toys, then a push will be made by the | | | | degrade in the ground and it can also be recycled |
| retail giants to sell this kind of toy. | | | | into wood chippings to be used on footpaths or |
| Getting back to why I have chosen kids wooden | | | | on gardens as a weed prohibitor. |
| toys is really a combination of events and | | | | So to me wood is good and I will be buying more |
| attitudes that has brought this change to me. I | | | | and more natural wooden toys as my children |
| look back to my childhood and remember mainly | | | | and grandchildren grow up. Maybe they will pass |
| wooden toys being given as presents to me on | | | | these toys onto their children to let them enjoy |
| Birthdays and Christmas. Wooden hobby horse, | | | | the hours of fun they have given to them. |
| wooden trains and building bricks are just a few I | | | | |