no longer relevant?

One of the means we have of getting Hila to thin out her collection of items which she's outgrown is to convince her to pass something along to the babies and small children in our community whom she loves. After going through her extensive toy collection she decided that she could part with a small doll and car which she probably hasn't played with in at least four years. She chose the family to whom she wanted to pass it on, put it in a bag, and gave it to the mother of two lovely small children.

But the next day she was despondent - she insisted that although she hadn't played with that car in ages, she hadn't really wanted to part with it. She wanted it back. Our attempts at convincing her that it was a toy perfectly suited to younger children fell on deaf ears. She decided to find another toy, a cloth frog (which I happened to really like, but that's another story) and "trade" it for the car.

And now the car is once again in our home, sitting around unused, and only Hila knows the secret of why she wants to keep it.


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