legos (that I've STOPPED cleaning up before I vacuum years ago...and strangely enough, the bin is getting smaller and smaller...my son is definently warned to clean them up, and understands that if they are on the floor, they will be vacuumed up), playmobil (same thing happens with the playmobil), our Brio Mec set is part plastic, and so are some of our bath toys. The legos and Playmobil are toys that I bought 8ish years ago, and haven't bought more, and won't.
We do have plastic bins to put toys in because my son has a pretty severe dust allergy, and wicker is just a MAGNET for dust.
One thing we don't do, that lots of wooden toy doers do is all the play kitchen wood food. We just use sticks, rocks and other things. I think it inspires more creative play. A wooden corn on the cob, is always going to be a wooden corn on the cob. A stick from a recent nature walk, can be a corn on the cob, a perch for a bird, a spoon..whatever!
We do use some "tupperware" sorts of things, but just what I need to use as I increase our stash of glass (and replace the ones the kids have broken!)
I do use those plastic tippy cups for the car (but am now wondering if the plastic lids for those...they just snap on...would fit any of our glasses), but otherwise we've always used glass/ceramic. Restaurant dishes are the most durable, and can either be bought new at a restaurant suppy place, or used at a thrift store.
One thing that I just won't do in wood is a high chair. I did that once, and man...it was ALWAYS disgusting! SO hard to keep clean. So I just opt for a used cheap plastic one, and send it back to Goodwill when I'm done with it.
I LOVE Stacy's post in the other thread...fancy wood toys are cool, but it's probably even better for the environment to just let them play with a box!
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