My husband and my three eldest children have birthdays within a four week span. For this reason, it is extremely important for us to be very particular about buying toys or we get buried in them. Let’s be honest, new toys only have about a 4 hour lifespan (even that might be stretching it.) Then, they end up in our basement, untouched, until we decide we need to dig ourselves out. As the kids have gotten older, and the need for toys has gotten smaller, we have to be intentional on not wasting money on meaningless gifts. You may be…