Is the Talking Plush Toy with Recordable Phrases (generic brand) worth buying?

Skip it — save that twenty-five dollars and put it toward literally anything else on this list. Listen, shopping for a kid who already has everything is genuinely hard, and anyone who tells you otherwise probably doesn’t have a seven-year-old with six doting grandparents. The through-line in all the picks that worked for us is that they either do something new with skills she already has, give her a reason to be outside or active, or have that magic open-ended quality where she decides what the toy is for. The stuff that flopped — and there has been plenty of it not on this list — was almost always single-purpose and exhausted its novelty in under a week. My one practical piece of dad advice: if you’re truly stumped, an experience beats a thing almost every time. A pottery class, a cooking lesson, a trip to a trampoline park — those become memories instead of clutter. But if it has to be something unwrappable under a tree, I hope this list saves you at least one frantic Tuesday night in a toy aisle. If you’ve found something that works great for your kid-who-has-everything, drop it in the comments — Maisie’s birthday is in April and I am already behind.

Note W000795. Filed.