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We have very very limited storage at our house. My LO is 15 months & while she plays by herself, she generally doesn't play alone in her bedroom so I just rotate out toys between her bedroom & the living room (we spend most of our day there since it's an open space that also connects with the kitchen). I organize them a little differently each time so that she gets a different perspective on her toys but I have no real system. Every Monday I swap some toys around. It takes me all of 10 minutes & that's it. It keeps the toy clutter in both her room and the living room managed and it helps to make sure all of the toys get at least some use.

I usually put away one whole category at once and then leave out one or two elements from each of the other categories. So all of the blocks might get put away for a few weeks and I will leave out two or three puzzles, two sets of food, some trains or cars, dolls or certain stuffed animals etc. Basically, if it gets played with in the same manner I consider it a category.

A few times a year I rearrange things completely, if the doll house was in the play room and the play kitchen was in the living room, swap them because they will be seen at different times of day then. Two large bins that fit in a closet is my preferred method but sometimes I have needed to be creative with storage because it's hard to come by that much space in an easy to access area.

It's worth noting that it's not as complicated as it seems once you start because as I pull toys out of the bin to put back in rotation I just swap it with something equivalent. I usually put away about 1/2-2/3 of the toys.

@ShootingStar: you can probably just do it mentally, I mostly just went through the play areas and grabbed things and put them in a box then fine tuned as time went on. It would overwhelm me to no end to try and put all the toys in one place and sort them! I just tried to keep in mind the different categories of stuff the kids played with a lot. I would even take mental notes for a few days before I planned to rotate, like X is used everyday so I will leave it out for now but no one uses the kitchen at all so what can I do to make it more interesting again.