Singing Toy Chest! Somebody please kill it!  

We stopped buying anything that sings,blinks,or makes noise. That doesn't stop the family though. I did purchase a keyboard for Christmas it LOOKED like it had an off switch. Every single time you bump the thing it comes on.

When my daughter was 2 my mother shipped us 2 Furbies. Oh my daughter loved these little things and they did have off switches...Well one day we all went off to work and daycare and accidentally left both Furbies on..When we got home they had moved from where we left them and both toys had smoke rising from their heads..

My husband opened them to find that they'd chattered to each other all day long until they completely blew up! Thats when we stopped buying toys that "do" things..LOL

OMG!!! Those darn toys without off buttons. What is up with that. I hate those toys too. I have this stupid Barney driving wheel toy with a shifter and everything. Its cute but please note I hate Barney and his voice. So when I hear this toy go off constantly I want to take a hammer to it.LOL. Unfortanately my son loves this toy. But I think its coming to an end for Barney.

The only toys I've seen continuing to sing are the baby toys. I just take off the cell when I don't want them to sing. Some of them just need a light jolt to start singing.

Oh yeah, we have Fisher Price dollhouse toys that go off by themselves, LOL. We joke about it saying we have Casper living with us.

Thankfully we are past all the toys that have the on/off button.

Many times I have taken the batteries out of toys if they got real annoying.

ROFL! I laugh heartily at you! However, I totally agree that toy manufacturers should realize that it is the parents holding the purse strings. It's kind of funny to load up all those toys with no off switches and send them to you, though... Although, it wasn't me that bought the off-switch-less toys for P. It was our father and irritating aunt, and the cousin that only comes to Thanksgiving and Christmas and makes us uncomfortable.
By the way, I have some toys and clothes that P has outgrown that need to come to your house...

My sons' paternal grandparents bought one of them a fun little learning school bus toy years ago. Oh, it was great in that there were variously shaped blocks that could only fit in certain spots, and it had a cute little song it would play when you got it right. It also had some kind of a school bus song as well.

Of course, my sons LOVED that toy. It was a favourite of theirs. I tried the old trick of putting tape over the speaker, to soften the sound, but that wasn't enough. It got to the point where all I could hear was that stupid bus song. It haunted me day in and day out. I could not escape it!

When the paternal grandparents next visited our home to bring the boys for a visit to their house, I put together a toy package of items that would be nice for the boys to play with at their house. These were all toys that could stay at their house full time.

I haven't heard the bus song since. *sighs with great relief*

I too have to agree about the off switches on toys. One day I was sitting here at the house going through some boxes getting rid of stuff that the kids out grew or that was damaged. While going through one of the boxes in another room I heard a strange noise so I muted the tv and listened. It was my 3 yr olds Cheer Leader doll. Now this is funny but it scared me. I seriously thought the doll was going to come out of the other room and kill me (it reminded me of that movie Chucky). Yes Laugh because now it is funny. I don't know why I thought that but when the boyfriend got home from work I told him what had happened and he just busted up laughing. I made him go find the doll and remove the battery pack so that I knew it wasn't going to do anything.

I never even had a problem with this issue until my oldest daughter was 18 months old (10 years ago)
There was a freaky incident late at night involving a sleep and snore ernie doll
Scared the schnap out of me
To this day I wont buy a toy if it doesnt have an on/off switch and easy access to the battery compartment
I try to avoid all electronic toys if I can but the kids seem to ask for those more than any other kind of toy

They have to have batteries... I'd put the batteries up, to be put in as a treat when chores are done, etc. A tidy room is worth an hour of noise!

As far as I'm aware all of my sons toys have an off button YAHOO. I hear you though, they can become annoying and hard on the ears. Sometimes I think it may even cause damage for the little ones.