
So I bought this beautiful wooden dollhouse for my younger girls for Christmas. On Christmas Eve, I began making the usual preparations, including the assembly of toys that required it. When I opened the box for the dollhouse, I nearly wept. There were at least 200 pieces, including some 5-inch-long wooden sticks. They might as well have given me a tree branch and a whittling knife. Even after I had started using some power tools, the assembly required over 4 hours.