
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.