Seriously, go back to the original post that both of us were responding to.
Parents cleaned out a ton that the kids no longer touched.
Kids had a hissy fit and wouldn't give it up.
Parents ditched the crap anyway and kids had a bigger fit.
So parents replaced with 100.00 of new stuff.
The point being that the kids didn't play with it and the parents swept it. There should be no argument and no replacement.
I agree that there should be a share lesson in it, but the parents didn't seem to get it anyway.
Teaching children that a parent can't get rid of old toys is an entitlement attitude. If any kid of mine doesn't like that I am “bigger than her” and can do what I want, she hasn't learned yet that I am not Dr. Spock. I am her mother. I provide her with a roof over her head, food in her tummy and clothes for her back. Everything in the house is mine. If she doesn't like that, get a job. She didn't earn a THING in that house and therefore owns nothing.