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This Tonies Organizer Wasn’t Made for Fisher-Price Little People — But One Mom Says It Works Perfectly

Katy B. OlsonSenior Editor
Katy B. OlsonSenior Editor
I cover home and design with an emphasis on family life. A native New Yorker with over a decade of experience, I hold a master’s in journalism from Columbia and have worked with Architectural Digest, Business of Home, Material Bank, and others. I began my career covering workplace design for a Milan-based magazine. Off duty: chasing my two toddlers around NYC.
published Jan 29, 2026
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Have you stepped on one too many Fisher-Price Little People this week? Are you at your breaking point with tiny-toy clutter? For millennial moms like me, stepping on an abandoned Little People figurine is an empathy shortcut to our parents, whose barefoot LEGO encounters and wincing faces are still burned into collective memory. For Los Angeles mom Sara Martinez, a happy solution comes from another part of the playroom: a Tonies organizer repurposed to store and organize Little People. 

In an Instagram Reel titled “POV: You were overstimulated by your toddler’s Little People obsession,” the mom recommends the PAIYULE Case (which is available in black, dark pink, and white, and costs about $21), demonstrating how perfectly suited the organizer is to holding the figurines in place.

“Funny enough this is one of my most asked questions of where I got my Little People organizer!” writes the influencer in the post’s caption. “I’ve actually tried multiple ways to organize and store my toddler’s Little People obsession and this is by far the best one out there.” 

PAIYULE Case for Tonies Figures
$21
$21 at Amazon

Do some digging on Amazon and you’ll find a ton of similar storage to choose from; the sizing (Tonies figurines are generally longer than Little People figurines) means that those cases that are designed for a Tonie collection should be capable of holding an entire population of Little People — 24, in Martinez’s case. 

The mom’s hack struck a chord with well over a thousand commenters; most asked for the link to buy, while a few weighed in with their own tongue-in-cheek opinions: “This is a great idea, but there is no way my toddler will put them back in their place,” laughed one. “IS THAT A RUPAUL LITTLE PEOPLE TOY?!” asked another (indeed, it is). “I need this for my collection! I mean my daughters collection, of course lol 😂 ” joked another. Same, commenter, same — and any hack that prevents me stepping on a stray family of Little People figurines in the dark deserves some recognition.

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