The Home Depot 'Real Tools for Kids' kits from the early 2000s are still being used today — a testament to their quality. Reddit users report these sets hold up for decades and are worth hunting down secondhand or finding modern equivalents.
When someone posts that they're still using a kids' tool kit from 2002, that's the ultimate endorsement. Hunt one down at an estate sale or find a modern equivalent — this concept of real, durable, kid-scaled tools is exactly right.
“I liked it so much I started getting kits to make such things at home and eventually got a little kit of "real tools for kids" to build them”
