Giving up binky

This is apparently harder than I had expected. A binky is what we call a pacifier, and currently my youngest is in the process of giving them all up in favor of being 'big'. I had decided before she was born that I did not want to have to go through the nightmare of trying to break a thumb-sucker. So for her first 6 weeks of life, she wore socks on her hands. Then it was a trial teaching her to take the binky. We went through a slew of them as they would be lost or mangled (usually by dogs, though rarely ours). Now that it's been a couple of years, it's time for binky to go away and leave nothing in it's wake. It has been nearly a week without it and so far she is just beginning to accept that she will no longer have it for nap or bedtime. While some may think that she's had it too long already, when I think about how I didn't break my second until age 7 or my first until age 9 from the thumbsucking, I believe that 2 is a perfectly reasonable frame of time to wean from the bink. Besides, I may boil them and store the good ones for this next one. After all, binks don't grow on trees and are actually rather pricey, especially the orthodontic ones I prefer to use.