Today, I finally gave away all of the stuffed animals that I've been hoarding for years. Proud, I told my family. They congratulated me by buying me stuffed animals. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my dog showed me her latest kill. Too bad it was the stuffed animals my dead grandmother had given me as a child that had a lot of sentimental value to me. FML
Today, my husband convinced me to donate all the sentimental items around our house, like the kids' old toys. Now I feel absolutely gutted, like we gave away tons of our family history, but everyone else is so happy that things are less cluttered, so I just play along. I feel so empty. FML
Today, while at Six Flags my boyfriend won a huge stuffed animal for me. After a whole day of carrying it around, when he dropped me off he told me that he wants the stuffed animal back. He just didn't want to carry it around all day. FML
Today, I bought my niece a huge stuffed teddy bear for her birthday because I wanted to be the cool aunt/uncle. She hugged it, smiled, and then immediately hugged the gift bag instead, because apparently it made a "funny" crinkly noise. I have officially been defeated by packaging. FML
Today, I got married. I received a beautifully wrapped gift from my dad. I was full of excitement until I opened it and found two taxidermied rabbits. The ones I had when I was in the fifth grade. FML
Today, a tarantula joined my stuffed animal collection in its drawer. It, unfortunately, wasn't stuffed. FML
Today, I found an old toy that I gave to my daughter several years ago. It was still unopened, and long forgotten, so I decided to re-gift it to one of my friend's children. My daughter immediately remembered her "favorite" toy and started crying inconsolably. FML
Today, my 8 year-old niece gave me back a Fluttershy plush I gifted her 4 years ago. When I told her it was a gift from the heart, she insisted on exchanging it for something of equal value. FML
Today, my daughter had a meltdown when I told her I donated some of her old toys to Goodwill. It turns out Toy Story has taught her that toys have feelings and that she has a meaningful relationship with them. She's in her teens. FML
Today, I was at work when my mother called. She gave me great news that she had finally cleaned out my room and all those "old and useless" books that I had in there. Those "useless" books that she had just trashed were all antiques and worth about $500 each. There were 27 books in there. FML
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lachy15 15
Keep them if they have sentimental value. I kept mine and I'm a guy.
ScottyFoxx 10
Maybe they wanted you to keep it?
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Obey_StudBoii 23
I still have all of my stuffed animals which I plan on passing down to my children someday. I have one that I've had since I was 4 and it has a cape attached to it. Then I have one that i got after a car accident, which was this year. The car swerved to the dirt road, went 6 ft in the air then flipped over 3 times. It has sentimental meaning.
crazytwinsmom 25
I've had one for almost 50 years that was in a plane crash with me. I'm never getting rid of that one.
Obey_StudBoii 23
#35 Im sorry to hear about the plane crash. The good part is that you're alive. That's quite a long time and it's very understandable though. Did you suffer from ptsd?
crazytwinsmom 25
Thanks, I didn't like flying much after that but have gotten better about it over the years.
Obey_StudBoii 23
#40 No problem. I can understand that. I would be scared to get on a plane after that. With me I have problems sitting in the front seat of the car since I was the passenger in the front seat. I've had horrible ptsd but I'm learning to cope with it.
TM24D 15
Well that destroyed the whole point of it.
XxcaitanatorXx 12
family gotta love them
raphanne_fml 33
I'm 24, my teddy bear is 24, and I still sleep cuddling up with him.
xXNerrrdXx 16
but stuffed animals are cute !!! D:
MakaylaReneeB 8
They probably think it's cute.
MoodyPanda19 14
Give them to Octavian... He can use them :p
Carebeareatu 23
Hey! Keeping a few stuffed animals around isn't all bad, OP! I have a few I keep with me from my childhood, and even sleep with the one my boyfriend gave me a few years back. (:
Kkkdawg 27
Ugh I have a similar story.. I recently purged my closet and got rid of almost 4 full huge garbage bags of clothes. I went on vacation to visit family and my aunt approached me with a bunch of clothes she planned on giving me. I told her I didn't need them and went on my way. I later noticed she had hidden them in my suitcase. They mean well :/
False_Stupidity 42
Nothing wrong with keeping/collecting stuffed animals... My wife has a large collection of bears and knowing that she loves them I even buy her a new one from time to time.