There isn't a decor that can be complimented by stuffed toys if you are an adult (over 16).
On the other hand, I gave my new grandbaby a stuffed pink dragon for XMas. She loves it.
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Women and Stuffed Animals ('Plush Toys')
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There isn't a decor that can be complimented by stuffed toys if you are an adult (over 16).
On the other hand, I gave my new grandbaby a stuffed pink dragon for XMas. She loves it.
heh...funny seeing this poll today.
yesterday i was cleaning the house, and i decided to reorganize some things. my husband and i both have our childhood teddy bears (dale and brownie) as well as a few assorted small beanie care bears. these stuffies all live in a basket together. i actually moved them into the closet, because i didn't want them out in the open...i didn't want our friends laughting at us.
i voted that it's ok sometimes, but i personally don't like to have mine out on display.
yesterday i was cleaning the house, and i decided to reorganize some things. my husband and i both have our childhood teddy bears (dale and brownie
) as well as a few assorted small beanie care bears. these stuffies all live in a basket together. i actually moved them into the closet, because i didn't want them out in the open...i didn't want our friends laughting at us. i voted that it's ok sometimes, but i personally don't like to have mine out on display.
No problem whatsoever! We have about 60 of the blighter's around the house and the misses can remember the name she has given to everyone of them.
Started of collecting on holidays etc and it went from there, so I have no problems with them.
Started of collecting on holidays etc and it went from there, so I have no problems with them.
dated a girl once that seemed taken with a big stuffed teddy bear i won for her at a fair.
after a couple dates she invited me inside her apt. she had OVER 1600 TEDDY BEARS INSIDE A ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT.
of course she was quite discriminate in her tastes -- not a one of them was any other kind of item -- they were all bears.
thinking back on it, i'm wondering why that relationship never bloomed into something greater.
i've met people who collect all sorts of things: met a guy that has a couple thousand tonka type trucks; a woman that has a couple thousand salt&pepper shakers;
i even met a guy that has hundreds of old coins and another with many many postage stamps.
people collect baseball cards, old movies, playboy magazines, string, autographs, etc.
some people collect women.
some people collect money (bill gates and his ilk).
i collect computer cables. i have several dozens of them: display, rj11, vga, xvga, hdmi, dvi, power adapter, monitor, serial, parallel, scsi, ribbon mini, midi, microphone, usb, FW, cat5, the list goes on.
after a couple dates she invited me inside her apt. she had OVER 1600 TEDDY BEARS INSIDE A ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT.
of course she was quite discriminate in her tastes -- not a one of them was any other kind of item -- they were all bears.
thinking back on it, i'm wondering why that relationship never bloomed into something greater.
i've met people who collect all sorts of things: met a guy that has a couple thousand tonka type trucks; a woman that has a couple thousand salt&pepper shakers;
i even met a guy that has hundreds of old coins and another with many many postage stamps.
people collect baseball cards, old movies, playboy magazines, string, autographs, etc.
some people collect women.
some people collect money (bill gates and his ilk).
i collect computer cables. i have several dozens of them: display, rj11, vga, xvga, hdmi, dvi, power adapter, monitor, serial, parallel, scsi, ribbon mini, midi, microphone, usb, FW, cat5, the list goes on.
Personally, I don't really see anything wrong in and of itself with having stuffed animals. I still have a few lying around that have some sentimental value to them, and my mom has collected several teddy bears that my sisters and I have "outgrown" over the years.
I do find it a little odd when anyone has a huge obsession about anything and must have everything relating to it. For example, my good friend had a roommate in college that had to collect everything relating to M&M's. I just didn't get the obession and thought it was weird. To each their own, I guess.
I do find it a little odd when anyone has a huge obsession about anything and must have everything relating to it. For example, my good friend had a roommate in college that had to collect everything relating to M&M's. I just didn't get the obession and thought it was weird. To each their own, I guess.
I have three stuffed animals. One is a little care bear, one is a sheriff dog that I made when I was a kid, and one is a teddy bear a camper gave me.
And one cat.
One is a little care bear, one is a sheriff dog that I made when I was a kid, and one is a teddy bear a camper gave me.And one cat.
Now that is a magnificent beast. Well done.Me too. I can never look at stuffed animals the same again. I like them too.
Thanks. I feel a little less worried now, after seeing the way the votes have played out.
I have a few from my childhood. My mom sewed stuffed animals for stores, so I would come home from school to find 20 llamas or sheep in the dining room. She made a very cool possum, with babies hanging from the tail.
Here are the highlights:
1 Bear. He's red and big. I was about 3, a guy came in a van to pick up an order, and there was a red bear. When I saw him carrying it out of the house, I suddenly started crying and told my mom I had to have him. This made a huge impression, as I was a very easy-going, docile child - not at all one who cried to get what she wanted. My mom told me bear had to go to the store, but she would arrange to get him back. For YEARS I believed that it was the same bear I finally got, but of course my mom sewed late into the night that night.
2 Dumpy Dump. My mother's very first hand-sewed stuffed animal - or dairy item, I should say. Humpty Dumpty, the egg. Hand embroidered face. A true classic.
They both live with me in Norway now.
Who cares? It's certainly no weirder than a guy who can quote sports stats ad infinitum.
If you don't like girls who collect stuffed animals (I personally don't much care for girls who do) don't date them. But if they want to collect 'em, have at it.
We've actually gotten quite a few stuffies lately, but we also have a brand-new kid. He likes to drool on them and try to stuff them in his mouth, which is OK with me.
The other family member who loves stuffed animals is my dog. Of course he doesn't collect them so much as destroy them, but he certainly loves them in the meantime...
If you don't like girls who collect stuffed animals (I personally don't much care for girls who do) don't date them. But if they want to collect 'em, have at it.
We've actually gotten quite a few stuffies lately, but we also have a brand-new kid. He likes to drool on them and try to stuff them in his mouth, which is OK with me.
The other family member who loves stuffed animals is my dog. Of course he doesn't collect them so much as destroy them, but he certainly loves them in the meantime...
Oh yeah. My dog currently has a squeaky reindeer, a Baghera panther, a duck that quacks when bitten, a parrot, and a floppy-eared dog with a big yellow heart on its back we've labelled the "love puppy". He's been through so many of these toys over the years, although he's a lot less destructive than he used to be
One or two is fairly normal, but if a grown woman has them all over the bed, I would advise you to run like hell. I don't care how hot she is, she must have some scary unresolved issues. She's probably a psycho. She's probably the kind of woman who will cut of your penis and throw it out of the window of a moving car. A real bunny boiler.
I haven't done a detailed investigation into this. It's just a hunch.
I haven't done a detailed investigation into this. It's just a hunch.
I sure hope so. I've mentioned a couple of mine before: the stuffed lemur named Robert E. Lemur and the Tiger named QuickBite, who is an Apple fan.
I have lots of other stuffed animals, my wife has lots of stuffed animals, and our kids have lots of stuffed animals. It's clearly a genetic weakness that runs in the family. I once tried to count how many stuffed animals live in our house, but I lost count around 100.
I find it hard to believe that you lost count....
Don't you have a database where they are organized by animal, color, size, fluffiness and various other parameters you can somehow work into various graphs, charts and statistical phenomena to try and predict the new additions?
I have one, from when i was a little kid.
Coming Soon: Picture gallery thread "Post your Plush Toy Collection!"
Coming Soon: Picture gallery thread "Post your Plush Toy Collection!"
If they were a static collection and stayed in one place, it would be easier, but they keep moving from room to room and new beasts arrive all the time. We should put a "Zoo" sign on the front door and charge admission.
QuickBite the Tiger was one of a herd of animals that showed up at my house. The kids had discovered a collection of nine semi-wild stuffed animals at a toy store and insisted that two of them, a panda and a gorilla, had to come home and live with us. I said hi to the new family members, and thought that was that.
But the next day when I came home from work, they other 7 had joined us as well. My family had made another visit to the toy store and come home with the rest of the collection! The "Wild Nine", as they are known, take up a lot of space (they are each about 2 feet tall), so they live on the sofa unless humans want to sit there, in which case they find other places to roost.
MacRumors members are constantly jumping about and changing post rates but that doesn't stop you from analyzing us twice a year. I'm surprised you don't just go through the house 2x or more a year with a digital camera and freeze them in time so you can analyze trends in the stuffed animal acquisition and migration....