getting rid of anything with a face has always made me feel profoundly guilty. the other day i was taking out the trash at work and saw someone's abandoned toy pig suffocating in the bag. i tried to ignore him but i felt a responsibility for his life so i carefully maneuvered my arm through all the half-empty coffee cups and took him out, then put him in the back room.. next to a toy dog i'd also fished out of the garbage a few weeks ago..
naturally i've been unable to part with every stuffed animal i've ever had. for some reason, dolls and other similar toys have been easier for me to part with over the years, but something about getting rid of a plushie of any kind hurts my soul. i can't even donate them to the thrift.. i just envision their little button eyes staring at me trying to understand why i don't want them anymore.. them collecting dust overnight on the shelf as nobody picks them up day after day.. and then what if they end up in a landfill after that!!!
the one i'd like to let go of the most is this stuffed pink manatee with soulless eyes that someone i'm no longer friends with gave me during the worst year of my life. her name is the lighthouse (2019) because that was my favorite movie of that year and i do not think i was sober when i received her. since she dredges up bad memories, i keep trying to put her in my little donation box but i can't do it. i feel so bad. they designed her with these empty half-lidded eyes for some reason and she looks like she's been through enough already.
i've been trying to find some sort of charity/toy drive/women's shelter situation that'll take all these toys but there aren't any local to me.. i hope they find a home someday
Oct 24, 2024
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I’m not going to lie, I used to be the type to cringe at adults whose beds were covered in stuffed animals and still do believe there should be a cut off but I just recently began growing my family of plushies and it’s really upgraded my lounging time, of which there is a lot of. Sometimes I’m not sure what my overall aesthetic is or how I want my home to look but I think it’s somewhere between Korean minimalism and straight up age regressed paradise. I’m unashamed of the joy it brings me to walk into a store, suddenly come across a plushie I feel drawn to and bring it home with a newfound name/personality. My first one was a four foot teddy bear handed down to me by a follower after I posted how much I wanted a giant teddy bear. Shout out to them. His name is Genji, named after Murasaki Shikibu’s “The Tale of Genji”: a classic work of Japanese literature written in the early 11th century centered on the life and loves of a handsome son born to an Emperor. Then, I have a Harbour seal who’s name I forgot so I renamed him Melvin, a grey bunny named Roger and a pink squishmallow named Martha May Vicky Christina Barcelona. I don’t know why they’re mostly male so don’t ask me. I look forward to extending this family.
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Hey guys sorry i disappeared. I feel like when i accidentally neglect a stuffed animal and it makes me sad !
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I had a small bear named Beary (not pictured). He had a little bib and a tongue that stuck out. I’m not sure what happened to him, but I imagine he needed to see the world just as I did. We both know we’re never truly be apart.
That said, I had a ton of stuffed friends and I’ve never liked hierarchy. All my stuffed pals had their part to play in my life and I’m grateful to each of them.
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