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Keep tigger, pitch the rest.
I didn't have a lot of stuffed animals when I was a kid. Now for some reason I have about 50. 50!!!!!!
BTW, what's up with the bondage monkey tied to your bed?! Can't wait to read THAT posting!!
Well the chihuahua should be burnt, the Geddes monstrosity should be ripped apart by crows, the chickenshit Elmo should be hung from the neck until the brain is starved of oxygen, the blood-soaked Chucky should be sprinkled with holy water and buried in the garden and I'm ambivalent about the rest.
I'm all for teddy bears (and associates) in general though. You just have some shite ones.
elmo wants to be a chicken elmo wants to be a duck...cluck cluck cluck cluck
ok enough of that, vivie has that dumb doll obviously. we have the butterfly version of the anne geddes doll. it looks sort of like a dead baby in a costume to me, but i think all dolls look like dead babies and i hate. dolls.
so my vote? keep what YOU like, toss what you don't....and if you like none don't toss em out...donate them.
when I was a kid, I never had a teddy bear. then an old gf gave me one. Others followed suit--everyone started giving me bears and my office became a bear zoo--when I hit 60, I gave all but 10 of my favorite bears away to a children's shelter. I still have my two favorites--my first bear "James Brown Bear" and "Nevada Jack" (who occassonally writes satire in my blog. That's more than you wanted to know about my bears, I'm sure, but I enjoyed reading about your stuff critters so I...
Wow, so even in the world of stuffed animals, the sex stops after marriage. Or is that - the sex stops after marriage AND kids?
I'd keep everything except that evil bug baby, which I would slam in the trunk of my car, head out, and then I'd drive around like that for a while.
i'd keep tigger and the bears that jason makes bend over. the rest can go. I still have my tigger from when i was a baby - well, it's at mom's but i refused to let her get rid of it. :P
I don't have stuffed animals. Not even a teddy bear in my bed. Unless you count my...
If I said pitch the lot you may think I have no stuffed animals of my own.
And you'd be wrong...
Actually I'm not going to give the game away here... give me half an hour and I'll blog it...
(It's not like I should be working, or anything.)
The Anne Geddes doll is the one that should be taking it in the ass...considering it's already assumed the postition.
Give Elmo to the kid of someone you hate. Pitch the chihuahua - he's broken. Burn the baby - that's creepy or regift it back to your Mom - entirely appropriate under the circumstances. The wedding bears and plaqued bench - well it's tough - can you pry the plaque off and keep it? The rest should also be pitched I think or given a final wash and given to some kid if they survive. - Hey maybe you should just throw all of them in the washer, they won't come out the same and oh well, time to get rid of them.
you don't want my advice, I'm a wicked packrat. but I'm very partial to dogs, so there you go. and you've inspired me to do some cleanup. maybe one or two things don't *need* to live in my basement any longer! 
I've got a monkey on the bed post too- a souvenir from Alton Towers (theme park). And I've got a tigger- from EuroDisney. And a cat called Sam- the first present my boyfriend gave me after we got together four years ago. And I have three bears on my desk at work- all from boyfriend. It's sentimental crap city over here I tell you!
I vote for ditching the creepy doll- I am not a doll fan.
the only thing i would keep would be the wedding bears and i'd mail that ladybug baby back to your mom, or send it back via your sisters. but i've been decluttering in my home this past winter and i'm ruthless.
I saved pretty much EVERYTHING from my childhood...I could never bear to part with any of it. There were boxes upon boxes of crap in my attic. Then my children came along, so I decided to let them play with it all. In a matter of 3 days, it was all destroyed. Problem solved. Now I have room in the attic for more of my junk. I have a real problem throwing things away...but I'm getting better.
Oh, and I say, heave the Anne Geddes doll. Those things are creepy.
I vote to keep Tigger (I mean WHO doesn't love Tigger) and the bride and groom bears. As for the rest, try giving them to a day care or children's hospital.
I personally have a collection (30 or more) of bears (mostly Boyd's) that my husband has given me on special occasions. One of them even 'beared' jewerly too. Others are vacations souvenirs from places like London, Yellowstone, etc.
And in a closet upstairs a 'Gateway' cow keeps guard on all that it surveys. I just can't seem to let it go.
Lose the creepy bug baby.
Ick.
Jay I say get rid of the dog. I would keep tigger too. You should have seen my youngest face when she saw him. She kept asking me who that was. She is so adorable. Anyway back to the bears. I would keep the ones attatched to your bench. Those were a great gift. Your monkey can be put some place else if he scares you. Your new addition can live in your pocket of your robe if he likes. I dont think anyone sees you in your robe besides Jason I hope at least. Anyway I think I would get rid of the rest. That doll is scary. I had dollls when I was a kid but that one I dont think I would have played with.
I agree for your moms b-day or x-mas repack that doll back up and giver her back to mom. You have had her for a while so your mom probably doesnt even remember when she gave her to you. Or she might think you got a copy of it for her.
Get rid of the Taco Bell Dog and the Nasty Bears. Keep the rest.
I still have Raggedy Ann from when I was little as well as Mizzou Bear and a Care Bear given to me by an old boyfriend. They are all collecting dust in the basement.
my two cents : keep tigger & ditch the rest. that seems like the only item that you are really attached to.
and my disclosure of items kept for sentimental purposes : my lone stuffed animal is one given to me the day i was born by my aunt. his name is pinky, and he is pink. my creativity as a child was astounding!
having just moved, I have a pretty good idea of what's in my sentimental inventory (hint: it's a LOT less than all the crap my husband has held on to over the years!). I still have all my original Cabbage Patch Dolls; a couple of cheap clay animal figurines my grandma bought me at a rest stop; a drumstick that belonged to a boy I had a huge crush on at music camp; and the best are probably my diaries from elementary school and junior high...some of those entries will soon be making their way onto my blog for sure.
Oh I'm definitely the wrong person to ask about pitching. I still have most (if not all) of my stuffed animals from my childhood, and have added more along the way. Hell, I still have some my ex-sperm donor gave me. I say keep them all!
I love the pimp hat. :D
I say keep the wedding bears cause of the sentimental value, Scoop cause he's cool, and ditch the rest. Especially the Taco Bell dog. I can't stand that smart ass dog.
Tigger stays. Period.
The loving wife and I received the same exact wedding bears from a relative as a wedding gift. That was it. He and his wife are retired corporate lawyers who live in a huge house on Lake Erie.
I wanted to toss them day 1 but got overruled. They sit on a table in our bedroom causing me to shake my head everytime I see them.
Toss the Taco Dog and the ladybug baby. The ladybug is plain scary.
Everything but the bears and Tigger should go. That's my verdict.
The toys I've kept for sentimental reasons are:
Paddington- who was given to me on the day I was born. Talk about guilt trip if I even THINK of pitching him.
Dino- Who I carried around with me all around kindercare until the padding in his neck wore out. Now he looks like his spine is broken.
I'm sure there's a ton more that I'll have to weed through (and hopefully get rid of) once I find the box. But if I packed them, chances are they're staying. *Sigh*
I won't humiliate myself with the LONG LIST of sentimental CRAP I can't part with. But, when I get mad at The Mighty Hunter, I get the purging urge. I try to do what you've done and take a picture of the most sentimental items and put down a memory and then CHUNK IT IN THE SALVATION ARMY BOX and get some tax deductions out of it.
Keep the Tigger, burn the bloody Chuckie and donate the rest. There is a charity that distributes toys to kids in Iraq. All you do is box it and mail it over there and they do the rest.
http://www.beaniesforbaghdad.com/
Pitch them all! I say that despite handing down all my stuffed animals to my toddler. Ha it'll be years before I'll have to make the decision to toss them.
Why is it that people feel the need to give other people a krautton of stuffed animals? My father is particularly fond of giving stuffed animals. My sister loves them. Me, not so much.
Keep the wedding bears (moocho sentiment) and donate the rest to kids.
Unless of course you want to keep the pimp and ho for visual pleasure. 
Pitch it all except for the jewelery bearing bear, seven years or not...you still might get lucky with that one.
I recuse myself by the nature of my incurable 55-cat-collection, my shelf of crystal thingamies and my pile-of-shit cobalt junk. Good luck.
Tigger Stays and pass along the rest to some lucky sole!
Oh and I still have those boxes. Got onther one last week. If I could figure out how to post pictures on my blog, I would show off my collections of boxes.
I'd keep the kinky sex bears, Tigger, and the wedding bears. (If only because you have the little bench for the wedding bears, and it would be silly to have one without the other.) All the rest can go.
All my sentimental things, I'd have to do a post of my own...
But if you're a true purger, lose them all. The things you own end up owning you!
I think Chuckie, Elmo, and Tigger should go. I don't know why. Brian and I try and limit the kids' animal stash to three animals per child. Three. I go in their bedrooms and find three and confiscate the others and put them in a basket in our room. Why after doing that will I find 5 or six animals on their bed? Where do they come from!
Tigger is a must keep, but I'm biased, Tigger is my hero. Chicken Dance Elmo is hilarious, but would've made it to the Goodwill a long time ago; the Anne Geddes thing is just wrong; keep the bears (kinky and married); the Taco Bell dog is a goner. Although, the 'I need a bigger box' still makes me laugh...sad, but true.
And now my confession: I have a ratty koala bear named Humphrey that I will never part with. I've had him since I was about 8 and even now, at the ripe ol' age of 37, when I'm sick, I still sleep with him. I know. I need help. Serious help.
If they have meaning keep them! I'm not a good person to ask I'm too sentimental.
I can't get rid of stuffed animals either....especially ones that were given to me. I have a small koala bear that I will probably never part with because my very cool Aussie friend sent it to me for my 21st birthday. And the bear that my dad bought for me just because. I have others, but those are the ones I'll never get rid of.
Worse yet, they both have names. Now that isn't something to brag about.
I have one of those taco bell dogs as well only he says, "You Quiero Taco Bell." Then I had the brite idea to bring it into work and now my co-workers (especially the engineers) like to play with it. I've had to bite my tongue to keep myself from muttering something about shoving a burrito...oh, never mind.
You absolutely rock and are most definitely my hero. you have a Chicken Dance Elmo?? That is pretty cool!!!! We here at Chez Moogie are not too proud to perform that dance when asked. Of course...we live in Georgia......
Not to change the subject or get all negative on you or anything but who in the heck posed those two teddy bears...you do realize what that looks like don't you?
I need your address...I have something I need you to have. Email me chicka.
Keep Tigger, keep chicken-dance Elmo, keep the wedding bears and ditch the rest.
Tigger is even debatable because his story can be told without him actually present. The wedding bears are sappy, but cute. Chicken dance Elmo just makes ME laugh so I think you should keep it.
If it was ALL up t me, I'd say keep the pig, too, he's damn cute- but yeah, stuff animals just take up way too much space. And they're useless.
get rid of elmo and creepy insect baby. and maybe the red-hatted bear. the rest you may package and send to me because i have a rather large and unnecessary collection of stuffed animals myself, most of which being monkeys. and i like the taco bell toy. love it.
I like the pelican, on account that it is a unique stuffed critter to have.
However, I really thing the sentimental parts of these items is truly up to you.
That said. The Bear Bride and Groom would never have survived beyond a week in my joint without some major alterations. Did I meantion one of my hobbies is puppet making? (And not necessarily kid-friendly either)
-P
I'd keep the beanie, because of the whole parents/divorced/made blogger reading cry thing. Definitely get rid of the stuffie provided by the ex gf!
I use to collect stuffed animals. I had an entire floor/wall in my room for stuffed animals. Since I threw those suckers out I've never been attracted to anoher stuffed thing agian. I say keep the girl bear, holding the pink pouch, have Jason refill the jewlery bag and toss the rest! Although the Bear-Pimp is rather sweet just b/c he's...well...a Bear Pimp!
I got nothing. My momma told me not to say anything if I couldn't say something nice.
chicken dance elmo stays. shit can everything else.
naked ass on cold concrete. how very arousing
Tigger I have a soft spot for - the others? Not so much.
So al that remains is how to dispose of the "bodies". I'm thinking a wood chipper - you?
I'd keep the bears. Poss Tigger.
Burn the baby bug.
whats a krautton?
Ha! I recently found my favourite wallet from when I was in high school. That broke WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL, six years and seven moves ago.
I also found heaps of other shit. But that one really epitomises my hoardy tendancies.
the chicken dance episode found you some empathy from a friend who used to work in a toy store too.. my personal favorite is the TIGGER story. I had a nice laugh
Anne Geddes babies freak me the heck out...
Cxx
I will be moving next year for the first time in over 8 years. I foresee many heart-wrenching "pitch into the garbage" sessions.
Personally I say hang on to Tigger...pitch the rest.
Oooh, MIL gave us that same creepy insect-doll. I was so happy when one of th ekids scribbled all over its face with a green marker so I had a good excuse to ditch it.
I like purging stuff, too. But, yes, there are always things that it seems I should hang onto, even if I dont want them. :-/
'Keep Out of Reach of Children' - Why dies that seem to me to be your motto?
I'm one of those adults that presses the buttons. my favourite game if pressing the buttons of everyone of the talking/dancing/singing/playing whatevers on display then walking away.
(I also block of the ailses in hardware stores with tiolet plungers, depressing them until the suction sticks them to the floor. Not just at one end, but both. I was very young then.)
I still have my stuffies from when I was a child, though the last time I saw them they werein a plastic bag stored under the house. The only one I'd keep is the rabbitt I've had since the crib. I'm ready to ditch the rest on sight, should I ever see them again.
Tigger, the wedding bears, and the pig - keep. The rest can go away. the first three keep for sentimental reasons, and the pig because it is always handy to have something in your dressing gown pocket you can throw at someone without destroying it.
Er, I'm still Spring cleaning...so much to do.
I sooo know how it is to work in a toy dept around Christmas time. I did it once to help out a friend years ago and NEVER again. It was a horror!
My fluffy toys are still spread out in Canada. Some are at my Mom's, some at my Dad's. I think they hold on to them more than I do. All I have here is a press-the-button-singing-reindeer.
Oh, and I'd keep Tigger and the bears (wedding and kinky).
I have a Tigger mug at work, noone believes I bought it because it had Tigger on it for some bizarre reason. Instead they think it would stop any of the boys in the warehouse from using it. Thats BS! Tigger rawks!
I recently removed little Simpsons figurines from my computer area. I'm 24 now and I don't even watch The Simpsons anymore (I'm spoiled by South Park, Family Guy, American Dad & King of the Hill enough). So I took them down. Though I did leave a creepy smiling die-cast featus in a plastic test tube on my monitor for some reason.
I was never a stuffed animal person. BUT NEVER HANG A STUFFED ANIMAL over your bed! I used to have lots of dolls though and at night I thought they were staring at me and following me around the room.
I didn't collect stuffed animals when I was a child, but I do have some now - for my grandkids to play with. The only one of yours that I would keep is the pelican. He's cute. But bears, chihuahuas and monkeys leave me cold. Tigger's not too bad. Sorry, Jay!
The fedora makes Bear Sexy Time exponentially more funny. It reminds me of every porno I've seen where the guy is wearing sunglasses. (Okay, there was just the one, but clearly the image stayed with me.)
keep the animals--lose the piece of skin on your bulletin board. :|
I think I used to sleep with teddy bears until the 5th grade ... which is sad in itself.
regift, dear, regift. You should have enough there to not have to buy your mom a gift for Christmas for a while (unless you do one BIG blowout!!)
Start with the ladybug.
hi there, wow. fun post. i just did some spring cleaning but our loft is a hopeless mess. i have no ability to tell others which stuffed animals to get rid of as i have a soft spot for them myself. i like throwing things out but i also like keeping things... let us know which ones you end up getting rid of. are you going to throw them out or find somewhere or someone to donate them?
I'm a chronic donator.
wow, you're almost as bad a stuffed animal hoarder as my 5 year old!
Except I don't hoard! They just come to me and I feel powerless to rid myself of them...plus, now they outnumber me, and I don't like those odds.
The Anne Geddes thing must go. I think we have the same mother. Mine once presented me with a wall hanging of a flock of sheep facing one way with ONE Black Sheep facing the other.
"That's you," she said, giggling. "You're the black sheep."
Tigger is basically inoffensive. Anything that speaks in a canned voice should be purged, and toys that cannot stand up to a black light donated to vampires.
Ooooo I hate those Anne Geddes things! They're just so damn creepy!
I HAVE that taco bell dog!!!!!
It still makes me chuckle, mostly because of the memory associated with it. Ha. Ha ha. Hee.
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