Bloody jellycat teabag

If she is 14, she is old enough to understand business ethics. That company has treated its retailers amazingly badly. Rather than trying to buy more over priced stuff, she should be educated on the dubious business ethics of the company and redirect her enthusiasm to artisan local producers who are ethical. Rather than throwing money at this issue (which will appear a ludircuous purchase in ten yrs time, as it will be flung into landfill by then), try to turn it into a valuable learning experience for your daughter.

apart from anything else, the sheer idiocy of spending £25 rrp on a polyester fake teabag is kafkaesque in it’s awfulness. The same money spent on an art exhibition or theatre would be far more beneficial to a teenager, surely?

Oh I just googled him. He's adorable!

Anyone remember Third Rock From The Sun? This thread is reminding me of where Dick discovers these little cuddly buddy collectibles in Happy Meals and gets obsessed with collecting them all after initially calling them ridiculous 😂
Where he's hiding them all in the fridge and cereal packets and dropping to his knees crying he has a problem 😂

We had all this years ago over Kevin the Carrot. Now you can find him in charity shops.

I saw two on our local marketplace today so just went back and checked the price for you, £65 each!! I hope they can’t shift them, bloody grifters.

Yes
I was after that albie bee in the summer
Not a sniff of him to be had

OP is the one saying leave them to kids, so maybe you should be swearing at her, not me

We’ve just donated 134 Beanie Babies to charity bought during the craze back in the 90s. They really didn’t hold their value! My kids couldn’t wait until the next one was ‘born’. Fun at the time though.

True…… was that consumer driven or by the media do you think? I’m thinking the latter.
Im particularly remembering the mad rush for a Buzz Lightyear toy. A Christmas “must have” in the 90s.

Wtf is a jellycat at teabag?
<pause whilst I investigate >
Oh. Well they are…. Imho….. not even vaguely cute/attractive. I presume people are only going crazy for them because it’s the latest “must have”. I long for a return to the idea of people buying things they personally love. Not just cos someone else said “buy this, you need this”

Not so long ago people were jumping over each other for bottle of Prime. (I’ve no idea why, what it is). Recently I seen bargain bins of it for less than £1 a bottle and no interest from the shoppers walking past it.

Mixed up world.

Thank you ☺️ I might have to go down early on Tuesday as in work tomorrow.

New delivery in Cornwall today. The lady in the shop unpacked them & expected them all to have gone by the time they closed. They also had a huge dragon and Bartholemew Bear in a snowsuit

There’s always been overhyped mania about stuff, remember the cabbage patch kids, even Trivial Pursuit when it first came out was like gold dust and these were long before the internet.

Well you’re fun!! Have you not ever had a child want something really badly and wanted to get them it?

DD has quite a few genuine Jellycat items. We bought a couple of fakes from Ali Express, just to see how they compared. They are very good copies!

I stood in a queue for 3 hours with 200 other people (not an exaggeration!) to get one of 56 that my local stockist had to offer (I was lucky and got one!). They said they’ll hopefully be having another stock of them before Christmas, they’re a small business and what Jellycat has done to them is disgusting, they have cut stock to the bare bones and won’t even provide Jellycat carrier bags anymore (the woman on the till told me Jellycat restrict what they can order!) so to see all of these people queuing to buy from a small business was nice even if the whole ‘exclusivity’ thing is a scam!

Yes on Bond Street. Hope you manage to get hold of one!

Yes! Were you in the London one? They’re OOS online.

Awwww! That’s so lovely! ❤️

Is the hipster version the one with the hat and scarf? I was there yesterday and there were dozens!

My mum had a tug of war over the last Cabbage Patch Kid in Toys R Us for me one Christmas. Another mum tried to pull him out of her hands. My mum won. I was very proud of her for standing firm as an 8 year old, but I think if she'd actually tried to steal him from another mum I'd consider that a bridge too far.

It's just people being nice to other people. It won't harm them or you.

I was going to suggest our local stockist, but sold out now too.

Maybe keep an eye if you are local.

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Respectfully, to all posters saying this and similar, who made you the arbiter of what should bring joy to others?

And it harm none, do as thou wilt. (Or something).

It's a largely harmless source of joy. Consumerism does harm the planet I agree, but compared to taking numerous flights a year, eating meat, having a pet or worst of all having a child.... Collecting a few plushies is one of the less harmful things one can do for the planet, really.

By the way, not judging those who fly or do the other things I listed above. I fly very rarely but I do eat meat, have pets and a child. All things that hurt the planet but make me happy.

No better than collecting a few plushies.

Which of us is perfect?

I'm 50 and have my 80 year old mum staking out her local garden centre to try and get me a Steepy! 😳