Does anyone else feel sorry for inanimate objects

[Inthebluemountains]

My phone is knackered and today I decided to upgrade. All done and I was very excited about my shiny new phone. Until I picked the old one up and felt a bit sad.

Its been a good phone, delivered some lovely messages, some sad ones, some unpleasant ones, some plain boring ones. I just feel a bit sorry for it that a better one is going to come along and take its place on my whim. Its done nothing wrong (if you don't count the microphone no longer working and the camera lens being a little scratched but we all get old right).

Obviously it's a sodding phone, it has no feelings, I'll recycle it and all will be well. And yet I still feel a little sorry for it. (lighthearted obviously but also true :))

Mine have been both she and he Avocado - got a she at the mo they all have had names

Nosleep, I’m exactly the same with baked beans 😁.

I admit I have occasionally felt sorry for inanimate objects,like when we got rid of our old car for a nice new one. I did feel a bit sorry for it going to the 'knacker's yard',as it had served us well. But,a lot of the time I get angry with inanimate objects. E.g. who put that doorpost there? as I stub my toe on it. As for my washing machine,it behaves like an absolute twat sometimes. My late DDad had a very apt saying:- 'The sheer bloody mindedness of inanimate objects'.

Just remembered another one,not me but my best friend. I remember her telling me that when we went on a day trip to London with the school when we were about 11,she didn't want to put her empty crisp packet in the bin on a London street,because it would get lonely all that way from home!

Crikey you've all brought back a memory from when I was maybe 7yo or so.

I had a pair of turtle shaped slippers. Wore them until the soles were threadbare, eyes had fallen off, they were ready for the bin really.

Oh how I cried over those slippers .

& more recently, last time we moved house, I threw a pair of pig ones away that were in pretty much the same battered state. Didn't cry this time but I did feel bad for them :(

I wonder why we get attached to these things.

I have found my people 😀😀
I have the tins of food thing. I empty every last bean so it's not lonely but then I feel really guilty in case it was relieved it wasn't being eaten and just when it thought it had escaped I got it!

DontGoIntoTheLongGrass I do the tucking up of dd2's teddy bears thing too! And organise the ones that sit on the bean bag so everyone is able to see . She looks at me like

Oh yes !
I bought a draught excluder a long while back , I feel sorry for him having to sit on the draught all the time .
I drew a face on him and bought a cat collar for him . He is called Drake the snake .
And although I haven't wrote one for a while I used to write short stories about inanimate objects . I got friends to suggest a object and I'd write the story .

I had to have two pieces of cheesecake from the buffet as I didn't want the lemon one to feel left out if I ate the Oreo one. Honestly.

I get sad about destroyed dog toys.

This is why I really liked the Konmari thing of saying thank you to no longer needed items

I cant peg DS's teddy on the washing line to dry by his ears in case it hurts him!

I feel sorry for the door of the Johnson house- all the slamming that must have taken place!

I've twice tried to trade in my car, but each time I've gone home and said sorry to my trusty Subaru and rung the garage and cancelled.

I love these.

I hate clothes shopping. My DD 20 took me shopping, and I said 'oh god these are all horrible!'

'Sssh mum, they'll hear you' she hissed. She meant the clothes, not shop assistants!

@ForalltheSaints

My faithful old car got written off by a delivery van, and was taken away by Motorhogs for scrap.

The night before they collected her I lay awake most of the night feeling like I had betrayed her for 30 pieces of silver. When the guy who loaded her onto the lorry said his next pick up was in Southend, I was nearly in tears that at least she was going to hit the open road and gaze at the ocean one more time.

I need to hang socks on the clothes line side by side in equal numbers so each one has 1 sock to chat to. I can't leave a sock hanging on its own next to a t-shirt because the t-shirt would never stoop so low as to chat to a sock. Neither can I hang three socks in a row because 2 of them might gang up on the other.

Likewise, I leave all my clothes pegs on the line when I hang out a wash even if I don't need them all. They would be missing out if they were put back in the cupboard. I need to hang two 'empty' pegs next to each other for similar reasons to the socks.

I’m glad it’s not just me who is like this. I see cuddly toys in shops and it’s like they have feelings.

I cried when I said goodbye to my last car, I had to tell myself it was going to live on a farm.

There is a podcast called everything is alive listen you would love it.

I remember when my Henry Hoover broke, I was so sad, we took him to the dump and as we drove away I happened to look back out of the window and saw his little happy face there, duct tape all round him and I felt awful! To top it ed sheeran was playing on the radio. Stays with me to this day. I couldn't even bring myself to buy another Henry

I bought a plant in a petrol station recently, all of the other plants looked bright and perky and cost several pounds, this one was reduced to 25p and looked nearly dead. I felt sorry for it so I bought it and gave it to my mum who nursed it back to health

Soft toys, any of them, anywhere...they look at you!

There is a podcast you all may, or possibly may not, want to listen to called ‘Everything is Alive’, each episode is an interview with an inanimate object like a lamppost or a bar of soap.

The first episode is a can of cola called Louis. He describes how it felt being taken out of the fridge then left out before put back in the fridge, unopened. It will make you feel all kinds of guilt!

seriously, it’s a fantastic podcast and I highly recommend it.