Inanimate objects you feel sorry for

[YouWerePrettyIWasLonely]

I always feel bad for the unpopular pots in the drawer that only get used maybe twice a year.

One of my children collects penguins (not real ones obviously though given half a chance he would) and if we see a lone penguin of any description in a shop I can't stop myself from buying it. If there are lots together it's ok, but if there's only one left I can't leave it there all lonely. It has to be brought back to our sanctuary where it will be very happy with the other couple of hundred....
Hate to think how much I've spent over the years!

When tidying the kids toys I always worry I've put two together who don't get on 😂

laughing so much about the tomatoes!! Some great ones on here

Our caravan, when we drive away from it after having a lovely break it feels like leaving a family member behind.

I can relate to that Gertie75. We talk about our boat like a human and even though from a financial perspective we probably should sell her, we can't bring ourselves to. We've had her for longer than any of our children and there's so much of us in there - memories and practical stuff too. There are lots of bits of equipment that DH and I bought each other for Christmas and birthday presents. I know we will have to sell one day as we are getting older but it will break my heart.

Cars when they’re not parked to another car so they don’t don’t have a friend to chat to while you’re shopping.

Trolleys that don’t get put back with other Trollies. They must be so scared.

Cars when they’re not parked to another car so they don’t don’t have a friend to chat to while you’re shopping.

Found the awkward bugger who'll park right next to the only car in an otherwise empty car park.

Obviously you have to bit the head off first when eating chocolate Santa’s and bunnies etc. I judge people who do not.

My phone. I get quite cross with it, but it’s doing it’s best. It’s not phone’s fault I have 300 internet pages open.

Blankets people hang instead of curtains. The blankets must yearn to be horizontal. As do I, blankets, as do I.

Abandoned cuddly toys. A part of me wants to take them. I don't though.

I feel sorry for electronic gadgets that still work but have got old and slow. I cant bear to throw them out if they still work. Its like Im betraying an old friend. I had a TV that was 20 years old and a spin dryer that was the same. Both packed up eventually but i felt bad about it.

Philip Larkin felt sad about everything:

Home is so Sad

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Instead, bereft
Of anyone to please, it withers so,
Having no heart to put aside the theft

And turn again to what it started as,
A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide. You can see how it was:
Look at the pictures and the cutlery.
The music in the piano stool. That vase.

@lucysmam

This thread has reminded me; a couple of years ago when I put our Christmas tree together, it didn't look as big as I remembered it being & thought out loud about replacing it ready for last Christmas. I apologised to it out loud when it went away & got it back out again last Christmas & gave it some new glitter and snow spray

@lucysmam

I moved in here (on my own) late October, the whole place needed renovating so I decided not to get a Christmas tree (because if so much sanding dust) & tbh because they are so expensive.

I had unpacked a few boxes and had some stuff to take to the charity shop a few days before Christmas. In the charity shop there was a rather forlorn looking 'fake' tree. Which wouldn't have been an expensive one new. They wouldn't keep it for me (even if I paid) while I went to get the car because they just don't 🙄🙄 so I had to carry it home. It was £1:50.

I LOVE real Christmas Trees but I cannot bear to upset him by replacing him. We have just had our 12th Christmas together.

EVery year I think I might put him in my room & get a 'real' one fir the sitting room, but I can never bear to make him feel second best or unloved.

I can't even bear to write about my car.

I talk to everything. Even thanking the daffodils fir them being so lovely all week & apologise for sending them off 😥

I'm a lost cause.

The roofs of buildings. They are there to protect us from the weather, but what protects them when it's -2 gale force winds and hailstones?

Nothing !

Toilet paper

Yesterday I felt sorry for a very wrinkly old parsnip I was about to cut up for my curried ‘stewp’.
Despite being forgotten in the veg drawer for ages, it had valiantly put out a tiny new shoot from the top, to show it was still alive.
And I was about to murder it. 🙁