To make a soft toy bonfire

[TheBearAndTheBug]

I've just been organising the toy cupboard and we have about a million of the useless bloody things.

I have never bought one in my life. People hand them over as presents and I make this face and then they get thrown in the bottom of the cupboard and bloody well breed.

DS1 (2.5) doesn't look at them apart from to randomly pull them all out of the cupboard from time to time and distribute them round the house, so I have to crawl around retrieving them, and DS2 is 6mo and is only interested in things he can grab and shove in his mouth. A soft toy would probably do the job as he's not fussy, but we also have about three thousand of those rattly squeaky sheep/caterpillars/octopi with dangly bits the only purpose of which is to be gummed and slobbered on by teething babies.

And why are they all a depressing uniform shade of off-beige? Why is it that the ideal present for a young child is deemed to be a crappy beige rabbit?

Anyway, I would take them to a charity shop, but I can't live with the thought that I would simply be contributing to someone else's cluttered toy cupboard misery. So WIBU to burn the furry beige fuckers?

YABU.

Read The Velveteen Rabbit.

Poor cuddlies.

YANBU
Wait until they get pocket money and buy a soft toy at every opportunity only to ignore it after 5 minutes and throw it with the rest if near identical soft toys

The Velveteen Rabbit can kiss my enormous arse.

Was he beige?

DD2 guilted me into walking round a C. American country in boiling heat to haggle after this pair of cuddly howler monkeys which have now been entirely forgotten.

Take them to the charity shop. They won't necessarily end up in another cupboard, kids at a different age and stage would love them.

Dd has fecking loads of the bastards. Not even nice ones either, just tatty crappy ugly ones.

I save the nice ones and put them around her bed to play with and sneak the ugly crappy ones in the charity bag when she's not looking be careful as once she caught me doing that and we had tears for about a week

Topaz Really? There are kids who like these things?

Can I suggest you take them to a local Nursing home. My Mum and lots of others with dementia loved soft toys. They can cuddle them, talk to them, stroke them and love them

I live in fear of the ds's actually starting to like the things and wanting more of the buggers. You can't have just one, like I said, they breed.

Maybe I need to work on creating an aversion, possibly some sort of phobia. DS1 is already scared of puppets, so I'm sure we can sort something out.

DD is in there somewhere

Ah, see pudcat here I was being all cross and misanthropic (misbearthropic?) and you come up with something lovely like that.

I think I will do that.

But also the phobia thing.

My husband's grandmother had a stuffed pig that she called her baby when she was in a nursing home.

What about donating them to a homeles shelter or women's shelter? Or, an animal shelter, our local one often asks for stuffed animals.

monkey That's actually quite sweet.

One in, one out. Policy for all toys.

Aww don't burn them

Give them to a nursing home (the people my mum looks after who have brain injuries love them) or perhaps a charity shop, church or children's ward.

I still have loads from when I was a kid

She is fucking 7.5 years old.

This has gone on since birth.

That's only a small portion. The rest live on her bottom bunk. Yes reader, she has bastarding BUNK BEDS to cope with them.

Can you tell it's a sore point?!

Don't burn them - toxic fumes aren't going to help anyone.

ds1 is 10 and he has a whole tribe of "friends" I have tried to lose a few over the years but he notices them going!!!

DONOT burn them if you must get rid of them please donate them to someone else

I just took a massive bag full to the charity shop. They had been boxed up since we moved here four years ago.

Now i just need to get rid of the ones lurking in the bedrooms...

Oh god, I'm massively pregnant and beyond hormonal and the thought of ladies and men in homes loving them has set me off crying.

Dh is very

My DD has hundreds of them and she loves them, she is asleep in bed along with 13 moshlings, 20 assorted mr men/little miss, assorted stuffed disney princess dolls, a giant panda, a couple of build a bears and about 30 other assorted cuddlies, it's a good job she has a giant bed

Ok, I will concede that it WBU to burn them, as satisfying as I might find it.

I like the idea of donating them to a home. I will look into it tomorrow.

IANBU to hate the furry bastards though I was obviously born without a soul

If you really want rid, do you have a local Sure Start, play bus, Sallie Army office, not shop or maybe a food bank will take them to use in seasonal parcels for families with young kids. If you're just ranting, don't mean to sound preachy.

I think burning them would produce toxic fumes...we too have piles of this kind of tat, none of which was bought by us. And endless boxes full of random, broken bits of things the rest of which have been lost...we have a ginormous skip outside, so in the dead of night DP and I will creep out with shedloads of old toys, and then put a big tarp over it so the DDs will not know what is in there

Ginger, me too! Also pregnant, also in tears! pudcat, that's a really sweet idea.