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?

My mum gave me my entire soft toy collection when ds1 was born - we are talking 50+ soft toys - cheers mum. Iv now migrated most of them to the top of the wardrobe with a few lurking around the house. My plan is if they are on top of the wardrobe for a year and no one asks they are being migrated to the charity shop

I read the title thinking how would you do that and I wonder what she wants it for!

I need to get out more.

Cash for clothes takes soft toys

I can get money for soft toys?!!! There may be some purpose to them after all! Both DD and DS love dolls but have no time for cuddlies other than their comforters & have never shown any inclination to play with them.

I also detest dust catchers soft toys. We must have about 5 bin bags of them up the attic. I'd never buy one for a child ever - what a waste of money. I must find out which charity shops near here take them as apparently some don't - damn them!

I have made exception for the large Pooh, Tigger and Eeyore that DH bought each dc as a newborn. And the crocodile that my youngest loves. Out of the avalanche of soft toys he got as a baby, it's the only one so much as looked at.

DS16 & I had a bit of an old-toy-in-the-loft-attack today while hoarder DH was out. Excellent fun, several large bags of stuff went to the charity shop but he refused to part with a single soft toy, even though they have been nowhere near his bed for several years

bonfire sounds great