AIBU to feel sorry for inanimate objects light hearted

[Antisocialarsebadger]

Just that really. We came back from holiday yesterday and the washing machine must have been on 4 times since then. I've just snuck up to it and put another load in, I felt decidedly guilty at the look on it's (non existent) washing machine face. I could have sworn it looked knackered. Haven't the heart to tell it there's another lot going on before bed. Does anyone else feel like this about objects or am I just alone here.

you take soft toys to the charity shop..... ?

Yes, but my sofa !! whaaaaaa!

I always want to rescue soft toys from charity shops..

Laska it sounds like the sofa has sentimental value though. It's time for it to move on

I sold my beloved little car recently to a woman in our town. She parks it outside her house and as I was driving past in my new car I actually put my hand up to shield my face, so the old car wouldn't see me driving past in new one. I sometimes think it sits outside its new home wondering why? Why have I been sent to this strange place??? Silly old bat that I am.

When my printer in work is having a hissy fit, I stroke her and tell her she is doing a sterling job!

We have a robot vacuum too (not a Roomba but a 'Neato'). It's called 'Dusty' and naughtily tries to hump things like cushions left on the floor. We painted a face on it. We'd removed the bits of wood at the base of the kitchen units and Dusty got underneath. He came out covered in cobwebs and bits of old food. We felt rather guilty we'd subjected him to such horrors!
I also have guilty feelings about the overworked washing machine and dryer since we had kids.

One December, ten years ago, Sainsbury’s were selling mini Christmas trees. Visiting our local one my mum and I noticed that there was only one tree left and it was wonky. We had to buy it and named him Steve. He now lives in my sisters garden and when she moved house he was moved to the new garden. He’s a good tree is Steve.

Some of these posts have made me smile a lot especially the car and the wardrobes 😅

I feel sorry for any beans left in the tin. It's like they don't get to fulfil their beany destiny.

DD lost her favourite comforter she had since she was born. She's 2 so we've had to find her a replacement. Thankfully it's the same one. But all I can think about is poor "Raffe" somewhere out there in the cold where DD threw it when out with granny. Makes me feel sad and he might be missing her.

Whenever I tidy up the kids room, I have to make sure all the toy story toys are together and aren't just thrown into a box. They have to go onto a shelf. I could never put them up the lift or to the charity shop. Whenever I think about clearing them out the song from Toy Story 2 pops into my head (when she loved me) and I could actually cry.
I sold our baby Pram on eBay when my son was about 6 months old. I cried. Then about 3 months later, I found the buyer and bought it back off her for more than I sold it for. Just because I felt so guilty for getting rid of it.
I cried when we sold our ancient caravan and when we sold our people carrier because I felt like we were just abandoning them.
I clearly have some very deep rooted issues!

Oh I love you people. I took our ancient fridge to the dump a few weeks back and I felt so bad just leaving it there, abandoned and alone. It hadn't even done anything wrong, we just got a new kitchen and it wasn't pretty enough any more, how shallow are we?
And I always feel sorry for teaspoons if I pick one up and then decide to use another one, but then if I put the second one back it will get upset, it's so hard!

Just reading back over some of these and remembered something. Every time we seem to be thinking of buying a new item to replace an older one, the older one decides to pack in! We were looking at new wardrobes as ours were getting old. Came home and old ones had literally fallen over! I was looking at replacing dryer as ours was a condenser and really noisy. Same time it then decided to stop heating entirely.

New one this week. I told DH NOT to discuss the new kitchen and oven in front of the old oven. What do you know he mentioned it in front of the old oven last week and now the fucker is starting to smoke and doesn't heat up properly. There was nothing wrong with it but our new one is one of those in a cabinet type thing.

I can't leave items by themselves so I either have to rearrange the shelves in shops so that they're in a group or not buy the product if it means leaving a single item. No idea why.

I also feel guilty if I leave my teddy at home (I'm 23 but he's been there for 22 years) and has gone on a lot of trips with me because I find it difficult sleeping in strange places.

My boiler is called Johnny. My cats love to sleep on him and he gets dusted every other day.
I always say Thank You to the microwave when it pings.

I reward my nice clothes by putting them on fancy hangers .

I also sometimes park my car on the side of my driveway nearer my house so it doesn't get lonely.

My fridge started making a funny noise the other day. I gave it a little pat til it stopped then called it a good boy .

There really is no hope for me!

My dishwasher broke down last week. I am feeling quite betrayed by this. I thought we had a good relationship in which we each knew our roles - I thanked it for its hard work, gave it the odd pat, cleaned the filters, re-filled the rinse aid & salt regularly & generally looked after it and it cleaned the dishes remarkably well. And then it just stopped. Surely it could have given me some warning.

Oh...yes....I thought I was mental having these thoughts! Finally I have found my people! The beans in the tin....never leave a good bean behind is my motto, same for when they are eaten, all must go!
Having a clear out of the kids rooms is gut wrenching and I feel like I have to apologise to every item going to the charity shop.

I vividly remember feeling sorry for the garage door as a kid, because it must be awful to be stuck in the same place all the time, have to be constantly "standing" and be outside when it was cold and raining.

Why I felt this for the garage door of all things as opposed to the hundreds of other doors/windows/inanimate objects around me, I have no idea.

As a kid I would let different jams take turns to be on my toast so none of them got jealous.

You're all nuts, quite nuts.

And I never ate marmalade once a week when I was a child, even though I preferred every other spread we had, but nobody in family liked marmalade, and I didn't want the marmalade to feel left out. No, no, definitely not I.

I have suggested to DD previously that she apologises to the washer for the muddy state of her clothes after camping.

And she has

I had a habit of having to buy soft toys that were the last one in the store when I was a child and it may have rubbed off onto my DC now . They already have 500 teddies but we saw a hey duggee left alone in the clearance section a few months ago and I couldn’t leave him behind .

When I open a tin of beans I have to let some of them escape.