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AIBU to worry about soft toys in this cold?

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Ralphstar · 02/03/2018 21:18

I am struggling against my irrational self.
My daughter is 3 months old and in a pram. Across the pram hood is Mrs Cornflake - a sort of superheroine soft toy bunny carrying a thunder bolt and wearing a superhero mask. I know not who her marital partner is nor why she is called Cornflake - my son named her.
Anyway, every time we have left the house this week, I have looked at the snow and tucked her into the blankets with my daughter in case she gets cold in this snowy weather. I have also found myself tucking soft toys into the bed covers.
Anyone else worried their soft toys are feeling a little nippy in this cold spell??
No...?
Just me then?
think I’m losing my mind bloody sleep deprivation 😩

OP posts:
Doctordonowt · 02/03/2018 21:54

It always took me ages to tidy my kids bedrooms. I had to dress all the. Bears and dolls and put them to bed.

ShutUpRobert · 02/03/2018 21:56

I feel bad for shrine teddies left as tributes to victims or on graves. Obviously I feel worse for the dead people, but there's something so poignant about a cuddly toy in the rain.

Notso · 02/03/2018 21:57

DS1 and I once found a filthy but adorable cuddly dog on a country walk.
We didn't want to take it home it really was manky covered in cow poo and all sorts but his smile was so cute, so we picked him up and put him in a phone box and because we thought he would be cold I sacrificed my hat as a sleeping bag for him. That was about 9 years ago and we still talk about him when we pass the phone box.

Riverside2 · 02/03/2018 22:00

My mum did this too
I think it's nice

NorthernLurker · 02/03/2018 22:00

This is perfectly normal op. Good toy management.

asneakysnickers · 02/03/2018 22:01

Apparently when I was young I used to cuddle a toy for a few weeks, then change allegiance and give my attention to another, tossing the first out of the way saying it was time to give my love to another. My mother used to worry this might be prophetic...

HomeIsWhereTheGinisNow · 02/03/2018 22:01

I tuck my son’s teddies back in under his duvet, but then I’m also in my 30s and still have my own beloved childhood bear!

Wincarnis · 02/03/2018 22:02

I have been known to ‘pair off’ the soft toys in a shop display and purchase the odd one out....

HemlockStarglimmer · 02/03/2018 22:03

My husband has a small teddy that lives in our bed. It's really annoying and if I find it digging into me I won't hesitate to chuck it across the room.

When I made the bed this morning I tucked it under the covers Blush

NameChanger22 · 02/03/2018 22:05

This used to worry me so much when I was young. I had to make sure all my cuddly toys and dolls were tucked up under blankets, or I'd lie awake worrying about them.

Springtrolls · 02/03/2018 22:10

Not only did I used to worry about the soft toys. But years ago when I had a garden, I used to worry about the garden stuff. If I couldn't think of a place for it to go in the house during the cold weather, it remained in the store where it would still be nice and warm.
Now I have a balcony that's been stipped since last year, and a passage that's freezing that is bare and items relocated to somewhere warm.

I know these items cannot feel the cold. But if I look after things then they work longer. And it's hypocritical of me to say to the dc's to take care of their things if I neglect household things.

thirtyplusone · 02/03/2018 22:11

Our dog lost a much loved woodland creature toy on a walk, I now imagine her living a happy life with her woodland friends. 27£ later an identical eBay replacent was found. Only earlier this evening did we mislay another... tears of joy when he was found wrapped up in the sheets in the laundry basket just now!

HLBug · 02/03/2018 22:13

I've found my people.

TeamLannister · 02/03/2018 22:15

I was cross with DD when she was about 3 because she blamed Hello Kitty for the full moon and put her on the naughty step. I felt so sorry for poor Kitty being punished when she hadn't done anything wrong...Blush

tiredbutFuckIt · 02/03/2018 22:15

Pictures or there’s no Mrs Cornflake and you’re having us on :)

MammaTJ · 02/03/2018 22:16

I think there is protective maternal logic at play here, you are being totally sensible and caring for your children!

They have soft toys they love, you recognise that and keep those soft toys warm. Then when they want to hug the soft toys, they will not be made cold by it. If you left the soft toy in the cold, your precious, precious child would be made cold by the nasty cold soft toy! They would start to hate it, mistrust all things they love, start to hate them, then they would start to hate you, mistrust you...................................

Perfectly sensible. Warm that soft toy, or your child will hate you!

SoftSheen · 02/03/2018 22:18

I quietly shudder when I see well-wrapped up toddlers, trudging about in the snow carrying their naked or sun dress-wearing dolly...

HopeClearwater · 02/03/2018 22:18

Those lorry drivers who’ve put teddies on the radiator grille and then driven up and down the motorways in all weathers ... it’s criminal!!

Eeeeek2 · 02/03/2018 22:18

We have a large bear in the living room that my toddler loves, pulls around and belly flops on. Each night I tuck him up on the recliner with a blanket.

ReanimatedSGB · 02/03/2018 22:20

I tuck DS' toys into bed as well. Mind you, DS is 13 and also worries about them being warm and comfy.

About 20 years ago, there was a bit of a Thing with other traders (I do specialist market events) of having a mascot of some sort on one's stall. I had, for a while, a china doll who sat on a china stool. When I was doing a two/three day show, which meant leaving the stall set up overnight, I would carefully take Lady F off the stool, lie her down and cover her up with a serviette...

eosmum · 02/03/2018 22:21

I got DS an empty beanbag to put his teddies in as they were taking over the bed, only about a third fit. I keep rotating them in and out in case the ones in the beanbag feel they are not as loved as much as the ones on the bed. Written down it looks totally crazy.

Toddlerteaplease · 02/03/2018 22:24

I have found my people. I can't bear the teddies left as tributes getting wet and cold.

Theworldisfullofidiots · 02/03/2018 22:25

When my mum died, I found my childhood teddy at her house. She kept him. He now lives in my room and looks balefully across from the chest of drawers. I have to look away.
I also feel bad that my dd (16) has put her much loved childhood compatriot (monkey) away in a box. He must be sad.

Knittedfairies · 02/03/2018 22:25

....or the poor teddies strapped to the front of lorries.

Springtrolls · 02/03/2018 22:26

I knew it wasn't me. I am bookmarking this for when people tell me I am nuts, or its just me, I can show them this and tell them. Nope. I am not alone.

Talking of trucks. There's a road sweeper that had soft toys on his cart. Dirty, neglected, cold and wet. I want to rescue them and give them some tlc.