Bloody jellycat teabag

[Teasforfears]

AIBU to be completely done with the Jellycat teabag madness? Honestly, who knew a small stuffed teabag could cause such chaos. The minute they come out, they’re gone – poof – straight into the hands of people who don’t even like them, just want to flog them on Vinted for triple the price.

I wouldn’t even care normally, but my daughter has been utterly brainwashed by this Jellycat cult and now apparently her collection will be incomplete without a pretend teabag. Meanwhile, I’m sat ringing around and scanning social media like a mug while Janice from Kent is selling 5 of them for 65 quid a pop.

And don’t even get me started on the Aldi wooden toys. Blink and you’ve missed them – unless, of course, you want to buy them off someone online who’s decided they’re now luxury limited editions.

Can we not just let kids have toys without turning it into a side hustle? It’s a cuddly teabag, not gold bullion.

Yes
I was after that albie bee in the summer
Not a sniff of him to be had

I saw two on our local marketplace today so just went back and checked the price for you, £65 each!! I hope they can’t shift them, bloody grifters.

We had all this years ago over Kevin the Carrot. Now you can find him in charity shops.

Anyone remember Third Rock From The Sun? This thread is reminding me of where Dick discovers these little cuddly buddy collectibles in Happy Meals and gets obsessed with collecting them all after initially calling them ridiculous 😂
Where he's hiding them all in the fridge and cereal packets and dropping to his knees crying he has a problem 😂

Oh I just googled him. He's adorable!

If she is 14, she is old enough to understand business ethics. That company has treated its retailers amazingly badly. Rather than trying to buy more over priced stuff, she should be educated on the dubious business ethics of the company and redirect her enthusiasm to artisan local producers who are ethical. Rather than throwing money at this issue (which will appear a ludircuous purchase in ten yrs time, as it will be flung into landfill by then), try to turn it into a valuable learning experience for your daughter.

apart from anything else, the sheer idiocy of spending £25 rrp on a polyester fake teabag is kafkaesque in it’s awfulness. The same money spent on an art exhibition or theatre would be far more beneficial to a teenager, surely?

We had the same issue with the rainbow dragon last year. Luckily dd (20) was old enough not to get upset about it……then suddenly after Christmas we walked into a shop and they had 5 rainbow dragons in stock after jellycat decided to make a load more. I won’t be hunting down a jellycat this Christmas.

Shes 14 not 4. Give her the money. Let her go about sourcing one. If she gets one she gets one, if she doesnt she doesnt.

No longer your problem!

And you never know - she might decide as it her money to spend on what she want some super hyed tea bag isnt so appealing!

I saw them in the Edinburgh Lothian Road Paper Tiger store earlier this week - www.papertiger.co.uk/pages/contact-us/

Oh my god, I loved that episode! "Next thing you know, you're flying out of Bogota, with a balloon full of fuzzy buddies strapped up your ass!" 😂😂

wtf! Two grown women literally fighting over a toy? And their 8yr old feeling ‘proud.’ You think that’s ‘lovely.’ Words escape me

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I don't have a problem with my mum refusing to let some random lunatic grab the toy she was holding and run off with it. I think "fucking gross" is a massive overreaction on your part.

We love Jellycats in this house,my daughter has a few and did the fish and chips experience at Selfridge's...but the teabag? It just reminds me of a tampon 😬

Oh, good grief. Unclench

Try reading more than the first line. I said the other mum tried to take him out of my mum's hands which I think most people would understand meant the other woman tried to snatch it from my mum.

Also, I wasn't there, it was a Christmas present, she told me about it later, not sure why you would assume I would have been there whilst she shopped for my Christmas present, so I wasn't "clapping along gormlessly", which I hope isn't something you'd say about an eight year old child under your real name.

And I also said that I would not have been proud of her if she had tried to take it from someone else.

So my post was perfectly clear and my headline for you is to just make sure you've read and understood what you're responding to in future before you start effing and blinding.

I can’t remember but I expect it was a bit of both. I do remember us as a family trying absolutely everywhere to get a Trivial Pursuit game in time for Christmas, and it was impossible. No internet of course so it was a question of trawling all the shops.

I have steepy, but I got lucky that I walked into the shop as the box arrived! You will eventually find one!

Jesus, this thread is twat central!

@Teasforfears, I'm glad that @AngeloMysteriosofound you a Steepy!

I can check for you tomorrow if you want!

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone who can crochet? I wish people would en mass put their foot down with these fads and not accept being taken for fools.

This 👏