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.

"like a mug"
Very good! 😂

Crumbs @Teasforfears
My issue is that I havw googled it and IMO it doesnt even look like a teabag, more like a tampon 🤔

I can understand why you are peeved it is important for your 14yo to have this to complete the collection but how much longer can and will this go on? They have a "cuddly" stick of ginger, a mussel plus a peanut as part of their "adorables" but I would call them Muggables because they are mugging people (fans) off 🤭

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Allie is showing up as about a quid for me on Aliexpress! Havn’t bought anything for a while so I have a nice discount!

Just want to share a story from last Christmas

my daughter was desperate for the Jellycat peach - same scenario, none anywhere and overly inflated prices on vinted etc….

about 3 days before Christmas I took a bag of stuff to my local charity shop and saw they had a basket of soft toys.

I had to look twice but I saw a jellycat peach staring at me - with its tags on!!!! I had a good rummage in the box and it was the only jellycat in there so I took it to the till.

by the time I’d got it the lady was emptying my stuff out the bag I’d taken and she says to me “oh you’ve bought some lovely bits in, you can just take that if you like”!

I could not believe it and I had given them a huge bag of nice stuff and always take my things there and that just made me feel all warm and Christmassy and my dd absolutely loved it 🥰

you never know you might be in luck with these things But people buying tonnes and re selling them needs to stop x

I got one in a local shop for DD’s Christmas, if you PM me I can give you the details as they may post if they have any left. It was £29.

I'm 47, and my mom is pretty much housebound caring for my dad (before I come across as a complete cunt, I did relocate down the road to be able to help her) but STILL I am glad she considers it "her problem" to go on Amazon and search for stuff I would like for Xmas, rather than just bank transfering me the money.

Same with my own kid - I could give her a load of cash for Xmas and no doubt she wouldn't complain. But OF COURSE I see it as "my problem" to source things that will make her eyes light up at Christmas, hopefully.

It's normal, I think, to go to some effort to find your loved ones, especially your kids of any age, gifts they would like. It's not a problem really, it's a joy! But still ok to moan lightheartedly about it, as the much-maligned OP has done here.

I bloody love Jellycat (and I'm a tad over 14!!).
I have various JC food items adorning my chunky bedhead. I'm gifted them every birthday and Christmas.
I can't abide tea - although that little teabag is super cute!!
Do keep checking JC official website. X

What’s wrong with you? Somebody offered to do a kind favour. Sorry you are so unhappy in life I guess.

How lovely of you @AngeloMysterioso

there will always be crazes - cabbage patch kids - beanies - jellycats - laboboo

@Teasforfears I hope dd will be happy. Lovely when they get something they really want

I don’t think anyone answered but why is the tea bag not furry soft like a jellycat usually is

looks rough and not the softness

I don’t know where you are based, but Bentalls Kingston has a large Jellycat area on its very top floor. If you’re in the area I’d pop there.

I agree, people that buy these toy items purely to sell on and make money, I get it for large logistical / commercial reasons, but to buy a couple of toys to make a fiver or ten pounds off a child is a bit low imo.

If they were clapping gormlessly I might, sure

You might say ‘taken for fools’ but it clear from this post that many many people are gladly proffering themselves as fool fodder for these major companies.

Their CEOs are laughing all the way to the bank whilst Susan from Derby rings around shops desperately trying to find a teddy tea bag to spend the money she’s saved on…but hey, it’s life affirming, it gives joy!!

What my "fucking gross" mum taught "gormless" me to do when I'd got something wrong was to own it and apologise. So I would have gone with something like "Sorry, Carter, I do see that I completely misread that". Is that just not within your reach emotionally? Again, if that was where I was I think my mum would have advised me to just let it go.

Why do people have to come on a thread to be nasty .
Life is difficult,.. people find joy in different things ..much better a jelly cat than drugs or alcohol
why piss on someones chips .if people are happy ,let them be .
I had Theo Turkey for Christmas last year ..I'm 52 and I don't care what anyone thinks

I love Care Bears too and I have 3 who live on my bed , I also have Care Bears candles and Care Bears jewellery , I'm 43 and not remotely arsed what people think

Apologise for what? I don’t think being in a fight over a toy past the age of 5 is acceptable and it’s not something I’d be stating I was proud of years down the line. It’s no different to the people fighting over tvs in Black Friday sales. It is gross. No apology

No-one on this post has said people can’t enjoy things. Or that it’s bad to collect things.

The bigger issue being discussed (and raised initially by the op) is manipulation by companies which encourages scarcity, reselling and anxiety. And people willingly buying into that ethos.

People need to stop posting ‘well I’m 43 and I have a Jellycat I don’t care what people think’ because no-one thinks anything!

Actually they have said both

Your dislike of conflict really shines through in your responses here

It's really disheartening that even a thread about a toy teabag can bring out such nastiness.

So you think the poster’s mum should have just handed it over to some other woman trying to snatch it. Just passively handed it over pathetically like a good little woman and not caused a scene?

I don’t like conflict either, but I won’t be walked over and good for this poster’s mum that she wasn’t a pushover either. She didn’t start a fight over the toy, she just finished it. Bloody good for her.

Some people love to use MN as some kind of online Fight Club.

Never heard of them.

Are we reading the same thread 😲