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.

Teabag? I've heard it all now.

Gloucester services have a great stock of Jellycats. Tebay services is owned by the same people though and that's a lot nearer to you OP - worth a road trip?

@Gettingbysomehow
Yes - it’s called Steepy 🤩

I’m 45 and have a Jellycat teddy bear. Had it for 15 years. The world is a fucking disaster and our kids frequently grow up too soon. Then along come some knobs to complain when we let them be kids for a little bit longer. 🙄

This is me and Labubus. I completely know I’ve been hoodwinked by hype, but I don’t even care – I enjoy being part of the zeitgeist.

Oh bog off you miserable sod. They are popular collectibles that - shock horror- even adults like to buy.

How terrible to enjoy something gentle and harmless. I am also a 45 (academic researcher & professional) year old that enjoys Care Bears. For me it is Care Bears. I have actually been gifted tickets for a Care Bear themed afternoon tea by my husband.
OP I hope your daughter finds a genuine Tea Bag for her collection.

Many years ago I bought my adult boyfriend a Grumpy Bear, similar to the one he’d had in childhood. He was thrilled with it!

OK, Ebeneezer..... But kids have always collected stuff - adults do too. I would imagine most people have had some kind of collection at one time or another.

There is a lot that's hard and miserable about life, and collecting items they like makes people happy. Is that really so wrong?

OP isn't genuinely suffering from extreme stress about the teabag, is she? She is being lighthearted.

I didn't know much about the Jellycat phase as it's not the sort of thing my daughter is into (she loves plushies, as do I, but she's a bit of a goth so her plush tastes run a bit darker than this cheerful teabag).

A little girl in my form bought a Jellycat plush in the other day though - don't know what it was, just looked like a kind of beige sphere with a face - but I did quite like it. And the delight that shone from her eyes when she looked at it - she'd got it that day for her birthday I think - who doesn't want to make their kids happy on birthday and Christmas?

There is a boycott of jelly cat for how they treated their small suppliers maybe show your teenager that and get her to get onboard with that; she is a good age to make moral choices.

One of the many things I LOVE about the fact that I am not longer with my ex, is that I can now have my plushies out in the bedroom, and whichever ones I choose that night in bed with me. He was so sneering about them I had to pack them all away.

I've recently started casually seeing a new guy when my daughter is at her dad's, and the first time he stayed over I thought about hiding the plushies, and then I thought, fuck it! I'm 47, it's my life and my flat and my plushies! He didn't bat an eyelid. In the morning I left for work before him so he had to let himself out, and when I got home he had not only made the bed, he had put my plush dinosaur (one of my best ones as my daughter got it for me - no idea how he knew) at the top with it's head on the pillow like a person!

Needless to say, he got an invite back.....

I had to google it.

Are you seriously agonising over a stuffed toy that looks like a teabag? 😂

Get a teabag and draw a face on it. Get a whole box of them and give her a hundred teabag friends.

Funny thread. OP I have my fingers crossed your DD soon has a Steepy of very own to love. Will keep an eye out for one.

don't know what it was, just looked like a kind of beige sphere with a face

I bet this was the potato. But it could have been the peanut, baked bean or even the sourdough or the chocolate macaron.

@Bagsintheboot Good luck with that approach. Do you have a teenager? It’s not about teaching and all about peer pressure.

I finally found a Steepy for my Jellycat crazy little girl on Tuesday. He was part of a second drop at my local store - Hopefully this means there will be more popping up across independent retailers too.

This. It’s fucking insane to participate in this consumer madness. Wait one, maybe two months and they’ll be discounted everywhere. You should be teaching her the ridiculousness of it. Look at the Prime drink saga. Embarrassing tbh

They are rarely discounted.

It’s your role in life to teach them what’s acceptable and not. Otherwise she’ll be chasing the ‘next big thing’ forever. Never happy. Never content.

It’s a fucking teddy tea bag

I totally want a Steepy. And the coffee bean one to keep him company 🤣

My 13 year old son loves the fabulous fruits, he used his holiday money one year to buy ‘Appley’ and now has eight fruity pals. I think he got Appley from that Gloucester services someone mentioned, on the way to Devon

There were 15 in total but they ‘retired’ then. I have all but two stashed away for future Xmas presents but the grapes and kiwi are alluding me. The kiwis sell for about £60, they retailed at about £12 originally

If I’d realised how sought after the sludgy green little fuckers were going to be I would have stockpiled the entire Jellycat website’s worth 🤣

I’ve just come from there and having read this in the car I did look. No teabags left (on northbound side anyway).

I am big JC fan, and I always insisted I didn’t want Steepy. However, I got caught up in the hype and managed to get one. He is very cute 🫖.

So many stores have had deliveries this week, and I expect there will be more coming into stock in various places.

I will say though, JC certainly know how to create a hype with one of their products (not that I saying their methods are any good, as the backlash received by the independent stores over people desperate for Steepy was absolutely shocking 😞).

It’s a teachable lesson. They could easily make a million tea bags and distribute them. But they don’t. To create a clamour for them. Which means they’re cunts. As people are selling them for 10 x their worth. And they know that.

Opt out

I genuinely hope your DD gets a steepy - I’ve been hunting for one for a friend who is a tea jenny but they are very elusive! My very small JC collection that sit on my headboard they all have a significant meaning which would be too outing to share and my DD has 3 JC which all have significant meanings too