I often lurk around Yahoo Answers and often read and answer a similar question, ether a teen or twenty something or older anguishing that their mother has thrown out their children’s prize stuffed toy collection, the mother want to throw out their stuffed, or an adult wanting to know how to get over their anguish wanting to get rid of their stuffed animals collection but unable to. I have a simple message to the adults and Mothers:

Put the bag down step slowly away from the stuffed animals collection and leave the Plushies be.

I confess I am a furry and a stuffed toy collector, Mosley Hello Kitty or Sanrio but I do have others. I am one of the 35% men who travel with a stuffed animal according to an UK survey.  I sleep with 10 of them yet in all my “immaturity” I am still a well adjusted 50ish year old adult.

I poured   over many parental advice sites wanting to know who to get rid of their kids stuffed animals, in all post are from mothers and women and not a peep from the men.  In all I cannot find, except moving or loss of interest, any logical reason why to dump their kids stuffed animals collection. Most answers are in a form of logical fallacies of appeal to tradition: this we always raised children that way, Bandwagons fallacy or others might think, or generalizations have stuff toys make one immature.  I do not see any logical region to dispose one kid’s cherish plushies  or  prohibit on nagging a child  from  carrying  one interest in stuffed animals will into adult years .  It may be time for parents and adults to grow up and leave stuffed animals be.

Signed

Me a 52 year old stuffed animal fan who says you can only give away my collection of my stuffed toys that cannot fit into my coffin next to my cold dead body.

Part of  my collection