I know exactly what you mean with toy guilt, I was that way with my stuffed animals and to this day it still bugs me to see them being beat on. I have a number of “imperfect” stuffed animals that I had picked up in the store, and before I left I noticed the crooked eye or nose but couldn’t bear to put the animal back for a different one! So much guilt, so little time.

So yes, I was a stuffed animal fiend. I would stay up late in the dark and make up little soap operas of what puppy married which and so on. I still have two large storage bins in my sons room full of them, and about 15 mid-large ones on his floor. There are only a few that went by the wayside; when my parents had a rat in the garage that ate into the boxes and chewed some up and peed/poo’d on them.

I had one barbie, and almost no clothes for her. She was basically always naked and her head came off. We would cram it back on and go about our business. My little brother had an unnatural fear of barbies that I exploited mercilessly, placing it across the doorway to our room to keep him out, or hanging it (headless) in the closet and then telling him to open it. My parents joined in on the fun by laying it in front of the VCR to dissuade him from pressing buttons. LOL.
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SO many memories that made me smile. Thanks! Not a downer at all for me.
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And a Fluppy Dog. He was a dog with yarn hair. So great.

Happy Thanksgiving!
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The only holiday we have like this is Christmas which sometimes can get overshadowed by the stress of shopping and buying presents for each other.