If so, what kind? Just curious.
I just realized that 20 stuffed animals are perched on my bed. They range from bears to cats to dogs to ducks to otters…okay, so there are many different kinds.
I know, I’m 18 years old and probably too old to keep such things on my bed…but they’re so damn cute!
Do they have names? If so, what are they?
This will be especially interesting if any men answer.
I’m twice that, and I have a few.
Also a good dozen dolls.
And, yes, I talk to them and expect my friends to talk to them, since I talk to theirs.
It’s like staging a puppet show for yourself. Beats TV.
I still have my teddy bear, Teddy, who I got when I was just a month old, for my first Christmas. He’s been very well-loved and has undergone a surgery or two, but he still sleeps with me each night I’m here. I also have a few others in the closet here and downstairs…
And, yeah, I’m almost 17 and maybe I should know better or whatever. But I made myself a promise when I was about 10. That promise was that no matter how cynical or evil I got in my teenage and adult years, I always keep Teddy wth me, no matter what. It’s not a promise I’m going to break.
Sani, that is so sweet. I wish there were more guys like you out there. And Teddy…what an original name (actually, I don’t know many people who call a teddy bear “teddy”).
I have my teddy bear, although he looks more like a gingerbread man since my evil sister ripped off his ears (as well as his eyes and mouth) when I was little. But I still love him. I have my first doll, Ruthie, too. She only has one leg because my evil sister amputated the other one, and she is half bald because same evil sister pulled her hair out. But I still love her.
I’m not so sure about my evil sister, though.
I have three Pokemon (yes, yes, evil incarnate, blah, blah) that I won at various places (the Excalibur, Buster & Daves), and one bear, Brownie. Brownie’s the bear my first girlfriend (first love, first kiss, etc.) gave me way back in the day. Unlike said gf, it’s back home waiting for me…
Most of mine are in a box. However, I do have two of them on display, and both were made by my mother. One is a crocheted stuffed poodle; we chose the yarn to match the toy poodle we had at the time. The other isn’t an animal – it’s a Raggedy Ann doll. My mom made one each for my sister and me one Christmas. I was too old to play with dolls at that age, so Raggy’s just always been on a shelf. (My sister, however, was perhaps not quite old enough – she gave her Raggy’s yarn hair a haircut – and got her doll taken away for about six months while Mom fixed it.)
I still have all my stuffed animals, most of which are in a box in my sister’s basement. Some are just too expensive and too well done to get rid of.
I have in my apartment right now: a grizzly bear named Tracker (the name he came with; I don’t usually name them), two small teddy bears (sentimental for reasons I’m not getting into), a larger bear that was my grandmother’s, a beaver that my SIL gave me when I moved south, and Ratbert.
My other animals are a wide variety (including another beaver…odd, that), and only one is named. He’s a little grey mouse that I’ve had forever, and his name is (brace yourself) Mousiekins.
All mine were passed down to my brother, except for one: a little (about a foot tall, including ears) bunny that my great-grandmother gave me when I was 6 years old. 12 years later, I still have it, and it’s in remarkably good shape.
I’m 19 years old, and I’ve got a few stuffed animals.
There are my three animals I have mounted on my walls (two bears and a gorilla) which I got as graduation presents, then there’s my special green lizard which I used as a prop in a play, then there’s my little finger puppet lobster which was a christmas present, and finally, there’s Edward Norton Jr., a “Tonight Show With Jay Leno” hippo that I managed to snag when I went to see a taping (Edward Norton was the first guest, hence the name).
Suo Na, my 16 year old brother also has a stuffed animal beaver. I think he owns it for perverted reasons, however. shudder
I am 31, and I have a ton of stuffed animals. All of them are packed away in the closet though. The only one still out, on my bed, is a teddy bear I have had since I was about 8.
Why, yes, I do.
I have:
On top of my computer
Prance the cat, Pounce the cat, Chip the cat, Magic the dragon and Scorch the dragon (Beanie Babies all)
On top of the TV
A blueish/purplish dragon with iridescent blue wings (nameless)
On or around my bed
big fuzzy white bear (nameless), smaller fuzzy white bear (named “Zee”), purple, orange and pink bears that smell like, respectively, grape, orange and strawberry (all 3 nameless), little brown Beanie-type bear with a red maple leaf and “Canada” on his chest (nameless), big killer whale (named “Orca”), tiny black and white cow in pajamas (nameless), tiny black and white tiger (nameless), Bambi the deer (named “Bambi”).
If anyone wishes to suggest names for the nameless ones, feel free.
Most of my stuffed animals have been packed away – I won’t allow my parents to get rid of them – although a few of my favorites/ones that have special meaning sit on a little chest in my bedroom. Here in my dorm room, I have Luke the black lab (who sits on top of my computer), a spring-time Eeyore (who sits in a matching mug on my shelf), Bernie the St. Bernard (my world traveling Beanie Baby – he’s been to Canada, France, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Germany), a little unnamed Gund bear (who sits at the head of my bed), and Muffin (one of Ty’s medium sized stuffed dogs who I cuddle up with at night). Oh, I also have the Germania bear from McDonalds sitting on my fan, but I’m not sure if that really counts as a stuffed animal.
I still have my favorite stuffed animal from when I was young, Bucky Beaver. Bucky is all discusting with big holes and a popped out eyeball, and he is made out of some kind of material that used to give me rashes as a child, but hey, I LOVE HIM. I also think it is very funny that i slept with beaver for all thoes years. Beaver, beaver, beaver. There, I said it.
I’m 36, and a guy. I still have a stuffed Quisp doll I saved box tops for when I was 3. It’s been through hell, and shows many signs of my mother’s repairs to split seams.
I’m not sure why I’ve kept him, but there he is. I bet I’m the only Quisp kid on the SDMB.
Saltire, you’re not the only Quisp kid. (I miss my Quisp doll. Mom gave it away years ago. I had Quake, too, but the neighbor’s dog ate it.)
Current collection of stuffed animals:
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[li]37 teddy bears in various colors and outfits (including a RCMP Mountie and a white one with a big red maple leaf on the torso) - most are presents from Roommate who drives a tractor-trailer cross-country, and most now reside in various storage tubs[/li][li]12 buffalo, 4 identical (I love buffalo)[/li][li]1 moose (from mom who thought she was buying me a buffalo)[/li][li]1 dolphin mother and baby set[/li][li]1 walrus[/li][li]5 sea lions (ranging from 4 inches to almost 2 feet long)[/li][li]1 harbor seal[/li][li]1 sea otter holding a clam[/li][li]2 cats (advertising for a flea control product, the other Mr. Bigglesworth from ‘Austin Powers’ - scares the heck out of HyperKitty)[/li][li]2 dogs (one also advertising a flea control product, the other the bandaged dog from “There’s Something About Mary”)[/li][li]1 killer whale (5 feet of dust-collecting fun)[/li]1 red M&M promotion stufed toy (mostly red, at least where HyperKitty hasn’t attacked)
I didn’t realize that it was at all unusual to have loads of them. They are mostly in the bedroom. I’m 29-and-a-half by the way.
B.B.–black bear
Sam Clam–polar bear
Ottie–otter
Sidney–platypus
Grunt–javelina
Millie–mountain goat
Claus–sock monkey
Wombat–wombat
Mr. Bear–king of them all
I also have a few beanie babies and teenie beanie babies.
29 year old guy. And proud possessor of a Gund stuffed platypus (it’s soooooooooo cute!) and Beanie Babies of Chocolate the Moose and Ants the Anteater…all gifts frommy wife.
28-year-old guy, with a small stuffed polar bear my fiancee gave me when our relationship first turned long-distance. Actually, I haven’t seen him since we moved in August, but he was sitting on my monitor for a couple of years.
My SO has a Gund dog (cocker spaniel) that I gave her a couple of years ago. To be honest, I gave it to her because I was jealous that she was sleeping with the teddy bear her ex-boyfriend gave her.
–sublight.