What do with the spare favorite stuffy?

[Anonymous]

DD, 6, has a ride or die favorite stuffed rabbit, that, like most well-loved stuffed animals, has seen better days.

I wisely bought a spare many years ago before it was discontinued and have kept it boxed up in storage just in case the original is lost or gets damaged beyond repair.

She doesn’t know this backup rabbit exists. Just for fun, I’m curious what you’d do:

1. Keep the spare in storage, never to be spoken of unless needed
2. Break the news there is a twin and give it to her as a bday gift
3. Keep it for a future child of her own if she decides to have them

[Anonymous]

Option 3 is a good one.

[Anonymous]

It would be in storage as it has always been and I wouldn’t have a thought in my mind about it to the point that I would post about it…

[Anonymous]

Well, you're far ahead of me. I bought two spares for my oldest, didn't hide them well, and then we spent a looooong time with three transitional objects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be in storage as it has always been and I wouldn’t have a thought in my mind about it to the point that I would post about it…

Aw, it sounds like you lost your stuffed rabbit. How sad for you.

[Anonymous]

Have it show up in the Easter basket.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

I'm not super sentimental so saving a stuffed animal for like 2-3 decades in the chance your daughter has kids and will bond with the exact stuffy seems like too much to me.

[Anonymous]

Option 3 at this point, unless needed to step in for his original duty.

My dd had three of her favorite guys on rotation after the first was so slobbered on that he needed a wash so I brought in guy#2, then one of those guys got lost, so I brought in guy#3 as a sub. Then the missing one showed up, so we had guy#1, guy#2, and guy#3. They were all called “guy-sey” and lived happily ever after together. She’s now 12 and they are around here somewhere. Still loved, but not as needed anymore.

[Anonymous]

I would swap out the old one and say it went to the spa and here's how it looks rejuvenated- and present the new one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would swap out the old one and say it went to the spa and here's how it looks rejuvenated- and present the new one.

Awwww this is cute

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would swap out the old one and say it went to the spa and here's how it looks rejuvenated- and present the new one.

Why? The kid loves it the way it is now.

[Anonymous]

Option 3.

I still have both my childhood baby special bears. I'm so old I don't remember being attached to them. But they carry a lot of other later memories with them.

I have tons of stuffed animals my husband wants me to part with. I bought my own kids mostly beanie baby size things and let them play with my collection too.

[Anonymous]

The trick is to buy a second one before the first one is too worn and then swap them regularly so they both wear equally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD, 6, has a ride or die favorite stuffed rabbit, that, like most well-loved stuffed animals, has seen better days.

I wisely bought a spare many years ago before it was discontinued and have kept it boxed up in storage just in case the original is lost or gets damaged beyond repair.

She doesn’t know this backup rabbit exists. Just for fun, I’m curious what you’d do:

1. Keep the spare in storage, never to be spoken of unless needed
2. Break the news there is a twin and give it to her as a bday gift
3. Keep it for a future child of her own if she decides to have them

This post made me laugh because my now-18-year-old daughter amassed about 14 “backup” stuffies from age 1-6!
We started out like you —except I used to exchange the spare out periodically so that they both had the right smell and look. And then it became discontinued and over time, relatives would find one in a drug store and snap it up! But we were always careful not to break her universe by allowing more than one to appear at the same time!
And then one day when she was nearly three, she accidentally happened on one of the spares and she toddled into the room holding one lovey in each hand and giggling “one…two! Two guys!”
She was so excited!
And from then on, people in our lives would just give her more and more of these until she had a whole collection of identical lovies on her bed! There was barely any room at all for HER!
Now they sit at the top of her closet. But it’s a fun memory! Cherish this time, OP! It goes by all too quickly.