What is the solution to decluttering stuffed animals?

[Anonymous]

I swear the stuffed animals multiply at night.

The kids are willing, so it's just a matter of where - where do they go? I hate the thought of trash.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately no charity wants them. I hate it too, OP, but I end up just throwing them out.

[Anonymous]

Everything you want to get rid of can be given away for free on Next Door or Craigslist. Post an ad and someone will pick it up that same day. Guaranteed.

[Anonymous]

If there are no plastic parts you can check with shelters or animal rescue orgs - sometimes they'll take them as toys to give to the dogs or to fosters. Makes for cheap destructible toys and better pictures for adoptions.

[Anonymous]

If you can’t get rid of them yet, hang a hammock from the ceiling in a corner for them. There will be a moment when your kid is not that old that they will no longer mind getting rid of them.

[Anonymous]

Oh I didn’t read carefully that the kids are willing. Just throw them away. They’re not donatable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everything you want to get rid of can be given away for free on Next Door or Craigslist. Post an ad and someone will pick it up that same day. Guaranteed.

I know but the same few hoarders try to claim everything on our neighborhood giveaway and I feel bad about contributing to what can’t be a good situation.

[Anonymous]

If kids are willing, trash.

If kids are emotionally tied to them, you can buy certain beanbag chair covers that are made to be filled with stuffed animals .

[Anonymous]

Why do you think you can't donate stuffed animals? I donated mine all using greendrop.com. Stuffed animals are listed under Acceptable Items.

[Anonymous]

Buy a moroccan style stuffable pouf, and go to town. They will find a new life under your bum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything you want to get rid of can be given away for free on Next Door or Craigslist. Post an ad and someone will pick it up that same day. Guaranteed.

I know but the same few hoarders try to claim everything on our neighborhood giveaway and I feel bad about contributing to what can’t be a good situation.

This! I either have no luck when I post or the person/people who respond already have bins of stuff spilling off of their front/back porches. The only answer I’ve found is to take a hard line on such gifts in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Under-bed storage, they can have 10 on their bed at a time and rotate.

Some other solutions.

[Anonymous]

I had a large collection of lightly loved stuffed animals that I donated when I went away to college - to the children’s reading room at the local library.

Please don’t throw them away before making at least a few calls to find local places that might accept them. As with anything they won’t want any that are really gross, but if they’re in good condition I’m guessing they are acceptable to some places. And yes, you can always list them on the Facebook marketplace as free to a good home and meet people in a public place to hand them off. There are a lot of really poor people right now who would love to have things to give to their children for birthdays etc. and can’t afford to buy anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a large collection of lightly loved stuffed animals that I donated when I went away to college - to the children’s reading room at the local library.

Please don’t throw them away before making at least a few calls to find local places that might accept them. As with anything they won’t want any that are really gross, but if they’re in good condition I’m guessing they are acceptable to some places. And yes, you can always list them on the Facebook marketplace as free to a good home and meet people in a public place to hand them off. There are a lot of really poor people right now who would love to have things to give to their children for birthdays etc. and can’t afford to buy anything.

I would add that a good place to contact would be battered women’s shelters and local family shelters. They might both be interested in having such toys on hand to comfort children made homeless by violence or poverty.

[Anonymous]

A Wider Circle in Silver Spring takes them if they are good quality. Right off the Beltway.