Our spares were part of the laundry cycle. There are three.

Anonymous wrote: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.

Haha. Years ago, when my son was a toddler we got a backup bunny because my son was always losing his “original bunny” around the house. Eventually we had to keep track of TWO bunnies that were always going missing.

OP, I like the idea of saving it for potential future grandchildren. My son is now a sophomore in college and his bunny sits on his dresser, abandoned (*sniff*). It’s more sentimental to me than it is to him, at this point. My daughter, on the other hand, is 18 and still sleeps with her tattered and beloved “blankie” every night (though she’s not sucking her fingers anymore, thankfully!).

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…

Yet you did just post. You probably don't have a thought in your mind.

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…

you are a turd.

move on.

I had two for this reason and switched them out fairly regularly until the rattle in one started sounding different. She noticed when I switched them but I explained it away that it was just a glitch and then switch them back. .. now the one with the weird rattle is in a keepsake box in the top of my closet. I don't know if I'll ever tell her.... But if it was new, I would probably keep it for her future children

Anonymous wrote: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.

I did this. But during Covid (when my kid was 6) I stopped because we were all home ALL THE TIME and it just fell off my radar. So now I have a slightly worn stuffy and a very worn stuffy. I've thought about telling her (she's 11 now) but then I think she'd just have 2 she's attached too. Maybe in another year or 2. She is VERY attached. Still carries it around the house and would be devastated to lose it. So I guess it's good I have a backup still...but she'd notice immediately now. She knows every lump and bump on it!

Call it "the evil twin" you had locked up all these years.

I would break the news that there is a twin. The original lovey is all broken in, so the time has passed where you can just swap it out if lovey #1 gets lost. Then at least she will also have time to get attached to #2 should anything happen to #1

I wound up with about 5 for my eldest, in various states of disrepair. I kept them in a box in my closet and revealed them all to her when she was in middle school. She thought it was hilarious. She kept the box-no idea what she’ll eventually do with them.

Our backups of the stuffy one of my kids was obsessed with are now in play rotation. There's an entire family of them, because my other children (who never themselves really bonded to a stuffy - they were more blanket kids) latched onto the backups. There have been many, many hours of playing with that family.

My kid had a fav lovey. Still sleeps with it and she’s 12 now. I bought an identical one when she was a toddler and rotated them so they were equally washed/worn looking.

They become twins or mommy and baby

Anonymous wrote: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.

I would totally do this.


Although I think I might have two spares stashed away in various places, don’t judge me.

I would just hang on to the backup. You can introduce it if you want, as long as you think you can keep it safe and available if something happens to stuffy #1. We almost lost my 5 year old's stuffy a couple months ago and I didn't have a backup because DS had picked a hand me down from his older brother to be his stuffy rather than the new lovey I had bought for him. Fortunately, stuffy turned up in the house, but I thought I was going to be buying a replacement for $40+ on Ebay because no one sells this one anymore and DS was waking up in the middle of the night saying he wanted his stuffy...