Anonymous
Post 08/17/2018 22:08     Subject: Re:This is where you donate stuffed animals!!!
Anonymous wrote:OP here- they did not trash them. We donated about 100 stuffed animals. I was honest about the fact that they weren't brand new but in very good condition, and they said that was fine.

Most were stuffed animals that my kids got, took the tags off, played with for about 5 minutes....and then they sat on the shelf for YEARS.


Jesus, why would you let so many nasty stuffed animals in your house? Hate them
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2018 21:02     Subject: This is where you donate stuffed animals!!!
Some how it us ok for my kid to very playing with a 5+ year old stuffed toy but it becomes rrplusive for another child to play with it? Dig shelter live old stuffed animals bte.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2018 20:48     Subject: This is where you donate stuffed animals!!!
They’re like Gremlins. Everyone knows not to feed them after midnight nor get them wet. But kids ignore the rules and they just show up uninvited.

All parents know not to give them as gifts, but if you let your kid pick out the present... It’s a stuffed animal or pillow for mine. Heading out of stuffed animal phase into decorative emoji pillow phase.

I try to steer them towards other useless clutter, like a board game they might play twice or never, some craft box they can pile on top of years worth of crafts, or try to find something ideally that would be consumed fast like charcoal pencils and paper. But not every kid loves drawing.

As a parent, we’d love fresh fruit. My kids gravitate towards cluttering your basement.

Anonymous
Post 08/17/2018 20:46     Subject: Re:This is where you donate stuffed animals!!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It really annoys me when places ask for new things. Beggars should not be choosers.


Really? So a child who is living in a home where one of their parents is being beat up on a daily basis, doesn't deserve a stuffed animal that is something they can truly call their own and have to comfort themselves? Instead, they should get a stuffed animal that might have stains on it, dried saliva, or are no longer soft anymore? Jeez.


We really need to get away from thinking new="the only acceptable way". "Excellent Used Condition" is just as good. Let's use what we already have instead of having factories crank out millions of new stuffed animals because heaven forbid an abused child would have to play with a stuffed animal in excellent used condition.


So you only buy your kids used stuffed animal? Or is it just the abused kids who have to save the environment by playing with your kids’ castoffs?

Anonymous
Post 08/17/2018 20:37     Subject: Re:This is where you donate stuffed animals!!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It really annoys me when places ask for new things. Beggars should not be choosers.


Really? So a child who is living in a home where one of their parents is being beat up on a daily basis, doesn't deserve a stuffed animal that is something they can truly call their own and have to comfort themselves? Instead, they should get a stuffed animal that might have stains on it, dried saliva, or are no longer soft anymore? Jeez.


We really need to get away from thinking new="the only acceptable way". "Excellent Used Condition" is just as good. Let's use what we already have instead of having factories crank out millions of new stuffed animals because heaven forbid an abused child would have to play with a stuffed animal in excellent used condition.


+1. Some of these posters promote such wastefulness. And yes, I buy my kids used clothes and gave bought them toys, including stuffed animals from thrift stores. I’ve seen used stuffed animals for sale at Goodwill and Unique Thrift. So they must accept donations of them.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2018 20:26     Subject: This is where you donate stuffed animals!!!
The lesson here is to NEVER give a stuffed animal as a gift. I stopped doing that as soon as I had my first and realized that it is a never ending stream. My kids actually have a bunch that were mine when I was growing up—they were in such good condition my mom kept them all in Rubbermaid containers.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2018 16:47     Subject: This is where you donate stuffed animals!!!
Anonymous wrote:The local landfill for biologically contaminated trash.


Why is this so hard for people to understand? Please throw away your stuffed animals. I put away the stuffed animals no one touches for a couple of months. If the kids don't ask about it after 2 months it goes on the trash. You don't need to keep stuffed animals on a shelf collecting dust.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2018 16:20     Subject: This is where you donate stuffed animals!!!
The local landfill for biologically contaminated trash.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2018 16:18     Subject: This is where you donate stuffed animals!!!
Okay ... here's a different question. Where can stuffed animals be recycled? I totally get why used ones can't be donated, but I'd rather they were recycled.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2018 16:05     Subject: Re:This is where you donate stuffed animals!!!
Anonymous wrote:https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/news/wanted-by-the-montgomery-county-sheriffs-office-stuffed-animals/

The Montgomery county sheriff’s office put a call out for stuffed animals. Every kid leaves with one.


Oh my god that is literally the exact link in the first post that spurred 3 pages of discussion.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2018 15:56     Subject: Re:This is where you donate stuffed animals!!!
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/news/wanted-by-the-montgomery-county-sheriffs-office-stuffed-animals/

The Montgomery county sheriff’s office put a call out for stuffed animals. Every kid leaves with one.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2018 14:49     Subject: This is where you donate stuffed animals!!!
Anonymous wrote:Nobody can look at a stuffed animal and see what’s inside.

QUIT PAWNING YOUR USED STUFFED ANIMALS OFF ONTO POOR/ABUSED/IN NEED KIDS.

If used stuffed animals are so damn wonderful, take your kid thrifting for them in consignments or thrift shops. Somehow those that insist donations of used stuffed animals are ok would never take give their kid a used one.


In a recent study performed by Dettol, a UK company that manufactures antibacterial cleaning products, microbiologists swab-tested children's used teddy bears—and the results are absolutely shocking. A frightening 80% of the toys were contaminated with staphylococcus spp, a pathogen that can actually cause food poisoning when ingested. And even scarier —as many as 25% of the stuffed animals contained coliforms, suggesting the possible presence of harmful organisms that can cause dangerous diseases. Another test in the same study suggested that 1 in 4 teddy bears even contain traces of fecal matter.




+1 I'm not nervous about germs normally, but used stuffed animals and young kids are not a good combination. You don't know anything about the home that it's come from.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2018 14:48     Subject: This is where you donate stuffed animals!!!
If you want to donate used stuffed animals, I just called Goodwill. The one in Rockville and Gaithersburg take gently used stuffed animals. There you go.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2018 14:43     Subject: This is where you donate stuffed animals!!!
Anonymous wrote:Oh the ridiculousness. I too am looking to donate, not to a landfill, many stuffed animals.

They are fluffy, not adequately loved, like brand new, in a huge pile in my basement. Alas, no tags. No lice, viruses... I’d wash them so an errant dust mite might flea.

I have a no more stuffed animals policy and they just keep showing up. Refuse to just throw them out. Realize there are millions of basements just like mine.


Right, there are millions in basements gathering dust and mold. And to make themselves feel good, people will take those moldy dusty things and try to donate them. I think it would probably be ok if people would wash them thoroughly before hand and only donate ones that were in really good condition, but they won’t. They will donate the disgusting ones as well.

Anonymous
Post 08/17/2018 05:35     Subject: Re:This is where you donate stuffed animals!!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It really annoys me when places ask for new things. Beggars should not be choosers.


Really? So a child who is living in a home where one of their parents is being beat up on a daily basis, doesn't deserve a stuffed animal that is something they can truly call their own and have to comfort themselves? Instead, they should get a stuffed animal that might have stains on it, dried saliva, or are no longer soft anymore? Jeez.


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