Friends with faces

I’m decluttering at the moment. Partly because I have too much stuff and no living space (properly moving home to parents after having somewhere else to put stuff since 2003) and partly because having stuff grates on me. I’m a hoarder who dreams of being a minimalist. But I’m doing well – things are flying out of my life at great speed. The hardest thing to get rid of though is cuddly toys, and I have A LOT. I’ve already done one weeding through, aided by Spock thoughtfully leaving a poo to desiccate in the box of toys under my bed, thereby requiring them to be thrown. Today I’m trying to reduce them to only the truly loved toys, but I have a problem getting rid of things with faces. I’ve taken photos to preserve those leaving me for posterity…

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From left to right, Scruffy the dog who has not survived the post-poo-wash, Wombat, Sooty the puppet, Daniel (I think), Big Ben who is very difficult to get rid of but does take up a lot of space, Roland Rat, Debbie or Brian the hedgehog (I had one, Ding had the other), a unnamed sewing craft doll, a feathery puppet thing and Dicky Byrd. These chaps are all leaving for the big toybox in the sky. 🙁

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From left to right (by nose position), a rabbit I got as a grown up, Mystic the horse, Danny the rabbit, Sarah the cabbage patch doll, Timmy the dog, a rabbit I don’t know the name of, Bunnykins the troll, a teddy my Nan got me which I never bonded too but feel bad getting rid of and I don’t even remember his name, Scar, a TY leopard, Oo Oo who was always the villain in our games, a rabbit who’s name I’ve forgotten, and a furby. I hope Oo Oo finds a new home where he can be rehabilitated and isn’t hanged from the bannisters for various villainous acts.

Somewhere on the web I read a line that said something like there are enough real things with feelings in the world to be spending time worrying about and trying to help, instead of agonising over the fate of cuddly toys. Which is a good point. However it’s still really hard to get rid of things with faces! *flails*

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