My advice is to cherish them forever.

I only say this because I was obsessed with stuffed animals as a child, and I could never give any of mine away, either. Though most of them are in storage in the basement... I can't get rid of them. And we're talking hundreds of stuffed animals here.

get some of those adorable stuffed animal hammocks and hang them in the corners of all of your rooms. they're adorable and non-threatening. and cheaper than shelves.

cheers,
Lacey

I love in TV shows when someone dies and the family cleans out the room, has a yard sale and buys a home gym. (usually the dead person is a ghost watching from across the street or something though)

Get on with it. Take down the shelves and paint a mural, then whitewash it and paint another one. You don't have to keep or remember everything. Don't be one of those people that buys into the sentimental bullshit. Do you see yourself having these objects for the rest of your life? If not, give them away. Box them up and put them in storage until you don't think about them anymore, then have them hauled off to the Salvation Army for all the little children to spit-up on. It will be fun, you'll see!

Keep, I don't know....two or three maybe, if you must?

I have a very small stuffed dog that was in the incubator with me. It's yellow. It's really ugly and really old. I will let my children deal with it when I die.

Drop 'em off at a Childrens Aid location, or something. They'd be put to better use.

I was very attached to mine, then my cousin had three little girls, not at the same time. So it was really easy for me to give the animals I really liked to kids I knew. I really enjoy the fact that I can still see them and they are getting use and could become special to them.

i still sleep with the same stuffed cat that i did when i was 6. it's a security. the only one thing that has always made me feel better and safe... ya know.. from the boogy man. it's saved me many of times from being lonely and scared and i dont' think i'll ever throw it away. or stop sleeping with it until i settle down and sleep with my boyfriend int he same bed everynight. i need security at night to feel like i can go to sleep peacefully. this is it.

don't do it.

I say get rid of most of them, 7 shelves full!?! Dude that's more than a 7 year old girl! What do people you bring home say? Seriously? "Oh... how cute! Now sex me up!" I don't think so. Stop freaking people out man, donate them.

sew them all together to make a huge stuffed animal monster.

then it will be "art."

then you will be grown up.

simmer down, maxx........

[Edited on Feb 20, 2004 by Voltaire]

When I was a kid, I had HUNDREDS of the damned things. Right now there are a couple in my apartment - the one I have had since I was a baby, which I slept with every night up until a few days ago (I got a replacement, since the head on the old one is starting to get a bit loose). At my parents' house there is still a giant rubbermaid container full of stuffies. I'm not sure what I think I'm going to do with them, but eventually I'll dig through it and figure out with ones I want to keep for posterity, and which ones are going in the yard sale.

Once I get married, I will have a husband to sleep with, so I won't need a little stuffed thingie to snuggle.

I will probably only keep a few.....so I think that would be okay. Give the rest to your younger relatives, or garage-sale them. All of mine have names, too. Hee hee. I am a nerd.

Despite being 22 years old and living with my boyfriend, I still cuddle up with my teddy bear every night. He looks awful and smells funny but I love him to bits and nearly had a mental break down when I thought I'd lost him.

Keep the ones that have some sort of special meaning to you, and donate the others to a local charity or the children's ward of your hospital.

Don't ever completely sell out your childhood memories, because then eventually you'll forget what it's like to be young.

Keep the one that you love best and donate the rest to a homeless or a battered women's shelter.

You would be doing a good thing for yourself and for the recipient

Don't get rid of them! Keep them all. Stuffed animals are great! Unless you happen to have a poor friend whose kids might like them and you could have visitation rights there is no reason why you should have to part with them.

i would never fuck a guy with stuffed animals all over his room...all those eyes.....geez get rid of them.......maybe put a small box of them away if you really want to...sorry i am cruel.....but 7 shelves is a bit much.

This is funny. I would have to agree. When I said keep one, I didn't mean on your bed or on a shelf in your bedroom. I meant more like in a box in the garage.