Stuffed Animal Overload

cmarie5678 · February 2011

Any tips on what to do with stuffed animals? I feel like we are overloaded. My DD and DS love them, yet they dont play with them, they just sit and clutter their room. I reallly dont want to get a toy net..any other suggestions on great organzing? I was thinking maybe a Pottery Barn Tote? Do they hold alot?

Magdala9 · February 2011

Get rid of them.
Decorate with them on a series of shelve
Hammock in the corner.

I really recommend #1. My DD receives these awful, cheap, brightly-colored stuffed animals from my sil/bil every holiday. This year we had her tested for allergies and found that she is allergic to a product used in stuffed animals. I have banned them for her health and my sil/bil still gave her a teddy bear for Valentine's day.

Temp6313048411121614 · February 2011

We donate most of them. 2 out of my 3 boys don't care for them, 1 LOVES stuffed animals so I just keep a very few around for him to snuggle. I would pick a fair number and tell them that they can choose _______ to keep and the rest you want them to give to other boys and girls who don't have any (so you're getting them out of your house, and teaching charity and compassion).

clea · February 2011

Our local police keep a stash of stuffed animals in their partol car trunks. It makes it much easier for them to deal with children, like in a domestic dispute or on the road with a parent that gets stopped.

headae85 · February 2011

clea:
Our local police keep a stash of stuffed animals in their partol car trunks. It makes it much easier for them to deal with children, like in a domestic dispute or on the road with a parent that gets stopped.

Can you just drop them off at the station? We really need to get a handle on DD's stuffed animals too and I would love to do something like that.

clea · February 2011

headae85:

clea:
Our local police keep a stash of stuffed animals in their partol car trunks. It makes it much easier for them to deal with children, like in a domestic dispute or on the road with a parent that gets stopped.

Can you just drop them off at the station? We really need to get a handle on DD's stuffed animals too and I would love to do something like that.

You might want to check with your local police stations to see if they even do that before just dropping them off. Or maybe you could start a movement!

PM me if you want more info

lmdbww · February 2011

Once a year I go through DD's stuffed animals and fill a bag to donate. She isn't that into them and I hate dust collectors...

Squishy819 · February 2011

Space Bags!! (The vacuum suction bags). My brother and SIL let their daughter choose a certain amount that she wanted to keep out, and then put the rest in a space bag and stored it under her bed. When she hadn't asked about any of the stored stuffed animals after about 6 months, they convinced her to donate them to other children who didn't have any stuffed animals.

(I personally found it slightly creepy seeing all of those animal faces squished up against the bag, but it didn't seem to bother any of them, including my niece!)

KurtsWife09 · February 2011

I vote donate them, but keep his top 5.

lilqtfox69 · March 2011

I plan on telling people when we have kids that we would prefer not to have stuffed animals as gifts. I still have tons of them from when I was a kid that are in trash bags in storage at my parents house. But otherwise, I love the idea of a hammock up at the ceiling. That way you can see and store them but they're not on the floor!

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