u/Glowfrogbog

Not a sales post! Just making a little light hearted vent, nothing too serious but maybe someone out there can relate. I'm having to downsize my bab collection and it's so flippin hard gah! I'm moving soon so I definitely can't procrastinate on it any longer (I've procrastinated on it for years at this point lmao). I've tried the whole putting them away and seeing who I think about and get excited to see again etc but it's all of them! 😂 I tried organising them into piles but they all end up in the keep pile. I tried just keeping the ones that were gifts/made with special memories but oh! the others are all so cute and cuddly! ahhhh 😩

I have a ridiculous amount and they absolutely don't get the love they deserve but it's still so hard. I'm definitely overwhelmed by the amount I have and it can only be good to downsize plus I absolutely HAVE to but it's sooooo freakin hard. I think some part of me feels they have feelings or something, I never have problems getting rid of stuff usually even other plushies. It's a bab exclusive problem lol. Some are super common and not worth much but I've got quite a few that are worth a pretty penny currently and I desperately need the money rn but I know once they're gone I'll never be able to get them back but at the same time it's so silly because they just sit there anyway! I'm literally only holding onto them because they're rare/popular. Come on brain! Let them go! lol.

It's also not helped by the fact I begrudgingly gave some away before to young family members who wanted them more than anything else in the world.... and then instantly discarded them. I managed to rescue one who was cut up and left outside to rot but the others went straight to landfill 😤 as someone who grew up with so little the absolute wastefulness and entitlement OMG!!!!! I also used to restore donated soft toys for charity so they could either be given to hospitals/care homes or sold to raise funds for the hospice but there's nothing like that where I live now, the only place looking for soft toys had such strict requirements they only accepted two of the ones I had to donate but I'll probably see if anyone wants the rest on the bst sub just for postage or something since I know they'd go to a good home there.

I'm struggling a bit after being made redundant months ago, having major money worries and having a lot of health issues in my family but at the same time I am grateful that one of my issues in life currently is having too many teddies haha and my monetary worries can be relieved by fixing the teddy crisis 😂 I'm very fortunate all things considered but it's still nice to be able to have a more light-hearted rant!