Do you still have your first stuffed animal? If so, what is it and what is its name?

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I've got a Paddington bear. The original outfit is long gone but mom did sew him some new duds (denim overalls).

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Dry_Tap_169@reddit

Meet Baby Bear 🐻 My Dad bought him for me at the Hospital gift shop when we went to meet my new baby brother. At 4, my world had just crumbled by not being my parents’ center any longer. My Dad knew, and made me feel loved and special. Baby Bear has been with me for 56 years and has travels may places with me 💜 https://preview.redd.it/8jslpbpatsug1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbda8afcde9921ae1d75f20dd1977c6d1be6e100

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Vast-Government-8994@reddit

Omgoodness yesssssss! Even the tag on the left leg! Baby bear is 💯 Little Bears sibling! I've never seen another in my 50 years! I remember the sawdust when he went to the bear hospital & was opened to be restuffed!! Love it!!!!🐻💓💓

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Vast-Government-8994@reddit

Thus is Little Bear(chap stick for scale) he has been with me for 50 years. He is 85% thread-bear, he has had been restuffed & arms & legs secured back on in the 80's in a "Bear Hospital" His ears were chewed off by a dog when I was about 5 & my babysitter crocheted new ones back on gor him. He has been to Alaska, Nevada & North Carolina with me. He now sits on a shelf above my bed & still watches over me! https://preview.redd.it/pp633zg90rug1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db10df69f96542c2477eec898e0cdd2c40cceabe

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Dry_Tap_169@reddit

I think Little Bear is sibling to my Baby Bear. The size and color of fur matches exactly. They are filled with sawdust and have jointed stitched on limbs. Also, my bear’s ear was chewed off by a dog!!

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merrymarigold@reddit

My first bear looks just like yours except he's bigger. So cute!

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JennaEO@reddit

I love Little Bear! What a great history

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Vast-Government-8994@reddit

Thank you!! Hes been a great little companion

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No_Parking_4195@reddit

Nope. I've been through hurricanes and poverty and many moves. I can't even remember what my first stuffed animal was. Maybe Raggedy Ann? Do ragdolls count? Oh, maybe it was Winnie the Pooh. Yeah he's long gone.

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Sad_Tank4121@reddit

A yellow monkey named Mumphy.

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RealPollution2654@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/u3ghl471fjvg1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be4604ef91dbe92ca4bbbab0f8bfc617f89b920e Husband still has multiple Henry dogs of all sizes.

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Impossible_Bet9726@reddit

Ducky the duck. He was hatched in 1964.

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rasewok@reddit

A teddy bear named Teddy.

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YoopMarti@reddit

A monkey named TR

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More_Law6245@reddit

I do, and being an original 3 year old that I was I called my teddy bear Teddy and his is now 55 years old. Mind you he hasn't spoken to me since I stuffed him into a suitcase with some golden books and ran away from home. I only got to the corner because I wasn't allowed to cross the street as a 4 year old

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Melodic_Scallion_578@reddit

No name for mine but it is a mouse, maybe 14"tall? My mom made one for each of us kids. Not sure if the other sibs have theirs or not.

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Kukukachoooo26@reddit

Yes! I named him Pandy I think because he was a black and white bear

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vivietin@reddit

I have my first doll. She's 67 and her name is Beulah.

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PopRobyn@reddit

No, but my daughter has hers. He's a once-white teddy bear. She's long grown and gone, but she still brings him to me for the occasional surgery.

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Prestigious-Fan3122@reddit

No, I left it at my parents's house when I left for college. Ended up getting married and moving out of state halfway through college. 15 years later, my mom had died, and my dad moved in with us, bringing everything that had been in their house! It was at that point that I decided that "Teddy"needed to be retired. My favorite doll, Vicky, went on with him. If my mother hadn't been such a heavy smoker, and my Childhood twice hadn't stunk of smoke, and then discolored, I might've hung onto one or two of them. Our boys didn't really have a favorite stuffed animal, but each of our girls' favorite stuffed animal, and her favorite doll, is in a box with her name on it, along with other memorabilia, end up in the attic.

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Mulder-believes@reddit

I have my stuffed tiger, named tiger, I have had for over 50 years.

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Clear-Calligrapher69@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/ob3m93pbt2vg1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dc23a9c737e0e8ac904f7470e741955c23e7b38 Curious George from the 70s. He’s had repairs done because the dog got at him. The red, white, and blue hat and scarf are from when he was gone being repaired. He made a trip to the L.A. Olympics. At least that was the story I was told at the time. He was actually at my grandmother’s house getting fixed up.

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ShrimpySiren@reddit

I still have mine. I'm not sure I ever named him anything other than 'Teddy', but when I was born (1978), my dad bought it for me when I was rushed from AK to WA for a surgery hours after being born. It's not the cutest stuffie... just a teddy bear in plaid overalls, but it's still precious to me.

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MB2katz@reddit

I still have Minnie (Minnie the Pooh), a stuffed teddy bear from around 1972. One eye has been put back in the socket with the help of some plastic wrap, and her threadbare belly has been patched with old sock pieces. I would lay on my side and put her face over my ear so spiders wouldn't drop in from the ceiling. Yes, that's how my kid brain worked. I have seen her twin in my local antique shop in much better shape. 😭👵🧸

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eefreeland@reddit

I still have my first cabbage patch my mom fought over from Kmart lol

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KyleGrayson12@reddit

Yes- a forty-three year-old lamb named Lambie.

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Shelby1022@reddit

Yes - stuffed cocker spaniel with wires in it named. Brownie - 63 years old

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OldSlug@reddit

Yes, got him at age 2. Teddy bear named “Teddy” He has no face and his front paw pads are sewn into crescent-shaped scars because I constantly dragged him around by his foot. There’s a big chunk of his upper-right buttock missing because I surgically removed his music box so I could sleep on him comfortably. He sits on a bedside fable on top of my stack of unread books, wearing a mass because he is old and susceptible to airborne viruses.

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IUsedtobeExitzero@reddit

I don’t know if it was my first, but I got it a few days after my third birthday and I’m 65

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pattiwhack5678@reddit

George the Panda. He and I are both 70.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

Wow that this was just posted. My mom just gave it to me this past weekend. Humpy Dumpty. She has started to clean out some of her closets and multiple hope chest's. She gave back both my stuff and my sisters stuff. As a joke I put it on my wife's bed. She thought it was some sort of sexual joke.

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PussySvengali@reddit

I have the orange dog my grandma got me when I was five. His name is Dakin because that is what it said on the tag, I was apparently very determined about this. He is wrapped in my baby blanket in a drawer of my nightstand.

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Elevenyearstoomany@reddit

Not my first but my favorite. His name is Bobby and he’s a bear my uncle gave me for my first Christmas.

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Ghost_010101010@reddit

Kinko and it is a stuffed clown. Yep still have it and it scares my husband.

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bobj33@reddit

I've still got my Winnie the Pooh from 1975 right here!

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JiuJitsuNinja43@reddit

No, but I still have my bear from when I was 10 in 1983. My grandpa gave me and my pound puppy from 1983.

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skatoulaki@reddit

I have a lamb that I was given the day I was born. It has no name. I also have my first teddy bear, who is just named Teddy. Half of the "fur" on his face has rubbed off and part of his nose is missing, but that just shows he is well-loved! He sits on top of my bureau.

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Global_Friend5300@reddit

It was a yellow bunny I dragged everywhere until my mother threw it out when I was napping. I was maybe two years old. She was jealous that it made me feel safe and secure. She wanted to be my only source of security. The reality was that I needed someone to keep me safe from her. But no one ever did.

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Existing-Loquat1760@reddit

A stuffed Winnie the Pooh from Sears in the 70’s.

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Usual_Confection6091@reddit

Omg I had this also!

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Usual_Confection6091@reddit

A palomino horse I called “Baby Ed” after the horse in Mr. Ed. Lol. I still have it. One ear is flattened bc I used to suck on it like a weirdo.

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ForsakenHelicopter66@reddit

I had a pillow pet of a tabby cat that my brother gave me when l was born. I had it up until a couple years ago, it dry rotten and fell to dust. It was 57 years old.

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itspop@reddit

My beloved Ralf, a brown puppy

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Andovars_Ghost@reddit

My parents still have him at their house. He is Choo Choo Charlie and is a dog in a train engineer outfit.

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Gmoneyhoney1972@reddit

Mr. T my turtle. He’s 51.

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davedawn2002@reddit

Parrot named Daddy and a penguin named Opa

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Intrepid_Practice956@reddit

Two. My grandma made me a Raggedy Ann doll when I was still a newborn (I have a picture of it with me in my crib...we're about the same size) Also my parents got me an--animal--not sure what kind. It's pink (well it was originally) with big ears like an elephant..relatively short nose (makes me think of the Elephant's Child pre-alligator in the story by Kipling) and no tail. What she is, I don't know. But I decided she was an elephant and her name is Eliot. Also I had some pretty major surgery when I was 21. They tried to send her into surgery with me but the hospital said no. So while I was in surgery for many hours, my other grandma hand-sewed Eliot a little set of scrubs with one of those surgery caps, a mask and shoe covers.

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2quila@reddit

I think my mom still has it.. stuffed dog.. named Howard.. mid 1960s.

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kittybigs@reddit

Mine was named Henry. Still have him.

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2quila@reddit

My mom made clothing for mine... Sewed them on to hold him together..

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Fair-Wishbone-1190@reddit

I wish I did. I got it on Christmas morning, all the presents were sitting behind it and there was this big stuffed animal right in the front. And if you unzip the back of it that's where you would keep your pajamas and then zip it back up. It was a big floppy eared dog. Man I'd give anything to have that dog again! Just for the memories of my parents and my youth, I think I was 5 years old when I got it.

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Chalkwhyte@reddit

I do! His name is Teddy. He's a teddy bear. He has one eye. A corduroy muzzle. Very little stuffing, and no fur. I'm 54, and he sits on my nightstand.

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Masqueesha@reddit

A bear named Sadbear. I got her when I was 3. I still have her!

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Expensive-Vanilla-16@reddit

I don't know about first but my mom was cleaning out old stuff and found an old panda she made me. It's like 2 or 2.5 ft tall? Kinda crazy it's gotta be 45+ years old.

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Wanderlumps@reddit

I have a frog named Froggy from when I was a kid. Also, I had a teddy bear that I originally named Spaghetti, but it was the US Bicentennial and everyone was singing Yankee Doodle Dandy that year so I changed his name to Macaroni. I was about 4.

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Metroknight@reddit

I have an old Smokey the Bear from the late 60s. My mother was cleaning out storage years ago and found it tucked away in a box so she sent it to me. My wife thought it was cute so she fixed up the tears and such. Now it is sitting on a shelf with her stuff animals that I have given her over the 27 years we have been married.

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Jahidinginvt@reddit

Yes. My uncle Coki gifted it to me. His name is Ñe-Ñe and he’s a panda from the Love Notes squeaky line in the 70s.

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Tim-no@reddit

I just picked up all of my old stuffed toys from my parents place. My favourite as a kid was a teddy that my Grandad, whom I have no memories of, gave to me when I was born. He was, unoriginally, named Boo-boo.

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4whateverwecando@reddit

I had a stuffed dog I named Herman.

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minrenken@reddit

A handmade doll from my mom. Her name is Esther (the doll)

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KellyAnn3106@reddit

Lamby. It's a little lamb that was given to me as a newborn. I also still have Blankie, which was the blanket I was given as a newborn. (Blankie is now in 3 pieces as it disintegrated a bit during to heavy use) Both of these items are getting close to 50 years old at this point.

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BrotherQuartus@reddit

It’s a pale blue rabbit, the color is very faint now. His name is Piggie. I was in the ICU at 19 months old and a nurse gave him to me when I was discharged. I don’t remember any of it. I was not expected to live. Spoiler alert: I lived. The rabbit is very beat up. My wife keeps him in a little cloth bag because his neck is too threadbare to sew and his head can fall off.

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Coup-de-Glass@reddit

Indeed I do. He’s a faded little carnival prize type stuffed dog with black furry ears and a tan-ish body. Toddler named him Mackeever.

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spider_speller@reddit

Yes! A yellow bunny named Bunny.

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PassComprehensive425@reddit

Nope, my brother dropped my teddy in used motor oil. He wanted him and I wouldn't give him up. My dad asked me to give him something and my brother destroyed teddy when I put him down.

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InadmissibleHug@reddit

Yes. A yellow bear of no name. My oldest and second oldest are a knitted penguin by my mother called pink wink (couldn’t say penguin) and a crocheted golliwog called Kylie. I don’t know why the name or gender decided. She’s basically just a brown dolly and not overtly a gollywog.

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Hyphum@reddit

I was incredibly uncreative as a young kid so his name is Teddy. He was a gift from my aunt when I was born

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Glitterbomb4274@reddit

Yes I do! Boo Boo a bear that at one time had a dress and headband. Had it almost 52 years.

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Flat_Cantaloupe645@reddit

I’m not sure if it was my first, but my grandma kept a pale blue bunny head that played a lullaby from when I was a baby in the early 60s. I have now inherited it. I remember hearing it play in my 20s, but have no idea if it still works. It’s packed away in a box somewhere

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librarykerri@reddit

I have my first teddy bear (actually, he's supposed to be a panda bear). His name is shockingly original: Ted. My roommate in college called him ugly bear b/c he's just such a gross mess. But I cannot bring myself to throw away that bear. He is in a protective bag in my closet.

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Itchy_Undertow-1@reddit

I also have a panda bear. Must have been a thing. Name: Bamboo

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IPlayADogtorOnTV@reddit

I have my first childhood bear who is still nameless, and my favorite teddy bear named Amy bear, after the person who gave her to me on my 4th birthday Incidentally, Amy bear wears the same size dress as my infant self.

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lothsm47@reddit

Sadly, due to a house fire, no. I am rebuilding my plushie family as well as some of my dolls.

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AnotherPlugInTheWall@reddit

A lamb, named Lambie. Still have it. 🐑

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flamingweaselonastik@reddit

Not my first one, a wind-up elephant named Herman, but I do have my first Pound Puppy (Rusty) and my Cabbage Patch doll (Mary Ann). Rusty still sleeps in my bed. I'm 47.

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Accomplished-B@reddit

Puppup, a teardrop dog. My parents bought two, one for when the first one "died." But I knew, and demanded the first one be stitched up. I then had two of them, and I am pretty sure I still have both, though, some of my totes were stolen from our yard while we were packing up the moving truck. And I still don't have everything unpacked yet, so, I guess it's possible they are gone :/

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yecart55@reddit

A stuffed baby doll named cuddly baby.

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Zadyria_Gelm@reddit

Turtle. Mom finished making him the night before I was born, so he's one day older than me. He's currently on my pillow, where he's lived for 52 years. His original material has all been replaced with patches over the years, though no new ones since I was a child.

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doublebr13@reddit

Mickey and Doggy on a shelf in my son's room https://preview.redd.it/9nv0xvuzrtug1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2444eaa0683088ba8fb3e5448a79681928d24b8

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Emotional_Mess261@reddit

I was 7 in 1975 when my brother entered the Air Force and when he came home for Christmas he brought me a teddy bear. Fluffy has been all over the US, I still sleep with him. I told my daughter he is to be cremated with me

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FairBaker315@reddit

I have a yellow cat my grandma crocheted for me when I was born. Her name us Grandma Kitty.

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DaneDaneBug@reddit

Bozo. My grandmother bought with green stamps in 1973.

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elphaba00@reddit

My teddy bear. He's now in a same space because he's got a tear in the seam that just won't stay closed no matter how many times it was fixed. A friend who worked at Build a Bear offered to do some magic, but she left that job before I could bring in my bear for an operation. My husband has a bear named Radar that's in a chicken body because the original body disintegrated. He's also in a safe space because he has an eye that won't stay on.

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Appalachian_American@reddit

My Teddy Bear. He will be 68 this Christmas.

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WishboneNo2829@reddit

A bear my dad brought to the hospital when I was born named bear.

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kramwest1@reddit

Little Bunny He is a small human-like bunny that was likely a Christmas Tree ornament. He’s more than 50 years old, and I bring him with me everywhere I travel. He’s been to all 50 states, half of Canada, 13 other countries and 6 continents.

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Dillenger69@reddit

I still have a 50 year old Tigger I got at Disney World in 1976

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Any_Meeting_4082@reddit

I have the original first stuffed animal I was given when I was born!!! And I'm 51!

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BerryMantelope@reddit

Yes, a yellow and black cat called “kitty”. It has wire inside and is stuffed with sawdust/excelsior. It’s 60 years old. Also “Bunny bun bun”, a small bunny missing an ear, also stuffed with sawdust.

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cormunicat@reddit

I do, his name is Head Kitty because it was just the head of a kitty. It has a spinner that plays a lullaby.

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platypusandpibble@reddit

I don't. :( His name was Spotty Dog and my abusive POS mother took ALL my toys and books away when I was about 3. I remember her yanking Spotty Dog from my arms while I cried. I've never found a stuffed animal that looks like Spotty Dog despite searching for basically my whole life since I turned about 14. Spotty Dog was the cutest, and I don't think it about him too often any more, but when I do, the pain is awful. So, um...yeah. I am going to go drown my sorrows in a bowl of sugary cereal.

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DefiningWill@reddit

I’m positive I like Spotty Dog more than your abusive POS mother. In Spotty Dog I trust.

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platypusandpibble@reddit

Thank you. <3 I've been no contact with her for about 15 years now. The f'd up thing is about 20 years ago I tried to talk with her about what she did and she said she doesn't remember.

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Ocean-side-dog@reddit

A brown dog named Poochie and my first Winnie the Pooh bear

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gatoenvestido@reddit

Yup. A black and white checkered dog my grandma made for me named “George”. My current dog chewed off his felt eyes when he was a puppy so he’s blind now but that’s to be expected at his age. He still holds a place of honor on the back of a recliner in my bedroom.

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BuckyRainbowCat@reddit

I totally still have my first stuffie! It’s a beanbag beagle that was given to me while I was still a newborn in my crib, and it had a pom-pom for a nose. Apparently I sucked on the nose so often that it fell off and my parents had to glue it back on. Once I was old enough to name it, I named it [my middle name] Dog.

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DefiningWill@reddit

I also have a Paddington Bear and a yellow dog named Henry—he actually has a name patch embroidered with “Henry.”

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ImpactConsistent9847@reddit

I have teeny, tiny elephant that was the first toy that received from my aunt when I was born. I don't remember playing with it, but I still have it. The stuffed animal that I have had for years, that I did play with is a dog shaped pajama bag named Sleepy. I got her when I was two and I still have her. I am now 62.

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kevbayer@reddit

Big white teddy bear (more beige now). Obv he's named Ted. E. Bayer.

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GinX-@reddit

Yes. A blue elephant named Poncho.

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DtchGrl@reddit

Yep. The teddy bear I got when I was born. Have my blankie too. He's just Teddy. He still wears the pj's my Oma made for him. He's in a basket in my closet with my blankie, the little elephant my Opa gave me after I broke my arm and a little monkey I don't remember where I got.

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Mr_Pink_Eyez@reddit

I do still have him. His name is Clyde. ❤️ https://preview.redd.it/5ga48ws1xqug1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b56983927c4f86ff2baca546c5563f1b2a5eaded

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kittybigs@reddit

I have Clyde! And his wife Clara.

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Mr_Pink_Eyez@reddit

I did not know he had a wife!

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AldruhnHobo@reddit

Mine wasn't a stuffed animal. It was a small diecast 66 version Batmobile. I had in my pocket all the time.

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0_IceQueen_0@reddit

Lots-a-Lots-a-Leggggggs. Have it in storage.

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Mission_Maximum5648@reddit

No I do not. But last week, on Easter, I gave my great nephew a stuffed bunny and I saw him hug it and rub it against his face. So, I know that the attraction is real.

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_flowerfox@reddit

Yup. Winnie the Pooh. The red felt coat is worn and the snap button broke many moons ago. It sits in my closet so I see it daily.

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Limp_Ice_3248@reddit

No. I had Lambchops until my sister's friend stole her when I was about 12. Mom made sis buy me a replacement (wasn't even an actual Lambchops) and it wasn't the same. Now I have my mom's childhood stuffies, a Lambchops puppet, and Ned the Moose who has travelled internationally with me for over 30 years. I absolutely would still have Lambchops with me had the thievery not occurred!

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Tuxswimmer@reddit

I have a red KnickerBocker dog named Big Red. Grandparents gave him to me when I was born. He is very well loved.

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Equivalent_Tree7876@reddit

Yes! I'm 56 and have had it since I was 2. It's a brown teddy bear named Teddy. It has a little cloth tape stitched on his belly with my name. My mom had a few rolls of that tape and stitched my name into all of my clothes, and him.

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LadyNorbert@reddit

His name is Lonely - he's a random, no-brand-name stuffed dog my grandparents found in the attic of a rental property they bought. (He was left up there all alone, hence the name.) I slept with him every night from the time I was about three until I moved in with my husband. He lives in my cedar chest for safekeeping now. I'll admit I have no idea what to do with him, since I don't have kids or nieces/nephews to whom I could pass him on.

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BaronessF@reddit

Yes! When I was adopted at age 2, I brought with me a Raggedy Ann doll and a teddy bear. I still have them sitting on a shelf in my room (I'm 55 now).

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LuckyAd2714@reddit

No but I wish I did. It was a rabbit stuffed with sawdust. And you would wind it and it would play music and move its head and arms 🥹

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DamYankee77@reddit

I do not have my first one (Bubby Bunny), but I still have and sleep with my poor-kid-Christmas-gift. We were names on the gift tree at church and I asked for a Teddy Bear and a dollhouse. I got the Teddy (his name is Quincy) (wasn't named until I was 21) (until then he was just "Bear") and someone in the community made a beautiful huge dollhouse--all set for me to keep forever and decorate it and all that stuff. I lived with my aunt and uncle at the time, and my cousin (8 months older than me) kept it. Never did a thing with it. Still salty.

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Party-Cup-9386@reddit

Yes, it's a brown teddy bear named ...Mr. Bear. (I did not name him; he was given to me at the hospital when I was born)

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HighSeasArchivist@reddit

Technically it's a pillow, but yes. He's about 10"x14", and named Baby. Got him when I was born, so he's been around a bit.

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RedditSkippy@reddit

Yup! A stuffed mouse!

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boringlesbian@reddit

It’s a teddy bear with a wind up music box inside. I always just called it “bear”. It’s been with me through dozens of moves over the last 54 years, including being homeless twice in my twenties. https://preview.redd.it/y0s2q02whsug1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ef0aa63104b7839bf2e23e78f0100b53375a98c

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olddragonfaerie@reddit

I'm a bit past middle aged now and no longer have my first stuffed animal. I do, however, have the last stuffed animal I got from my family at age 13 from the last normal holiday we had. After that my parents divorced and kicked off a long string of less than ideal situations, but I kept the stuffed animal. A stuffed cat originally named Tikky. Hey, I was 13, I thought I was clever lol.

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PhoneBoothLynn88@reddit

A baby doll I got for my second Christmas.

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thiswasyouridea@reddit

Kitten. Yes, I still have her, along with my late brother's favorite toy elephant and my second favorite, a cat named Bruiser.

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VeganDogPro@reddit

Foxy. 😍

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Leather-Highlight150@reddit (OP)

I'm guessing it was....a fox?

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VeganDogPro@reddit

Lmao! Yes. My 5-year old self was very literal.

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kellyjeanie@reddit

Not my first, but in high school my parents gave me a big teddy bear that I named Gabriel Peter (named after Peter Gabriel, yes) that is somewhere in my attic.

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Witty_Ad4494@reddit

Still have Teddy. He's over 60 now. My dad bought him many years before I was born. He grew up poor and didnt have toys as a child. Bought him from a traveling salesman and put it away for his future child.

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weenie2323@reddit

This thread is making me tear up! We all still have our stuffy after all these years. I'm a photographer and I would love to do a portrait series of all us gen x's with our stuffy's.

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kittybigs@reddit

That’s such a great idea!

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malinablue@reddit

I do. I called him Bear because he was very mysterious about his true name. My grandmother had to sew his ears back on multiple times because my autistic self kept chewing them off. When I went to college I gave him and all my other stuffed animals to my younger sister (7 years younger), but I regretted it and came back for only him years later. She graciously returned him. He is now 58 years old and a wizard. https://preview.redd.it/7700wd8v6sug1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d9ad44fa4031600082c14a9573f420eaee63eecb

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demona2002@reddit

I had a stuffed ostrich of all things. Do not remember its name.

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Bright_Broccoli1844@reddit

It's a pink teddy bear named Teddy.

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Prior-Beautiful-6851@reddit

I have a Lucky Sprite from Rainbow Brite doll.

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Individual-Spray-851@reddit

Yep. "Mousie" (I wasn't as creative back then as I am now), a stuffed mouse given to me by my paternal grandmother when I was a baby. It's lost most of its stuffing, one eye, its tail is partially cut off, and it's threadbare in most spots, but it retains pride of place on my office shelf.

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CheesecakeSea6471@reddit

A clown. Happy on one side, sad on another. It's terry and very VERY worn, but I still have it.

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violethorizon74@reddit

I have a stuffed tiger named Tiggy that my dad won me on the Wildwood NJ boardwalk when I was a toddler. Dad is long gone, but Tiggy just celebrated his 50th bithday.

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45babycakes@reddit

Pink Panther and Sylvester the Cat

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prettyfatkittycat@reddit

A teddy bear wearing pajamas with glow in the dark stars. Names Teddy

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jlo_1977@reddit

I do. He doesn’t have a name, or if he does, it’s been so long I don’t remember it. He had been my dad’s stuffed teddy bear when my dad was little and then he became mine. My dad was born in 1954 so the teddy bear is old and not in great condition anymore.

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MindFluffy5906@reddit

A dog named Picture.

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No_Builder7010@reddit

I do! It's a ratty little thing made of rabbit leather, I believe. Pretty sure it was supposed to be a cat. It was bright yellow new, but I petted and snuggled it so much as a kid that it has basically no fur left. Her name is Sunshine. https://preview.redd.it/0molb5akqrug1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3afb2b1b2df5e60dfb3fef9f8cf4425b9ce3f937

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weenie2323@reddit

I love her! I had a rabbit fur kitty too.

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No_Builder7010@reddit

I also rubbed off her plastic whiskers and felt ears.

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gooffeygirl@reddit

Stuffed cat, repaired more than I want to think about and has no whiskers. For the life of me I can't remember it's name.

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weenie2323@reddit

I have a ratty old Teddy with new eyes embroidered by my mom and a lambs fur Bunny from my grandma. Both are 57yrs old.

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GameArtHQ@reddit

49 year old stuffed puppy named George bought of the candy stripers cart at the hospital where I was born.

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Neither-Dentist3019@reddit

A corduroy elephant my mom's friend made for me when I was born. Aki. He's pretty threadbare but still with me.

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Lthrr9@reddit

Yes. The teddy bear my grandmother bought me before I was born. He’s 56 now.

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DBBKF23@reddit

Rookie (the oo is pronounced like coop) - a kangaroo and her baby. The mama's ear is missing. She's on top of a book shelf in my analogue room.

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DontCallMeDeb36@reddit

Ruff-ruff is my childhood dog toy. I still have her and my grandkids have played with her. I found a picture of my sister as an infant and Ruff-ruff was next to her. Glad she shared her with me.

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worrymon@reddit

In storage is the Winnie-the-Pooh that I got when I was a month old in 1971.

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SimbaRph@reddit

No but I have a teddy bear that my HS boyfriend gave me. My mom made her a dress about 15 years ago. She's about 35 years old. https://preview.redd.it/tlexv2srxrug1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2072a71b053872176872a52e69e502473e4c93a0

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Last_Inevitable8311@reddit

He’s a Playboy Bunny from the Playboy Club. My parents were members and we used to go eat dinner there from time to time. I named him Nick, after the bartender who would make me Shirley Temples with extra cherries. He looks like this except he lost his flag, his crotch split at the seam, one of his ears has been stitched back onand his sweater shrunk when my mom put him in the washing machine. https://preview.redd.it/8ocguxfnxrug1.jpeg?width=585&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=421af8c3ff6f7144f256200c5f56f78b61e2642d

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dcars714@reddit

I went to Disneyland in 1965 as a 4-year old with my family. I still have a very ragged Mickey Mouse stuffed animal from that trip.

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lilesj130@reddit

Racky the pot belly Raccoon has a nice nest in my hope chest

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Happy_Machine_1@reddit

My teddy bear.

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jellywelly15@reddit

Snowball, a white teddy bear with blue eyes! Bought by my grandad, using cigarette cards!!

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LyndaMR@reddit

Stripes the tiger. Definitely worse for wear but thoroughly loved for many years.

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daydreamersunion@reddit

Had a stuffed monkey with plastic face and hands that I called Monkey. I had quite the imagination when it came to names. Monkey could suck his thumb. I loved Monkey. My parents thought it would be cute to let my nephew use it when spending the night. Forty year old stitching never had a chance. Monkey is now rolled up devoid of both his stuffing and dignity with most of his "suckin thumb" chewed off. He sits in a freezer bag back in storage and I refuse to look at him for fear of thinking bad thoughts towards my nephew. My nephew doesnt know any better. Just kidding. He is a budding evil and Pestilence is his name. I call him "Little William the Destroyer of All Good Things, Bringer of General Malaise and Consternation, and All Around Cat Worrier". He's just now turning 3 but its obvo he's on a villain arc.

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Pavementaled@reddit

Sounds like you had a Monchi-chi. All so nice and cuddly.

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Pavementaled@reddit

Freddy, the Teddy. He hasn’t aged in years!!

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nerudite@reddit

I have a crocheted teddy bear named Coco La Moko. I have no idea what that meant to my toddler brain.

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cthulhus_spawn@reddit

I have my original teddy bear and also a blue elephant but their names are known only to me.

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Bellabbey1236@reddit

I do! It’s a tiger, no name, just tiger. He’s 67 years old now, has one eye but otherwise in good shape 😂 🐅 💖

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Bellabbey1236@reddit

I also have my daughter’s first stuffed animal, Music Bear, he used to play a lullaby when you wound him up but the turnkey is jammed. Music Bear is 40. lol my grandson plays with him, but not Tiger who I’m sure is made with toxic shit & has those plastic eye(s) that are a choking danger. I don’t know how we survived childhood! 😉

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Shibi_SF@reddit

Snoopetta Lynn. She is some sort of white fuzzy beanie dog, who fits in the palm of your hand, and whose long black felt-fabric ears I pulled off when I was little because I thought that they would grow back (like hair, I guess). With my help, (using my voice) she used to sing country songs like Delta Dawn to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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vitamin_sea1@reddit

I don't have a toy but I do have my Holly Hobby pillow my mom made me when I was 2

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kilt_inspector@reddit

Cat called CoCo

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dcamnc4143@reddit

Yeah. His name is Fred. I slept with him every night. He still even has a little bit of his Christmas bow around his neck from '75.

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Accomplished-Beat779@reddit

I have a bear my grampa got me at Harrods about 54 years ago.

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MuppetRejected@reddit

Snoopy. A big stuffed Snoopy my mom got before I was born

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MyrealityorYours@reddit

I don’t have my first, but still have several of my favorites. They include a yellow puffalump cat, a snoopy wearing his blue track suit (not sure what happened to his suitcase full of other pricey wardrobe items went) and a white gund teddy bear. They’re all in great shape. Around age 30, I stopped leaving them out. I don’t keep them displayed generally but will put them out around Christmas. Over the years I’ve gone back and forth as to what to do with them but at this point - they’ve been around so long - I’ll keep them. Oh the things they’ve seen….

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polonius67@reddit

Bear-Bear had been passed down to me from my sister and before her he was my brother’s. They said he was a cat but I still say he’s a bear. Has a missing eye, torn ear and a scar on his tummy where a mean girl ripped him open. He sits behind me up on a high shelf in my home office with his best friend Mr. Bun-Bun. I am 58.

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brendini511@reddit

Not my first one (no clue what it was), but I do have a teddy bear I got when I was 9.

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Longjumping-Air-7532@reddit

Curious George. Got him when I was 2 years old. I’m 50 now. Gave him to my daughter when she was going through some tough times as teenager with self harm and eating disorders and he is now keeping her company through her recent epilepsy diagnosis.

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Inner-Confidence99@reddit

I have a small gray and red bear that was bought when I was born. I’m over 50 and still have it. One eye missing. Name bear

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allmykitlets@reddit

My dad bought me a small pink teddy bear the day I was born, I'm 60 and still have it. I'm a very creative type, so his name is Pink Teddy😆

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No1Czarnian@reddit

I don't even have the last one

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CrazyBitchCatLady@reddit

A stegosaurus named Spike.

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QueenMEB120@reddit

A Curious George monkey that someone gave me at 3 months old. He'll be 50 in June. Here's my original Georgie and newer one my daughter found a few years ago. https://preview.redd.it/lwyghnnrorug1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9aaa621acdce9111159e253bf3db645a0eee4a4

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sleepy_potatoe_@reddit

Not my first stuffed animal but one remember. It’s a dog and I called him He no bite, my mom told me he doesn’t bite so I’d carried it around telling people He no bite. My nephew has it now. I’m sure it put away somewhere because he’s 11 now.

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Few-Pineapple-5632@reddit

No. I was a weird kid. I had two dolls aptly named “white baby” and “blue baby” because white baby had a white dress, blue baby also had a white dress but the body was dark blue gingham. I don’t have either one of them. I slept with books. I still have many of them.

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19Bronco93@reddit

No but I remember having a stuffed Polar Bear that I called Po-Be.

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nochickflickmoments@reddit

Yes, a cat I got when I was 3 from Grandpa. I called it Kitty.

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ElvisFan2001@reddit

When I was a baby I got a stuffed skunk and named it smelly. I still have it and it’s about 60 years old. When my daughter was young we were at a garage sale and she found a pink one and she named it smellina and they sit side by side on my dresser. It’s about 28 years old.

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KimBrrr1975@reddit

Yep, brown dog named Wilver. He still has a weird chunky spot in his fur where I spilled canned Hershey's syrup while eating ice cream and watching the annual viewing of The Wizard of Oz on tv. He got really floppy from all the hugging, and when I was like 10? I spent a week with my BFF when my sister had surgery, and we operated on him. We took stuffing from my friend's ventriloquist dummy and put it in my dog. Stitches still firmly in place, so we did a pretty good job of surgery back in 1985.

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Evening-Crazy-3528@reddit

Yes, his name is Tigger. He’s a tiger. https://preview.redd.it/prv4g3iamrug1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8cc333e08268dd6bd0fc23d2107fd8a63c4de93b

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Mistervimes65@reddit

I have a ratty old stuffed red dog named Jonkey. I got it when I was five. I’m now sixty. He was my noble steed when I was a toddler.

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Glad_Bunch_3473@reddit

Funny, I just found mine in storage last week after having not seen it in decades. A plain bear named Thursday (I have no idea why I named her that but it still sticks). She had a wind-up metal music box inside but I remember performing “surgery” around age 5 to have it removed. https://preview.redd.it/54jdlrw5mrug1.jpeg?width=3213&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42753f228a045201134a3aa28a829d63453ddb43

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BeigeSugar@reddit

Yes ❤️ Grandpa Funny Bunny. There’s a photo of us when I was 1. I shaved his fur around 7, after the ends got crispy in the dryer.

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fireflypoet@reddit

My sister and I had stuffed rabbits. Our mother washed them by hand and pegged them out in the clothesline by the ears. We both still remember this, and how cruel we thought it was.

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Imap1@reddit

I still have Ted E. Bear. He's had an eye, leg and arm all stitched back on. My wife calls him scary bear.

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fireflypoet@reddit

Pink stuffed rabbit named Pink Rabbit but characterized by me, female, as an old, wise, white-haired male! I have NO idea why, or where an image like that came from. I still have him. He looks like the Velveteen Rabbit.

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UnableAudience7332@reddit

I do!! He is a camel named Lumpy 🐪❤️

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jaime_riri@reddit

Yes. It’s a bunny dressed as a human. Named Bunny.

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pdxgreengrrl@reddit

I have two: Snoopy, sewn by my mom, and Snuffleofagous, a Christmas gift from my mom.

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VincentTakeda@reddit

you only want to know its name if i still have it? how rude.

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PersephoneHagne@reddit

Still have a bear given to me after a small house fire displaced us for a few weeks. We stayed with a male doctor friend of my mom's who gave me that bear. He is named after him: Justin Kleaveland Bear.

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believe_in_dog@reddit

Teddy bear I got when I was two, so 1977, named Radar.

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TinyRandomLady@reddit

Yes. Sandy the pandy is proudly sitting on my dresser right next to Pig, the first stuffed animal I picked out and nearly stole while on my mom’s back in a baby carrier.

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tashera@reddit

I have a yellow dog. His name was Goggy

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theserialdeleter@reddit

Not my first one, but I do have a Garfield my dad gave me when I had stomach flu and I named him Garf the Barf. My dad died when I was 10 and I just cant bring myself to toss it.

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EducatorAdditional89@reddit

My Teddy Bear from 1955, he still sits on my dresser.

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voteblue18@reddit

Not a stuffie but I have my first doll she’s a plastic baby with hair I used to wash while I was taking a bath. Her name is Tina. I had her as long as I can remember. We no longer take baths together.

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buddymoobs@reddit

A stuffed dog named Ribsy, with his name sewn into his side (think horrible 8 y.o. needlework), and a felt replacement eye from.when.my actual dog chewed it off. Also, some of his hair was cut. Poor guy.

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GloriaToo@reddit

I still have Clyde. He's a monkey.

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bunnyvillainmf@reddit

I do. From when I was a newborn, pink teddybear named pinky. Hes stayed with me everywhere ive moved, even as a teen nomad lol

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JuneTheWonderDog@reddit

Mousie has been my first stuffed animal since I was 2 years old. It has lost its ears, plastic nose, and was what I learned to sew on by patching him up.

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TeaManTom@reddit

I have the bear my Granny hand-made for me when I was born His name is Bumble, and he sits on my desk now.

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ejabean@reddit

Mom gave me a box a few years ago. Inside was Teddy the bear, Paddington Bear, Tigger (with a repaired red cloth mouth), and a teenie-tiny pair of Osh-Gosh striped overalls.

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OkJoke4711@reddit

I had a blanky. It has long been disintegrated.

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CanadianExiled@reddit

My ex wife still has my original Garfield, had it since I was 4.

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stunneddisbelief@reddit

My Boober Fraggle.

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Ok-Following4310@reddit

Yes, Snoopy has SEEN SOME THINGS.

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Ahkhira@reddit

Sadly, no.

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nb6635@reddit

Ted the Bear. His stuffing is crunchy.

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Izmeralda@reddit

I thought I had my first stuffed animal (it's a yellow dog with brown ears that I named Elodo), but found out when I was in my 20s that it's not the original. Apparently, my Elodo fell apart after a washing, so they got me a new one and swapped them out. First time it happened (I know, right?!?!), they had a hard time finding it again, so they bought me 3 more and just kept them put away in case Elodo the Second fell apart as well, and could be more easily replaced with Elodo the Third or Fourth, if needed. I found out when my niece found the other Elodo (the Fourth) at my parent's house when my Elodo (the Third) was at my house, on my bed. It's become a fun family story, and now my niece has Elodo the Fourth!

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mrsristretto@reddit

Oh yah, but he's in a sad state. He's an elephant in blue corduroy overalls and had a matching hat. His name is Elephant, cus I was 5 when I got him.

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Kind_Worry_9836@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/i8h1ld0qxqug1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91a5584ae9625263ea328ed559825dc09af999cb My rabbit doesn't have a name.

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merrymarigold@reddit

Aww, rabbit needs a name.

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Illustri-aus@reddit

I think Wabbit suits 😉

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Kind_Worry_9836@reddit

Or Bart Simpson's name of Mr Honeybunny.

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Kat1836@reddit

Henry bear. I just don't have the heart to throw him away. He's gone through every stage of my life.

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NHBuckeye@reddit

Woofer. Orange dog missing an eye since 1977.

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HighJeanette@reddit

Chi Chi. It’s a monkey.

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wieldymouse@reddit

No :/

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Former-Crazy-9224@reddit

I have my older brother’s (who would technically be a Boomer) teddy bear. Its name is Concussion. I was crying one day and he gave it to me to cheer me up. Told me he got it when he got a concussion. I asked what the bears name was. He said he never named him so in my 5yo brain concussion was a perfectly lovely name.

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mrsprkle6@reddit

Juan the Swan, it’s at my parents house.

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nadiadala@reddit

Sadly it disappeared in a move. A whole box of my stuffies got stolen

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Redkris73@reddit

I have a stuffed knitted red owl that an elderly neighbour gave my parents when they brought me home from the hospital. There's pictures of me cuddling it as a baby in 1973. Her name is Wendy Wandell (rhymes with Candle) No idea where the name came from!

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Ok_Comment5883@reddit

Yep. I have Fred who is an orange teddy, and Big Rosie, and Little Rosie who are a blue mouse, and blue bear. All in their 50's now.

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dt1068@reddit

Not a stuffed animal but my raggedy Ann doll I have had since I was 2. She is a mess! I took her everywhere. Her arm and leg ripped and my dad wrapped it up with black electrical tape lol I drew hearts all over her and most of her hair is missing. She does have her original dress! That doll is 55 years old!

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merrymarigold@reddit

The electrical tape repair is such a Dad thing to do, lol!

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Chibi-Skyler@reddit

An olive-green beanbag mouse that had pink ears, yellow eyes with black eyebrows, a black nose, and pink tail. I say "had" because its ears and tail were chewed off out of boredom by me during nap time, to the amusement of my parents. I was 4 and not even bothered by it all. He was (and still is) Little Green Mousy to me.

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CommunicationHappy20@reddit

Boo boo bear. Still on my bed and always on the front seat when I move.

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theluzah@reddit

Pebbles

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houseocats@reddit

Yes, it's a weird cat with a plastic face. His name is Felix.

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tanukis_parachute@reddit

I did until last week. Didn't realize it. My mother passed away in mid march and I've been home cleaning out the house (both mom and dad have been in an assisted living facility since mid Oct last year). My mother wouldn't let me get rid of a thing when she was alive. I'm an only child and live on another continent for work at the moment. My mother saved everything. I found a copy of my first speeding ticket (not many more, I learned my lesson after a few). I found old teenage 'love' letters from girls I had forgotten (my wife and daughter couldn't stop laughing), game balls, programs, etc... and there...in a box. The first stuffed animal I picked out myself (so, not technically the first). A koala bear (I named - Koko or Coco of Cocoa...never really spelled it) that I got from Hershey's Park in Hershey PA between 1973 and 1979 (we lived in MD and that is when I had to have gotten it.... I think closer to 73 but am not sure... between age 4.5 and 11. I'm thinking 77 maybe? a bit old but with no brothers or sisters I was a bit stunted on socialization and maturity looking back. Its been a rough month mentally going through all this stuff. finding out stuff about my parents from all the stuff they kept... like...i was almost not an only child until the stillbirth, previous marriages, almost previous marriages, etc... so many hidden family secrets.

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Witty-Atmosphere-211@reddit

Yes. Puppy. It’s well loved looking.

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HornetParticular6625@reddit

This is "Threadbear". I used to call him Theodore Edward Bear. I've had him since I was brought home from the hospital. My father got him when he was a baby. He's estimated to be eighty years old. He's been through a lot. I don't remember the last time he had button eyes. All of his limbs and his head have been reattached multiple times over the years. I used to make a cape and mask for him and play "Super Bear". One time, a mean kid grabbed him from me and threw him into a storm runoff. I was in hysterics. My mother waded into the rushing water to rescue him.

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bartonspringsforlife@reddit

A lion named Tiger. It was well loved and the fur is smashed down.

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merrymarigold@reddit

Bell-Ear is a teddy bear with a little jingle bell inside one of his ears. I got a little more creative with names as I got older!

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turtle0831@reddit

Yes, Teddy. A creepy brown teddy bear. He’s safe inside my cedar chest.

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makeup1508@reddit

I don't know if he was my first stuffed animal but I have the teddy bear that I had when I was 3 years old and threw up on when we were moving back to South Dakota from Illinois. His name is Teddy-of course. I am almost 60.

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TollemacheTollemache@reddit

I had a stuffed dog with flowers behind its ear called Flower that went missing when i was 8. She was replaced with another dog, Sniffer. Mum unpacked an old suitcase from the shed forty years later and found Flower! Now Flower and Sniffer are friends.

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rubbersoul84@reddit

Maybe not my very first, but the first I can remember. She’s a beat up red hippo named Henrietta. She has many stitches and an eye that was replaced with a random button, but I still have her. She lived in my kid’s room for awhile, now she lives in my under bed storage.

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WhisperedSoul@reddit

Not my first but my third. Teddy bear Teddy. Teddy bear Susie kept falling off my bed and ended up under my bed for days until one day she was just “gone”. I guess I drug her everywhere and she probably was probably loaded with bugs! Then there was Teddy bear Susie who was twins with Teddy. She fell apart over the years so I tossed her, but I just could not do the same with Teddy. He was in much better condition. He’s coming with me when I go.

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RemlikDahc@reddit

I still have the bear that my Dad got me on the day I was born! His name is Muggy. 50 years later, he's still alive! The bear, not my Dad lol. Best teddy bear anyone could have!

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LeighofMar@reddit

My mom bought me a beautiful stuffed golden poodle when I was 6. I call her Sundrop. She's on my bed now and will be with me til the end.

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SubieGal9@reddit

I have my first stuffed animal, a unicorn from my grandpa, and my first baby book, Baby Animals. It's a tiny, square, paper book bound with thread.

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tallCircle1362@reddit

Teddy bear named Kuddles.

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mstrong73@reddit

No my parents packed up and moved from NY to NC while I was away at school and got rid of most of my stuff. His name was Bear, and he was oddly enough, a Bear.

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WhyLie2me18@reddit

I have my Popple. Her name is Party. She used to be bright pink and purple but she has faded over the years. I want to be cremated with her.

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Guilty_Eggplant_3529@reddit

Nope, it was a large walrus, pretty sure it never had a name. At least not one given by me. It lasted a pretty long time, then it got too musty and was thrown away.

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evility@reddit

Not my first, but my most loved. My grandma got me Boo Boo Kitty sometime during the heyday of Laverne and Shirley. Her ears have been chewed. She only has one eye and about as many whiskers. Her fur is thin in spots. She stands guard by my bed. She's the inanimate object I'd save in case of emergency.

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Blizzardof1991@reddit

I still have my teddy named Tedor.

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hocfutuis@reddit

Yes, I have the whole gang still. Much of my life has been left behind in places, but for some reason they're still here. There's a ragdoll my mum made, blue donkey, Charlie Chimp, pink mammoth, and Lambie. Not very imaginative names, but

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fridayimatwork@reddit

No but he was dumb Fred and looked like this https://preview.redd.it/26m2j2np5rug1.jpeg?width=797&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a81f7efca39c8bc47440589b901edbe6afa3e98

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Mr8vb@reddit

Yes, a Raggedy Andy doll I’ve since I was small.

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froction@reddit

Not my first, but my favorite. I still have Ralph S. Mouse. https://preview.redd.it/rlsujtmh4rug1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b944603a8b10b5cbc48dde2c32f531141a96187

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Mugwumps_has_spoken@reddit

Yes I do. Its a Winnie the Pooh. I was just a baby and my dad was out riding his Motor Cycle and found it on the side of the road, pretty much brand new. Some kid had lost it. Brought it home. It's now in the Animal net in the corner of my daughter's room. Pooh is almost 50 years old. I also have my little BunBun rabbit, that I guess was in my first Easter Basket.

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bluto00@reddit

Same. I was born in November, got him at just over a month old for Christmas. 54 years later, he sits on my dresser protecting his bedroom kingdom.

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TheRedGiant77@reddit

I loved Spider-Man and my grandmother knitted me one when I was 6. I still have it.

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rosesforthemonsters@reddit

I got a plush chicken for my 3rd birthday -- his name is Fuzzy. He's 49 years old. He's in a box in my bedroom with my little baby blanket.

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trullaDE@reddit

No, because my brother threw all the stuff I still had in my old room away, without asking me first.

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LuLuMarie1313@reddit

It wasn’t my first stuffed animal but it was my absolute favorite! When I was 5 years old, my Dad got me a stuffed Bugs Bunny because I loved the cartoon. I slept with him every night, stuffed him through the rail that was on the back of my bike (the kind with a banana seat) so that he could ride around the neighborhood with me. We were always together lol. I am 51 yrs old now and he is the only toy I have left from my childhood. All the others were lost in a couple of ways that I won’t get into here. But Bugs survived, he’s 46 years old and he still sits on a shelf in my closet. I think when I die he should probably just be cremated with me lol.

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JJQuantum@reddit

When I was about 6 we all went to my grandmother’s house for Christmas. It’s a large extended family so there were maybe 30-35 of us there. As the youngest of all of the cousins, my little brother and I were in charge of passing out presents. When it was said and done there wasn’t a present for me. I didn’t say anything but just watched everyone else open theirs. Later on my mom asked me what I had gotten and I told her. She told my grandmother who came to me about 5 minutes later with a wrapped present. It ended up being a small, stuffed baboon. I’m sure she had extra stuff in the back just in case and I never blamed her as she was getting on in age and likely just couldn’t keep up with everyone. I still have it with my high school class ring around its arm. It helps me remember my grandmother who was a very sweet, accomplished lady.

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LuceLeakey@reddit

I don't, because when I was 9 years old my mother thought I was too old for stuffed animals and threw them all away. 😡

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Illustri-aus@reddit

Same happened to me with my two bed stuffies, aged around 8. Found them in the bin the first time, lost forever the second time 😪 Too old by 8 years old apparently, but not too old for psychological trauma!

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PurplePenguinCat@reddit

I'm not sure it's my first, but I've had Bunny since before I was 2. There is actually a funny story behind Bunny. When I was 2, my grandmother took me to see The Nutcracker in NYC for my birthday (December baby). I put Bunny on the seat next to me. When the people who had the seat showed up, I told them "You can't sit there. My Bunny is sitting there!" My grandmother always got the same seats for each season and this couple did the same, so she got to know them a bit. A few years later, they told her that I became part of their family's lexicon. Whenever someone needed space in the house, they would say "you can't sit there. My Bunny is sitting there" and the rest of the family knew to leave that person alone for a while. I weirdly hope they are still using that saying. 😄

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2dwind@reddit

No, but I do remember my first stuffed animal: a red horse named Red. My grandma repaired him a couple of times. But after I threw up on him, Red went in the garbage!

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Total_Diet_5274@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/nyucznyhyqug1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60e2d8be3e1d0d270d855a9ff2f62afbc2e04f6f Winnie the Pooh

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PopeInThePizza@reddit

Yeah, I still have Woody Woodpecker from 1970. He's beat to crap, missing a leg, disrobed and missing his voice box ("Timberrrr! Time for lunch!) but I still have him.

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Colibri918@reddit

I don't have the first, but I have the first I bought for myself with my own money. I was 6. Benny. https://preview.redd.it/xzgcxp9axqug1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29609829c784a1df74892a486a33b12981d45edf

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PahzTakesPhotos@reddit

A blue and white teddy bear with pink satin on its ears that is completely threadbare. I don't know if I named him before, but I did end up naming him Radar (because of M\*A\*S\*H). He's on my dresser upstairs.

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Gardngoyle@reddit

I also have a Thread-Bear.

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Positive-Froyo-1732@reddit

I have a photo of me hugging the teddy bear I got on my 2nd birthday. I just turned 58, and I still have the bear. His name is Teddy (duh).

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2outhits@reddit

I do! It's a little orange and white bear that I named Pooky after the Garfield books. My mom sent it to me last year when I lost my wife. Pooky now chills next to my wife's ashes. So far they seem to be getting along.

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AntaresBounder@reddit

Yes. The imaginatively named Bear and Squirrel date from about 1978 and are still with me. I wrote some “Frog and Toad” style stories for my daughter with Bear and Squirrel as the protagonists.

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jthmniljt@reddit

Yep! He’s taken a beating. My parent had trouble getting me to sleep in my own bed, bought me a Pooh bear. He’s still comforting and I’be been an adult for a long time. lol

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Miss_Type@reddit

He's a teddy bear called teddy. Not very original, I grant you, but I didn't name him. He'd been my brother's and got passed to me. He's nearly 60 and not in the best of health, so he sits on my nightstand. He's the thing I'd save in a fire, assuming my husband and cats were already out of the house!

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Outrageous-Advice384@reddit

Mine was Teddy too but I was a baby so it is what it is. It would probably be more strange if my parents named it and that’s what it was.

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Mousketeer666@reddit

I'm not sure if it was my first but it's the first I remember. A patchwork turtle that my grandma made-- one for each of us. Mine was different shades of blue corduroy. I still have it, 59 years later. It's worn, she replaced a few worn patches when I was 10 or so. While grandma is long gone, Turdie lives on in a place of honor on my bedside table to this day.

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learygirl@reddit

I wish I still had the sock monkey my grandma made for me. What a treasure!

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learygirl@reddit

A donkey that used to play music. He had the softest mane and a fluffy tail. At one point he had a sombrero (no idea why). His name is Donkalee and I still love him

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Outrageous-Advice384@reddit

Teddy. It’s a teddy bear. It was given to me as a new baby gift by my uncle who died in a car crash when I was 8.

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glennis_pnkrck@reddit

Technically my first was a Winnie the Pooh that was bought for me when I was born, but the one I was attached to was Purp. He is a purple bunny that I got for Easter when I was about a year and a half old. He has pierced ears from when I got mine and he went to college with me. We also had Gladly, the Cross-eyed bear, aka Puke Eye. He came from a display window and one of his eyes was bleached out and weird looking from the sun. My mom sewed him an Ewok outfit when Return of the Jedi came out and my sister claimed him as Wickett.

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Chatelaine5@reddit

Not my first one, but I got it for my first Xmas from my godmother. It's a teddy bear, whose nose and mouth are long gone and whose feet had to be re-felted around 20 years ago. His name is Tedsus, and these days he sits in the corner of the living room like our little household god 🙂

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mstermind@reddit

I have a blue dog named Chico that I got when I was 1 years old. I gifted it to my daughter ten years ago, telling her to nurture it. She's now nearly 20 and is still taking good care of it.

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Flat_Demand_8341@reddit

A turtle small enough to fit in your hand. I named him after the tag which makes no sense as I could not read. Lost that turtle so many times but could not sleep without it. Ask my 87 year old father and he still has PTSD about finding the turtle before bedtime.

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Be_A_Good_Animal@reddit

Giraffe-ee. The giraffe

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Fuzzy_Put_6384@reddit

Winnie the pooh. His red shirt is long gone.

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umeboshiplumpaste@reddit

Yes--the Raggedy Ann doll I was given as a baby.

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AngstyAF5020@reddit

Beav! Had him for 58 years now. Blood stain on his tooth, and tail sewed back on sooo many times.

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