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General Discussion => Share Your Badassity => Topic started by: MandalayVA on June 06, 2015, 05:10:03 PM
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Recently my neighborhood police department advertised for donations of stuffed toys in order to give them to kids in times of trauma. I looked at the top of my bureau, littered with stuffed animals, including a bear from a boyfriend from over twenty years ago. I'm damn near fifty and feel weird keeping so many stuffed toys around, so today I gathered them and brought them down to the cop shop. Stuffed toys helped me through kid traumas, and I hope that my bears and cats and bunnies help other kids through theirs.
And the top of my bureau looks much neater. :D
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Awesome!
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Way to go! You have helped so many and given comfort to so many kids for sure!
Once, I donated my extensive collection of beanie babies. I was all hung up on the "worth" of them. During the "adoption" process to kids in need, the tags were cut and I could of freaked out, but instead felt so happy for their new grade-school "owners."
You did a really good thing by donating your stuffies. It can seem trivial in the scheme of things, but young ones really take to those items when in need of comfort.
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This is a great way for these toys to get a second life. Nice gesture!
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I recently sent a bag of stuffed toys to the local women's refuge, hopefully with similarly good effects. I agree with you: it feels good.