Plushes

[lupestripe]

Just out of interest, how many plushes do you own and what animals do you have?

I have always been interested in plushes, ever since I was a kid, but unfortunately my parents banned me from buying any more as they feared I would drown amidst a sea of plushes. They even confiscated some of them too and stuck them in the attic.

But now I am an adult, I am free to buy what the hell I want and this includes furry friends!!

I have a giant lion called Leo that an ex bought for me, a giant easter bunny, Bukkake the Bear from a charity shop (£4 for a 3ft bear, bargain!!) and a vast array of wolves, foxes and dogs. Of course, being a husky myself I have a natural fondness towards canids as they are just so darn cute!! Sadly I have yet to find any with pink stripes. Shame, they're missing a market there :P

Also, does anyone else get plush sympathy? That is, an overwhelming rush of emotion when you see a particular plush? Sometimes I go into a shop, spy a plush and just have to buy it because of the cute face or how it looks. I have also been known to buy two of the same plush because I liked the look of both of them and feel that if I put one back on the shelf, he will feel sad because I rejected him. I know it's silly but does anyone else experience this? Or am I just a nutjob?

Anyways, I currently have about 20 plushes. How many do you have and what's your animal(s) of choice?

Comments

[ke-alakai.livejournal.com]

i have hundreds, mainly froggy plushies, but i have many big dog plushes, as well as a giant stitch and koda (disney) plushies, i tend to go for anything that i can feel has a personality :)

[moth-wingthane.livejournal.com]

Dolphins mostly - I dunno 150ish I suppose. Couple of dozen plane plushies too.

[bloodbeauty.livejournal.com]

i used to have loads, but my mum sold a load of them when i "got too old" for them, and i had to get rif of the rest when i went to boarding school and she went to the USA. made me really sad.

i have a bear my dad gave me (british airways bear, he got me on his way back from italy...eg he'd forgotten to get me anything while he was there...)
a bear my mum gave me (princess Di beanie buddie)

4 skunk plushies

a big gizmo plushie kiffy got me (that scares me a little bit)

want more...i tend to buy ones that feel like they want to come home with me...

[daisuke-miles.livejournal.com]

Meh likes plushies but i have none, cuz my bro will say wtf lol well my family is already thinking something is "wrong" with me :P
hehe u can buy a green husky plush :P for 0£ :P

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I have an obscene amount of GSD plushies :)

When I was last in Hamleys, I arranged all the GSD plushies that were left behind after I bought one in a manner in which they would stand out to prospective buyers :)

[kitsunefury.livejournal.com]

Well let's see. I have a large pink bunny plush, that's about a couple foot tall, a fennec fox, a tiger , a raccoon and a red fox. They're just on my bed. I have two fox plushies beside my monitor, I have a couple near my monitor at work, and I have one on my keychain. ^^;

[schnee.livejournal.com]

I don't know how many I've got... might be 100 or so. I'm particularly interested in wolves, foxes and skunks, of course. :)

And yeah, I sometimes got that, but it's a pretty rare thing nowadays, although I suppose that's also because many stores just don't seem to sell good, high-quality plushies anymore. There seems to be a trend towards cheaper, more generic, less well-made ones...

[marston.livejournal.com]

I definitely suffer from plush sympathy. I've never gone as far as buying two of the same type but there's always a huge debate in my head about which ones on the shelf would be most capable of looking after themselves 'til someone else comes along to buy them.

[http://users.livejournal.com/fubuki_/]

i have a fair few plushies not sure of the count as they fill 3 black bin liners (big ones) as since i moved in at Ray's i got no where to put them.

on top of those 3 bags i have a very large purple unicorn plush (21st b'day present from an ex) and 12 other smaller animals around the room including my really old bear that i still take to bed some nights :)

mostly i prefer animal plushies over teddy bears and a lot of my collection are tigers, unicorns and eeyore ones as well as the rest being many other animals.

In my last house i had them all arranged on a big self which i plan to do with them again once i get the house sorted a bit more.

am going to be saving up to get a hand made tiger plushie some point. theres a women on one of my LJ communities that make the most beutiful plushies by hand and hand paints the fur and all.

[vrekkar.livejournal.com]

I have 3 little dragon plushies & a GIANT dragon plush that i won at Alton Towers last year, also a little glove puppet dragon that someone gave me ^_^

[lsfiox.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately my plushie collection is limited. My first plush that I bought was a husky based upon a friend I liked. It's positioned so it looks like it has a broken neck thus was deemed broken neck husky at the two meets its attended. Manc May 2006 and Sheff in June 2006.

I also have a medium-sized wolf plush from a Nature store in newcastle, that's my biggest.

I has a skunky with a big tail floof and a whitetiger from Toys R Us and I have a white lion called Toffee from Interfauna, my plushie getting website n.n

I've had two foxes but gave them both away, gave away a black panther to Baggy and have given away a few white tiger plushes

sooo. i've had a few but with monies tight I haven't bought anything for me for aaaaages

[actively-lazy.livejournal.com]

I think i have about 50, but i only have 3 at our place, the rest i left at my parents, and the three here are all foxes >.>

[wolfie-uk.livejournal.com]

i have a snowfox and a Wolf they are both neatly stacked in a corner.. god knows they look happy.

You should know already....

[mefurry.livejournal.com]

And yes, there is a very emotional connection made when I see one that "calls" to me!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10218334@N06/

--Me/Henry

[harpuiaixp.livejournal.com]

I had lots before, about 30 or more... forgot how many. Anyways, most of them are gone now. I don't know what happened to them. I used to be so cruel to some of my plushies when I was depressed, pin them to the ground with knives. I now only currently have 5, I sleep with one of them, and can never sleep without that one.