Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for July 27, 2023

Wanda I think you’re are being mean. But that’s just me.

Say goodbye to a normal childhood, Zoe

Oh come on. She’s a kid! Let her be a kid, for cripes sakes. She’ll outgrow it naturally.

If you have enough storage space, you could wait until she is in college.

Don’t remind me. My parents threw out all my comics when I was in college. I had about 400.

Parents who think they own their children think it’s perfectly okay to mess with their kids’ stuff. They don’t think of their kids as actual persons; their children do not actually own their own stuff; kids are merely offshoots, good for displaying the parents’ power and making themselves look good to other parents.

When my son was ten or eleven, he read a book, Ten Ways for a Kid to Make Money. One way was to have a toy yard sale with all the toys that he no longer played with. So, he did that, and we put some signs around the neighborhood. I had him price everything pretty low so people wold buy. He made about $25, which he used to buy new toys.

“….I just don’t wanna!!”

One time I had 54 stuffy animals, but it pales in comparison to the number of Transfer I’ve collected.

summer school?

Zoe replies, 53 is an odd number, I need to get another to make them even.

Wanda, let Zoe grow up with her stuffed animals. Why are you so adamant about purging them?? Let her be a little girl, she’ll grow away from them.. my girls did.

Open the backs; take out the stuffing and make them into a quilt.

At least Wanda is telling her. I can still remember the day I came home from school & looked for my stuffed raccoon. I couldn’t find it so I asked my mom to help. She told me that the raccoon had a rip at the base of the tail so she threw it away. Fast forward to when my girls were little. Any time a stuffie of theirs got a rip I sewed it back up. I became quite a good stuffie doctor.

I love it!!

I had 173 when I married my husband, kept them all! Gave many of them to my kids as we had them, nope, never got rid of any!

this is giving me flashbacks. =( why are parents like this?

What? Only 53?

Time to enroll Zoe in ’Stuff-Animals Anonymous.

Beanie Babies anyone?

Would any of the female posters here care to explain why it seems women feel the need, and think they have the right, to throw away the possessions of their family members? Both my mother and my sister did that to me. I would never even consider doing that! (Ahem, not until it was done to me, anyway…)

And I say “Try for 60”

Did Zoe steal them from other children or did she find a way to get them by trading them? Because otherwise all of this is just Wanda’s fault.

So many enablers.

My wife (now 70) has probably close to that number of stuffed animals. What’s the problem here?

And just who gave them to her might l ask?…..

I have a friend who’s my age and she still collects stuffed animals that are souvenirs of places she or her friends have been. When I came back from Antarctica I brought her a stuffed Albatross that makes a squawking sound when it’s tail is squeezed. She loves it.

I think Zoe should be allowed to keep every stuffed toy that she can remember the origin of or something special about it, as long as they’re kept in an orderly fashion.

And how many pairs of shoes does Wanda have?

My mom cleaned out my room and got rid of over half my possessions that she said I didn’t need any more when I was away at a summer camp when I was 12. No warning. My room wasn’t messy. She just decided to do it while I was away. I remember feeling horrified and violated. So the next weekend after I got back, I got rid of her jewelry that she never wears. I was grounded for a month, but she never touched my stuff again. Being an adult shouldn’t spare you of the consequences of being a bully and not having appropriate boundaries.

Zoe darling just keep on and ignore Mom—75 yrs old here and still got my child hood ones and newer ones after I have “grown up”. Hang in there.

Counted? Why didn’t you just haul them all out while she was at school?

Purging is fine for mobile games, cache and history files. The stuffed animals are a treasure trove to be stored for nostalgic childhood days, Wanda.

People are either collectors (me) or they’re not (my wife).

Invite Mimi over for a tea party.

The stuffies with the most compelling backstories get to stay! Let the competition begin…

I have more than that, I think. Don’t know, don’t care. They are cute and cuddly and every time I go somewhere like a zoo, I bring home another one.

So what? How are they bothering anyone?

“53?!? Is that all!!”

My Mom threw out a fur cat I loved while I was at school one day…we spent the rest of my childhood trying to replace it.

My daughter bought one of those nets to hold them. Her daughter’s stuffed animals now hang above her bed.

SMH (/_<)