He Threw Away My Teddy..

[boxtops]

Just watching Bargain Hunt - the auctioneer's just told that he no longer has a teddy, his father threw away it away when the boy was seven. I find that really sad.... and not very kind.

[McMouse]

Well sort of vak. We inherited it from the previous squad. Our Instructor said it had been there for quite a while.

[vakayu]

That is nice then mcmouse sort of a lucky mascot teddy to be passed down to each squad as a protection,was it a very masculine looking bear?Did he have a name?

[guilliebrougues]

my husband is eighty years old and when he was two years old he was playing on a beach along with his parents when two young girls came up to them both and gave my husband a teddy that they had found in the sea. It was dried off and he still has that teddy today, the teddies name, why ted of course.

[cecil39]

I wish I had kept my teddy bear, I can remember trying to get the button out of his ear as I thought it must hurt him, he would be worth a bob or two now, I think my mum must have given him to another child after I left home.

[boxtops]

I still have my teddy - his leg is missing, where my baby brother sat on him and pulled his leg off....

I still remember how sad I felt when mum gave a big stuffed dog to charity when I was about fourt - he sat on a shelf in my bedroom, so she thought I wouldn't be bothered, but it would have been quite nice to have asked me first :-(

[grasscarp]

I sold mine recently on ebay. He was over 50 years old and has gone to a good home (I hope).

[vakayu]

Isn't it lovely boxtops such sentiment and feelings your thread has evoked to days gone by.

[boxtops]

vakayu - it is :-)

[Eve]

I still have one which was handmade for me before I was born, rather originally called Teddy :) He is quite delicate so kept safe.

I have another one given to me by a load of friends for a surprise party and he has always stayed with me. On my bed at the moment.

I'm quite sentimental about that kind of thing though have had to be less so as I got older and accumulated more stuff!