Do you get emotionally attached to inanimate objects?

[DisneyAddict_M]

My first car was a 1993 Honda Accord. I loved it. We were like best friends. My father bought it for me with the agreement that I had to give it to my brother when he got his license (a few years later). This was about 12 years ago. My brother has had the car since then. It hasn't really run in awhile and has been sitting dormant in my parents driveway for the past 2 years.

My brother recently decided to donate it to the Special Olympics. They came to pick it up today. I cried.

 

[paigevz]

YES!!!!!!!!!

But I won't say what.

 

[Hedy]

My late grandmother gave me my iPod a week before she died. It was later replaced under warranty, and I have severe issues around the concept of upgrading it.

 

[crcormier]

Awwww...

Of course. You become comfortable with something and have it for long enough, you miss it when it's gone. Especially in this case where you didn't really have something new that was replacing it.

 

[Sonya]

I always do. My first car, my first house, (still drive by it from time to time) my favorite doll growing up, even little knick-nacks that people have given me.

 

[luvmydogs]

I have a teddy bear that was given to me by my maternal grandmother right before I left for college when I was 17. I'm now 40 yrs. old and not usually very sentimental, but I swear if anything happened to that bear, it'd kill me. My gram and I were very close, so now that she's gone I treasure it.

I traded in my Honda CRV for a Pilot last spring. Her name was Baby (yeah, I know ) and I, too, cried when my dh drove her away for the last time...

 

[remyandhollandsmommy]

Yes, I am severely attached to my pillow. I have had it since I was 8 and it is covered in drool marks (despite being in a pillowcase LOL). DH thinks it is gross and is constantly trying to "hide" it or replace it with one of the spare pillows, but as soon as my head hits the pillows, I can tell if its not there. It is currently flatter than paper, but I can NOT sleep without it LOL. I have to take it on vacation with me and will be in therapy one day when it disintegrates.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

I cried when my first car died and I bought a new one! I'd had it for 11 years...I just knew that car so well. It lasted just long enough to pull into the dealer lot on the day I picked up the new car. Pulled into a space and it immediately died. And as we left in the new car, I cried.

I'm also very attached to the teddy bear that my grandfather gave me the day after I was born. And to my body pillow, Simon. I can't sleep without Simon.

 

[MOMTOMOOTOO]

 

[mamacatnv]

I have a mechanical pencil that I have hauled around with me for 15 years. I love my pencil and guard it like a Mother Bear.

 

[Hercules10]

Oh yeah...first 'new' vehicle I bought was a 1980 silver Nissan Hardbody P/U. No A/C (yeah in Texas!), no rear bumper, no power steering, no radio. Four wheels and a motor. I loved that little truck.

Still have it today if Wifey hadn't wrecked it...

 

[1Prince2Princesses]

You guys are cute.

Sorry you're sad about your car, Melinda. You can have mine if it will make you feel better.

 

[debbi801]

I have an ugly, stained cardigan sweater that was my grandfather's. After he died, when I was helping my parents pack up his belongings, I grabbed it out of a Good Will bag. He wore this sweater all the time. It has moved with me four times and I will never part with it.

 

[Sonya]

And to my body pillow, Simon. I can't sleep without Simon.

I didn't know other people named their body pillows. Mine is Nigel. DH is jealous.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

I didn't know other people named their body pillows. Mine is Nigel. DH is jealous.

My ex is the one who actually named it. I've had the biggest crush on Simon LeBon for 25 years...when the ex noticed how I wrap myself around it, he said, "Are you pretending that's Simon?" It just stuck and I've called it Simon ever since

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

You guys are cute.

Sorry you're sad about your car, Melinda. You can have mine if it will make you feel better.

Thanks for the offer, but I just bought a new car a few months ago. I traded my 2000 Honda CRV in for a 2007 Honda Civic. Despite having a new car, I miss my CRV like you wouldn't believe. I am so pathetic. (and no cracks about all my Hondas )

And....

I feel like I should name my body pillow now. How about Rex? Yeah, Rex sounds good.

 

[mamacatnv]

And to my body pillow, Simon. I can't sleep without Simon.

My fat cat Simon closely resembles a body pillow and he sleeps with me every night too!

 

[Aidensmom]

I have a few knick knack type things that I am attached to, they all reminders of certain times in my life.

 

[OK!]

Yeah, I have a ruby necklace that was my grandmother's that I haven't taken off for anything since she passed away in July 2005. It rarely matches any of my other jewelry, but if I were to take it off now, it'd feel like I took off an ear or something.

I also tend never to get rid of any gifts I'm given by family and those closest to me; it doesn't matter if I really like and/or use them, I'd just feel too weird giving them away, like it meant I didn't love the giver as much somehow, if that makes sense.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

My first car I bought. I was 17, it was a 1976 Dodge Aspen. baby blue. I LOVED that car.

I remembering dreaming about it after it had gone to the metal resting place.

Then, my houses! Who would of thought!

The 1st home we bought, we sold afyer 4 years. I dreamt about that house for YEARS. Then, we sold our second home 2 years ago, and I will occasionally dream about it.