Help! I'm up to my eyeballs....

[Regina]

My 16 year old daughter is finally cleaning her room, and she wants to take down her stuffed animals from the shelves.

I already have every Care Bear, Pound Puppy, Pretty Pony, you name it, stashed away in storage boxes. I'm out of room.

I don't want to get rid of her collection. 99% are Disney plush, and each one is a memory.

The woes of being a "collector" aka "pack rat."

I have to figure out something *sigh*

 

[Cheshire Figment]

Have YOUR DAUGHTER find a self-store type place (if there are any in your vicinity) and have her deal with the people (you may actually have to be the one to sign the contract) there and then she will have a safe, accessible, place to store all of her excess collectibles. If you have stuff of your own that needs to be stored, and to give you more room in the house, you might be willing to pay for the percentage of the space that you use.

 

[~Kathie]

Hey Regina..........are you renting that kid???

My daughter moved out 2 months ago and didn't take any of her stuff just her clothes. I packed up her Beauty & the Beast collection but there is so much more STUFF!!

Ask your daughter if she wants to live here for 2 weeks and clean my daughters room. She can have all the pizza she wants...and we have a pool.

Just think.....she can start her own business.

 

[flyinglizard]

Reg,

How about when your 16 year old daughter drives away in the car for the first time... alone?

Dave

 

[holycow]

the Care Bears! We had all of the care bears the muppet babies, pound puppies "stored" away and when we moved last time we couldn't locate them!
DH probably threw them away!
We had a good cry....but now that we moved and she didn't come with us just all of her stuff. I am the one crying! Cause there is no place to put it all!
Just be glad she is still living with you! They grow up too quick!
Holycow
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[ladyandtramp]

This was my mother's solution to "my collectibles"...

I was still living at home when I got married.
We moved into a 1 bedroom apartment, so of course, there was plenty that I couldn't take with me that got stored in Ma & Pa's garage/workshop/attic/basement...

BUT we bought a house not too long after that. Unfortunately, I also got a new job, and was away for 3 weeks of training on move-in day . When my hubby drove into my parents' driveway with the uhaul to pick up "those few extra odds & ends", mom had IT ALL sitting in front of the garage -- including HER upright PIANO (still not sure how *I* ended up with that) and she wouldn't allow the truck to leave without ever last box being loaded .

And since we were still newlyweds -- how could my husband tell my mother "No"?????

I thought it was pretty sneaky on her part....


But on the other hand -- a solution that I had for my stuffed friends -- my DH put those closet wire racks around the top of my bedroom - about 1 foot from the ceiling (like plate rails). All my stuffed friends sit up there for me to enjoy before I go to bed and first thing n the morning -- and it is unused space!

 

[Regina]

It's still a work in progress. I think that it's going to take the entire summer for her to finish.

Dave, since you mentioned that she'll be driving soon, maybe she can start driving her stuffed friends around with her?

She already has tons of shelves, filled with tons of plush. That's the problem, she's the youngest and the two older siblings kept passing stuff along to her.

I think that she's resigned herself to keeping them on display.

Gee...I wonder where she got this annoying habit of needing so much STUFF!!

 

[JudithM]

I'm laughing as I read this thread, but as the saying says, "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!" Nobody I know collects a lot of stuff!!