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Not my thing but I’ve dated fully functional adult women with similar items
Life is a crazy, scary ride. If it doesn’t hurt people, do what brings you joy
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Submitted 9 months ago by ILoveDurians@lemmy.cafe to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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TheFANUM@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No. That’s fine.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 9 months ago
I have USB cables twice as old as your blanket, probably even some I’ve never used.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 9 months ago
I’m in my 40s and daily a spoon I was given around my birth.
swordgeek@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
It’s unusual.
It is absolutely NOT weird. If anything, it makes you more human.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
My wife is in her 30’s, and she sleeps with a pillow and stuffed animal that she has had since she was 3 or 4.
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I have a blanket I’ve slept with every day since I was barely a month old (am 23 now), wouldn’t trade it for anything. I can definitely relate :)
HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Not weird.
Perhaps atypical, maybe unusual, but neither of those things are inherently bad.
crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 9 months ago
People make connections with objects, same reason why people start hating certain art pieces when they’re told they were made by hitler. It’s perfectly normal— also good for the environment.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I still got my first teddybear from when I was a baby. Mind you, I’m a big guy, tough guy. I don’t sleep with it, it’ll fall apart at any movement, but whenever I go (permanently), it goes. If my house catches fire, I’ll rescue the bear, anything else can burn to the ground, it’s all replaceable.
I don’t think it’s weird, I find it endearing and it makes you human.
charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I still use a 20+ year old blanket that I’ve had since I was however many years old. Don’t know it’s weird or not, I just wanted to say that to someone.
T156@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Does it matter if it is weird? Everyone is weird in some way.
There’s no weirdness warden who will whack you into gaol for being weird.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 9 months ago
“Gowl”
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yes
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 9 months ago
No.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
I have a stuffed dog that Ive kept since i was a baby. Im middle aged now and that dog is still with me. Its not in bed with me anymore because i want to keep it preserved but it still brings me comfort when I need it.
bigb@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve kept a blanket for 20 years. I remember when I bought it at a department store with my mom before I went off to college. It’s the perfect thickness and texture for me to sleep with. The nostalgia is an added bonus for a really comfortable blanket.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
nope. I have plushies from when i was a young lad that I sleep with. I will NEVER give up Ellie and Lionel.
RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 9 months ago
I have a 25 year old cereal bowl and spoon. I’ve lived in maybe 15 houses across 4 countries in this time.
They used to have twins, but they were lost to the horrors of flatmates.
I don’t eat cereal any more, and haven’t for maybe 10 years. But I’ve got it. I have no idea why I keep it. But I do.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
My mug is turning 20. I got it as a “tip” when I worked my first job. I didn’t drink coffee or tea back then. I love my mug.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
You made me almost remember the bowl and spoon I ate out of when I was too young to fully form memories
It’s gone again
I had just a faint taste of how it felt in my hand
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 9 months ago
My stepmother is in her mid 40s and does exactly the same thing. Also a disgusting looking blanket from her childhood that she even takes with her on holidays. I mean we do stir her up for it (sometimes she “wears” it to sleep like bandages covering her entire head which looks hilarious) but I’d say it’s weird in a wholesome way. Most people have some of those little quirks.
fjordo@feddit.uk 9 months ago
I sleep with a stuffed animal I’ve had since I was a kid. I don’t think it’s that unusual.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t think it’s weird at all. Being attached to physical objects is a totally normal part of being human. The comfort of familiarity is natural and nothing to be worried about. The personal example I can think of right away is that when a wallet wears out and I transfer my driver’s license etc to a new one, I’m aware of the same feeling of attachment. Throwing out the old one feels like a betrayal. I think feelings like that are completely natural. In fact my childhood cuddle toy - a stuffed dog named “Poody” is still up on a bookshelf over my desk. I hardly ever think about him but he’s always up there, kind of watching over me.
leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Hi, no, do what you want.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Only reason I don’t sleep with my equivalent is that I’ve already had to fix it five times.
The blanket that was my childhood blanket is so fragile it’s not even possible to mend it.
But the pillow my grandmother made for me, that sucker was made of polyester scraps. Which, for all that’s bad about polyester, the stuff lasts. So, over forty years later, I’ve replaced the filling three times, and resewn it fully twice, plus one partial resew. I tend to replace the filling any time I do a major repair, but there’s been three times I needed to specifically refill it.
Back when she made it, it was filled with that loose polyfill stuff. I’ve swapped between cotton, polyfill, shredded foam, and shredded memory foam.
I don’t sleep with it any more, like I said. But it’s right here beside me.
I had even specified being buried with it, but swapped to wanting cremation, and that’s not going to work with the pillow.
Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Sure it will! Pillows incinerate just fine. If the crematorium has some dumbasses rule prohibiting pillows, just have somebody burn it themselves and mix it with your ashes.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 9 months ago
Does it hurt you or anyone? No? Carry on.
Etterra@discuss.online 9 months ago
Nope. It’s normal to get attached to things. My fiance (37f) has all kinds of stuff from her childhood that she still uses, even if only occasionally. Blanket, shirts, Xmas ornaments, the list goes on. For her, in her own words, the attachment is to the memories associated with the things, like Xmas or a school club or college. She’s got a lot of things, not just over blanket, but it’s the same principle. Perfectly reasonable and normal.
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Nah, totally normal, my dog came with one too when he was a puppy. Was supposed to smell like his Mom to help him settle in a new home.
If it helps you not pee in your crate I say you keep it.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I can’t tell if this was supposed to be mean or comforting… all I know is it’s fucking hilarious
Aielman15@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t think it’s weird. It’s just an item from your childhood that you’re attached to for emotional reasons. A lot of people have one of these - be it a blanket, a plushie, a toy, a videogame, a necklace or some other piece of jewellery, etc…
They might remind you of your childhood, or maybe of the person who gifted it to you or someone else whom you knew at the time. I don’t see anything wrong with having attachment to your memories.
When I was 5, my parents gifted me an owl-shaped cushion. That same cushion is still on my bed over 20 years later. Looking at it brings back memories of my childhood, and it has this soft, short “fur” which reminds me of the dog I had back then, whom I miss very dearly. Touching makes me feel like my dog is still with me somehow :)
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m closer to 40 than 35, and my wife recently gave up ever replacing “college blanket”, which was actually bought for me in early high school after I asked if I could take my grandparents comforter home with me. They found one and got it for me that Christmas (I think it was Ross/home goods), it was probably the most generic comforter ever, I always thought I’d be able to find another when needed. After 2 cats, a dog and the better part of 2 decades, my wife decided it was time to let it go and get a replacement, no problem, it’s the most generic comforter ever. She gets me a nice duvet, so we can keep the inside nice and replace the outside as needed, nope definitely not the same. She gets a comforter, it’s stitched way too tightly, and doesn’t breathe the same (okay maybe a 20 year old blanket has gained a bit of aeration, maybe it breathes better than it did when it was new, but you can definitely tell the padding is stitched much more tightly than college blanket’s ever was), she got me a “cooling” comforter, it’s decent, but paired best with college blanket, and when I only have 1 blanket 9 times out of 10 it’s college blanket.
Now college blanket has had 5 cats and 3 dogs and the majority of my life, it’s been the bed of desire for multiple animals, myself included, and my wife sometimes asks for it when she’s sick. Apparently it’s really scratchy, and holey, and it’s closely missing about 20% of it’s original fluff, and I would put it away in a place of honor in a heartbeat if I could find a new one. I swear it was 40 dollars at a home goods store, in a pile with a hundred others just like it, but we’ve looked for the better part of a decade now, and it’s been deemed irreplaceable. It would probably be the first material thing I went for if we had to evacuate. I’m not highly sentimental, but you don’t let a good blanket go.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I have a “security blanket” too, but it’s a pillow I was given as a small child.
I’ve also felt ashamed for sleeping with it, it feels like it makes me infantile or not grown up, so I put it in a closet for many years. The past year or two, though, I’ve realized the comfort is more important to me than feeling ashamed, so I sleep with the pillow every night, usually I hug the pillow and sleep with it against me. It’s one of the few such comforts, and nothing else comforts me like it - even other pillows or plushes I have tried.