I reviewed Playskool’s gloworm a few weeks ago and they have very kindly given me another to competition off. so here is that review again in case you missed it followed by the Q.
My daughter has always slept with a variety of cuddly toys, a different one most nights as the mood takes her. Playskool then sent me Gloworm and she has not been out of Annalise’s bed since. Gloworm gives off a warm light and a selection of lullabies and both gently fade away. Lisi plays them for a while and hums along is clearly conforted by the light. (It comes in blue or pink and takes 3 x AA batteries.
We no longer need to leave the hall light on. She and Gloworm have formed a very happy friendship. Lisi is 3. I wish we had had one of these earlier but I have a feeling they will be firm pals for some time to come. (Currently on amazing offer: £7.49 at Argos)
Competition
As I said I have been given one of these lovely toys to give away to you my dear reader so if you would like one or it would make a handy Chritsmas gift do enter. You simply need to tell me who your best cuddly toy was when you were little.
T&C’s
UK and Ireland entries only please. 1 entry per person. Winner picked at random on Nov 2nd Baby Budgetings decison is final. Prizes unclaimed after 10 days will be reallocated.
ooh to choose just one is hard! I think the most enduring cuddly toy I had, was a large blue teddy, who when i was given him was the same size as me (I was about 2)He was very soft, but i loved the fact he was a bright royal blue colour, no way would I have gone to bed without him!
I had a yellow teddy when I was little which I loved to death. He was imaginatively called ‘yellow ted’ !
I loved my Smurf teddy which i had from a baby and still have him now! He went everywhere with me.
Teddy Richard which my Grandparents gave me and i still have although he is a little bald
Ooh, my little bitty snoopy, I still have him and I’m 35!
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I still have a hand knitted orange teddy who was called Rusty and given to me at birth, this one and then as I grew a little older a care bear. I think it was called Goodluck bear, the green one! 🙂
My best cuddly toy when I was little was ‘Little Ted’ I still have him now, although he is more patchwork than original material
I had a hand-knitted clown who I called Christopher. He was lovely and went with me everywhere. Makes me smile, even now!
my fave cuddly was a raggy doll
My favourite cuddly toy was a tatty old teddy that I called “Funny Teddy” that was a freebie from a washing powder promotion. It had no arms and was white so I thought he looked odd, hence the name “Funny Teddy”. I still have him, in fact he is sitting on my childhood bed at my mum’s house right now…
gotta say my original glo worm was a firm favourite, but my all time fave was bumblelion, from the tv show the wuzzles! amazing
Mine was a big lime green & navy Pterodactyl my dad won for me at the fair My mum hated it as it was huge and kinda ugly but I loved it and named it nanadragon! Nana wasn’t impressed lol.
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I had a musical monkey called Jacko, who had a winder on the back and played lullabyes.
Mine was a teddy that used to growl that my parents brought for me for my 1st birthday, i am now in my 40’s and i still have this ted on my bed
Mine was a big, ugly, battered Smurf! He went everywhere with me, much, I’m sure, to my mum’s embarrassment!
a puple teddy rabbit who i named beatrice
My favourite teddy was called Teddy. When I was 3 and my brother was 1, he had an operation and I felt scared for him so I let him cuddle Teddy to make him feel better. Unfortunately, my mum thought I wanted my brother to have Teddy! I didn’t have the heart to say I wanted him back as my brother was so happy but I did cry myself to sleep that night!
My brother is now 25 and still has him (and I still miss my Teddy).
a teddy called dozy he could tell stories to you
Jacko the monkey! he went everywhere with me
I loved my rag doll called Pink Kitty!
My oldest friend is my knitted rabbit Billy. He was named after the line in Waltzing Matilda which, at the age of 3, I misinterpreted as “he waited for his Billy Boy”. He had a woolly pom pom tail which I clutched tightly as I sucked my thumb and we were inseparable for many years. He lives in my chest of drawers in my bedroom and still gets cuddles although, at the age of fifty, I no longer suck my thumb.
I had a clown called funny!
He was one of those that taught you how to do laces, buttons, buckles etc.
I still have him now but i have to keep him in my wardrobe as he really freaks my kids out hehe
I had a little kitten toy that used to light up all different colours. I wouldn’t go anywhere without it! I still miss it now.
I had a small white teddy bear called sam, I even got it a jumper which said, just wanna be your teddy bear on it! I still have him to this day, he will shortly become my daughters!
It’s an old fashioned yellow teddy, which my daughter now has as at 30 my husband say’s I no longer need it. 🙁
A dog-earred panda – sucked, chewed, mauled and generally pulled around from piller to post. I still have it to this day 40 years later and it looks just the same!
I was given a little dog when I was 4 for Christmas I took him everywhere! I called him Bill as my sister was a big Rupert Bear fan and Bill was his best friend.
I think his head must have come off 4 or 5 times split seams all over the place but I always stiched him back up. My mums friend made new clothes for him (to hold the stuffing in!) and now 26 years later he sits on my bedside table in a mini arm chair not to be touched! Then to my amazement last year I was in a local charity shop and found an identical “Bill” good as new!! couldn’t believe it! My 4 year old daughter now has a special friend of her own
I loved my little cuddly puppy dog Sad Sam, my niece still plays with him now !
My favourite cuddly toy was this owl who i called Hoot Hoot.I used to take him to the zoo and show him the other owls.
My best toy was a RAGGEDY ANN doll which I still had when I grew up, She was who I told all my troubles to……
As a child in the 40s I only had one teddy and one china doll. The teddy, Edward was my favourite because he was soft and Mum made some clothes for him.
my special cuddly was called Mr Raggy Man.. he was knitted by my dad and mum , he had long, long legs, and a scarf and hat … i`m now 40 and he is very thread bear, i did ask my mum if she could mend him…. but she thinks he is too far gone 🙁
My favourite cuddly toy was a gordon the gopher puppet ! I absolutely loved it !
My Grandad bought me a black teddy bear just before he died and I still cherish it’s cuddles today – I’m 42!
I never liked cuddly toys as a baby – I used to take a large plastic giraffe to bed with me!
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What a lovely giveaway and great blog!
My favourite cuddly was snoopy, I still have him now but he’s not looking so fresh these days and I daren’t wash him as he will probably fall apart!
I had a bear called Rufuss, I loved him dearly x
My favourite was a soft puppy that my Dad saved the tokens from the ‘soft, strong and very long’ toilet roll packets for, whilst my Mum was pregnant. He gave ‘Doggy’ to me when I was born and I still have her now, 32 years later!
My fave cuddly toy was Doris, a rag doll with pigtails and a smiling face! It was knitted by one of my aunts and I always took it to bed with me!
My favourite cuddly toy was a yellow CareBear. I took him everywhere and was heartbroken when he got accidently left behind at Manchester Airport when we were going on holiday. No one handed him in and I like to think that some other little person took him home to love as much as I did.
I got a white polar bear at birth and loved it so much my mum had to sew the leg back on 3 times! I still have it safe and sound at home.
my andy pandy toy which even went to Ibiza with me as an 18 year old when a drunken ‘freind’ through it out of the window into the undergrowth and we never found it again. I was devastated
My green teddy bear scruff which I have had for 23 years
A very battered brown bear that I loved to bits and still have now, 50 years later!
I had a really fluffy dog… you couldn’t his eyes through the long hair!
Mine was Elleroo one of the wuzzles,still got her to this very day,although she is now my daughter’s..Also loved the glo-worms,popples,care-bears,little ponies,god I could keep going..
A chimpanzee (not real) called chip it was my sisters really but I sorta claimed it when she grew up
My best cuddly toy was my care bear – bedtime bear, I still have him now.
a black and white panda
A small plain teddy by the name of Sooty (don’t know why as he was a golden colour). He was bought for me by my father when I was a couple of days old and spent every night with me until I got married. He was my best friend, listening to all my moans, anxieties and joys. He is now 50 and quite threadbear, still much loved and never too faraway, although he doden’t share my bed anymore.
I had a Roland Rat cuddly toy and still have! About 5 years ago my auntie found one at a boot sale and brought it for me because it had been 20 years since I’d had my first one.
When I was really little I never really had a teddy to cuddle so my big brother bought me for my 4the birthday.. and it is the best teddy in the world! It went everywhere with me… I even took it to university..not only because it was so cuddly but because it was a special present from my big brother. As I type this my new baby girl is cuddlying it upstairs for her morning nap.. its a bit battered and smelly but to be honest.. I would love it back so if i won the glow worm -that would be a great trade for I think and then I might get my favourite teddy back!! (Either that or I can replace it with the glow worm… not sure what my hisband would think!)
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I had one of the original bigger glo worms in the early 80’s that I really loved and also I had a rabbit called Katy and a teddy called John that I got for my first birthday.
I used to cuddle up to my favorite Womble…Uncle Bulgaria
A lost pre-loved panda I found in a sand dune!
It’s got to be Freddie the Teddy! I recently found him after unpacking and my little girl has adopted him!
My little pink bunny called Eyeshigher, as one eye was higher than the other, which my older sister won at the fair and very generously gave to me! His little ears had to be sewn back on regularly,as that is how I used to carry him around,he went everywhere with me! Still got him to this day, 30 years old!
Mine was Roland Rat 🙂 I took him everywhere I went and think his head was re stitched back on countless times. I found him in the loft recently and it brought back so many memories.
well it would be definatly zippy from rainbow xx
My favourite was Winnie the Pooh 🙂
Sadly as my father didn’t believe in cuddly toys for boys I never had one. I now make sure that new grandson ( Matty) has lots!!
I had a white Popple (remember those? They were an 80’s toy that folded into its own pouch) that went everywhere with me. Unfortunately an incident involving a long car journey, travel sickness and the resulting wash in a washing machine, meant that his lovely soft fur went hard and rough and its hair matted.
I had a brown teddy bear which my nan gave to me when I was only 2 months old. I cuddled this teddy all through my childhood, and now I’m 61 years old and still have teddy, though he is looking quite threadbare. He is very special to me, with his hands and feet patched up by my nan with her old stockings.
I had a teddy that was worn and ragged, and his nickname was flash gordon, he was really just a bit of material in the end, but i just loved him.
My Bedtime Bear Carebear was/is my favourite cuddly toy. He was a present for Christmas from my grandparents when I was 4, and I still have him now – he’ll be 23 this Christmas! If I can’t sleep I still cuddle him!
I had a Hearts FC teddy which was Maroon and White (club colours). It went everywhere with me until one day I went to the shops with my mum. I quickly got bored so sneaked outside and was peering in the window looking at the display when a car pulled up and out jumped a guy in a Hibs (local rivals) top and pulled the teddy out my hands and jumped in car and sped off with my teddy laughing with his mates.
I never saw Teddy again and had many nightmares wondering what happened to him.
my favorite teddy was one id had since i was one, a little pink dog i still have him today but his nose is coming away. i also went through a phase where i wouldnt go sany where without my green frog wellington boot… dont ask!!
My favourite cuddly toy was this cow who i called buttercup
I had a white teddy. He was passed onto my son when he was a baby and after yet more repairs, fresh stuffing and a good wash he has now become a favourite of my baby granddaughter’s when she comes to stay!
..I had a fav Raggedy Ann doll given to me by a grandmother…she made it herself and when she passed on I still have all the loving memories of the things she made me..but that doll was my fav ! Thanks Gran!
mine was a moneky that could cling on tables and chairs
My mum knitted me a cuddly Penguin, ( Wing Wing), wished i still had him
I had a little rabbit called ‘Patches’. She was actually a pajama case but she used to come to bed with me every night. I still have her and the 32 other soft toys that used to share my bed. I am too soft and sentimental to throw them away.
mine was big black bear that was bought for me in a rush as i was not due till boxing day but turned up on 26 november but was very ill so mum and dad had to do shopping at the last minute he was 3ft tall and i still have him now 41 years on but we called him nelson as i loved him that much i sucked his eyes off so mum had to make new ones
My favourite teddy as a child was a brown teddy that I called James. My brother, James, gave it to me after I had open heart surgery when I was 4, he was only 3 at the time. I loved that teddy so much, I still have it now 🙂
My emu puppet i havent got it anymore and cant find one the same
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Big Ted.
My Mum’s still got him, and my children play with him when they go to visit!
My fave was my bright yellow Bumblelion from the wuzzles….half bee half lion,amasing,wish i still had it 🙂
I was never particularly attached to a cuddly toy when I was younger. I think it’s because I have an identical twin and she was my security ‘teddy’! Same for her! We did have our own language though, does that count? 🙂
Mine was a filthy little dog teddy called ‘dogga’. It belonged to my older brother and was only about the size the free little teddies you often get with babies beddings and magazines and things. He was yellow (originally) with brown long flat ears i loved to carry him by. I dont know what happened to him as i haven’t thought about it for years, but i have a suspicion that he is in my dads loft now, 20 something years on and may take a little peek this weekend- for nostalgia’s sake!
My teddy called Henry
I had a big rag doll that my mum made for me. She was bigger than me and used to sleep in my bed every night :0)
I had a teddy called teddy (I know) he was dogeared and well loved i took him everywhere with me when i was younger he fell apart when i was 14 i still miss him today im 43
A rag doll called Lucy. (still have her)
Mine was a Giant Bugs Bunny that talked
Mine was a rag doll called Jemima.
I still have her now, she’s sitting on my shelf in my bedroom & i’m 31.
She’s got rosey cheek (thanks to me colouring her cheeks in when i was little) , has been sewn up a few times & does need some more mending but she’s my Jemima & i still love her. My dad got her for me when i was born & i’d never get rid of her.
A horse which I think must be filled with straw or horsehair – it is very solid, and now very bald!
a scrappy teddy that i won and called mandy – its still in the loft somehwere missing an eye – bless
A little white rabbit with a pink floral dress and matching floral material in the ears. I still have it although it’s a little worse for wear!!!
Spot the dog could not sleep without him
My rag doll called Holly Hobby.
a little rabbit named jasper, i still have it 33 years later
My teddy was Tubby, a little brown bear who still sits in my bedroom today….now best friends with my husband’s teddy!
I still have my cuddly toy, a little lamb called Lambo (original I know!). He’s a bit scruffy and worn but then so am I!
my popple was my favourite, it has lasted as my daughter has had it(shes 14 now) and recently we refound it hiding in the loft and my youngest 5 yr old son has it in bed with him. not many toys these days last so long.
A lovely old wise looking leopard teddy that my Uncle bought for me when I was born 🙂 he went everywhere with me, and he had tickly whiskers 🙂
My cuddly white dog teddy that I called sophie and still have now.
My favourite cuddly toy was my Sun & Moon Care Bear … and I still have him now nearly 30 years later 😀 xx
My favourite toy was an old battered yellow teddy bear that I inherited from my older cousin. He was tatty and bedraggled but I adored him and I still have him.
I still have my favourite teddy bear which I have had for over 40 years
a home made patchwork teddy
Would love one
My favourite cuddly toy was a brown teddy called humphrey!!
I had a little Teddy bear called Fred – I pulled all his fluff off over time, so his name was quite apt really – Fred bear
My favourite teddy bear was called Bruno.
He isn’t a normal, standing upright style teddy (I use the present tense because I still have him!), he’s crouched down on all fours like a dog lying on a rug, and loks more realistic than your average teddy.
Because he looked so like a dog, I put a dog lead on him and used to drag him around the house behind me (which was easier said than done as I was only five, and he was as big as I was!)
a scraggy old teddy called teddy, who was meant to wind up and sing but never worked and i pulled his tongue off!
Oooh maybe this will help my 2 year old sleep in her own bed!!
My favourite cuddly toy when I was younger was a grumpy bear from the care bears, I loved him and took hime everywhere with me!! But we left him behind when we left South Africa, my Husband has since bought me a replacement that my daughter now loves 🙂
My first Teddy Bear which I still have – now 58 years old!
Mine was a cabbage patch doll looking back now they are rather creepy but i loved mine when i was little.x
I had my Fred Bear, who ended up very threadbare!
My bear from Alton Towers, Alton Ben.
I have a soft toy Ewok from star wars he was so soft and cuddly.
I had a lovely giraffe. No idea what happened to him. I’ve kept my children’s special toys.
My fave was a rabbit in a floral dress. I called him Wayne! He lost an eye and had an ear hanging off along the way but i loved him all the more for his imperfections.
my fav was a soft toy rabbit called Bertie! Still have him but does not look much like a rabbit these days more patched up where ears fell off etc! but I still love him!
My favorite toy was my cabbage patch doll – i loved her sooo much that i still have her now and won’t get rid og her – I am 35 years old x
my favourite cuddly toy was a massive my little pony which i remember my dad won at blackpool pleasure beach, it took more room up in my bed than i did!!
fave toy was a cuddly snoppy dog, still have it now 30 years on
My was Bed time bear ( care bear), i’ve still got him, after 30 years, you never forget your first love for a toy
I had a cuddly toy called Yawnie! You could make them yawn and I loved it!
it was a little brown bear that i named george i loved him took him everywhere with me even stuffed him a little bag on the back of my bike when i was out on my bike with friends my sister pulled his arm off him i was devestated an he just fell apart from then onwards 🙁
I had a fabulous small stuffed panda I still have and she came to uni and holiday with me until I was about 23!
My fave was a basil brush cuddly,he told jokes and did his funny laugh x
Cabbage Patch doll for sure!
I named mine Mervin a boys name when it was a girl doll-my parents didnt object either! 😉
A woolen monkey knitted for me by my gran.
My fave cuddly toy was a bunny my nan gave me for easter when i was too small for chocolate eggs…so cute. i still have it.
I used to have a pink panther toy that was as big as I was. I used to dress him up in my dreses and took him everywhere with me. I must have left him somewhere because I can remember him not being there any more but I can’t remember why – suspect my mum tried to wash him and he disintegrated!
My favourute cuddly was a very battered, well loved brown teddy bear.
I had so many cuddly toys because my gran was a very keen sewer. I think my favourite from an early age was a little tiger that I imaginatively called “Tigger”. He got very bashed and thread-worn and eventually lost his tail.
I had a beloved panda with a zipped pyjama case in his tummy.
I had two toys that were loved to bits – a blue teddy and a very soft bunny. I think My Mum still keeps them.
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I had a bear called bear I had pulled out all his fur except the bit between his legs and under his arms. My mum had to stitch his head back on at one point but i loved him above all others I still have him now although he is hidden away so he doesnt scare people!!!
my favourite was my dolly with a red velvet dress on, i called her binny ( that was my nickname when i was growing up ) but because i got ho;d of a pair of scissors that somone left on the side i cut her long blond hair off, i still luved her though
I had a “Poggle”, it had a back pack that when turned inside out. became a sleeping bag. I was convinced he used to come to live at dark (think I had watched Gremlins too many times!!!). In fact, I’m pretty sure I still have him, up in a box in my mums loft. I think he deserves a place on the shelf near my computer.
My favourate was a sausage dog called bridget that used to come everywhere with me…think i still have her in the shed!!
I had a Humpty Dumpty stuffed toy that my mother made with long dangly legs and smart clothes. He was my best friend for years.
snowy, a white teddy bear. he now lives in my cupboard, he’s now a beigy colour and has lost an awful amount of weight over the years!!!
My favourite toy was a teddy bear that my granny made for me and gave to my Mum when she went into Hospital to have me. She was in such a rush to get him finished that she forgot to give him a mouth and he’s been called ‘Teddy No Mouth’ for the last 34 years.
my black and white panda my little cuddly buddy
A teddy bear made by my mum, I left him on a swing and by the time we went back for him he had gone.
A knitted doll that my grandma made me when i was born
I had a cuddly dinosaur that I took everywhere and refused to sleep without!
mine was a small brown teddy with one eye missing
My favourite was a shapeless, threadbare blue elephant called Ben. He was lovely.
I had a beige teddy bear and when I was young I thought he was cold so stuck his foot in a 3 bar fire so he was all singed on his foot.
Paddington bear!
My favourite cuddly toy was the blue carebear.
My little yellow teddy bear. He has no fur now due to the amount of rubbing! I am 51 and still cherish him. M y three children also cuddled him when they were little.
I had a teddy bear, that my grandma made me called eddy, he was a brown bear, with a lovely set of clothes and shoes
I had a Puffalump!! Remeber them???!!!!
My favourite toy was Winnie the Pooh. I cried and screamed and would not leave the shop without him so my embarassed mum had to buy him. I do still have him now though.
I used to have a pussy cat that was a pyjama case that my step-dad gave me. I treasured it as it was one of the few gifts I ever got off him.
I had a brown bear well still have!!!! He’s called Izzy after Sooty Izzy Wizzy lets get Bizzy when he was doing his magic!
I got him when I was very ill and bed bound after a bad attack of asthma and I could’nt go to my Dads company Santa and Xmas Party….so he was brough back for me and Ive had him since!
My pink Rainbow Cheer Care Bear – I never went anywhere without it! Funny how looking back though I don’t remember when or why I stopped carrying it around lol maybe it was forcibly removed and the event is too terrible to remember lol 🙂
I had a real dog eared ted called Peter! My dad was stationed in various naval bases when I was little and he travelled the length and breadth of Britain as well as our one “EXOTIC” posting Malta !!!! Never lot him once !
I had a christmas stocking that had a bears head ontop. When we went to buy it, I started stroking his nose and the sales assistant told me if I kept on stroking his nose he would come to life… of course months and months of stroking later it wasnt alive lol, but I loved it, kept it out all year!
my favourite toy was and is a small battered and unclothed cabage patch doll my mum kept throwing it in charity bags but she laughs how i always somehow managed to find it and fish it back out without her knowing she’d just find me with it again! 18 years later we managed to avoid the charity shop and i still have my cabbage patch doll
My favourite teddy was called teddy. He was a white polar bear, I got him for my first Christmas. I went to Scarborough on my 1st trip away from home aged 7, took him with me and left him in the hotel room. I couldn’t sleep for weeks 🙁
I had a bear that my mum let me choose myself – I named it “Sick Bear” and it is the most unusual teddy I have ever seen. It’s arms and legs are all sewn on the wrong way round and in the wrong place. I must have felt sorry for it but I loved it soooo muc. My 2 year old boy has it now. I have never seen another like it.
Bobby the Blue Bear! He must have cost less than a pound and was often found on the floor in the morning but I loved him so much 🙂
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Mine was Brown bear brought for me by my nan when i was born, 32 years on he is still going strong all be it a bit battered and is loved by my 2 sons
Mine is my old, chewed-ear rabbit. With me since I was born, and still with me now, 34 years later. My little ones now like to grab him and chew his ears – have to stop myself from snatching him back and screamining ‘MINE!!!!’! 🙂
My Teddy from when i was young is called Ted and is now very much loved by my daughter. He wears a Leather jacket with a megadeath patch on his back, a Pair of jeans (I made for him when i was younger out of a cut off from the bottom of my jeans (when i cut them down during a hot summer) and on his feet he wears a pair or Gordon the Gopher Trainers that i took off a gordon toy i used to have (but i thought they looked better on Ted.
My favorite teddy, which i still own was handed down from my sister when i was born.
His name is Teddy Chocolate and he is an amazing bear!
Although he suffered at the paws of our childhood dog and no longer has a nose he is a special part of our family.
When i have children i will pass him down again.
i had 2 tiny buny rabbit teddies i used to chew the ears off! still got them now!
a bear called ted with one eye :):)
I had a wellington womble he was made by my very talented Grandad who made all my teddys he was my favourite, not sure what happpened to him though
My favourite cuddly toy was Horace the Horse. He went everywhere with me and i was so upset when I came back from Uni to find my mom had given him to the charity shop. He saw me through the night many times and a constant happy memory of my childhood.
i had a black furry bear that i carried everywhere. parents couldnt afford to get me a paddington bear but this black bear was to me better than paddington bear
Elmo from Seasame Street, he was so soft and fluffy
My Blue Daydreams CareBear!!
My faithful old dog, called, er, Dog. He’s had to have some minor surgery over the years due to stuffing escapes, and he’s certainly looking his age, but I still love him.
My favourite cuddly toy was my winnie the pooh teddy my mum bought me for my 6th birthday. I remember her buying it from this fancy toy shop as i waited outside (those were the days!)
He came with a red waistcoat you could take off and had a huge round belly.
As i got older i told him all my problems and cried into him many times as sad things happened. He of course came with me when i moved into my own place and my children all know him as my bear.
A little koala bear
My teddy Big Bertha. She was lovely.
Mine was henry the pink elephant and I dragged him everywhere by the trunk. I still have a thing for elephants now
My favourite toy was a gorgeous teddy that my Mum got free from Debenhams 😀 I loved it, I used to believe it granted me wishes. Wish I’d have kept it tbh x
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My favourite cuddly toy was my soft bodied katie doll – but mum put her in the washing maching and she lost her eye lashes – I still loved her though 🙂
A little china doll whose head, arms and legs were joined together by rubberbands. i still have her tucked away in my bedroom and cant bear to part with her.
A dress up Snoopy, I’ve still got him, he is dressed as a Red Indian.
blue rabbit with long ears so cute
My Andrex dog was my favourite soft toy – my mum got him in the 70’s when I was a baby by collecting the tokens from the toilet roll packs!! I still have him now I am 31 and he sits on a chair by the side of my bed, although I used to cuddle him in bed every night throughout my childhood. he looks very different to the Andrex soft toys you get now, that do actually look like a proper dog!!! 🙂 i will always love him – even though he is quite threadbare now! 🙂 x
A white with little flecks of silver teddy bear i named snowy, i took him everywhere with me & still give him a cuddle when i’m feeling down.
just standard teddy, poor old boring me
I had a squirrel that I was given as a present for being a bridesmaid when I was 4. He was called Nutty as he had a nut between his paws. He was great for cuddling up to at night!
My best friend was Panda. He was my Godmothers bear, and she gave it to me at my Christening. To this day, Panda sits on my bed and has travelled across Europe, North America and Asia!!
I had a tigger Teddy, I lost it on holiday to Cornwall when I was 7. My dad found a similar Teddy in a local shop, he told me it was my original tiggers brother! I still have it and my two boys share him.
My blue and pink stripped bear called Big Ted. I got him when I was 2, bigger then me (hence the name) and I still have him today. Pride of place in my daughters bed.
Mine was a red teddy which Ive now passed on to my own kids!
My favourite soft toy was a puppet hedgehog!!
I called him Spike and used to carry him everywhere.
We went to Scotland on holiday and in everyphoto Spike was on my hand.
I still have him, he is sitting up on my 8 month old sons wardrobe. Hopefully when he is a little older he will enjoy playing with Spike too.
My favourite cuddly toy was an a teddy called Star, took him everywhere and was quite upset when my mum decided to bin it when it I grew a bit older.
I had a little dog called Spot, it was nice and soft and quite big, so in the end I used it as a pillow and it got quite flattened and mishaped, but nice to sleep with.
Tenderheart Carebear! He was so cute and cuddly 🙂
My Looby Loo rag doll, unfortunately I washed her and put her too near the fire to dry, and she got scorched. She spent the rest of her life with a patched face, and one eye drawn on with a biro! And a bit bald too.
I had an Andrex dog which i loved to bits and took everywhere with me! But i left it at the ferry port on the Isle of Wight when we went on holiday, and i cried and cried for days 🙁
My fav toy, which I still have, was/is wo wo, a doggie which was made by blind people ina home. My grandad bought it for me when I was a baby and I have never let it go since. He is a bit tired now so lives on top of my wardrobe x
There were 2 (they were an item! Or a matching set kind of thing) – Little Ted and Tinkerbell. They were both made of white sheepskin (or a very good quality fur). Little Ted had a really big yellow scarf that he used to wear that grandma knitted for him – it was about 2 inches wide and about 2 foot long (the bear was only about 8inches tall), so it was wrapped around his neck very many times.
Tinkerbell was a squirrel – so called as she had a red ribbon with a bell on around her neck (don’t think it would be allowed these days – choking hazard or similar) – anyway, I survived. However, later in life I used to look at my squirrel and realised that it could probably be, in fact it probably was, a cat! ( I know, difficult to imagine how you could get the 2 confused – if I ever unearth Tinkerbell I will put up a picture and let you decide – haven’t seen her for many years though, so she could have got misplaced somewhere along the way)
My favourite cuddly toy was a cuddly dog that I called Scamper. 30 year later he still has pride of place on (and in!) my bed, much to the bemusement of my boyfriend!
I am probably the only one here who does not remember anything about my toys. I do remember I loved books from a very tender age, but toys- I cannot remember anything!
Mine was a Care Bear!
awh i had a gloworm as a child, i loved her!. i remeber she made me feel sfae, my faverite cuddly toy was a dog, my mum gave me and said ‘when eve rimiss her or want a hug when shes not around to cuddle the doggy.. Doggy has pride of place on my bedside table to this day!.. id love to give this gloworm to My niece and would hope she loves it as much as i loved mine 🙂
I don’t remember having any cuddly toys but do remember i had a square of sheet i would never be without and hated when mum washed it.
When my son was small i bought him a gorilla from a zoo in Tenerife so as you can imagine when it fell to bits it was very hard to replace and he would not have a different one, when i managed to find one similar i stocked up and bout 3 so i could swap them over without him knowing. he only found out last year as i have kept the last one and i told his girlfriend the story and she spilled the beans .. even at 20 he sulked!
My fave was my chic a boo. My mum threw him out when a his stuffing fell into his legs and I never forgave her for it! She even bought me a similar monkey typoe teddy years later but it was never the same 🙁
Loopy Lou from Andy Pandy – think she still in my mum’s loft
I had a brown bear who had no name. I dropped him over my nans fence one day and sobbed my heart out, but she went round to the peoples house and got him back for me. I still have him to this day, although he’s a bit thread bare (or should that be thread bear?? sorry)
@Joanne Flanagan ~ yes!! I had a puffalump for my 18th birthday!!!! Still got it and my daughter plays with it.
My favorite toy was the Womble Madame Cholet, when I was five years old I went missing on wimbledon common for 2 hours with my little friends looking for the wombles and my mum was beside herself as you can imagine. We laugh about it now but I must have really scared her at the time, sorry mum.
I had (and still have) a yellow teddy with a shiney black nose and a squeak that works when it wants to. My nanna made this for me when I was born and I love it more now as it brings lovley memories flooding back.
I had a grey teddy bear called Paul. I don’t know why he was called Paul but I played with him all the time and learnt to sew making clothes for him when I was about 10. He is very battered looking now
A teddy that belonged to my mum. Very threadbare and tatty and not at all cuddly, it had jointed arms and legs. Cannot remember what happened to it!
My favourite soft toy (and I still have her and she sits on a chair in my bedroom) was a cuddly panda bear style soft toy with a red ribbon around her neck. I couldn’t say Panda when I was very small so I called her Pandarer! And to this day, she is still called Panderer!
Dylon the rabbit! Hes still knocking around 30 years on , a bit less colour & a bit more scruffy!
Hi, i had a cloth doll with wild pink wool hair! I called her Fifi .. she had clothes on but they didn’t come off which i remember i was cross about as I used to take her to bed with me & ‘she should have been in her pyjamas’ like i was!!
I never had a teddy bear until my Nan bought me one when i was about 14 .. i still have the bear on my bedside table but i don’t know what became of Fifi!
my favorite cuddly toy was a blue and white teddy type thing with a dolls face i called her bunty and she came everywhere with me. i remember one christmas when i was about 5 we went to my nans for the christmas holidays and i forgot to take my bunty and i cried and cried my heart out and in the end my dad drove 100 miles back home to get her for me!! i really do have the best dad in the world!!
my favorite toys were my barbies
I had a teddy bear that my gran bought me when I was born. She named him Barney and although he looks pretty threadbare now, with loose limbs and an almost invisible face I still have him sitting on a chair in my bedroom – I’m 50!!!
My fave cuddly toy was a dolly my granny knitted me called annie, my daughter has her now.
A handmade teddy, a relative made him for me when I was born, I still have him, dispite a terrible accident where he got burnt in the tumble dryer!
I had 5 best friends, all of whom slept with me in a single bed. 3 teddy bears, one doll and a toy dog. Not much room left for me!
I was given a teddy when I was born 4 weeks early. I still have it now. It’s a little brown teddy with a pink tummy. I have slept with it on my bed since I was little and it means the world to me as it was my first ever present that looked over me while I was in hospital as a new born
My godmother gave me a cuddly dog pyjama case when I was about 4, I never used it for my pyjamas, though I occasionally hid my blankey in the little compartment, and sometimes couldnt remember where I’d left it!
Mine was my Charlie Chimp monkey I took him everywhere!
Aaaawww my fav was always ‘big Ted’ I still have him now and you can tell he’s been well loved with all the operations he has had (lots of thread showing where seams needed mended). Even though I loved my dolls and all things Pink, Ted is Grey.
My favourite cuddly toy was my Care Bear – Baby Tugs Bear, a little blue bear in a nappy! I have to admit I still have him hid away in a rather sorry state somewhere in the garage 😀
When I was litle I had a little fabric doll that I named “lollypops” and she was dragged everywhere with me from my parents bed to nursery school. I couldn’t sleep with out her. Last year when moving house after getting married, I emptied a box and there was Lollypops who now lives in my forever memory box.
I had a rag doll called Jemimah who was similar to the one that was on Playschool in the 70’s.
I loved her little blue checked dress and brown wool hair. I never did find out what happened to it…..cries….
Mine was a care bear called Bedtime bear, who I still have today!
I had a brown bunny rabbit pyjama case with floppy ears called Soona, no idea why she was called that. I remember I used to pretend to feed her then I would stuff the belly with clothes or PJ’s so she looked full and happy. I used to keep ribbons and christmas bows and tie them around her ears like hair bobbles. And she was the only cuddly toy I had on my bed all of the rest weren’t as impotant and were only on the floor or wardrobe. I got her as a present for my 1st birthday and still have her, saving for my granddaughter due in Feb !!
Mine was a hand made bear I called Kevin I still have him to this day and my son loves playing with me even if he is looking a little worse for wear
I didn’t have a favourite toy, but would not go to bed…or anywhere infact…without my “sucky blanket” lol
My favourite toy was my blue teddy called Andy, named after CBBC presenter Andy Crane when I was 2!
My favourite toy was a teddy bear with a little stripey jumper – he was quite old but much loved!
Mine was a regular looking teddy called “ted” appropriately, he was bought for my brother when he was born, i was 2ish but he didnt want him and i did, subsequently i had a sheep that he liked so it was a fair exchange!! We still have both now, although a but threadbare but much loved!!!
My favourite cuddly toy was a Care Bear – sunshine bear I seem to recall (the yellow one). I loved my care bears
Mine was a panda bear and it was passed onto my sister and now her children
when i was younger i had a huge bugs bunny in my bed that i use to sleep with every night he was the same lengh as my bed and my mum use to say half the time she came in i was lying on top of him,i really miss my bugys x
Lady (the plush doggy from Lady & the Tramp)! My Aunt sent her over from America and I loved her so much… after a hair cut (from my brother) and lots of washing and hugging she looked a little less Lady-like but up until the age of 7 I took her everywhere with me. She was lovingly restuffed twice and lost an eye along the way, but still has a place in my daughters heart… she is sat at the end of her cot as I type x
My favourite is a white (well more grey now) teddy called Rosie. My Dad bought her for me on the day I was born, so she’s now 37yrs old. I have recently passed her on to my Daughter as my Daughter lost her favourite cuddly when we were out on her birthday last year, my little girl was heart broken and couldn’t get to sleep so in the end I gave her Rosie on the condition she doesn’t take her out.side.
gidders1 twitter. It was my Emu. It was a huge hand puppet, but it was kinda cuddly, and I loved it. x
I have a teddy bear (a dog) Called Ted. He is older than me. My mum got him for me before I was even born. He is 30years old now and sits in my office on top of my bookcase with the rest of my teddy collection. He has been re stuffed and repaired many a time, and is still marked in pen with my name from when I was 12 and went on a school trip.
My little Panda I had since I was very very small
I had a little cat funnily called “Puss”. I still have her to this day. She is in my loft and wrapped up carefully. Not in great condition but I still treasure her.
A little yellow bear with brown ears which I chewed to smithereens!
Teddy Ruxpin
Sooty!!!!!!
Mine was a green sprite from Rainbow Brite! Cant remember its name! xx
I loved care bears I was always so jealous of my friends as they had so many!!
My favourite cuddly toy when little was my puffalump which I stil have today and sit’s nicely on the bottom of my bed! Also loved all my carebears when little….oh them were the days…wish I cud go back!!!