Help help I am surrounded by animal,eagle, pig, chicken,elephant, and dodo bird,

I do not understand why they would give you a bad time for having the babies on your headboard. I had an adult disabled client whose dad built a floor to ceiling post with hooks all around all four sides, every few inches and she has it covered with beanies.

That's a really good idea. I think they don't like having ti deal with them if they have to make the bed and so forth. If she had a cabinet to put them in so she could admire them behind glass that would be nice too.

hi garden and moon you should see the size of my bureau I am only five ft two inchs and I b et I could lie down atop the thing and just fit.' itis huge.So I have a lot of space to put my beanies. OH the beanies atop myhead board did have a tendancy to fall off if they jiggled my bed. I have to laugh watching Alex waho did not like my beanies as he really does not know how to make a decent bed, most of the time he has sheets and bed spreads dragging on the floor on one side or other of the bed.I tried to make my own bed and raised all sorts of guss. you pay for this let them do their work blah blah. well wi sh they wou ld do it right then. lol.

hi Kashmeresmycat. he or she is sure a c utie.Yes I think the same way and I will proba bly add a couple every so ofte. They do make me happy and I realize that Mike David when he helped my son to bring some of mygthings here was thinking I needed something familar as just having to live here was a real sch ocker to me. I have a lovely' cherub doll with wings that Jessie gave me one year for my birthday. yes they are my friends. lol

Hi Hatley! Thank you so much for BR! I haven't been around lately so I really need to get myself over there and say hi to everyone! I hope you're doing just plain wonderful..hugs!

you are welcome kashmeres I am doing great now, down to one pain pill a day and had to give in tonight asits raining and c old and damp and that made my knee hurt.but the pain level is down to a 3 not up to an 8 as it was when I first got back here from the hospital.

hi wow four months I spent one month in a rehab nursing thingy and it was dreadful. I had to share the room with a poor old lady who was senile and refused to eat. I sure would have given anything for something to cheer me up. I was only there for rehabbing my bionic shoulder joint. I had had a bad fall and the bones were crumbled and could not be set. My son and his friend brought these out of storage for me qnd at first I thought well thats the last thing I need then I came to enjoy them as it felt more like home then.So they really do please me a lot. of course I would love to be back in andapartment with my son but so far he has only a part time job so he cannot afford that apt. yet. heck its better for me to be here than homeless on the street.In a way I get a lot for my money as they change my bedding , make my bed each day clean the floor and do my laundry.I get three meals a day plus a snack if I want. the food is not always what I would like but it is food. they take most of my ssi and social security checks but I get one hundred twenty five dollars each month for personal things I need plus I am able to pay my cable bill from most of my mylot earnings I was making two dollars a day when in my own apartment but I often did not go to bed til 2 am. here since we are woke at 6 am I go to bed at ten. lol still make twice minimum so it does help a lot plus I enjoy being on here too. lol So really I could be in a worse situation.

hi ElicBxn I even have an alligator b ut its in storage.I mean a stuffed toy alligator. my husband when we lived in Arizona wanted a live baby alligator and I said no way not at all.So he found this stuffed toly alligato that was green and yellow and gaveit tome for my birthday lol No mine are all not moving . I know I have a lot but still have some I would like to get. Our Rite aide store now carries them.

Carmelanirel - I thought the same thing!!! Too funny!

hi my g thanks you towo for making me almost dump a glass of water on my keyboard.no they sure are not alive. My son a very science oriented person said how do they know what the heck a dodo bird looks like. I just said oh rack it up to poetic justice, and imagination.He came up with the idea of putting most of them on top of my bureau now I have my old desk back and have mycomputer and monitor on it.[

Hope you don't have your water for this one Hatley. I may not know how they really looked, but when I read "dodo" I remembered in the movie Ice Age when Sid, Diego, and Manny played keep away with the watermelons from the dodo birds...

hi hardworking thats what makes me keep so many as a story goes with some of them. a young man well young to me here as given me three differnet things a cherub doll and two different bears. My stuffed toy Koala bear was a gift from my husband and my stuffed toy alligator also was a gift from him.My beanie moose is now a collectors item as its no longer made and if push comes to shove I maysell it but not likelas it and my snail and my duck are also given me br the manger of our libray.So they may be worth some money but I love them for who gave them to me.

You are working a lot here, so I hope you will get enough for the bill.. Well, better keep the beanie babies as long as you need to have them around..

hi buenavida I try but it comes to just about half to three quarters of the bill. time Warner has a nasty little way or raising the price each Jan by two dollars. started out at 36 dollars a month now up to 40.99 which in my eyes means 41 dollars lol lol yes I still love my beanie babies lol

hi buenavida I know but I really hate to part with any of them and am even thinking of adding but we shall see.Right now I am trying to mylot enough this month to pay more on my cable internet bill lol.

hi Gardem Gertie I got started just from a snail and a duck that children had left in the library and were in our lost and found. we have sign that says any stuff in lost and found will be held ninety days after that we will dispose of it. So I got my manager to le me have the snail and the duck oh also a moose. My moose now is worth some money but I am not going to sell it yet anyway. from there I just kept adding to it, and of course I never dreamed for a moment I would end up in a place like this so I had a lot of room in my bedroom in our apartment to display my collection. then here I won two bunnies at bingo and four bears as Christmas gifts and one bear for my birthday. Now I am running out of room. lol Our childrens librarian used a puppet named Peter Bunny in telling stories in the kid 's story hour. They really got to' love that bunny too.Also Salvation Army every year here at Christmas gives each resident a praying bear with the tag Salvation Army on it plus gifts of small travel accessoris too. really a sort of nice thing for them to do. Also the council on aging send me a huge handbag but the thing is so ugly I hate to use it.So its stuck in a bureau drawer . I realize its the feeling that counts but for some women they wish to select their own handbags. Its a personal thing.

Yeah hopefully, 8 months more to wait but I felt the days passing very slow. I am so excited to go home. I started collecting stuff already for my family.

hi julyteen I hope then that the 8 months really fly by as it must have been hard operated from your family like that, I can well Maine you are really excited by the idea of finally going home and seeing your family again. good Luck God Bless.

hi julyteen So you will be going back home next year and I b et yo you can hardly wait. I can see you and your wife and all your lovely collections of things,.Yes it is nice to stare and watch my collection while I sit here typing. good luck and hope the time will pass fast for you then you can see your family again and be home. hugs from hatley.

hidweeb I am s o sorry its taken me all this time tol get back to this discussion oh yes my dodo bird is really funny as hes yellow and green speckled with a big yellow beak and sad looking eyes.lol I have several more I would love to get lol lol lol.

zweeb82h just thinking my son is 52 and had a collection of matchbook cars, I wonder is they are stiall in storage and if they now have any value. or if he did keep them. He had them as a kid so dont know if he did onr not. I know our stuff is all still in storage til my son gets a fu ll time job and we could again live in an apartment.

It's alright as I've been away for quite a while too, haha!~Yours is definitely one of a kind dodo bird, haha!~It seems that now my son has started his collection, haha!~

hi antiquelady I cannot believe I have missed these two pages of responses 7 months hot evening in Aug 20 11 and have the air conditioner going full tilt. I still have my beanie baby collection and love looking at it, reminds me of better days too, Hope we now have some new better days ahead.

hi aunty yep me too so I dust mine so the care givers will not have to mess with them I hope at least. lol.

I love all my collections to except when they all need cleaning, lol.

hi quita I made a squawk and they let me put all my collection on my large bureau. I save one spot for my son's laptop when he comes to visit me. I scowled then bawled and they gave in so guess bawling at times does work lol.I told them I was tried of being shoved around and of having my stuff moved and pawed through and got furious with them so they agreed to my collecton being together where I can see it. lol lol

hiquita oh yes I talked to my son and he told me what you told me and I think he did talk to someone because they have left me alone about my collection and thats good as far as I am concerned. I would so love to get out of here one day.

Good going ! Squawk all you need or want to. I'm telling you , you still rights and privileges just like the rest of the world does and your thing are important to you. Bawl too if it works ! I do here too and hubby gets all confused and I do get my way LOL Just because you live in a care center makes not difference. It's still your home and your palace. You deserve better treatment than you are getting. Have you told your son these things? I would say, he would be very unhappy if he knew they were trying to get your things moved. You go girl ! Take up for yourself and if it gets worse, do like I said before and report them to the administration... Hang in there tho. hugs, quita

hi velvet I was tempted to collect piggy banks as I have seen some unusual ones but decided to just have one collection.' Oh yes I also have a basket collection but they are actually being used for practical storage.

hi velvet 7 months later wow I still have my beanie baby collection.Most of my basket collection is stuffed in our closet as the housekeeping crew moved us from one room to another and since that did not give a fly ng fig about our stuff they just dumped it in the closet helter skelter.oh how i wish I could win that publishers clearing house sweepstake i would move out of here int a flash. but the odds of that happening are astronomical lol lol lol

I used to collect dolls, wooden boxes and banks, angels, and knives. I do still have some of the angels. The knives I definitely still have as some of the boxes and banks. I am not living in as big of a place so I had to down size.

hi raj7shot yes I love my toy animal beanie babies and I take good care of them. I won the battle with housekeeping with shouting, talking and finally bawling. they agreed with me and now leave me alone about them thank Goodness. thanks

hi gabs I cannot believe I had missed these responses for 7 months anyway I am getting caught up. I love your dolls too and sp ecially my little man in the doggie suit Gissie.here it is Aug 2011 already and I am having pains in my knee tonight but I hope it will fade away. hugs from hatley

hi cats I have the yellow praying rabbit and the duck and the kangaroo.actually i gave the kangaroo to my roomie but she gave it back as she wanted agrey cat beanie baby I had so we swapped. I am l ucky they agreed to let me have my collection on top of my bureau. now I am totally happy about that.

hi paula I finally won out as I pointed out its my room and I want it not to feel so much like a prison so they agreed I can have my beanie baby collection on top of my huge bureau. case closed as its a bit of my old life and keeps me happy for awhile.

hi dorannmwin I can imagine they are beautiful I have a beanie baby dolphin and hes adorable too. I had my collection on top the mantel when we were still in our apartment. I really miss the advantages of living in an apartment with my hours my own and nobody saying aye or nay to me. Iwish my son would really get a full time great pay ing jo as he only has a part time job yet., this economy is still just horrible and our president does not seem to give a damn.

hi bounce I had it out with housekeeping and finally won the battle. they agreed its my room and I have a right to display my beanie baby collection on top of my huge bureau as its not hurting a soul here.