Cat owner solicits a 90s My Little Pony doll for her kitty whose old pony was destroyed, finds the perfect new friend on Facebook Marketplace: ‘He will groom them and carry them around with absolute pride’

Pets love the darndest things. I’ve had pets who were obsessed with digging used menstrual products out of the trash and bringing them into the backyard, as well as others who only wanted to play with classic dog products like ham bones and squeaky toys. Pets do not care that you don’t want them to …
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Dad stalls on giving back Lego figurines to brother’s teenage kids after his 8-year-old son takes them, faces payback: ‘I saw him for coffee and I reminded him that I wanted all our stuff back’

It’s fair to say that some people have a very liberal idea of what constitutes ‘borrowing’. They are a little too comfortable with the idea of taking and not giving back. This is the kind of behavior you may grow to expect from a flaky, so-called friend, but sometimes it stings even worse when a …
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Mom insists 11-year-old is ‘too old’ for plushies and plans on giving them to younger relatives, daughter starts sneaking her toys to her step-mom’s house: ‘My kids are older, and I don’t force them to give away their plushies’

Leaving childish things behind has long been an expected part of growing up. However, it is something that everybody has to do on their own timeline—and it’s not like it’s a necessity to leave everything in childhood. Still, some parents can be pretty strict about wanting their kids to move to the next stage of …
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Millennial parents bemoan the decline in McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys for their Gen Alpha kids: ‘My kid just got a «toy» that was a collection of interlocking cardboard strips and a QR code’

There are some Happy Meal toys you will never forget. When the movie Cars came out, I vividly remember getting a girl car toy at my local McDonald’s. It wasn’t even the main girl car in the movie (this one was mint instead of blue), but something about the toy was so mesmerizing and fun. I could …
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25+ 90s Memes to Remind You to Feed Your Tamagotchi

Ah, the 90s. A time for dial-up internet, AOL chatrooms, getting way too into flannel, and hurting your ankle with a Skip-It. A time when many of us were kids. And things tend to seem simpler back when you didn’t have a job or a mortgage or an addiction to YouTube shorts. No, the only …
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27 Throwback Toys That’ll Make Every 90s Kid Feel Young Again

For the elder millennials who fondly remember dial-up noises and begging our parents for the latest neon monstrosity, here’s a journey through 27 nostalgic toys that’ll take you right back to when Tamagotchi deaths were a daily tragedy. Who could forget Furbys, those little gremlins that’d say things like «me hungry» and «me love you»? …
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‘This bear is cute, you’re just a hater’: Mom refuses to buy her 2-year-old daughter a $15 rainbow bear from Build a Bear, claims it doesn’t fit with her muted aesthetic

As a parent, you often must sacrifice your aesthetic wishes for at least the first couple of years of your baby’s life. That’s when you can easily control the clothes they wear, but when it comes to toys and accessories, products tend to veer into tacky territory sooner rather than later. If the aesthetic of …
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‘The rules don’t apply to me’: Hotel Staff Remove a Guest Who Showed Up at the ‘No Kids’ Pool With Her Child, Ignoring Hotel Policy

Some people are under the impression that the rules don’t apply to them, especially at hotels. One person described their experience at a ‘no kids’ hotel pool area they were at. Another guest had showed up with her kid in tow, and the kid was playing with Star Wars toys which he happily spread around, …
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Nostalgic 2000s Kids Memes For True Gen Zers Who Don’t Remember The 90s

I am willing to admit I harbor nostalgia for the 2000s. It’s only natural for someone to look at the decade where they were under 12 years old for the whole of it with some rose-colored glasses. I’m aware that for most adults, the 2000s were not the most peaceful and fun time of their …
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‘GOOD HUMAN ALERT’: Kindhearted commuter discovers a long-lost plushie on the train tracks; rescues, refurbishes, and reunites the toy with the child who lost it

Every kid has a favorite toy growing up. Whatever toy that kid has decided to latch onto– whether it’s a football, a plushie cow, a doll, a Lego set, or just a silly, crooked spatula –you better believe that that toy will be glued to the hip of that little kid for as long as …
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