Stuffed Animals? - Roseville,CA

when my, now 18 yr old, daughter got too many I made a device to hold them. I attached long ribbons to the ceiling in the 4 corners of her room. A bow at the top and a bow at the bottom. I tied clothes pins 1 foot apart all the way down the ribbon. Then I clipped the animals to the ribbon with the clothes pins. They looked super cute hanging there and if she really wanted one in particular, I could just open the clothes pin and take it down.

I hate stuffed animals. I throw them out every chance I get. I never feel bad either or worry about who bought them..heartless I know. You could buy one of those hammock things people hang up from the cieling in the corner or you could buy a big bin or basket that goes with his room to put them in.

I actually bought a shelving unit to put them on....these were MY stuffed animals, not the kids...

We also bought a hammock to keep them up off the floor...

good luck!!

gah, my boys have a lot of "buddies" too. They just stay on their beds. Somehow my boys are able to sleep with or on top of them...and really they both have about 25 buddies EACH! They get played with all the time! My soon to be 9 year old will probably get rid of his in the next coming years so I just let them be for now.
Your son doesn't play with them?! If they weren't getting played with they would be donated. But, alas, my kids play with them every single day.
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I hate stuffed animals!!! My girls keep getting them for gifts and don't actually play with them. We're going to do a toy overhaul as soon as school is done next week and my plan for the stuffies is this: I'll take out the sentimental ones and store them away. Then they can each pick 4 or 5 that they want to keep and they'll go on a shelf. The rest are being donated.

IF you want to keep then all, there are toy hammocks you can buy (or just drap a large scarf in the corner, shelves.

Maybe do a shelf all around the perimeter of his room 18 inches from the ceiling - that might be a cool place for him to display all kinds of things.

My sister took a large roll from the center of a roll of carpet, cut it to fit when wedged in the corner of her daughters room,covered it with remnants of carpet by just using a rounded needle to hook it together, put hooks in it, hung the stuffed animals on it.

The effect was pretty cute! She had a clean room and the hooks were the small ones from drapes and they were flimsy enough they didn't hurt if the girl fell on them.

Yeah at Walmart and probably target you can buy a little net that sits in the top corner of a room, keeps them out of the way, and cut, we also put up a plain white shelf that we put above the window, and it displays animals and collectable barbies

I put up white shelves (the cheaper ones designed for laundry rooms) along the top of one of the walls in each of the girls rooms.

When they were younger I used one of those toy hammock things.

IKEA has these net tubes that hang on the ceiling that you can use to display and they also have the big nets that you drape in the corner of the ceiling and put all of the lovely animals inside. Keeps the room nice with less clutter. You will just have to take them down periodically to dust them off.

Every now and then we go through the stuffed animals and donate the ones we no longer want. We currently have a storage bin that is serving as a toy box for all the stuffed animals, You could get a decorative toy box, or as someone else suggested the toy hammock, or even put up some shelves and display them that way.

All my kids have those stuffie hammocks. THey are at Walmart, ToysRUs, Target. Most of the stuffies fit up in the hammocks, then the rest live on the beds.

My son has a toy box in his closet for stuffed animals and my daughter has a small mesh hamper that holds hers. They only can keep enough that fit in those holders. If they get more, then they have to get rid of an older one. The biggest thing is to downsize. I think my kids maybe have about 10 each. And frankly, I'd like to to be more like 4!!! :o)

Mine has them in a toy box AND a bin in his closet....accessible but out of sight--just how I like them! LOL

Ours go into a collapsible mesh laundry hamper. There are some cute kids hampers too.

If you have too many, you may throw away the ones not played with often, so they fit in a single hamper.

We do not have a lot of them but I do like the corner nets and hooks around the room to display them from. You could put up shelves to display things like collectables and books etc and under them put hooks and the ones that have bows, collars etc on their neck use those to hang/display them and allow the favs to be on the bed!

I did a version of a Zoo Cage but without the bars. I would like to change mine though. It's made out of utility shelves that you would use in a garage. I would prefer to paint it white and then possibly use bungee cords for the bars. See below if you would prefer to buy one but I think you can find a site on how to make them too. Very cute idea.

http://www.littlezookeepers.com/

We didn't go the hammock route because I was worried my daughter would try to climb into it getting out animals. So instead, I got a few canvas bins/hampers online from Land Of Nod (landofnod.com). They're not too expensive and hold a ton of animals. There's one in particular that's huge -- called the "I Think I Canvas Mega Sorter" -- it takes up some space in the corner of the room, but it holds the majority of my daughter's stuffed army! We also have the "I Think I Canvas Hamper" -- very nice, smaller around and taller, but still holds a lot. And we have a "Strapping Floor Bin" which is very cool -- looks rigid like a basket but is actually bendy and very sturdy. Not super big, but big enough to hold our doll collection (which is much smaller than the stuffed animal collection). Just some ideas. Hope it helps!

My grandfather made a pole that went from the floor to the ceiling. It had spokes all around it. You could then hang by some string or something.

My daughter had a hammock for hers. She moved out 5 yrs ago I still have the hammock in the corner of the room. It's going soon!! :-)

We only keep the animals my kids actually play with. If they don't get used, they get donated. That helps, except with my daughter. She adores and plays with every stuffed animal and baby doll she sees. For my son we bought a hammock. It fits in the corner over his bed. The animals were off the floor, out of the way and still accesible for my son. And you can arrange them to look cute and on display when you want. For my daughter I couldn't find one in the stores and I didn't want to order it online. So I made a hammock out of an old sheet and some zip ties. Which worked out much better. She has more animals and I was able to make it deeper for more critters.

My son loves them. Currently we have every rendition of Buzz, Woody and the rest of the Round up gang all in stuffed form among an entire jungle of animals as well. Plus...all the Sesame Street Characters...he gets to have the at the moment favorites on his bed ( I have long since questioned how he manages to sleep) We have one tote that we use to toss strays in, and we bought one of those cheap white plastic shelving units that you put together yourself and line the shelves with the left overs. I tell myself he will out grow them soon enough. They do get washed, and so far we have not had any fall apart. Although since the weather has turned warm I rarely dry them in the dryer any more. For years my daughter had a pet net, that won't work with Alex...he wants his animals and "friends" accessible.

I'd get the corner hanging hamock.

put some shelving up a little higher on the wall and sit them up there....i dont now how old your child is but I wouldnt put the shelving at a point where the child can climb up and hang off it or anything.....then just rotate the stuffed animals a few at a time - that way he wont get sick of them all either