Sympathy Purchases

[TheMinorityof1990]

Are you going to keep her?

[Rider of the storm]

I want to keep her but I would love to have some one show me how to restore her.

[Rachel-Eyes]

On my birthday I found a little plastic army man in the parking lot at Big Lots. Granted, he will probably end up at Goodwill, but I couldn't just leave the poor fellow all alone back there. 

[Miss Katherine]

I've made a couple of notable sympathy "rescues":

While at an elderly family friend's house, I found a plush "Sunny Bunny" promotional hand puppet for Tupperware (I'm guessing they had a mascot at some point) and a pretty fairy rabbit plush with a taffeta dress and turquoise wings on the floor in a spare bedroom. Both bunnies' fur was smudged in several places with a faded reddish brown, and the woman said her grandchildren had probably once marked all over them with what she believed was lipstick. This was probably about six or seven years ago, and I still have them both after restoring them. The fairy rabbit, "Glory," is probably even one of my very favorite plushes!

I also have a Tails (from Sonic the Hedgehog) spinner/launcher from a Happy Meal that I found in a box of yard sale leftovers at my church. About half of his body sticker had been peeled off and he was missing the launcher base entirely.

[TheMinorityof1990]

I used to a taxi to school, and the driver once stopped on the way to school to pick up this little plushie dog lying at the side of the road. He gave him to me. I think I stil have him somewhere. It's been years since I've seen some of my toys.

[TheMinorityof1990]

I found a little mcdonalds toy in the courtyard of a church the other week. He's standing on my chest of drawers at the moment with a couple of other small finds.

[invaderhorizongreen]

I recently bought a gen 1 mlp off of a site called blujay, and it was the pony magic hat , she is badly needs a new tail and a few mane plugs though. I will say the inside is very clean and she is now white again instead of being a dingy grey, and the mane is perfect, however the tail was only a tiny bob of a tail.  I took the old tail out and have a new one on the way.