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   Shikamoo said, 3 months ago

   It will never be the same………

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   Wildmustang1262 said, 3 months ago

   Oh for Pete’s sake! Lizzie, get a life! The stuffed rabbit will always keep clean and fresh after it washes. Sighhhhh!

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   ejcapulet said, 3 months ago

   My daughter has a favorite stuffed bunny, too, I realized that it was going to wear out; I bought an identical one so she has one to carry around while the other is in the wash (she can’t tell the difference).

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   lightenup said, 3 months ago

   It just doesn’t have the same loved-in smell.

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   legaleagle48 said, 3 months ago

   Wildmustang, Lizzie is only 18 months old. Isn’t she a little young for you to be telling her to “get a life”?

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   Lewreader said, 3 months ago

   Once in the Marines I washed the coffee pot. I heard about it for months

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   rdh288 said, 3 months ago

   NOOOOOO!!! NOT THE BUNNY!!!!

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   Macushlalondra said, 3 months ago

   It’s always a black day for Calvin when Hobbes is put in the washing machine. And a black letter day for Hobbes. And doesn’t Linus have the same reaction when his blanket is in the wash?

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   youneedhelp said, 3 months ago

   Please stop talking to talking to cartoon characters.

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    kfaatz925 said, 3 months ago

    @ Macushalondra - I’m pretty sure Linus does, but only till it comes out of the dryer (seem to remember a ’50s strip with Linus in “withdrawal” and Lucy running into his room with updates on the wash status.) OK, I’m a Peanuts nerd. ;)

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    TumblersBlue said, 3 months ago

    Apparently when I was around Lizzie’s age, I put a dent in the washing machine by kicking it after Mum put my teddy in the washing machine. Wild Mustang, if you think a TODDLER needs to “get a life”. then I would suggest you have a good look at your own! Sheesh!!

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    3hourtour said, 3 months ago

    ..we did the same thing to my son’s favorite hat..oppsie…

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    rricchhterr said, 3 months ago

    reader, what’s the story about the coffee pot??

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    Allan Claus said, 3 months ago

    wow so many of The Crew here as well!

    Poor Lizzie, she’ll never forgive her mom now …

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    sugie63 said, 3 months ago

    My son had a “blanket”. When I washed it he would hug the washer and drier till it was done.

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    catlady1 said, 3 months ago

    I had identical stuffed pandas when I was little, and I was never without one or both of them. They went to college with me and graced my bed in my first apartment. I can remember a few traumatic times when my mother absolutely had to wash them. Lizzie will recover when Bunny begins to look well-loved again.

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    omegasupreme said, 3 months ago

    I can tell you what the deal is with the coffee pot. I used to be in law enforcement and the rule was you never ever wash the pot. It takes along time to season the pot to get that good strong coffee taste its also bad luck to wash it.

    when a rookie washes the pot he/she has broken the cardinal rule and that is of course not to wash it. The poor soul who washes it gets greif that the coffee taste bad for ever or until it is finally broken back in

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    omegasupreme said, 3 months ago

    well unless the families Name is Borden ( i know its patterson) I dont think mom and dad have much to worry about Lizzies temper tantrum over Mr. B

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    OakDragon said, 3 months ago

    Omegasupreme, Elizabeth Borden was actually acquitted of the murders. My first wife’s family lived near Fall River MA and her grandmother had met Elizabeth Borden.

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    howtheduck said, 3 months ago

    Elly is normally sympathetic to her crying children, unless they attack her where she lives — her cleaning. You don’t dare complain about Elly’s cleaning.

    By the way, I wonder if Lynn Johnston drew Elly’s neck after watching E.T.

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    snakemama said, 3 months ago

    My sister had a stuffed dog when she was a kid. She took it everywhere, went through terrible withdrawal when it was in the wash.

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    Doctor Toon said, 3 months ago

    My son was a nut for penguins, and the Care Bear Penguin was his favorite.
    I think we went through four of them.

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    prasrinivara said, 3 months ago

    So snakemama, your sister modelled herself on Linus and his blanket? (except for the substitution of her stuffed dog for the blanket–there are a few strips of Linus going through W/D until his just-dried blanket is dropped on him by Lucy).

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    Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago

    lighenup - loved in - that’s a nice turn of phrase.

    Lewreader re: coffee pot - same thing in my old work place with the tea pot. The receptionist, new on the job, washed the boss’s teapot. We still talked about it years later. (she barely managed to keep her job).

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    comixavier said, 3 months ago

    I believe we were all like that when at Elizabeth’s age; upset that our mother washed our favorite stuffed animal (or blanket, shirt, what have you).

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    somebodyshort said, 3 months ago

    I’m almost sixty and miss my teddy

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    somebodyshort said, 3 months ago

    I think Elly’s neck has a shadow from her hair across it. Sure looks like ET

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    ireg said, 3 months ago

    I had to deal with kids who were TOOOO attached to various objects. It was a pain.

    My son had two soft “boys” (dolls) Bob and Tom. He loved them and took them all over our large property. They “hunted” in the woods and “fished” in the puddles. He did not have to sleep with them or know where they were at all times.

    His wife wants me to find them so he will quite giving her a hard time about her teddy bear on their bed.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

    These are reruns of the original strip. Elizabeth is all grown up now and has a life of her own as a teacher.

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    caddy.1957 said, 3 months ago

    Here’s a good “coffee” Story…when I was in telemarketing I would go in early and make coffee for the day crew…until I got the shaft on supplying coffee…I started carrying a thermos of coffee from home. Well one ditzy blonde that worked there decided to “make coffee” one day …filled the basket to the top poured thw water in turned it on and flooded the counter.
    Management came to me said clean up YOUR coffee pot mess in the breakroom….I will never forget the look on the managers face when I pullled MY thermos from under my desk and said “it wasn’t me….this is my coffee”

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    VancouverRaven said, 3 months ago

    My son also has a favourite stuffed bunny. He doesn’t mind the end result of it being washed so much as the fact we have to let it air dry, which takes upwards of two days.

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    summerdog said, 3 months ago

    I was sneakier with my kid’s favorites. All washable and dryable. I used to do it after they had gone to sleep; slip the item out of their beds; wash and dry them and slip them right back in. Painless.

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    omegasupreme said, 3 months ago

    yep knows Ms Borden was aquitted of murder. also know she had to flee her old home and move to her house ravenkroft If I remember rightly. There she lived with her sister until she died. The Borden House is still privately owned but also a museme in Mass. I have toured it alot smaller than it seems for a man of Bordens standing.

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    4deerinmyyard said, 3 months ago

    Summerdog wins for smarts.

    My little brother’s teddy bear was nowhere to be found after arriving at our aunt’s house one summer. Trauma and drama ensued. Our parents were seriously considering leaving us with our aunt, driving back to Kansas City, then slowly retracing the route with Mom leaning out the window to scan the highway shoulder–when the missing hero was found wedged down between back seat and car door.

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    amongthestars said, 3 months ago

    Actually LIzzie Borden wasn’t an Elizabeth too, she was christened LIzzie. (Which may have been enough to provoke her to mayhem?)

    I’m delighted that my youngest daughter has just started pre-school, now I can pop favourite toys in the wash as soon as I come home from dropping her off, and have them innocently clean, dry and back in place before she comes home :)

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    hildigunnur said, 3 months ago

    Up here it is considered sacrilege to wash the pancake pans - they take ages to break in (Icelandic pancakes are smallish crépes, really, baked very thin and then traditionally filled with jam and whipped cream, or rolled up with sugar), just wipe the pan and stuff it back into the cupboard. My parents loaned their house out to some English people, they of course didn’t know, used the pan to fry eggs or something, and then washed. My mother almost cried when she next tried to make pancakes…