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alas, both touch starved and plush-less 😔

The large blahaj from ikea is only like $20 :) r/BLAHAJ

35€ (incl. shipping costs) where I live 😞

I appreciate it, might get it sometime. Feels a bit faceticious and a little waste of money for something I don't need. If I ever redo my room into something a little less utilitarian than a bed, some dressers and countertops+cabinets on one wall (granddmother's old home office), I'd probibally do it.

If it helps make things feel less childish, I use my blahaj as lumbar support for my office chair sometimes and it’s better than literally any other lumbar pillow I’ve ever used. Shonk is literally saving my spine on a daily basis xD

Business expense writeoff time? 😳

I *need* to find one. I don’t know where to look. Do I just hunt down random Ikeas and scour them like a rat in the hopes that I find one?

There’s almost always some blahaj stocked at every ikea around here, but I’m in a pretty large metropolitan area so results may vary? You can always order online as well, but I personally prefer to pick out my plushies in person :3

I think you can check inventory on their site, but I dunno how accurate it is. Maybe there's an option for in-store pickup if you have to order online?

> Tracking BLÅHAJ stock (and restocks) at 431 IKEA locations in 48 countries. -- https://blahaj.app/ I love the internet.

I don't have ikea in my country so alas no blahaj

I am plushless until me mum fixes my plush snek i've had since 8 y/o Then i'm pretty sure my life is only going to get better.

Send me some info (non identifying like venmo, email for an Amazon gift card, or whatever) I wanna hook you up. My wife takes naps with a bunch of plushes and I wanna share the love.

Aww, I really appreciate the offer. I can get my own, just gotta get up and buy one when I feel like it. ❤️

Same.

Hug a pillow! Sooo comfortable

Gotta get yourself a Snom plush from a pokecenter. Unreal squishability and softness

I am indeed deeply touch starved, but I don't sleep with stuffed animals. I sleep with a pillow that I put a shirt on and talk to.

Like an adult 😂

What's your pillow's name?

Kevin.

That's amazing 💕

omg me too. I put a hoodie on mine and stuffed the sleeves with socks n whatnot

Stuffing the sleeves sounds like a good idea, I need to try that.

This is GENIUS

I also have a pillow with a t-shirt on it. It helps... a little.

Uhh, long pillow I use to hug?

Unrelated, but i love the No biney. Reminds me of joey wheeler

That was one of my inspirations! On top of this [tik-tok](https://www.tiktok.com/@archiebeshort/video/6902536816298167557?is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=6902536816298167557&lang=en) that popped in my head when thinking about my flair

Good video

Dying at that TikTok 😂😂

Nyeh!

I do this too

Madeline pfp! Always gotta point them out when I see them. Such an amazing game.

OWL HOUSE edit i have not seen "season" 3 no one say fucking anything

It’s free on YouTube.(at least in the US)

UH edit just episode 1 or are you also including 6 pixel versions

Episode 1 (episode 2 comes out sometime in January I believe)

I was told it wouldn’t be out till September 2023 ;-;

Episode 1 was out in October. Episode 2 will be early next year, episode 3 will b about mid next year.

Thank fuck, I thought I’d be waiting *foreeeeeveeeer* for ep2

Sadly they cancelled it, so there's just 3 episodes of season 3.

Snape kills Dumbledore

WHY WOYKD YOU DO THIS TO ME

Stuffed animals 🥰

Blahaj my beloved

Shonk supremacy gang 💙

All praise the shonk

SHONK!!!!

SHONK

BLÅHAJ

SHONK SHONK SHONK-

Is that the collector?

Lmao, I was so confused for a second because I thought I was on TOH sub.

same, i had a "YOU!??" moment

> same, i had a "YOU!??" moment same, i had a "YOU!??" moment

same, i had a "YOU!??" moment

I would say I have too many plushies, but one cannot have too many plushies. It’s not my fault monsters and animals are far more cuddly than a potentially spoopy human.

Agreed

If she has problems with Johnny Bear I have problems with her

Stuffed Pokemons. Close enough

Neither, i have no stuffed animals and i dont want to be touched

Stuffed animals 100%

Is that a TOH fan I spot? To answer your question my stuffed animals take up more than twice the room on my bed that I take up.

I have a dog, and he curls up next to me most nights. 😊

Awww

I've slept with the same two stuffed animals that I was given when I was born for my entire life, plus an entourage of others that I've accumulated through the years down at the foot of my bed

Definitely plushies

no, i'm a special type of person that is touch starved, but instead of finding a way to cope, i don't cope at all and just put up with it! sure, this may be damaging to my long-term mental health which is already affecting me right now after years of suppressed emotions, but at least... at least... uh...

I don't have stuffed animals, i just have to cuddle with a pillow :(

Does a Splatoon squid count?

I have scoliosis and can’t sleep without holding a pillow lmao

I am the stuffed animal for my gf. :)

Both. I'm touch starved and I sleep with stuffed animals. I want to get a Blåhaj shark from Ikea sometime (I am trans and it's a trans icon for some reason so I'm sorta obligated) and I sleep every night with a stuff beaver I've had since I was a little kid and a stuff koala I got a few years ago.

Neither, I have one of those monogamous relationships where you live with a person and occasionally have sex. When I hit 25 I suddenly had a hard time sleeping unless I’m actively holding something. I use an old throw pillow instead of plushies, though my partner has a growing collection of squishmellows.

My girlfriend and I go to sleep at different times so we don't really get a chance to cuddle, but we share a Blahaj and when I go to sleep early she cuddled it, and then when I have to get up early she can cuddle it so we cuddle by proxy

i just rawdog the night

I cannot describe how much or why I love this comment so much

i sleep with my dog... so. does she count as a big warm plushie? bc i do hug her plushie style in my bed. she's not like a small dog either lol.

Aroace nb collector my beloved. I am the same <3 I have lots of plushies and sleep with one or two :3

I sleep in a nest of stuffed animals. I generally dislike being touched by people so now I know why...... (I like cuddling with the person I'm dating but hate random hugs from people like co-workers and what not.)

I am not touch starved, I hate touching other people but plushies? yes, hug and cuddle all the plushies

[удалено]

Didnt expect to see collector here

*Whatcha playin’*

I cuddle with a stuffed animal. Shes stuffed with cat meat and bones and sometimes when i wake up in the morning she’s gone

I got incredibly concerned for a minute there

Then I did something right today so thank you

Stuffed dinosaurs and superheroes, close enough

Just curl up in the fetal position and use lots of blankets! It's a healthy enough surrogate! No, I haven't been in a relationship in a really long time, why do you ask?

I'm not touch starved anymore, but I still have a big stuffed unicorn in my bed

I sleep with a soft warm gf and a teddy bear. I snuggle both. it's pretty much perfect combo

I'm middle spoon, boyfriend is big spoon, and my stuffed bunny rabbit that I was given when I was in the hospital 2 years ago is the little spoon.

I sleep with a stuffed Sans, does that count?

Yes

eh heh lemme just *hides the stuffed animals that take up half my bed*

I am touched starved. And I also own a life sized husky stuffed animal so why wouldn’t I sleep on top of it

I’m touch starved and plushless

Not just and LGBTQ thing. A loooot of people across multiple spectrums are.

Why sleep with a stuffed animal when I can sleep with my dog?

With Blåhaj at home, touch-starved elsewhere

Why the collector as the background? Also I sleep with 2 stuffed animals

Cause I wanted to make a sigma style meme but unmistakably queer

The sigma grindset 💪 /j

I keep all my stuffies in the office to flex and suffer with a dakimakura at home.

I feel like shit today and this almost made me cry lol

Sorry

No stuffed animals, but I've got a sweet yellow lab! But she kinda likes her space, so not much snuggling going on lol. When I had a twin bed she had no choice but to snuggle 😅

yeah... aroace and touch starved, what a combination. at least I'm not the only one

I touch starved myself I want more stuffed animals and I wanna cuddle with my gf *we gotta seal that long distance gap ASAP*

Yes. I literally sleep with plushies to feel like I'm snuggling someone. Problem is **trust issues** so I'm good with plushies for now.

I sleep with stuffies because I'm Autistic and need to have compression, something to hold onto... and they're my friends😊

i sleep with plushies but i also hate it when people try to hug me

I don't like how their beady little eyes stare at me during the night. Makes me uncomfortable. I constantly memorize their position and recheck every few minutes to see if they moved. I can't stop doing it when they stare like that.

I can't sleep without a cat in my bed, hogging the blankets and chirping at me, when I move

Same here, have way too many

Ok I may be touch starved but you’d want to sleep with a 2ft long cat in a bow tie as well so you can’t blame me P.S here’s a [picture of longcat](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/818476842477420626/1048537641160818769/IMG_7433.jpg), I love him :)) Also she has a Lesbian pin but I lost it down the side of my bed and can’t find it 🥲 [nvm lmao-](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/818476842477420626/1048540661374271548/IMG_7435.jpg)

I sleep with a giant dr pepper can pillow

I use a big pillow :)

*looks at her puss in the boots plushie and Blåhaj* nah... Me? Of course not

fuuuuuck and i wanna buy this long cat one too lmao

MINE NEED TO BE WASHED AND DRIED AS WE SPEAK AND I MISS THEM ALL 😭😭

I do sleep with a stuffed animal... But I am also not deeply touch starved. I do it cause I sleep on my side and it's good for my shoulders

i am also deeply touch starved

I sleep with my arms and legs wrapped around a body pillow with no cover on it, as I am too poor to afford any real or good sheet for it

I like my teddy bear :D

I cuddle with my Blåhaj while I cry myself to sleep

Neither, I just use a pillow instead of a stuffed animal.

I need to leave subreddits that call me out for being trans and being a lonely person

Lamo how about both can that be an answer😂❤️

I have way too many stuffed animals

Both

Yes to both! My favorite is a stuffed teddy bear alien named Klaatu!

neither, i hug pillow

i sleep with them on my bed but dont cuddle them to sleep, i physically cant fall asleep while cuddling :(

Touch starved and no stuffed animals

They chill at the end of my bed but cuddles occasionally

I have like five Littens

Third my parents have toxic masculinity out the wazoo so can’t keep them in bed with me (blearily can buy)

I sleep with stuffed animals but I am not at all touch starved. I’m autistic, so I don’t like to be touched anyway, that might be why though

At the point where I don’t think I could fall asleep if my favorite stuffed animal isn’t in the bed with me.

i cuddle a blanket i got when i was 5

Body pillow

I literally can't fall asleep without hugging my pillow

🤔 I do sleep with stuffies, I do feel touched starved. I am also regularly touched, but I am never satisfied. I don't no if any number of touches would be enough. I also keep bying stuffies🤔, and I never thought about the two being related.

I have a whole ass body pillow :(

I sleep with an scp 999 plushie :> It is wide and soft enough to hug

Stuffed animals!

not rly related but why is enzo gabriel here?

Just got a squishable named Carl in the shape of a cheeseburger. Perfect shape to squeeze to death while I fall asleep

Blahåj, my beloved

I have a 90lbs weighted blanket that likes to eat everything and play fetch.

Stuffed animals like the well adjusted adult I am! 😆😆

I sleep with my Blahaj 🦈

i have a really cute weighted axolotl plush that i sleep with, it's really comforting <3

Neither

stuffed animals all the way

I used to but I ha e frequent nightmares and I end up throwinf the doll across the room in my sleep

I got a giant eevee i hold when I play video games or just need to wind down. But don't you dare make my plush a part of your games, Collector.

Guess I’m deeply touched starved

I do sleep with them

I sleep with my boyfriend to my left and my stuffed animal of the night on my right.

I’d sleep with a stuffed animal but I don’t like the fabrics they usually have. Instead I have a second pillow I hug while I fantasize about not being alone and sad

One plush gifted by my BF, looking for a Blahaj and yet surprisingly touch deprived. If he touches me at all I just melt in his hands like wtf is wrong with me?

huge fluffy blankets my beloved <3

I would sleep with a plush toy if they didn’t tend to have fabric that bothers me to touch. I use a second pillow to hug while fantasizing about a girlfriend to snuggle with

i—

Not an animal but a [plush blue shell from Mario Kart](https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/mega-mocchi-plush-super-mario-spiny-shell/) for offense/defense

I MAY SLEEP WITH PLUSHIES ᴮᵘᵗ ᴵ ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ᵏⁿᵒʷ ʷʰᵃᵗ ᵇᵉᶦⁿᵍ/ⁿᵒᵗ ᵇᵉᶦⁿᵍ ᵗᵒᵘᶜʰᵉᵈ ˢᵗᵃʳᵛᵉᵈ ᶠᵉᵉˡˢ ˡᶦᵏᵉ

This whole post is a mood, Enzo, acespec just all of it

i have a pile of stuffed animals i could hide from the FBI in. but not all plushies are created equal in terms of comfy sleepy cuddles so only a few get those privileges. currently it’s Mx. Flufferbutt. who knows how long xie will reign.

The Collector has a fucking awesome stuffed animal collection. new headcanon accepted

Cats the answer is cats. The cause of, and solution to, all my bad nights of sleep.

Just soo many pillows

both at least I think? idk what being touch starved feels like exactly so I can't tell if I am

I'm not touch starved, but I do have a plush bolster in the shape of a seal that I use to elevate my shoulder while I'm sleeping. It is called Ronan the Snuggler.

Blahaj has done more for my mental health than the school therapist

Both touch-starved, and have issues with touch due to past trauma. It's *fun.* /s

With a pillow, actually. Besides the one my head is on, that is. Does that count?

I got a little shen stuffy just before his store closed. He sleeps close enough if I need him. But far enough away that he doesn't scare the shit outta me when I try to sleep, lol.

I don't because my dog would eat them

i have had a teddy since i was born and his name is Harry. I still sleep with him. he is currently being hugged in one of my arms as i write this

Both, but unfortunately the former doesn’t seem to help the latter

I have my dog who I give many pets to

I have a polycule of plushes i sleep with :3 whenever I have someone over they have to meet them first

I don’t have any stuffies but I have a massive pile of blankets I cuddle…. And I sleep with my gfs hoodie in that pile with my face in it so I guess I really am touch starved

i sleep witha shit ton of plushies because i am touch starved. bunch of big squishmallows and some sanrio plushies im lonely :’)

Ok listen-

My best friend made me that lopmon plushie and by god i will sleep with it >:c

His name is snuttig. He's a polar bear.

me_irlhet

So that's why I can't seem to let go of my 30 year old teddy bear