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I normally adhere to "adopt, don't shop" but once my husband and I were in a pet store around Easter getting supplies for our pets and they had bunnies for sale and one of them was missing half his ear. I thought for sure no one would get him because they wanted perfect "Easter" bunnies, so we bought him. His name was Booboo and he was awesome!!

I used to house sit for a lady who bought all the dying scraggly plants that were marked way down at the nursery :) she saved most of them

When I was a teenager I bought from a flea market a really ugly decorative pillow cover that probably some child had made. The picture was a very poorly made embroidery of a strange looking animal. I thought that probably no one else wants to buy it so I bought it. Sadly my mom thought that pillow cover was too ugly so she threw it away couple of years after that. :(

I buy the broken and odd looking cacti when I go to garden centres, so I can take them home and look after tham

Wow I thought I was alone in this world on this. My parents are from a culture where black is typically considered not a good color. We don't even wear it to mourn. Anyway, having heard this and seeing that no kid at school ever wanted the black thing, I made black my favorite color because I felt really bad that no one liked it. I wanted black to be loved like all the other colors.

I used to have a ton of stuffed animal toys like bears, cows, dinosaurs, you name it. I know until this day where each and one of them came from. Since I needed some space in my tiny room, I took them all into basement where they lie sleeping. Can't force myself to throw them away. It's been 10 years now.

Is anyone else thinking of Wilson in the movie Cast Away?

My husband and I went into a local pet store for guinea pig food and saw a poor rat in a tank labeled "Feeder Tank" . She had a large open wound on her back. I went t the desk and said I want to purchase the black and white hooded rat with wound. The worker said he felt so bad for her but the owner had said ... she is just a feeder rat so leave her in there. We needed a few supplies for her the pet shop employee did not charge us for anything and thanked us for taking her in. I was always nervous about rats(it was the tails that got to me) but after we adopted this rat my views changed. We named her Rachel, she ended up being very pregnant and had five babies. We were very lucky that they were all females. They were very smart and family oriented , they only messed in one corner of the cage and played with toys and each other. We had them all until each one passed.

My neighbor gave me two mosquito larvae not knowing what they were. I named them Wriggly and Squiggly. Wriggly died, but Squiggly nearly made it to mosquito stage. I kept it in a jar until my dad figured out what it was. I had to pour my own pet down the drain.

When I drop my books I always apologize and cuddle them for a while.

I only do this with living things. I don't understand caring about the other stuff like ... mistreated coffee makers or whatever. I'd probably have feelings like this towards a complicated AI, but not a relatively simple mechanism.

I always thought that I was the only one who thought this way. Never really mentioned it to anyone. Guess on some level I thought it was nuts. Glad I am just super empathetic.

Had a bit of a rough year and as a result I have ended up with my Granddads 20 year old car. And to be honest I could not be happier. Alfie, yes I have named him, has dents and scratches, a cassette deck radio and no air conditioning. But I love him so much, driving him makes me so happy. I am looking forward to all the adventures we are are going to have together.

I once bought a kiwi. Ordinary kiwi. My then grade school aged daughter adopted it, took it away, protected it. Was sad when it "died." I had to admit to her I had done that with a watermelon when I was about her age, and no, she had had no way of knowing that.

I have an extreme attachment to my stuffed animals. I feel guilty when I have to move them off my bed. I'd like to be buried holding my very favorite one, so that we'd be together until the sun burns out.

I was just in my local garden shop and walked down the leftover vegetable plant aisle. I felt so bad for all the plants that didnt get adopted that I bought as many as I could, then asked how they treat all the ones left, and had them show me what happens to them so I would be ok leaving the rest of them there.

You are all wonderful humans and if the world were full of folks like you, there would be no suffering and it would be a paradise!

And this is how you become a hoarder......

The bumpy lime!!! I actually started sniffling... :'-/ love what this post says about people

"Objets inanimés, avez-vous donc une âme, qui s'attache à notre âme et la force d'aimer?" Alphonse de Lamartine

I love this! I almost always buy the bruised/asymmetrical fruit and veg 'cause I'm going to cut it up anyway. I hate waste. Also I love oddballs.

I also feel sad when I pull pieces off of a basil herb plant.

When I make tea, I hate taking out three teabags instead of two and separate one of them, because deep down I don't want to separate a great love or friendship. I know intellectually that it is utter rubbish but I still think that every time.

Thank you. I seriously thought it was just me!!! This is the first time I have heard of anybody else doing this!!! OMG thank you. I feel so much better. I have done all of these.

I had a literal wall full of stuffed animals and I would take turns with every single one to sleep with at night cause I didn't their feelings to be hurt! Still sleep with my stuffed Tramp that my fiance got for me! I'm trying to convince him to get Lady so he wouldn't be lonely!

Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in. - Anthem: Leonard Cohen

I was personally knowing a guy who was doing same kind of things but physically abusing own mother and wife. we are strange, complicated creatures.

I once bought a teddy bear from the shop because it was on the floor. I felt too guilty to leave it hanging.

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I’m not crying...

I had a similar experience with the one about the toy Labrador with wonky eyes. When I was about that age I bought a red panda plush with wonky eyes and I never even realized it for a while, but I didn't want to exchange it because I still loved him. Honestly, I had (and still have) that experience with buying plush toys..

All of these stories Are ME!!!!!!! OMG, I feel VINDICATED!

I think i get attached to alot of stuff and I always have it till it's totally unusable, but i mostly still keep it because it has some kind of sentimental meaning to me. like I have this cap that I already bought from used clothes shop and I already had it probably for about 10 years, it started getting some holes, but i just sew them up and continue wearing it and actually people started recodniseing me from that cap. And say something like you're probably only one that has a cap like that.

Do people know that dented cans can release chemicals that are harmful to one's health?