Sarah Rawsthorne has had enough of her daughter’s Build-A-Bear collection so she decided to do something about it.
Taking to the company’s Facebook page, Sarah explained how her little girl's cuddly toy collection began before she was even born, thanks to her mum!
Yup, Sarah herself started the obsession when she bought Ruby her first bear – and it has spiralled ever since.
“Dear Build-A-Bear Workshop. Today is a day of change, today I make a stand. A stand not just for me but for all the other long-suffering parents, who like me have endured your stores for years on end. I shall explain myself, bear with me [sic],” she wrote.
“Did you see what I did there? I know, it's pretty amazing that I managed to crack a joke because today around 3pm, in one of your stores, I lost the will to live. I stood there and took in the bright colours around me and I couldn't take it anymore, Build-A-Bear has broken me [sic].”
Talking all about her daughter’s love for the toys, Sarah explained that her nine-year-old gets one every birthday, Christmas and good report card.
But by the time she had hit five, Ruby had found something else pretty cool to do with the bears: CLOTHES!
“And shoes and skates and passports and little tiny sleeping bags, and hats and wigs and bouquets of flowers and even teddies for the teddies!” the mum wrote.
“And clothes for the teddies for the teddies. I felt like I was in one of those plastic tubes we had as kids that reflected shapes over and over and over. All very pretty and bright and fun!”
Admitting that it was all fun and games for the first few years, Sarah’s letter took a dark turn when she bravely spoke out about how she found herself standing with a £2 Primark top in one hand and an £8 BAB top for a bear in another.
And it was here that she had an idea; an idea that would make the shopping experience a whole lot nicer for mums:
“Please, please, please can you give us an area of the store we can sit and stare at a plain white wall, perhaps even offer us a refreshment, conversation that isn't about a great new smell to shove in the bears bum.
“I need desperately to be treated like an adult, an exhausted adult who quite honestly can't wait to leave your store.
“I can't take one more visit of faking excitement, I am done. It's been ten years BAB, I can't fake it anymore.”
As a mum of a girl who is also obsessed with bears, I feel like I could have written the piece myself!
