We belong to a wonderful bear list. It is full of very creative people who make and/or collect bears and is a fun way to use words. It is a goodness to hang out with human people who appreciate the perfect bear shape!!!! <happy small bear> This page contains words written by some of them about their love of my kind!!!!

You know you are a teddy bear nut when....

Laurie Ann

• You call your husband "pet" bear names
• You have bears in every room of the house, including the powder room.
• When everything you look at becomes a theme for a new Teddy Bear.
• You correspond with bear paper and matching envelopes and draw little bear paws below your signature.

TwinBears

• On the way to bed you stop to leave a night light on for the littlest and youngest bears.
• You go shopping, you always pick up a "surprise" for the bears.
• When you talk to them they always answer.
• Your grocery cart is filled with many flavors of honey.
• You ask their opinion before changing your wallpaper.
• You tell them "hang on" when you come to a bump in the road.

Moira

• When you spend the weeks food budget on the bear that just wouldn't be left in the shop!

Catie MacIntyre Walker

• You are going thru a divorce and you fight with your spouse on who is going to get custody of certain bears!

Debbie Drown

• You buy other stuffed animal as pets for your bear.

Berry & Boucher

• Part of your fire escape plan includes shoving the bears into pillow cases to get them out safely. (works for cats and small dogs too)
• You have teddy bear rubber stamps that you put on all your snail mail.
• You have a 'family' discussion about whose turn it is to come along on a vacation.

Noel--JaysBears

• You can't leave one little particular bear at home when you go away because she trashes the house.

Lynne Renaud

• Your mother in law comes back from a trip to Vegas with a Caesar's's Palace T-shirt for you and a Winnie the Pooh for her dog, and you want to trade with the dog.

Marci Ziese

• You buy your only teddy bear (Nicky) a 12" radio flyer for Christmas.
• You find Nicky's bear-napped wife for him six weeks later for Valentine's day.
• You let your manufactured bear, Sundance, coax you into buying a $200 artist bear Abby, whom he met at a GBW (Good Bears of the World) meeting, because he's fallen in love with her.
• For the past six months your newly discovered local guitarist/folksinger breaks out into singing "Waltzing with Bears" whenever you and your husband come into the pub, whether or not Nicky and Melissa or Sundance and Abby are with you.
• The bartender at one such pub asks where Nicky and Melissa (by name) are when you don't double date one night.
• The following Christmas you buy your Hug a 3 foot Radio Flyer and bearly a quarter of the 60+ bears will fit in this wagon.
• You buy Nicky and Melissa a pony at a local consignment shop, for their anniversary (Valentine's day) and you give it to them almost a month early because you know how happy it will make them.

Pat Young

• You buy a bear in a shop and don't let the clerk wrap him in tissue paper so he can "breathe"! as you carry him home in an open bag!!!

Rick Lee

• You think nothing of spending $25 for a piece of old lace or a shirt collar or a hat with hole, while you wear the same old things.

Kathy Cea

• Your "head" bear has a passport with stickers and notes indicating where he has traveled to.
• That same bear has his own email id.
• You take more photos of your bears than the rest of the family while on vacation :)
• You have a bear that goes to work with you whenever it snows. Then, when it snows, your boss comes into your office looking for the bear (this is really true!)

Esther—Tanglefoot & Little Griz

• You refer to displays of teddies as 'the orphanage'

Lynda Cansfield

• When you play the piano with the teddies for an audience and ask if they enjoyed the song!

• [and you ask if there are any requests. and there are, and you play them...Berry & Boucher]

Ann Redmon

• When the 21". bear you have faithfully slept with for years. and years..... (lost count), goes on vacation with you!!!!!

Barb Pepper

• When you have your daughter who is in four grade and doing a speech for the first time, practice it in front of all the bears.

Laura Pedosuk

• When you wake up in the middle of the night and a list of about 30 ideas for mini bears flash in your brain, each one with a full colour picture.

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