Comfort items?

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I forgot to post my stickers and keychains. :3 They are also comfort items as well. Both my keychains and stickers/shrinky dinks (as my rl friend calls them) were drawn by artists I thought were really good. I like to fidget with them and look at them. :3

Sorry, the pictures are huge. D:

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Ooooh, your stickers and Shrinky Dinks are so cute, LokiofSassgard! I love stickers, too - I did when I was a little kid, and I still love them! My mom still has her church hymnal where I stuck a bunch of chicken stickers and Winnie the Pooh stickers on the inside covers as a kid.

Also, I have the same Lilo and Stitch button! It's on my backpack. I love pinback buttons.

I have a whole bunch of pins on my bag. I have ones from Doctor Who, some from Disney... and too many others to name. XD

I got a new comfort item today! It's a little red foam rubber stress ball in the shape of a football. My college was having a small homecoming parade this afternoon, and some of the Housing staff riding in a trolley threw the little football to me. It's the kind of stress ball I really like, too - it's not the balloonish kind that can leak powder everywhere if you squeeze it too much, and it has just enough "give" so that you can squeeze it vigorously without your arm or hand muscles hurting. I've already dubbed it my "Squeezie" and have added it to my reserve of comfort/coping items.

I love scents, but most perfumes are too strong for me. I have a first-gen MLP, purple, smells like coconut... I love smelling her, just calms me down so well. I've had her for as long as I can remember. Menthol is another scent, and Clary Sage oil too. Cedar, oh lovely cedar. It's the only reason to have a cedar chest is for the scent. I've spent hours smelling it.

I also love soft blankets, the bigger the better. Big giant soft micro plush ones especially, though I do love my satin and velvet one as well. People say I have too many blankets, but I could never have too many... I still have one from when I was born that I use as a comfort item.

I used to use stuffed animals, but I seem to have grown past that. I love my markers, though. Sometimes I'll just zone out drawing on myself. The prismacolors smell the best, not quite as strong as sharpie so I don't get a headache from constant use. I just really love the feel of a pencil, pen or marker in my hand. I love seeing the drawings on my hands, too.

Music is also a huge comfort thing for me and I'll end up listening to a certain song over and over and over again, just on repeat. It's like it soothes my soul. Just this year alone, on my computer alone, I've listened to Leliana's song over 2000 times. I feel like I would die without music.

*edited to say, Petrichor is one of the best scents ever.

I forgot about my Elsa doll. :3 I love Elsa from Frozen. <3 She was comforting to me at the oral surgeon yesterday for my teeth! (I didn't get anything done)

Maybe it used to be Rubik's Cubes. Speedsolving is a former special interest and I put A LOT of time into getting faster and solving more efficiently. Now... I think there are just little objects that really appeal to me that I love to hold. Examples are my leatherman, my knives, my zippo (I don't smoke... I just like opening and closing it), bic lighters, flashlights, guns (I take them a part for fun), watches, marbles, carabiners, flash drives, pens, rocks, bullets, cool coins, and I guess just cheap trinket type things. I almost bought a flask earlier today (despite having never drank in my life) just because it kind of fits in this category. It's just cool you know? It's small, waterproof, thin, fits in your pocket, etc. I don't really know what I'd do with it... maybe just fill it with redbull? Either way a flask is just cool in this way. Maybe what I just described isn't really the same thing as what you guys are talking about but small compact durable things really appeal to me.

Hi, QuiversWhiskers - I had just come back to this topic and noticed what you said in your post. It reminded me of this time when my dad and I were flying home from Texas after visiting our relatives. Flying on airplanes used to be awful for me as a kid b/c the cabin pressure made my ears hurt to the extent that my entire head would throb. Back then, I was too young for chewing gum and no one thought of soothing my ears with Benadryl. The airport my father and I were in happened to have a small Disney Store, and my dad thought it might alleviate some of my anxiety to spend some time in there before we left - I loved the Disney Store in the mall we went to at home.

So, we went in, and I walked over to where they had all their little "Beanie Babies" of popular Disney characters: Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Pluto, etc. I saw a little bean bag of Dumbo, who's always been one of my favorite Disney characters. We bought him, and as we walked to our gate, I studied Dumbo's large ears.

"Hey, Dad?" I said to my father. "Dumbo's ears must really, really hurt whenever he has to go flying...they're so much bigger than people-ears."

"You think so?" My father asked.

"Uh huh" I replied. "They're probably gonna hurt even worse than my ears when we got on the plane to go home."

And as it turns out, my ears didn't even bother me that much on the flight home - I was too concerned with looking after my Dumbo plushie and making sure he was ok.

I even still have two little Disney Tsum Tsum plushies of Dumbo - he's still one of my favorite Disney characters.

Woven cotton fabric, preferably blue and white to put my face on.