ST. LOUIS — Though many might never admit it publicly, a new survey finds that four in ten adult Americans still sleep with a teddy bear at night. And many of those bears are the same bears kept from childhood.
The popular custom teddy bear outlet Build-A-Bear Workshop commissioned a new survey with over 2,000 Americans to gauge their views on their furry friends, and came away with some surprising findings.
More than half of the survey participants indicated they currently owned a stuffed animal, and 40 percent indicated the toy joins them at bedtime. Perhaps most surprisingly, most of the plush toys out there are no spring chickens — 56 percent of those polled said that they’ve held onto their favorite stuffed animal from childhood for at least two decades.
This perhaps is a reflection of the fact that 72 percent of respondents want to keep their stuffed animal forever.
As for the feelings and emotions associated with one’s stuffed animal, 30 percent said that they thought of comfort, 22 percent thought of the person who gave them the toy, and 19 percent thought about the appearance of their most dear animal.
Geography played a minor role in determining one’s likelihood of having a plush animal, with 75 percent of adults in the southern U.S. owning such a toy, compared to 72 percent of those in the midwest and 70 percent of those in northeastern states.
“As children develop independence from their parents, they still yearn for a secure bond with something. In many cases, children turned to stuffed animals, including teddy bears, to help them through this transition,” says best-selling author Dr. Shefali Tsabary of the survey’s findings in a press release.
“As we enter adulthood and leave home for the first time, it’s not surprise that the same object re-enters our life, providing comfort while also helping us work through feelings of uncertainty as we transition into a new life stage,” adds Tsabary.
The survey, conducted in August ahead of National Teddy Bear Day (Sept. 9), was carried out by a third-party firm on behalf of Build-A-Bear.
About a quarter of respondents had children between the ages of five and 10.
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i think your numbers are a little skewed. and your stupid bears cost like a hundred bucks so damn right people want to keep them forever
I call B.S. on this story.
I think people just make stuff up or maybe the polling was done at one liberal sorority house. Either way, stupid.
I agree this is more FAKE NEWS
Yup, if it’s not fake news it’s an ad for teddy bear company, either way it’s rubbish but you watch, as many of the lemmings start buying useless teddy bears because they can’t figure out how to have a human relationship with anyone, including their spouse.
Only reason to have a Teddy Bear on the bed is if it’s a good place to hide your Glock.
Good one!
That’s a fantastic idea. Maybe I’ll built my own bear after all.
it all depends upon who took the survey, if it was done in rural Texas I would call b.s. too, but if it was taken in NYC then I could believe it. Depends on how many playdoh boys took the survey.
Have you watched the tv ads aimed at young adults? Teddy bears, squirrels and super heroes..
This is why we call them snowflakes.
Stop that! You are offending the Teddy Bear sleepers with your anti plush-toy statements! RACIST!
I think we should have legislation for separate Teddy Bear bathrooms. I know I would like to marry my Teddy bear, but I don’t think it’s legal- yet. This world is so facist!
Have you met many millennialx?
No matter the number, they’re still all liberals and still ignorant.
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Everybody ahas an agenda. It has become an information battle, starting with our schools.
You’ll need one if you live in Vermont.
Gotta admit I am curious as to how this piece of fiction was created.
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And in other news, Rep. Gutierrez states new study shows 93% of Americans want Open Borders and Amnesty for all Hispanics in the country illegally.
It also found that all of them were democrats.
What else would pajama-boy sleep with?
You just won the internet for the day!
The 40% of adults that still sleep with their Teddy Bear also, still live with Mommy and Daddy because they were never made to take any responsibility for their own life. In the normal world, you don’t have time for a Teddy because that space it taken by your children and grandchildren.
and I know just where those snowflakes are coming from. I recently found out that many lib parents allow their children to sleep with them until very late ages, sometimes early teen years. They expect these children to be so sensitive and dependent on them that they will take care of them in later years. It’s sick.
But, they all received trophies for participation. If it weren’t for stupidity, what else would liberals have to show.
No kidding — my brother married an African woman and the entire household (4 “kids” including their grown late-teenhood son and daughter) still sleep in the same bed/room.
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this story is bovine excrement
Liberalism is a severe sickness!
#MAGA
Well IF the numbers are true and it is only liberals-
Math says we are in big trouble.
No. Most of them are too afraid to leave the house even to vote.
I thought that too but somehow Hillary won the popular vote. Or, was that the Russians who helped her do that. Or was it the Mexicans. We need to build a wall!
Nonsense, the more enlightened adults sleep with Unicorns and other associated fantasy characters. Democrats sleep with Hillary, but there’s nothing new there.
Daniel Steingold, do you think think we’re stupid? You’ve just thrown your credibility out the window.
Another fake story to generate ad revenue.
Leftist pukes seem to have succeeded in wimpifying 40% of the population.
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Speaking of religion, liberals aren’t the one’s who believe in fairy tales.
Sure they do; global warming, white privilege, free education…..P.S. I’m no “believer”
+ ‘you can keep your doctor’ ‘I will run the most transparent administration in history’ and ‘Michael and I have a wonderful normal marriage’
Instead of God they worship big government, climate change, political correctness, lust, pride, greed, etc.
Everything a liberal believes in and does is anti-God and pro-Satan from abortions to government dependency to homosexuality. They’re evil. PERIOD.
Add pedophilia, please!
At the Root of All Liberals Core-Beliefs, is ANTI-WASP.
There is no such thing as Satan. Evil resides within man.
But thanks for proving my point. Hope the spaghetti monster doesn’t getcha.
I am a conservative and I don’t believe in any religions but I do believe Liberals are the worst people on Earth.
Well then keep your “limited government” out of their business.
But it is telling that you would choose “liberals” as the worst people on earth. Considering the country is battling terrorism, human trafficking, child pornographers and pedophilia. But sure, Bernie Sanders is the real devil here.
Generally the terrorists,human traffickers,child pornographers and pedophiles ARE Liberals.
And Bernie Sanders is a communist and most people with a brain know how many people have been killed because of communism.
Liberals,communists,socialists are evil,period,
Cite your source. But that might require reading something.
Just look at every criminal in history.Well over 90% of them were / are leftists.
Again, cite your source. A completely baseless comment like this indicates that you either don’t read legitimate sources, are ‘challenged’ or you’re a troll.
I’ve no interest in further exchange in any of those instances.
Google is all you need.Look up any evil person you can think of.
Charles Manson,Jeffrey Dahmer,Stalin,Mao,Hitler etc.
Most of them were leftists.
You can’t handle the truth.
Chelsea Manning. Caitlynn Jenner.
Fairy enough tales for you, Lefty?
Weak.
Sure they do, they worship at the altar of AGW and Transgender ignorance.
Comfort for nervous SJW’s. After a busy day of Play-Doh and coloring books, they can suck their thumbs while holding their teddy bears at night.
Flat out fake news.
Millenials are so adorable.
Who would be stupid enough to admit they still sleep with their Teddy Bear?
SNOWFLAKES.
… perverts …I really didn’t need to know … 😉
Who comes up with this crap?
ALL of them voted for LOSER Clinton.
I thought it was 4 out of 10 sleeping with a sex bot?
And to think that teenage boys were once storming the beaches of Normandy. This is the downside of a coddled society.
Now they just storm white conservatives
Yeah right. What a crock!
Thurston Howell syndrome?
4 in 10 adults…. in Berkeley, CA? I’d believe that much. IDK about stuffed animals, but millennials have certainly been the generation of the anime waifu body pillow.
Well it’s not unreasonable for 40% of Build-A-Bear customers surveyed to say that, but certainly NOT a random 2,000 people survey of people who weren’t regular customers of Build-A-Bear. BS story!
They are the same ones who wear Masks at all of the Protests !
I’m a constitutional conservative. I don’t sleep with a Teddy Bear, but I do sleep with a loaded .45 next to my Bed.
This is bogus and why 99% of studies are worthless.
dem voting snowflakes that need comfort from hearing anything other than what their leftist indoctrinators have programmed into them at govt school.
I dont know any of my straight male friends that would sleep with a teddy bear past the age of 7. Prob mostly females they seem to collect stuffed animals into adulthood not to abnormal. any guy that does this must be gay AF
The good news is only half of them still wet their beds.
Pathetic if true. Security blanket and a binky maybe but teddy bears are beyond the pale.
There’s a 24 year old, out of work male, college graduate, still sleeping about ten feet from my computer with a stuffed penguin. Does that count?
You didn’t happen to major in something that had the word: “Studies” at the end of it, did you?
Me? I’m a retired EE (at age 50) who now restores cars. The “sleeper” is a law school grad.
My law firm of Baer, Brown, Wilson, & Springfield have sent me the tools to sleep with. Our German Shepherd also sleeps near our bed.
Wimps abound in liberal social circles.
100% of the 40% voted for Mrs. Stainmaker.
LOL!
“The survey, conducted in August ahead of National Teddy Bear Day (Sept. 9), was carried out by a third-party firm on behalf of Build-A-Bear.”
Probably no link at all between the sponsor and the findings, eh?
Whatever gets you through the night…
B.S., and Hillary has an 80% chance winning presidency.
Oh come on just say it; forty percent of liberal women sleep with teddy bears.
This is an example of a faked (hoax) poll commissioned by an industry for PR purposes. Anyone who believes it is an idiot.
Snowflakes Demorats queers, afraid of darkness.
GOK what Ted Cruz does with his teddy bear when he tweets about the porn he’s watching.
Same as your pervert, child molester queer Mayor in Seattle
Don’t believe a single word of this malarkey
Of course the survey was taken on a college campus.
We call them liberals down here
Click bait.
Latest survey shows that 40% of adults are spineless snowflakes that are unable to cope with life.
Of that 40%…100% of them are delicate, snowflake, millenial’s!
There has to be a way to hold the bullschitt fake news media stories like these accountable. They need to be sued for BS like this
I do enjoy my pillow buddy between my legs once turning in. An I’m an old Airborne soldier.
No stats on m/f?
Anonymous questions for women only?
What is next, a quiz on thumb sucking?
Snowflake survey….and anyone who believes this belongs in the group with the teddy bear…
Total Bu11$hit
Usually, fake news has some sort of point and is even superficially believable. What snowflake came up with this nonsense?
Now, it is widely known that women tend to be sentimental and hang on to things from childhood so, I have no doubt a lot of women still have their teddy bears. Men on the other hand, not likely. At least not men who think they are men.
I’m not sure that you can call 40-year old children who live in their parent’s basements ‘adults’.
Wow. So, 80% of women sleep with teddy bears.
I’ve asked 60 people at work. Not one of them. BS Study.
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My dog sleeps with my legs, much better than a stuffed animal.
Nonsense. Just advertising disguised as information.
100% snowflakes.
Who did they survey, R. Kelly’s harem?
Good luck with all of that.
The safe-space snowflake generation at it’s best. The generation that invented ‘adult coloring books’ is playing with dolls into their 30s. Makes perfect sense really. If the real world is bullying you, then why not just come home and cuddle with a toy…for comfort right?
That is not her real name.
The majority has been sleeping with teddy bears for “at least 2 decades”? So in other words the poll was mostly done by snowflake millennials? What a crock, no wonder I have never heard of this clown website.
…and I’m sure goverment funded … GOD it makes me sick in my stomach, what a huge waste of my taxes by democrats, thanks obama!!
I seriously doubt the validity of this story.
I HAD NO IDEA THAT TEDDY ROOSEVELT RETAINED SUCH ENDURING POPULARITY
Teddy is the beloved name of my gun.
Probably same people who need “safe spaces” with ponies, coloring books, etc.
I wanted to buy a stuffed cat that reminded me of my first love, a stuffed cat. My sister kept saying just buy it. What would I do with it? She said sleep with it. I really deliberated because just looking at it made me happy. I’m 61. Pathetic but I get it.
Then you voted for Bernie Sanders. Finished the story for you.
YES…mine is a 3d puSSY
WTF?? This must be some type of weird liberal thing, I’ve never known any adult that does this, but I also don’t hang around with many far left libs so that must be why.
100% of whom were Progressive pajama-boys.
Most Teddy Bears never fully recover from a good hot sudsy washing.
I guess some will just spray Teddy with Febreeze.
There is no way 40% of American adults sleep with a teddy bear – unless they are in an American college or university, where pacifiers and crayons are now essential equipment.
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Yea, Liberal snowflakes lmao
I sleep with my stuffed squid because it is a good supplement to a bad pillow…lol! My wife has an elephant. It is good for sure! Btw I’m Republican…MAGA
my wife sleeps with a dildo…..vs….. teddy….lol
Why is anyone surprised? This country has lost it. Trump saying hate from the left and right sent them into a frenzy. You’ve got people protesting and they don’t even know why. You have black lives matter responsible for killing cops and nobody bats an eye. You have a town in MD voting to let illegals vote. You have an anti fascist hate group called Antifa going around dressed in black beating people up who have the wrong hair cut and might not think like they do. We are taking down statues of confederate generals because they traumatize us. You had a MAN win woman of the year. You have people with debt coming out their you know what’s between cars, homes, student loans and credit cards who claim to not be able to afford health insurance preparing to drop a THOUSAND dollars on a phone. Today Bernie and the dems the day after we top $20 TRILLION in debt proposed a new entitlement – Medicaid for all. On and on folks.
Nothing should surprise anyone.
BS.
Fake news. C’mon people, don’t fall for this crap.
My girlfriend slept with Teddy Bear , Bobby Bear , Freddy Bear, Willy Bear…..
I truly can’t believe this. Are they all unmarried?
The study is pure garbage.
Millennial pussies
I don’t have proof concerning my opinion that I suspect this study is rubbish. Perhaps 40% of Build-A-Bear Workshop customers do. Anyway it sure makes Build-A-Bear Workshops look good.
I don’t know who this Teddy Bear guy is, but he sounds like a real stud!
i don’t believe this for one minute.
proves how fake ‘surveys’ are.
Teddy bear 🐻 safe spaces said liberals all over it
Grow up
Sorry but I call BS on this story. First clue: “The popular custom teddy bear outlet Build-A-Bear Workshop commissioned a new survey…” If someone pays a firms to conduct a survey that is beneficial for their product, the results will predictably please the client. The results of a survey can be highly biased and inaccurate depending on how the questions are structured, how they are presented, and whether the person surveyed is consciously aware of the preferred response.
After looking at America today…I believe it.
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…. these guys ^^^
You left out Colbert.
Those people with their teddy bears will get a huge surprise after buying their first sex-bot.
Fake news
I’m assuming the same scientific method used by climate change types was used here. This is almost as big a crock of poop as man caused climate change.
Either a) the creators of this survey have been totally trolled. or b) the other 60% of us are totally screwed.
I always sleep with a S&W in the drawer of my night stand.
Being an adult child is now a sign of pride in our society. “Men” posting pictures of themselves hugging their custom made plush toys. Bragging about their toy collections, when they don’t have money to pay for basic necessities. And then screaming that it is the governments job to pay for their food, housing, college, and health care. While they spend every penny on Super Space Rainbow Pony Princess toys.
and the other 60% sleep with dogs
I wonder how many are men and how many women? I’m also skeptical as to the numbers…..as always.
I’m sixty years old and i’ve yet to meet an adult that sleeps with a teddy bear.Must be talking about liberals
Bullshit story
I claim BS on this article! The ‘adults’ are either young, lonely women or homos, and there are very, very few homos in the U.S., let alone the world.
Sounds like another one of those consensus numbers that scientist work with now days.
About the same percentage that are morbidly obese. Physically unfit bums.
Now, this has to be fake news.
The truth is that 40% of liberals sleep with their Teddy Bear and 40% of Conservatives sleep with their handgun
What in the actual phuck? Not possible. I might believe 20%. Here in the south women don’t do it because they are holding onto their man. As for single men, maybe democrats, I don’t know, I don’t have any liberal or democratic friends. Phucking pansies !!!
I would bet that the large majority of them are liberals. They live in a dream world during the daytime, too.
We sleep with a teddy bear. His name is Model 15 and he was made by Smith and Wesson.
A lot of them probably have sex with their bears. Am I sick for thinking that might be true?
News doesn’t get much faker than this.
2,000 Americans from where, San Franscisco? 40% of adult Americans DO NOT sleep with Teddy bears. Drudge sure is starting to link to a lot of garbage sites. Breitbart is 10 times better.
If a Glock 20 is a teddy bear, then yea, I’m guilty…
So what if someone wants to cuddle to their stuffed animal. Please, you live your life and if I’m not causing harm to anyone let me live my life. Maybe you think we need more regulations in regards to stuffed animals? Mind your own fing business!
I call BULL $HIT on this so-called study!
“As we enter adulthood and leave home for the first time, it’s not surprise that the same object re-enters our life, providing comfort while also helping us work through feelings of uncertainty as we transition into a new life stage,” adds Tsabary.
The object that re-enters normal peoples’ lives for those reasons is called The Holy Bible.
Love Trumps Hate. John 3:16. MAGA!
Bull shit.
As usual, they just polled democrats.
People are so f**ked up….what the hell have parents done
Oh, let me be, your teddy bear.
Wrap your legs around my neck,
And lead me anywhere.
Oh, let me be, your teddy bear.
Please! What a goofy article. Get a life.
Are there really that many furries in America?
Daniel Steingold, 40% of the adults you associate with sleep with a teddy bear. Other than that, this is nothing but pure Liberal BS. Just off yourself and make all of our lives better for it.
Liberals are pathetic!
I’m gonna call Horse Hockey on this story.
And another study finds that studyfinds.org is peddling horse excrement.
30% of them have a Fleshlight in the teddy bear and voted for Bernie.
although I don’t sleep with a teddy bear it appears like Radar O’Reilly wasn’t that extreme at all.
This is the very definition of “fake news” and an example of a paid ad masquerading as a news story. Commissioned by Build A Bear Workshop (TM), indeed.
I don’t buy it.