I don't use one so much now, but when I first met my husband-to-be, we had 2 years of long distance relationship where he'd got a job in the midlands, and I was in uni in scotland. So we got each other a bear from the bear factory. My flatmate said she could tell when I was sad or having a hard time, as I would carry the bear around the flat with me. When we did move in together they used to live on the bed together then. Until we had kids and then they got hijacked and ended up in the toybox.
My daughter is massive kleptomaniac for cuddlies, she is surrounded by them in bed, and has a large fox one that has to come on holiday with us as she won't sleep without it (and several small ones). She aqquires a new one everywhere she goes too. The weighted mental health one that does grounding was a good buy when she's having a meltdown.
