I thought this was the perfect community for this. I've never posted here before so Hi, for a long time I've been into now an outdated generation of cartoons and comics (I don't think they're outdated, but compared to how popular they used to be especially among children, it's a different world) Garfield, The Peanuts, Marmaduke, etc.

Anyway this is how it happened. I was commissioned to clean this huge house, I personally knew the owner so it was no problem. The house has been vacant for a long time, it wasn't accessible to the owners anymore and apparently no relatives were interested in the up keep. They never changed anything about the house, so really it's the same as it was when they lived there. Which means their now very grown childs room had been left the same as when they lived there. Admittedly, I'm a very nosy person and checked the closet, which was filled with old toys and stuffies but only one caught my eye. The dankin garfield. I pined after him for a while before i asked, and was told that anything that wasn't marked was essentially going to be thrown out. 

Garfield wasn't marked. I grabbed him and brought him home. He clearly needed a bit of a makeover, not only was he dirty from lack of care for apx 30 ish years, but his stripes were faint (especially after he was cleaned) and his eyes were faded. I repainted his eyes, coloured his stripes back on, and fluffed up his fur a bit. 

Now he goes everywhere with me, I always enjoyed carrying around a stuffed animal but most are too big and bulky to do comfortably, Garf is small, but hard to forget. Cheers to many journeys 🥹

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