Oh my god, this brings back so many memories. I still have a yellow plush toy ball with a smiley face too. I dont think I can ever throw it away. I've had it roughly for 20 years now and it was actually a part of a joke my parents played on my brother when we were 6 and 8. It was hes birthday and my parents gave him that toy first and told him it was all the presents hes going to get. He started screaming and crying and tossed the toy away in a corner and later, when he got hes real presents, he forgot all about it. I couldn't stop thinking about how ungrateful he was and that I would have loved that gift more than any expensive doll. I couldn't stop thinking how something brought with love could just be tossed in the corner like that and the little smiling face peeking out from under the table so at night, I sneaked in the living room and took it.