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<blockquote data-quote="AnnieO" data-source="post: 609887" data-attributes="member: 6705"><p>I have a doll collection, started when I was about 10 and my grandfather made a fabulous locking display case for my mother's childhood dolls. My grandmother had a friend who ran a doll hospital and she fixed these dolls up. I even have a Madame Alexander "Marmee" from Little Women that was my mother's... Which of course led to mother in law trying to buy me all the other Little Women dolls. It would have been nice except 1) I don't have room and 2) I could care less about the Madame Alexander part and more about the fact that it was my MOM's!!! The whole collection is still on the wall in my old bedroom at my parents'... I believe when Rose is a little older I'll gift it to her. (I was originally going to give it to Belle, but dolls creep her out, she said...)</p><p></p><p>Altoids tins. In 2000 when XH and I moved to Tulsa, my broke friends at Target bought me the HUGE Christmas tin of peppermint Altoids as a going away gift. Took me months to eat them all. I kept the tin to remind me of how much my friends cared - the darned thing was around $20, and I loved the mints. Since then I've added normal ones, heart-shaped, a couple Valentine's, big round ones, Smalls, even when they had the strips. I wish I had a way to display them, right now they are all piled up in a cabinet.</p><p></p><p>And I have a few coffee mugs - used to have a LOT more - that mean something. My carousel horse cup from Opryland, my World's Best Babysitter from the first babysitting job I ever had, the Pillsbury Dough Boy that was a freebie my Grandma got with her rebates. (Boy was I mad when Belle and Pat were fighting over a broom and broke it - they're on hooks in the kitchen doorway.)</p><p></p><p>Books... Favorite authors. Diana Gabaldon, Douglas Adams, Stephenie Meyer, and a copy of <em>The Stand </em>by Stephen King as well as a couple of Marine Corps books from WWII that belonged to my Grandpa.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnnieO, post: 609887, member: 6705"] I have a doll collection, started when I was about 10 and my grandfather made a fabulous locking display case for my mother's childhood dolls. My grandmother had a friend who ran a doll hospital and she fixed these dolls up. I even have a Madame Alexander "Marmee" from Little Women that was my mother's... Which of course led to mother in law trying to buy me all the other Little Women dolls. It would have been nice except 1) I don't have room and 2) I could care less about the Madame Alexander part and more about the fact that it was my MOM's!!! The whole collection is still on the wall in my old bedroom at my parents'... I believe when Rose is a little older I'll gift it to her. (I was originally going to give it to Belle, but dolls creep her out, she said...) Altoids tins. In 2000 when XH and I moved to Tulsa, my broke friends at Target bought me the HUGE Christmas tin of peppermint Altoids as a going away gift. Took me months to eat them all. I kept the tin to remind me of how much my friends cared - the darned thing was around $20, and I loved the mints. Since then I've added normal ones, heart-shaped, a couple Valentine's, big round ones, Smalls, even when they had the strips. I wish I had a way to display them, right now they are all piled up in a cabinet. And I have a few coffee mugs - used to have a LOT more - that mean something. My carousel horse cup from Opryland, my World's Best Babysitter from the first babysitting job I ever had, the Pillsbury Dough Boy that was a freebie my Grandma got with her rebates. (Boy was I mad when Belle and Pat were fighting over a broom and broke it - they're on hooks in the kitchen doorway.) Books... Favorite authors. Diana Gabaldon, Douglas Adams, Stephenie Meyer, and a copy of [I]The Stand [/I]by Stephen King as well as a couple of Marine Corps books from WWII that belonged to my Grandpa. [/QUOTE]
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