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<blockquote data-quote="Castle Queen" data-source="post: 609915" data-attributes="member: 15910"><p>This is a great thread!</p><p>I collect Barbie dolls. I played with them for well beyond the year an average girl would give it up- I think I was playing as late as 14 or 15 yrs old. Elaborate soap-opera type screenplays...The collection started when my mother decided it was time to get rid of the old box she'd been storing them in for years. I think I was in my thirties at the time. In anticipation I opened the box but that quickly turned to dismay- my brother had been into the dolls and wrecked many of them as well as the clothes. Only 5 or 6 of my multi-dozen collection were salvageable. I was on a mission to replace my beloved collection from the 70's as closely as I could. Ebay and garage sales are my favorite spots. In the process I fell in love with other Barbie series- the ballerinas, the Gone with the Wind and Eliza Doolittle series, so I have some of those still in the box too. But my favorites are the ones I bought that have been played with but still in good condition for their age. I am still working on some that are harder to find/more prohibitively expensive. Sprite and I will take them out periodically and brush their hair and I will talk about each one, the personality she had back in the day...the names I picked (after all they can't all be "Barbie!" How would you tell them apart?) Someday I will have a curio cabinet for them, and some day (long in the future I hope) they will be handed down to Sprite, who likes to play Barbies too by the way but knows that mommy's are off limits!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Castle Queen, post: 609915, member: 15910"] This is a great thread! I collect Barbie dolls. I played with them for well beyond the year an average girl would give it up- I think I was playing as late as 14 or 15 yrs old. Elaborate soap-opera type screenplays...The collection started when my mother decided it was time to get rid of the old box she'd been storing them in for years. I think I was in my thirties at the time. In anticipation I opened the box but that quickly turned to dismay- my brother had been into the dolls and wrecked many of them as well as the clothes. Only 5 or 6 of my multi-dozen collection were salvageable. I was on a mission to replace my beloved collection from the 70's as closely as I could. Ebay and garage sales are my favorite spots. In the process I fell in love with other Barbie series- the ballerinas, the Gone with the Wind and Eliza Doolittle series, so I have some of those still in the box too. But my favorites are the ones I bought that have been played with but still in good condition for their age. I am still working on some that are harder to find/more prohibitively expensive. Sprite and I will take them out periodically and brush their hair and I will talk about each one, the personality she had back in the day...the names I picked (after all they can't all be "Barbie!" How would you tell them apart?) Someday I will have a curio cabinet for them, and some day (long in the future I hope) they will be handed down to Sprite, who likes to play Barbies too by the way but knows that mommy's are off limits! [/QUOTE]
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