I can remember buying my first Barbie. This is during the time period I lived in a very tiny town in Alabama. I saved up my money, took my piggy bank to Sears (which was only a place where you placed your order - no actual store) and bought a "Midge". I was in heaven!!
Posts: 5772 | Location: Kentucky | Registered: December 30, 2004
I always wanted Midge. But I had Barbie and Ken. HaHa, my Ken doll had kind of a fuzzy blond fuzz for hair THAT RUBBED OFF!!!!!! He was BALD!!! My sister's Ken had brown plastic "hair"--really just paint, I guess.
I wanted EVERYTHING Barbie---the Barbie Dream House, the Barbie car, the clothes, EVERYTHING! I had only Barbie in the striped bathing suit with one official Barbie outfit. My mom had made some clothes with leftover scraps of fabric that she had.
I bought Barbies for my older daughter but somehow she never quite fell in love with her. Perhaps because one of her brothers always chewed the feet off. Tough to play dress-up without any feet.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Every day is "Anything Can Happen Day!"
Posts: 2052 | Location: Crook County | Registered: June 07, 2005
Originally posted by lafmom: I can remember buying my first Barbie. This is during the time period I lived in a very tiny town in Alabama. I saved up my money, took my piggy bank to Sears (which was only a place where you placed your order - no actual store) and bought a "Midge". I was in heaven!!
I loved Midge, too! I think My mom (She's 84) still has my Midge! I loved her turned up nose and freckles.
And, I never got a Ken , G.I. Joe had to play the role of the male-man ....
"Do what is right, no matter the circumstance."
Posts: 1556 | Location: South Denton Co., Texas | Registered: January 12, 2006
I don't know if I ever had a "real" barbie. My sister and I had the generic version. My Mom was a seamstress at the time and she made beautiful clothes for our generic barbies so that made up for it.
Gotwood, yes plastic glaciers
Posts: 326 | Location: Louisiana | Registered: July 03, 2006
Gals, I had a HUGE Barbie collection. After my Midge ordered from Sears, we moved back to KY where my grand and great grandparents bought them regularly for me. I had the pop up tent, the camper, every Ken, Skipper, etc. I would spread them out on my great grandmother's kitchen table which was their house and play for hours.
Years later, when I was too old for Barbies, my mom left all my collection at a place we lived. All of it GONE! I still have an issue with that today! LOL
Posts: 5772 | Location: Kentucky | Registered: December 30, 2004
I had one of those barbies with painted on hair too, she came with a bunch of wigs, all colors of hair, which quickly matted in to a mess! My older daughter played with her but now she lives in the back of her closet. Not to worry, we cut a hole in the box before storing her so she could "breathe"!
Posts: 198 | Location: CA | Registered: February 25, 2008
I had the Francie "Barbie" Doll because my cousin had all the Barbie's and we couldn't have the same according to grandma.
Grandpa even made real furtinure for all the dolls & we had the camper and the air plane and the house, Til that Malibu Barbie with her suntan moved in, took ken away. lol What fun that used to be.
"Sure they get the hits, make the outs, score the runs, strike em out and get the glory!" "But who drove?"
Posts: 354 | Location: StL,Mo | Registered: September 07, 2007
I used to go to church on Sunday night and pray that the Barbie game was under my bed when I got home...it never was, but I had a cousin that had it, and I got my fill that way! I'm a d*o*r*k, andI've never seen Michael before!
"Do what is right, no matter the circumstance."
Posts: 1556 | Location: South Denton Co., Texas | Registered: January 12, 2006
ahhhh, Barbie. I loved my Barbies. I had a little suitcase thingy for it that folded out into a mini house/apartment. I had a car and a swimming pool. One year for Christmas, my mom made a ton of clothes for Barbie. I used to sit and watch her at night and wish they were for me, but she told me they were for my cousin. I was so surprised on Christmas to find that they were mine.
I loved the clothes but when I went back to school and all the other girls got new store-bought clothes I was wishing I had store bought clothes too. Many years later, my friends told me how jealous they were of my custom clothes. Kinda funny since I was jealous of theirs!
I still have them in my basement, just can't get rid of them, reminds me of my childhood and my mommy.
Poindexter is cute now, wasn't then!
Posts: 194 | Location: Central Missouri | Registered: December 20, 2005
My mom had made some clothes with leftover scraps of fabric that she had.
, G.I. Joe had to play the role of the male-man 
....
