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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
s/o dolls: Barbies
Did you have Barbies as a kid? Were you into them/did you play with them a lot? I remember seeing commercials for Barbies and my friends having them. I begged my mom for one and finally got it for Christmas one year...and after an hour or so I thought it was the most boring thing ever. I guess dolls just weren't my thing. How about you?
Re: s/o dolls: Barbies
I had a HUGE collection of barbies and my little ponies that I usually played with together. The dolls were riding the ponies in competitions.
I guess I was big into dolls, but I'd play with pretty much anything and everything. I was also quite committed to my Hot Wheels and playing house. Reading was also something I did all the time. I'd read through tons of Boxcar Children, Animorphs, and Babysitter's Club by the time I was 8/9.
I played with barbies regularly. Usually my brothers and I would have barbie/G.I. Joe armies and battle against each other. Barbie usually won.
I still have all of my barbies with their original clothing in a box at my parents house. I also have all of my mom's barbies from the early 60's with their clothing, and a few Ken dolls.
I love the Boxcar Children. Babysitter's Club was pretty cool until they started to add new characters.
I had some Barbies but I was more interested in extra things that would be included with the Barbie like lip gloss.
Despite being a huge tomboy growing up, I absolutely loved Barbies. I didn't have very many, but my cousin had a huge collection and I used to spend hours playing with them at her house.
I always told stories with them. The Barbies had names and back histories. They were friends, got in fights, got divorced. I also told stories with leaves, sticks, and pages of catalogues that I would tear into the shapes of people.
Looking back on it, I probably dealt with a lot of my issues as a child by playing with Barbies. My parents were separated but not divorced for six years (rather confusing to a child) and ambiguous relationships were a common theme in my stories. I also had a doll who had cancer, so I probably knew someone at the time who had that (and later several relatives died of the disease). I even cut that Barbies hair very short--the post chemo look.
I had tons of them but was not really into playing with it, was boring to me, gave most of them away to poor children few years ago though. Not the nice ones, lol I still have them, in a box, with their clothes. But I was never into Barbie Dolls, more like those baby dolls that really looks like babies. I have no idea how you ladies call it there?
I used to pretend that I had a baby, and my dad even built a small house for me when I was kid, so I'd put all of my ''babies'' there and pretend that it was my house. It was a phase though, I then gave up on it and went to play games like a boy. I was weird lol