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[Imaoldhippie]

My bicycle, it took me everywhere.

[handygal2]

A Barbie doll, and then a Ken to go along with her. I would love to buy outfits for the Barbie, and my mother used to sew outfits for her as well.

My Barbie had a ponytail. I eventually cut her hair and ruined it.   I asked my parents to buy me another one, but they wanted to teach me a lesson. They suggested l write a letter to the Mattel Company, explain my dilemma, and request that if l pay, they might be able to send me a new head for the doll. (They had detachable heads back then, lol).

Sure enough, the company sent back a reply to the letter. I sent them money out of my allowance, and they replaced Barbie's head. Lesson learned-- I never gave another doll a haircut ever again!  

[just bee]

@ciao_bella

Thank you for this thread.  I have to say that my favorite "toy" was the set of World Book Encyclopedia/Childcraft/Dictionary/Cyclo-teacher that my mother bought for us in the 60s.

She waited tables to support us and to this day I have no idea how she managed to buy these.

And what's really amazing is that I remembered the name of the big plastic accessory that came with the books.  How I remembered "Cyclo-teacher" is beyond amazing.

It looked something like this:

That set of books moved from Chicago to Arizona and then to California.  It was the one constant in our lives.  Best gift ever.

[Group 5 minus 1]

My Terri Lee doll.

[LUVNLIFE]

I was Barbie crazy. Also I loved a purple bike my grandpa refurbished for me-freedom and mini adventures. 

[Plaid Pants2]

You know, even though I had a few dolls, I was never really in to them. I was like, "Meh."

Now, give me outdoors time, and that's what made me happy!

My Tonka dump truck, my bicycle, my rollar skates (the kind that you laced up), my swingset.

Happy, happy, happy.

[hckynut]

 Mine was my real Coin Change Machine I wore on my paper route when I was 8 years old. Really got lots of use out of it for that, and even more when I started working as a Carhop when 12 years old. Was not the typical "toy of the day", but it was something I was very happy having, and using almost every day.

[lovescats]

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@AuntG wrote:
Barbie, and all the accessories.

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Oh to have Barbie and all the accessories.

[lovescats]

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@handygal2 wrote:

A Barbie doll, and then a Ken to go along with her. I would love to buy outfits for the Barbie, and my mother used to sew outfits for her as well.

My Barbie had a ponytail. I eventually cut her hair and ruined it.   I asked my parents to buy me another one, but they wanted to teach me a lesson. They suggested l write a letter to the Mattel Company, explain my dilemma, and request that if l pay, they might be able to send me a new head for the doll. (They had detachable heads back then, lol).

Sure enough, the company sent back a reply to the letter. I sent them money out of my allowance, and they replaced Barbie's head. Lesson learned-- I never gave another doll a haircut ever again!  

@handygal2

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I remember when Barbies were $3.00 but the accessories cost so much.  Do you remember how much you had to pay for the head?   I had the bubble hairdo barbie but I removed her face with fingernail polish but I still had a Midge doll that I didn't ruin.

[RainCityWoman]

I really can't remember any gift that really stood out. My family didn't go overboard with gifts under the tree, but I usually got at least one thing I really wanted. One of the "toys" that I always had because they were inexpensive and had many renditions was paper dolls. They were usually patterned after some actress and there were all kinds of clothes that you would cut out and fit onto the doll with tabs. But what I really liked about paper dolls was I could design them other clothes which were trendy and my taste. I had a huge set of colored pencils, and I would sketch the designs I wanted after I traced around the doll's shape. I spent many hours in my own little design world.