IAM such a paper doll junkie

I can relate to the many paper dolls i played with as a child. i was fascinated by them. i played with them until the paper edges of the dolls began to fray. Sometimes i miss those wonderful paper doll days!

heavens - you have brought back some memories! I used t love paper dolls and would cut out the clothes and hang them on the dolls. sometimes I received the better quit books so that the dolls would stand upright. Otherwise I would just prop then against books and admire them or act out plays with them. My daughter loved them too and acquired from my sister Victorian paper doll books which were valuable. I would love to have then now but they were destroyed in a big hurricane we had in 1988

Oh I used to LOVE paper dolls. I played with them all the time. The ones I remember the most were the Princess Diana paper dolls. Kate Middleton is great, but I bet she isn't a paper doll! Of course this was before the divorce and everything when I got them. I haven't seen paper dolls in ages. I wish I had kept mine. They were probably pretty raggedy though because my sister and I played with them so much.

My sister and I LOVED paper dolls! Our most favorite time was when we'd go on family camping trips or extended vacations...we were allowed to buy a new "set" of dolls to take with us. Back in the day...they came with a folder cover kind of thing...and the front and back cover flaps had a pouch for the dolls and clothes. There was this one that we got, never forget it....it had 6 dolls and a ton of clothes and we got that one and the front and back had a pouch each and she got one and I got the other and we split the dolls and clothes and then dreamed up a clothes stores, and we'd have them go to the store (didn't know about MALLS back then!) and we'd make a clothes store of our less favorite clothes and make them buy and sell and that was how we switched clothes for them all! I tried to get some from my grand duaghter few years ago, but couldnt' find much. I ended up going with the scrapbook Sizzix "paper dolls" and clothes and she liked those, but it just wasn't the same!

I do have something I treasure but I don't recall from where. My birth parents don't recall me having one, so it could have been while in a foster home. It is a Jack In The Box. I just find something comforting about it. It has to be from a time in my childhood when I felt secure. I take it out and play with it when I am upset and it makes me feel better. I too had dolls, even paper dolls. But being a tomboy I didn't play with them much. You would usually find me sitting in a tree. I still collect stuffed animals. Just a few. Some are things that I bought in memory of a friend that passed. For example a pink gorilla with a pink rose. One dear friend used to tease me so about pink. It wasn't one of my favorite colors. She would be so proud of me as I wear it often now.

I used to have Doris Day paper dolls that I wore out. We all have things we like to collect. For me it is real unicorns and victorian things. I had a Barbie, one of the original ones when I was young and loved to play with it. I had made all manner of clothes for it and it was my treasure. When I got older I gave to my best friend's younger sister.

I used to love paper dolls too but it was not often I got the chance to play with them. I certainly was never in a position to collect them. I did collect stamps though and I have a lot. I'm a bit sad though because I have no one to give them to as stamp collecting seems to be old fashioned these days. I would sell them only I don't know the value and I'm not interested enough to do all the research to find out.

that was one of the toys i really liked to play with when i was young. as for me, i still love to blow bubbles with my kids (even though they are teenagers) its fun to blow bubbles outside during the summer.

As a child I loved paper dolls and real dolls. In one of classes I had a set of Victorian paper dolls and paper clothes for the children to dress them in. I loved that activity and the children really enjoyed it too. As a class we made a giant model of Florence Nightingale. Some Year 6 children made the model and we decorated her. I have got a collection of porcelain dolls.

Ohhhhh I remember having paper dolls when I was a kid!! I forgot about those till you posted your discussion! They were so neat! You could change their clothes so easily but the bad side was, the dolls and clothes would tear so easily after a while but thank God there was scotch tape! LOL My favorite thing as a kid was Raggedy Ann and Andy. I had everything a child could want! Bed spread, blanket, sheets, curtains, all the dolls in all their sizes, coat rack, trash can, nic nac's, a lamp, clothes, and anything else you can think of! LOL I still have most of my dolls. I'll never get rid of them!

OH!! Bunny i am into paper dolls too!! i could remember when i was in fourth grade i kept on pestering my mom to buy me more! hahahahah i had like loads of it! and there was a time when i learned how to make one my own. i would often find a hard card board and draw the dolls myself ( yes i am that artistic lol) and i would make their own clothes!!! it was sooooo fun but i really do not know where they are now must have given them to a friend or something..and now that i have a daughter, i taught her how to make but since she is not that good in cutting i cut it myself and make dresses for it..

I think you and my mom would have gotten along very well. She always loved paper dolls, too. I think I received them as gifts so that she could play with them. My favorite thing was crayons. When I got a new box of Crayola crayons, the BIG box of 64 colors, I'd be busy for days. And weeks. Crayons today are not like they used to be. Seems like they are waxier, and have less color. If they made paper doll clothes that needed to be colored, we'd make a great pair!

I haven't seen paper dolls in forever, but I remember being very little and getting paper doll books. You could color then and their clothes and then punch them out and play with them. I loved them. They were a lot of fun.

Oh my you mean I was not the only one. As a child in the foster care system I had no toys. I use to make so many of my own and remember I use to say I was going to be a fashion designer. Although I love fashion and still do never got in to the fashion designing world. I have no idea what I did with mine, from back in the day. But I remember having a special shoe box and had so many different styles I use to dress my paper dolls in. I remember my daughter and I sitting for hours dressing the paper dolls. My son has a paper boy as he was younger and use to play with us as well. lol

Hi bunnybon! I used to love playing with paper dolls, too! I had lots of them when I was a kid. I loved making them and making clothes. In fact, there was once a time that I wanted to be a fashion designer and my family was encouraging me to be one because of that hobby.^^ But I lost interested eventually. I really did love it though. I remember I was heartbroken and very angry with my friend's sister because she ruined one of my best paper dolls. Until now actually, I am still indifferent to that person. ..

I don't think it is childish at all. There are people that collect matchbox cars, NASCAR memorabilia, antique dolls, etc. And if you can't enjoy what you collect, why do you do it?! If I were you I would Xerox the stuff and play with them! I know this might be difficult if they are in packages but dang, why deny yourself a good time? Open one up and have some fun! I played with them a bit when I was young but I preferred the Colorforms dolls/figures. They were plastic pieces that stuck to each other and you could play with and put together shapes, people, funny monsters, Looney Tunes characters and the like. I wish I could find some now, I'd love to give them to my brother's child!

Good mornimg, Bon. Thanks for this discussion, brought back wonderful memories. My late sister loved playing paper dolls. Whenever it was her turn to pick out what we were going to play it was always peper dolls.I didn't know they still made the,. Would like to get my grandaughters some.

Hi bunny, I can't say your hobby as childish. It's childlike. Every person has a childlike feeling. For this reason humans never get old in mind. I have no such hobby. But I appreciate your 'childish' hobby.