A Friend From My Childhood...

I loved playing with Barbie dolls I had a few and I had the pink convertible and I had a swimming pool you could really put water in plus some clothes I didn't had the dream house though.
The only barbie I have now is one that was my grandmothers when she was a child it is put up as I think it might be a collectors item.
My little girl doesn't seem to really like barbies she has a few but dosen't pay that much attention to them.

I bought all those accessories for my daughter when she was a child. But she never liked Barbie. I used to play with paper dolls and their cutout clothes.

I decided in my 50's that I wanted to be Barbie. She has more stuff than I ever would have and a figure to die for. But changed my mind later and now she's 49 years old. So what's next...Menopausal Barbie? Bankrupt Barbie? She never really did learn the value of money management you know. And I think Ken left her for a younger girl...Skipper maybe?

Too much like real life.

I had a barbie when I was younger, but I was never really into them. I played with her on occasion, but since I had no one to play with most of the time, it wasn't really fun. I guess I was more of a tomboy in those days lol.

I do know why she had so many jobs, and you know that she didn't always have them. Oprah was a big influence in Barbie getting so many careers. I forget when she said it, but she said that she didn't like Barbie. Little girls are patterning themselves after Barbie because she looks nice, has pretty houses and fancy cars; where is all this money coming from? Barbie is teaching little girls to live off of their husbands, because I have never heard of Barbie having a job.

Soon after is when Barbie became a Doctor, a Teacher, A Dentist, an Astronaut, etc. So that solved the problem of where the money was coming from. I still have one question though. Where is Barbie getting all these sisters, and Ken his brothers, and we have never seen the parents? Are these Barbie and Ken's kids, and they don't want to tell anybody lol?

I use to own the original barbie's but sold them several years back for some great cash on e-bay. They are worth quite a bit if in good condition. Mine were in mint condition. My aunt Leslie sewed me all my barbie's clothes, we never had to buy any. I didn't have any of her accessories, car,house,etc. I still love to play with dolls...Lori

I have to admit that I had several barbies,but I was never excited about playing with my barbies. I enjoyed jump rope and playing cards with my friends more.

Hi everyone. I should'nt have even replied to this post. I loved my Barbie dolls too. I am so sick at what collectors are paying for them now. Especially, ones from the late 60's and 70's which I had. Being a Army brat, sometimes old toys had to be sacrificed for space for relocation or for new ones. I was blessed to have a mother who would scrimp and save and work any kind of little part-time job so that I could have the latest Barbie and things for my birthdays and Xmases. I not only had Barbie, I had Skipper and Christie. I had to have Christie, because she was (don't quote me) the first African-American doll of this type. Of course, my brother had G.I. Joe and sometimes I would let my "girls" ride around in his jeep.(smile) I never asked for the Barbie car, a little too much pink for me. I would have liked to have had the dreamhouse, but that would have made me have to chose between another doll of some clothes. So I made my own with doll furniture from another source. Like you I could play with them by myself for hours. I think that when I get settled again in a large enough place, I want to start collecting the large beautifully dressed ones that some places sell now. I didn't want Ken, he was too stiff and boring for me. (smile) I never told anyone, but they really liked G.I. Joe better! (smile)

My sister and I had barbies, and one thing I learned is don't take their blonde ponytail out, LOL cause umm they're bald on top, and it took my mother forever to fix her ponytail. We were lucky, my mom and a friend of her's made barbie clothes, from fancy wedding dresses to evening gowns to business suits, and even though they sold them, we got our fair share. Most of them were made from high end material that my great-aunt had made a dress or gown out of for the rich ladies in Oakcliff, outside of Dallas. I still have about 4 of our barbies packed away. I don't think it has any bad effects on girls' self-esteem.

I had one Barbie. That is all that my father would buy me. I didn't have alot of the accessories, as he didn't believe in wasting his money on that. But the Barbie I had was one of the first ones. She had short black curly hair and she wore a black n white bathing suit.
My girlfriend across the street had oodles of them. Her mom use to make clothes for hers so her and I would always go to her playhouse and play there for hours.
On rainy days I would play with what I had in the living, pretending she was always going out dancing.
I didn't have a Ken doll, wasn't allowed to have it.
When my daughters came along I made sure they had what I didn't have, and I also learned how to make Barbie clothes. I either sewed them or crochet them. Theyhad as many accessories as I could get for them.
My son was into GIjoes, so he got what ever I could for them.
Once my granddaughter came she got everything and anything, that her mom hadn't saved for her. She has at least 25 collectibles that she will one day hopefully pass down to her own daughter.
I see nothing wrong with having Barbies. It's part of being a girl.
Have a great afternoon!

I tear the arms off Barbie dolls. They annoy me no end.
When I was eleven I wanted a Barbie so bad I could taste it. All my friends had one. On my birthday - there it was. A shoe box shaped gift just perfect for holding a Barbie doll. I opened it, tore away the tissue lining it and found my first -----------BROWNIE CAMERA? Oh boo hoo, hoo! I cried for days and never did get a Barbie. I'm a right good photographer now, but Barbie's lose their arms because they annoy me no end! LOL

Well when I was a little girl I wasn't allowed to have a Barbie. I had my raggedy ann doll that I loved to death. My mom told me that I played the life out of it. I weanted a barbie so bad! I now collect Barbies. I bought a lot on e-bay and my friends and family buy them for me. I have an entire bedroom full of barbies ... coca cola barbie, harley barbie, black and white bathing suit barbie, halloween barbie, barbie in a wheelchair (I use a wheelchair), olympics barbie, sees candy barbie, holiday barbie, wedding barbie etc. I also collect the hallmark ornaments barbies. I have gotten box lots full of barbies and dress them. Some of them have their toes and hands bitten off. A friend of mine made a lot of barbie clothes for me from a vintage pattern of barbie clothes that I got on e-bay. I used to work in a plastics factory and I made the barbie doll legs!