What childhood toy/doll do you remember the most and cherish?

Dressy Bessy has her place on my list of favorite childhood toys. Her red, polished plastic vest was equipped with a shiny zipper which I used more as a musical instrument than I did a clasp to keep the vest together. Concealed by the red vest was a denim shirt with large, vividly colored buttons which I loved to manipulate into place in the button hole on the opposite side. The buttons were so big against my little fingers. Dressy Bessy’s little blue shoes came with long, thick laces - helping me learn to tie my own shoes. Dressy Bessy, I loved her. Next on my list of favorites would be the ever adored Baby Alive. This doll truly ate real food (not to mention little girl fingertips) and required diaper changes. Her only shortcoming was that she, unlike Dressy Bessy, required batteries. I had to wait for my older sister to decide to get rid of Baby Alive before I could call her my own. I loved her like my own. I even had an adoption ceremony for which Dressy Bessy and I made cookies and cakes from my Easy Bake oven, another favorite toy.The Easy Bake oven allowed me to explore my domestic tendencies. I loved to be in the kitchen, creating. The biggest drawback to the Easy Bake oven, other than that it, too, required batteries, was that it was a toy which required adult supervision of which there was little. To this day, there’s no smell I love more than goodies baking in the oven.

I had barbies and my little ponies when I was a kid. And also those little metal cards, legos also. I remember when our dogs ate the legs from those barbie dolls, lol! And my parents threw my little ponies away. Sob.

I loved my my little ponies and that has never passed. Even though I have outgrown playing with them I still have my childhood ponies and I am also an active collector of the vintage my little ponies from the 80's and 90's. As a kid I had little friends, but as long as my ponies were around I was a happy little camper. Toys can have an important role in a childs life and for me my ponies were the prettiest things I could have possessed as a child. I never cut their hair or anything, I was awfully picky about who could play with them and I was sure to bath and groom them regularly so they would stay pretty. Some are in excellent, mint collector state because of how I took care of them. I am still pretty proud of them, it is funny to think back an realize that even back then I was starting to collect them and be so protective of them.