Horrible dolls

Anyone remember Sasha dolls from the 70s-90s they were made in England and Germany and were too expensive for me to buy for my D. They now go for a fortune on eBay.

gillybob,
From looking on Ebay, Cabbage Patch dolls 'born' pre 1985, that are in good condition (no scuffs, stains, ink marks or tears) and clothed in authentic CP outfits (shoes, diaper, etc.), fetch pretty good money. It also looks like the dolls that have the dummy are worth more.

I can't tell you what to do with your doll going forward....all I can say is how much I regret not selling the one I had while I still had the chance.

I have a very well loved but still in good original condition cabbage patch doll that belonged to my DD . My DGD’s played with it too .

I remember my Rosebud doll from the1950’s Iloved her., wish I’d kept her. I quite like the reborn dolls. So lifelike.

In late 2017, I thought it would be nice to refurbish a (35 year old) Cabbage Patch doll that belonged to my D2. I sent it just before Christmas with the caveat that the doll was a collectors item and no longer a toy.

The doll was in very good condition, still in its original diaper albeit the dress had brown stains and fabric had become brittle with age. Doll also had no shoes, socks or signature plastic yellow dummy.

I spent a fortune on Ebay to replace Cabbage Patch shoes, Cabbage Patch doll dress w panties and the (very sought after by collectors) yellow dummy. I also added matching ribbons and white baby socks. I wrapped it very carefully and sent it by mail, over 1500 miles away.

On our last visit for GDs First Communion (May 2018), I recognized the Cabbage Patch dress on a stuffed dog belonging to gd. I later found the doll buried deep inside gd's toy bin. Doll was naked and hair was a tangled mess. Ribbons, shoes, socks and dummy are nowhere to be found.

On average these dolls are worth ~ $100 on Ebay and more if they are in mint condition. To say I was dismayed would be an understatement. To avoid further upset, I decided not to say anything to DD2....it was her doll after all.

I loved all your stories and some were amusing. I love Gransnet!

Ah! That's nice to hear watermeadow. Mine are almost the same age. One of them has one and a half ears. I put her by the fire to keep warm when I was about the same age as you. And her ear caught fire! Funny what you remember isn't it?

I’ve still got my teddy bear too. He’s seventy. I have pictures of him when new, when I was three. I cut the hair on the back of his head, expecting it to regrow.
Teddy is balding and long ago lost his paw pads (replaced with felt ones) and his eyes (replaced with buttons))

I loved the Golly that my Granny knitted and my teddy but never liked plastic dolls. For my 3rd birthday I was given a Red Riding Hood rag doll, also made by Granny, and she was a great success too. I've still got her and have made a copy for my granddaughter who insists that Red Riding Hood's real name is Anna. I've still got Teddy as well, but he is very fragile. Sadly, the moths got Golly but I wouldn't dare give her a copy of him.

I agree with you SSDGM re: those newborns 'dolls'.
I find them utterly creepy too.
I truly hope that I do not upset any Gransnetters when I say this, but when I have seen the advertisements of them, I think that they look as if they are stillborn not newborn because of the features and the fact that they look so floppy.

I would much rather have a Tressy, whose hair GREW thanks to a button in her tummy, and a key to wind it all back in again.

I still have my Rosebud doll from the 1950,s andkept it wrapped up in the wardrobe until recently when I thought why am I not letting my two grand daughters play with it? So now its in the playroom and sometimes played and sometimes not which is fine.

I hated “baby” dolls and they still give me the creeps, although I adored Barbies.

My granny inflicted my auntie’s old plastic baby doll on all the granddaughters. We were all mortally afraid of the thing. There is a family story that I was found as a toddler with a flask of holy water splashing the doll down and praying loudly because it was “bad”.

I have forbidden granny to traumatise her great grandkids with the thing, I’m still halfway convinced it’s a conduit for evil ?

BlueBelle yes those reborn dolls are hideously creepy, and adults spend more on them than kids do! We had a yard sale (I’m American btw) and had a lot of baby girl clothes for sale, one lady bought almost all of the infant clothing, there were loads because we had twin girls and was going on and on about how good they would look on her ‘baby.’ I figured she meant her grandchild or something, it wasn’t until she bought a crib, swing and bassinet that she mentioned she needed more space for her ‘collection.’ I gave a perplexed look and she explained that she had over 20 reborn dolls that were her children, but she swore she wasn’t ‘crazy!!’ Um, lady you just spent over $300 on babygear for a doll. To each their own, but the though of grown adults playing with dolls and treating them like live children give me the creeps.

I kept my daughters’ dolls In case I had a granddaughter. I now have one who says she hates dolls. Yuk! We took them to a boot fair and she enjoyed selling them.

That was supposed to be Worth a pretty penny!

Old Cabbage patch dolls can be washed try a pretty penny on EBay. My daughter told me off or getting rid of her childhood ones.

My granddaughter was mad about Monster High dolls for a while. She had one which she called Draggy Nora. I know that wasn't the correct name but we thought she'd improved on the name!

A similar story to stella1949's.... I have kept my 2 teddy bears from my own childhood but the were both looking their age. I took them to a Doll's Hospital to be restuffed, joints repaired and new eyes. Having paid over £100 I was optimistic my GC would love them. My God! The shrieks of horror were blood curdling! Niether child would even go in the same room that the teddies were in, let alone touch them!
No idea what to do with them now.

One of my problems, is the difficulty in getting pretty baby dolls to knit clothes for. I used to love doing them for School fêtes and Brownie and Guide fund raising raffles. But they are either very expensive or just plain ugly now.

My daughter use to put her brothers action man in the pram much to his horror.

I do not like that everything is a collection, it is not just the doll or soft toy ,the image is put on everything from clothing,stationary,magazines and bedding to name a few. Many times over the years I have bought things in the latest fad for it to be forgotten about within weeks as the new fad come out. I just dont seem to learn.

I'm not fond of the reborn dolls at all they give me the creeps and DGD is scared of them.
My little GGD plays with a Tiny Tears that belonged to my eldest GD (now 21) most days and an Annabelle doll that we bought when we where abroad as it was so much cheaper than here she push's them around in her dollies pram all day long so you have to watch your ankles when she visits.

Corralle and Gotz do some lovely dolls, but just seem to be on line, not in shops.

My DIL adored her Cabbage Patch doll, which I thought hideous. (I didn’t say so.) She kept it lovingly in case she ever had a daughter. The daughter, my granddaughter now aged 6, couldn't be less interested. She only likes bunnies.

One of my own DCs liked dolls the other preferred soft toy 'cuddlies' All 4 DGCs like cuddlies and none played with dolls! The 3 older DGC are very good with babies & small children. The youngest is still wary of younger people!!