Down the Rabbit Hole

 

When Daughter gave me all those Barbies something snapped inside. I've spent the first days of the new year on Ebay buying even more. The prices there are better than anywhere in case you ever needed that knowledge and many sellers are offering free shipping. I bought this one. It was a must for my new collection. This is NOT the one I had. I had the red-haired bubble cut original but this was a close as I could get. This is the one my sister had.

I bought Reproduction Midge. This is the one I had. My youngest sister had that blue green dress and I loved it. Now I'll have one when it gets here. 

I splurged on the two previous dolls because they were not cheap. Then I went looking for dolls under $20 with free shipping and the gates to heaven opened up. I got a 1995 Holiday Barbie and....

....a 1995 Winter Fantasy Barbie.

Finally I just had to have this one. She was only $14 and free shipping. I couldn't resist that. 

All this madness started when I went looking for clothes for the Barbies I had. What I discovered was that current Barbie clothes are TERRIBLE. Back in the day, our Barbies were sophisticated. They dressed like rich women. That's what I wanted but all I found were ugly neon garments that a tween would be wearing. That is so not the Barbie I knew and loved. I did find this decent wedding dress and Walmart had it delivered the next day but that's it in the clothing department. I guess today's Barbie runs around in her bathing suit all day.

None of them are coming out of their boxes until I get a case for them. This is the one I had in the day. I could fit my Barbie, Midge and Skipper in it.

We kept their clothes in the wardrobe that came with the bedroom set we had. 

What I found was this case. It holds six Barbies and has mesh pockets for their gear. I bought two since I soon will be the owner of 9 Barbies and a Midge. Madness I tell you, but I've had more fun in the past few days than I have had all year so I'm going to ignore that crazy alarm that is going off in my head. 

That Barbie movie that started this year's craze. HATED IT. It was definitely a movie for Millennials or Gen Z Barbie fans. That's not the Barbie I knew. As I said before, our Barbies were classy, none of that Malibu Barbie stuff. 

Our Barbies were women not teens and dressed like it. It says a lot about the current state of fashion that they can't even make a Barbie that looks like a contemporary adult. I suppose she'd be in sweat pants with a messy bun with a Starbucks cup in one hand and a phone in the other....lol.

And........The Mister did indeed get good news about his knee. He's now at 120-whatever that means. The surgeon would like to see 125 when he sees him again in 3 months but for now NO MORE PROCEDURES just a few more weeks of PT. I guess those black eyed peas did the trick. In 2022 it was Pup and her hip, 2023 was the year for The Mister's hip and knee so may this please, please be a surgery free year? I'm asking nicely.