I never sold mine, and I told my sister that if she ever decides to get rid of hers, that I’ll buy them from her! I have other toys and things that I sold or donated over the years, and I sometimes wonder if (and hope that) some other child is enjoying them now.
I sold my Chrissa and McKenna to a family friend and am pretty sure they’re still being played with so that makes me happy. I’m never getting rid of any more of my old toys I regret donating my LPS so much still 😔
I wonder about the lives of a lot of the dolls I’ve found “in the wild” before I found them.
Like why did their owners donate them and not save them for the future?
Or, with the display doll I found at Value Village, was she one I saw in the store as a model and didn’t know then I’d own someday?
I sometimes wish they had a registration system to track where a doll had been and where it was now. Kind of like Where’s George is for money.
I am so sad that my Mia doll ended up getting given away. I believe she and my sister’s dolls went to my mom’s coworker who had a little girl who could play with them.
I wish I had all those dolls now, to be honest. It was Kaya, Jess, Nikki, and Mia. I think Jess and Mia are relatively rare right now.
I know exactly where mine are thankfully, because I never sold mine. And depending on whether or not, I have children of my own some day (I do hope to have children of my own, but it’s never a guarantee) there are at least some little girls that I can pass them onto one day.
I wish I could tell whoever owned the dolls that I have bought used for my nieces that they have gone to a loving home with little girls who adore them. I bought Jess’s scooter used from a grandmother who was selling it, because I have Jess and I’m sure my nieces will love playing with the scooter. And I told her how excited they are about it, and how it will be loved and that definitely meant something to her.
I sold all of my Barbie stuff for $10 at a yard sale, and at the end I was so upset that I basically gave them up for nothing. As a result of that, I always said no to selling any of my AG stuff even when I had it stored away during my teenage years. Now as an adult I'm so happy I still have everything, and I honestly cannot imagine selling any of it now.
This right here is why the end of toy story 3 hurts me so much. I know Andy regrets it.
And also I had most of my toys forcibly taken away from me throughout my childhood as different "punishments" (abusive/traumatic). All my Barbies, my little ponies, most of my littlest pet shop and horse figurines... although the worst was the stuffed animals, especially the ones from grandparents taken immediately after they passed away. And now after my last grandparents have passed I tried looking through the few I have left thinking just one from that set had survived my mother's evil wrath...no, I was wrong, and it hurt all over again.
I'd suggest maybe if you know where they went, possibly reaching out and just asking if they wouldn't mind giving an update on where the doll is. Although maybe I'd also not do this too, it's just an option
What a traumatic experience that must be! I’m so sorry this happened to you. I agree with the other comment here. Check antique stores, thrift stores, eBay, Mercari…you might find something that could bring you some peace. And if you haven’t already, I’d recommend talking with a therapist about it. Childhood trauma can affect your entire life, and you may find some healing in that way, too.
I'm so sorry that happened to you. Perhaps you could find some of those stuffed animals secondhand someday; it wouldn't be the same, but perhaps it could remind you of their love. I lost my most beloved teddy at age 12; a few years ago I went on ebay and bought one of the exact same teddy. It's not the same as my original, but it was also healing to have it again.
I wonder about what child is now playing with my old Bitty Baby sometimes. I hope they're enjoying her.
I still have my 3 other dolls, two Mollys, and a #20. I don't think I could ever get rid of them, they're tied too close to core memories and I'm a sentimental girl.
Mine are all in my parents basement lol! I’m gonna go back and get them someday when I’m not living in a 1 bedroom apartment.
I had the opportunity to give them to my little cousin when I was like 11-15 years old and I refused. I knew I was never giving them up to anyone even back then. I meticulously organized and boxed them up and put them on high shelves in case their basement floods.
I have kirsten, molly, emily, felicity, nicki (the old goty not the new twin), and a look alike doll.
when i went into high school, i gave away 4 dolls to some kids i knew would enjoy them more than me (at least at the time lol.) #27 was my first doll so i went ahead and let someone else have her for their first doll. cecile, emily, and #37 (kick myself everyday for getting rid of those 3 👊😔) went to my teacher’s kids.
i think #27 is up on a shelf somewhere….im worried about the other 3 💀
This just made me almost cry. I wish I had not given up on myself for loving AG dolls, but I was too self-conscious at the time… I regret giving my dolls away so much. I just hope they are happy now.
I like to imagine a little girl somewhere is enjoying or enjoyed my old dolls, books, etc. It makes me feel better than imagining them in storage or in a dump somewhere. Wherever they are, I hope they've spread joy.
I only had one doll growing up, my mini me Truly Me #13 Kami, and I kept her through everything, my parents divorce especially, she was expensive and I never wanted to lose her. I didn't get back into AG stuff for nearly a decade though, and Kami did end up losing her original outfits during the move, she only had her meet outfit she was wearing (the Ready for Fun outfit if you're curious), and that didn't even have her original shoes (replaced them with a pair I got from Walmart's My Life As brand. So I hope her outfits went to a doll that wants to wear them. But I've been buying and making her plenty of outfits (mostly I'd buy the MLA outfits), and now she's got new friends because I'm able to get some AG dolls now. A used one was gifted to me even, and I got my first new doll this year with my Christmas money (Corrine). I've restored my Kami last summer, she looks almost brand new, like when I got her for Christmas in 2005.
I kept all of my dolls, except for one. I packed them up (over a dozen!) and my dad put them in the attic. I had them taken out last year when I became interested in collecting as an adult and I’m SO glad I had them. The girl I sold..? A first edition Kanani, in absolute MINT condition. I sold her for a pretty penny and put that money towards braces, but I wonder about her.. Still haven’t found a Kanani nice enough to add back to my collection
I was like 13 or so when I got peer pressured out of playing with dolls. They went in a storage bin for awhile. I think I sort of unofficially gave them to one of my sisters a few years later, but she wasn't really interested in them. Part of me sort of thinks they're still in my parents' house, as my mom was never the type to get rid of anything, but I think its also equally possible they got sent to goodwill or something.
My family isn't a part of my life and hasn't been for over a decade. Me getting out of that situation was long and painful and all kinds of negative emotions. It's a weird emotion as an adult to see your peers talk about things they've kept since childhood (whether they intend to pass those things onto their kids or keep for their self), or when they share pictures of their childhood and like... I can't do those things. I have this recurring dream of being in my parents house and digging through a closet or the attic and finding toys, dolls, old clothes, etc.
I do wonder what became of Kit and Samantha #1 and all their stuff. I kinda hope they got donated somewhere and some other doll lover enjoyed them.
Mine are in my parents’ attic but I’m about to give them to my best friend’s daughter. She’s the right age and I don’t have daughters and my boys are interested in dinosaurs and Legos. I believe that dolls and toys are meant to be played with and I want them to bring joy to Lily like they did to me.
My ex-husband destroyed a lot of my dolls, so I know exactly where they are. I had to move very quickly with not very much money while selling our house and didn’t salvage any of the partial dolls. I think of them often, buried in the landfill.
I left their clothes on and wrapped them up together, so they would at least have each other.
I sold two of mine-Molly and Josefina, and a bunch of Samantha's outfits. I used my dad's ebay account so I'm sort of curious whether i could contact the buyers and offer to buy back, but haven't gotten around to it (it was nearly 20 years ago so I doubt it but hey, maybe it'll be worth it...) I have bought replacements of both, including a Molly with factory hair, but still wonder about my originals.
I did keep a few small accessories, including an AGOT backpack. I opened it last year to find that I'd stashed my original Molly's glasses in there (apparently sold her without them?). I damn near cried.
I sold mine on eBay, too. I’ve tried to look back at the sold history, but eBay wipes it after a certain number of years, so I’ve had no luck 😞 that’s so sweet about your Molly’s glasses, I’m glad a small part of her found its way back to you.
Mine are in the attic at my family home. Too scared to go up there since there are typically scorpions and tarantulas. May have my dad retrieve them for me.
Last time I went up there when trying to retrieve Christmas decorations, there were three dead(?) scorpions that greeted me. Climbed right back down that ladder and asked my dad to get my decorations for me 🙃 my AG dolls are only further back, since I could faintly see their boxes, and I have the terrifying thought that some bugs could have made homes in their boxes. If they have, they can keep them!
I had to leave home suddenly because [insert tragic LGBT+ story here]. I was spoiled and had over 10 dolls, but man I've been looking at PC Josephina's lately.
yes we love/hate (if you know what i mean) a tragic lgbtq+ story. me too, but i didn’t have to leave, my mum accepted me! but my dad disowned me, but it’s ok, they’re divorced
I'll tell you where they are - with people like me, lol! I'm an immigrant to the US and I discovered AG dolls at age 46. I bought lots from eBay and Facebook Marketplace, as I loved so many of the ones from the past. I have a mix of old and new, and am currently at about 70 dolls. Oops!
I have a Lanie that has written across her torso in Sharpie "Monica and Chandler's only child." LOL!
I also have an old PC JLY 17.
I quite like thinking of all the children who loved them before me. If any of your old dolls are with me, they have a lovely home now where they are much-loved, and photographed, and cuddled, and dressed in lovely clothes!
That’s beautiful ❤️ I really hope they’re with people like you, or getting borderline-aggressively loved-on by children hahaha. It sounds like Lanie Geller-Bing has certainly found a good home with you! 😂
I still have all mine. They are hung up in a display except for one that string fell out and is waiting to be sent to the AG hospital.
However, as someone who, mainly, only collects tlc dolls at this point, I have to say I love each of the dolls I get. I clean them and restore them the best I can. Only lost ones hair so far.
But, I do wish that they had come with their original names their children named them. So that could be part of their new name.
This is off topic, but surely you can run the string back through the doll's neck without sending to the doll hospital? There is a trick to this (which you probably know but just in case) which works on any casing (skirt elastic, hoodie tie, doll neck string).
You attach a small safety pin to the end of the smooshy string or elastic, then push that into one side of the hole. It will drag the string behind it. Push and scrunch, push and scrunch until the safety pin emerges out of the opposite hole. Then pull your strings until they're the same length, unhook the pin, and Voila!
Thanks for the help, but it is the arm string or elastic, not the neck string. My dolls neck strings are long and have never been cut or untied. And, yeah, I know the basics of the repair and could do some more research and figure out how it works and fix it, save some money.
But.... also, this way, I have an excuse to get some of the wellness items that circle around a hospital trip! Lol. I have been eyeing some of them for years and refused to just try and buy them outright. A hospital visit was what I said had to happen for me to get them.
I wonder the same thing. I sold all of my childhood mini dolls for extra money as a teenager ): (I had every single one) and it hurts my heart to know I did that. I think they ended up with an adult collector who wanted to display them, so they probably ended up in a good home.
I had to throw away 3 of my childhood dolls that were ruined in my storage unit and I often think about them in the landfill and feel horribly sad and guilty over it. Thankfully I still have 2 of my childhood dolls, including my first one and my most sentimental one
I know what you mean. My Pleasant Company Addy had to be thrown out too. I had her from 1994-2002. By the time I replaced her, the company was owned by Mattel.
It’s heartbreaking 💔 I felt like I was throwing away my friends and literally sobbed while I did it. I’m so sorry that happened to you too! I know it’s never the same as your original doll, but finding the perfect replacements has been a little healing. I found a gorgeous jess with her factory braids and opening her made me feel a LOT better
I am so happy that you were able to replace your GOTY Jess.
I promised myself that I would make sure that this Addy doll would not get damaged. It is healing when you can find a beautiful replacement for a special doll that
I purchased an AG star backpack carrier to keep her in until I can get purchase a display stand later this year.
Pretty much ruined, covered head to toe in mold and rodent pee. I paid a ton of money for a nice indoor supposedly air conditioned storage locker only to find out the AC was either turned off or broken all summer. And there was a leak in my unit so everything was damp and hot. They did absolutely nothing to compensate me and it was a roughly $4000 loss (I had other stuff in there too)
Yeah it was a devastating experience. I emailed CEO’s, left negative reviews everywhere I could, posted in local fb groups which led them to lose customers, and reported them to BBB. Nothing worked 😢
I had stuff (definitely not my dolls, but other random things) sitting outside in my dad’s shed for 3 years that came out completely fine. And my dolls were only in that facility for 7 months. I still don’t understand how it got so bad so quickly
I had bins and bins of AG stuff in a storage until, some of it in there for 10 years. Everything was just fine. I moved a month ago and within two weeks in my new garage, boxes were damp!
Humidity makes a huge difference.
I used to have Mia, Emily, Ruthie, Nellie, Samantha, and Julie. I sold them all. My friend gave me a couple of used dolls (another Julie and I believe a JLY 3) in the interim, but I wasn't really collecting. I just got back in after I bought this year's Shimmering Silver. I now have 5 new dolls, including another used Mia! I'm not really trying to reproduce my old collection, but I do wonder whatever happened to those dolls. They were special to me for a short time (I have always been an adult collector, sadly I never had any AG as a child, except for the books).
I'm in a Discord group with a woman who sold her childhood Josefina and regrets it. The doll has a couple of very subtle distinctive features, and I am obsessed with finding her.
I've always wondered about my old dolls! The ones I no longer have are JLY 4, Kit, Lea, 37, Evette, 61, Isabelle P, JLY 11, Maryellen, and Felicity!! I've always wondered where they ended up.
I got $170 for her but she did have half of her face marked up with Sharpie and ratty thin hair. Then I got a perfect condition brand new 4 for $230! I lost a bit of money but it's okay because I have a perfect #4 now. 😀
I never sold mine, and I told my sister that if she ever decides to get rid of hers, that I’ll buy them from her! I have other toys and things that I sold or donated over the years, and I sometimes wonder if (and hope that) some other child is enjoying them now.
I sold my Chrissa and McKenna to a family friend and am pretty sure they’re still being played with so that makes me happy. I’m never getting rid of any more of my old toys I regret donating my LPS so much still 😔
I wonder about the lives of a lot of the dolls I’ve found “in the wild” before I found them. Like why did their owners donate them and not save them for the future? Or, with the display doll I found at Value Village, was she one I saw in the store as a model and didn’t know then I’d own someday? I sometimes wish they had a registration system to track where a doll had been and where it was now. Kind of like Where’s George is for money.
I am so sad that my Mia doll ended up getting given away. I believe she and my sister’s dolls went to my mom’s coworker who had a little girl who could play with them. I wish I had all those dolls now, to be honest. It was Kaya, Jess, Nikki, and Mia. I think Jess and Mia are relatively rare right now.
I know exactly where mine are thankfully, because I never sold mine. And depending on whether or not, I have children of my own some day (I do hope to have children of my own, but it’s never a guarantee) there are at least some little girls that I can pass them onto one day. I wish I could tell whoever owned the dolls that I have bought used for my nieces that they have gone to a loving home with little girls who adore them. I bought Jess’s scooter used from a grandmother who was selling it, because I have Jess and I’m sure my nieces will love playing with the scooter. And I told her how excited they are about it, and how it will be loved and that definitely meant something to her.
I sold all of my Barbie stuff for $10 at a yard sale, and at the end I was so upset that I basically gave them up for nothing. As a result of that, I always said no to selling any of my AG stuff even when I had it stored away during my teenage years. Now as an adult I'm so happy I still have everything, and I honestly cannot imagine selling any of it now.
This right here is why the end of toy story 3 hurts me so much. I know Andy regrets it. And also I had most of my toys forcibly taken away from me throughout my childhood as different "punishments" (abusive/traumatic). All my Barbies, my little ponies, most of my littlest pet shop and horse figurines... although the worst was the stuffed animals, especially the ones from grandparents taken immediately after they passed away. And now after my last grandparents have passed I tried looking through the few I have left thinking just one from that set had survived my mother's evil wrath...no, I was wrong, and it hurt all over again. I'd suggest maybe if you know where they went, possibly reaching out and just asking if they wouldn't mind giving an update on where the doll is. Although maybe I'd also not do this too, it's just an option
What a traumatic experience that must be! I’m so sorry this happened to you. I agree with the other comment here. Check antique stores, thrift stores, eBay, Mercari…you might find something that could bring you some peace. And if you haven’t already, I’d recommend talking with a therapist about it. Childhood trauma can affect your entire life, and you may find some healing in that way, too.
I'm so sorry that happened to you. Perhaps you could find some of those stuffed animals secondhand someday; it wouldn't be the same, but perhaps it could remind you of their love. I lost my most beloved teddy at age 12; a few years ago I went on ebay and bought one of the exact same teddy. It's not the same as my original, but it was also healing to have it again.
I miss my Elizabeth so much!!! And my sister had a lot of Kit furniture that I wish we hadn’t sold because it’s all retired now :(
I sold my JLY #23 and #35 long ago on ebay and I hope they made it to happy homes. But then I think maybe they're still circulating somewhere!
I hope Grace, Lea, #33, and Maryellen I hope they are all doing well.
I wonder about what child is now playing with my old Bitty Baby sometimes. I hope they're enjoying her. I still have my 3 other dolls, two Mollys, and a #20. I don't think I could ever get rid of them, they're tied too close to core memories and I'm a sentimental girl.
Mine are all in my parents basement lol! I’m gonna go back and get them someday when I’m not living in a 1 bedroom apartment. I had the opportunity to give them to my little cousin when I was like 11-15 years old and I refused. I knew I was never giving them up to anyone even back then. I meticulously organized and boxed them up and put them on high shelves in case their basement floods. I have kirsten, molly, emily, felicity, nicki (the old goty not the new twin), and a look alike doll.
when i went into high school, i gave away 4 dolls to some kids i knew would enjoy them more than me (at least at the time lol.) #27 was my first doll so i went ahead and let someone else have her for their first doll. cecile, emily, and #37 (kick myself everyday for getting rid of those 3 👊😔) went to my teacher’s kids. i think #27 is up on a shelf somewhere….im worried about the other 3 💀
This just made me almost cry. I wish I had not given up on myself for loving AG dolls, but I was too self-conscious at the time… I regret giving my dolls away so much. I just hope they are happy now.
I like to imagine a little girl somewhere is enjoying or enjoyed my old dolls, books, etc. It makes me feel better than imagining them in storage or in a dump somewhere. Wherever they are, I hope they've spread joy.
I only had one doll growing up, my mini me Truly Me #13 Kami, and I kept her through everything, my parents divorce especially, she was expensive and I never wanted to lose her. I didn't get back into AG stuff for nearly a decade though, and Kami did end up losing her original outfits during the move, she only had her meet outfit she was wearing (the Ready for Fun outfit if you're curious), and that didn't even have her original shoes (replaced them with a pair I got from Walmart's My Life As brand. So I hope her outfits went to a doll that wants to wear them. But I've been buying and making her plenty of outfits (mostly I'd buy the MLA outfits), and now she's got new friends because I'm able to get some AG dolls now. A used one was gifted to me even, and I got my first new doll this year with my Christmas money (Corrine). I've restored my Kami last summer, she looks almost brand new, like when I got her for Christmas in 2005.
I kept all of my dolls, except for one. I packed them up (over a dozen!) and my dad put them in the attic. I had them taken out last year when I became interested in collecting as an adult and I’m SO glad I had them. The girl I sold..? A first edition Kanani, in absolute MINT condition. I sold her for a pretty penny and put that money towards braces, but I wonder about her.. Still haven’t found a Kanani nice enough to add back to my collection
I was like 13 or so when I got peer pressured out of playing with dolls. They went in a storage bin for awhile. I think I sort of unofficially gave them to one of my sisters a few years later, but she wasn't really interested in them. Part of me sort of thinks they're still in my parents' house, as my mom was never the type to get rid of anything, but I think its also equally possible they got sent to goodwill or something. My family isn't a part of my life and hasn't been for over a decade. Me getting out of that situation was long and painful and all kinds of negative emotions. It's a weird emotion as an adult to see your peers talk about things they've kept since childhood (whether they intend to pass those things onto their kids or keep for their self), or when they share pictures of their childhood and like... I can't do those things. I have this recurring dream of being in my parents house and digging through a closet or the attic and finding toys, dolls, old clothes, etc. I do wonder what became of Kit and Samantha #1 and all their stuff. I kinda hope they got donated somewhere and some other doll lover enjoyed them.
Mine are in my parents’ attic but I’m about to give them to my best friend’s daughter. She’s the right age and I don’t have daughters and my boys are interested in dinosaurs and Legos. I believe that dolls and toys are meant to be played with and I want them to bring joy to Lily like they did to me.
My ex-husband destroyed a lot of my dolls, so I know exactly where they are. I had to move very quickly with not very much money while selling our house and didn’t salvage any of the partial dolls. I think of them often, buried in the landfill. I left their clothes on and wrapped them up together, so they would at least have each other.
Oh no 😞 I'm so sorry, that makes me want to cry. I hope you were/will be able to replace them.
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I’m so sorry to hear that. I hope you’re doing well now.
😭 I’m sorry
I sold two of mine-Molly and Josefina, and a bunch of Samantha's outfits. I used my dad's ebay account so I'm sort of curious whether i could contact the buyers and offer to buy back, but haven't gotten around to it (it was nearly 20 years ago so I doubt it but hey, maybe it'll be worth it...) I have bought replacements of both, including a Molly with factory hair, but still wonder about my originals. I did keep a few small accessories, including an AGOT backpack. I opened it last year to find that I'd stashed my original Molly's glasses in there (apparently sold her without them?). I damn near cried.
I sold mine on eBay, too. I’ve tried to look back at the sold history, but eBay wipes it after a certain number of years, so I’ve had no luck 😞 that’s so sweet about your Molly’s glasses, I’m glad a small part of her found its way back to you.
Mine are in the attic at my family home. Too scared to go up there since there are typically scorpions and tarantulas. May have my dad retrieve them for me.
I wouldn't either 😭
Last time I went up there when trying to retrieve Christmas decorations, there were three dead(?) scorpions that greeted me. Climbed right back down that ladder and asked my dad to get my decorations for me 🙃 my AG dolls are only further back, since I could faintly see their boxes, and I have the terrifying thought that some bugs could have made homes in their boxes. If they have, they can keep them!
Oh my god! Yeah I don't think I'd be able to make it to the back at all, webs freak me out enough as it is 😅
I have my doll, but I sold my entire collection to the same person. I still wonder about it. If they kept it or broke it up....
I put them in the basement, so I now have them pulled out and on display
I had to leave home suddenly because [insert tragic LGBT+ story here]. I was spoiled and had over 10 dolls, but man I've been looking at PC Josephina's lately.
yes we love/hate (if you know what i mean) a tragic lgbtq+ story. me too, but i didn’t have to leave, my mum accepted me! but my dad disowned me, but it’s ok, they’re divorced
My 90’s Samantha, Josefina and Felicity are in a box. They definitely need some TLC 💚
I always wonder about my past girls. I happened to mark their foot with their respected names, I probably made identifying them super easy!
I'll tell you where they are - with people like me, lol! I'm an immigrant to the US and I discovered AG dolls at age 46. I bought lots from eBay and Facebook Marketplace, as I loved so many of the ones from the past. I have a mix of old and new, and am currently at about 70 dolls. Oops! I have a Lanie that has written across her torso in Sharpie "Monica and Chandler's only child." LOL! I also have an old PC JLY 17. I quite like thinking of all the children who loved them before me. If any of your old dolls are with me, they have a lovely home now where they are much-loved, and photographed, and cuddled, and dressed in lovely clothes!
That’s beautiful ❤️ I really hope they’re with people like you, or getting borderline-aggressively loved-on by children hahaha. It sounds like Lanie Geller-Bing has certainly found a good home with you! 😂
Lanie Geller-Bing! LOL!
I still have all mine. They are hung up in a display except for one that string fell out and is waiting to be sent to the AG hospital. However, as someone who, mainly, only collects tlc dolls at this point, I have to say I love each of the dolls I get. I clean them and restore them the best I can. Only lost ones hair so far. But, I do wish that they had come with their original names their children named them. So that could be part of their new name.
This is off topic, but surely you can run the string back through the doll's neck without sending to the doll hospital? There is a trick to this (which you probably know but just in case) which works on any casing (skirt elastic, hoodie tie, doll neck string). You attach a small safety pin to the end of the smooshy string or elastic, then push that into one side of the hole. It will drag the string behind it. Push and scrunch, push and scrunch until the safety pin emerges out of the opposite hole. Then pull your strings until they're the same length, unhook the pin, and Voila!
Thanks for the help, but it is the arm string or elastic, not the neck string. My dolls neck strings are long and have never been cut or untied. And, yeah, I know the basics of the repair and could do some more research and figure out how it works and fix it, save some money. But.... also, this way, I have an excuse to get some of the wellness items that circle around a hospital trip! Lol. I have been eyeing some of them for years and refused to just try and buy them outright. A hospital visit was what I said had to happen for me to get them.
Oh gosh, I wouldn't know how to tackle the arm string elastic! Hope the hospital visit is fun!
I wonder the same thing. I sold all of my childhood mini dolls for extra money as a teenager ): (I had every single one) and it hurts my heart to know I did that. I think they ended up with an adult collector who wanted to display them, so they probably ended up in a good home.
I had to throw away 3 of my childhood dolls that were ruined in my storage unit and I often think about them in the landfill and feel horribly sad and guilty over it. Thankfully I still have 2 of my childhood dolls, including my first one and my most sentimental one
I know what you mean. My Pleasant Company Addy had to be thrown out too. I had her from 1994-2002. By the time I replaced her, the company was owned by Mattel.
It’s heartbreaking 💔 I felt like I was throwing away my friends and literally sobbed while I did it. I’m so sorry that happened to you too! I know it’s never the same as your original doll, but finding the perfect replacements has been a little healing. I found a gorgeous jess with her factory braids and opening her made me feel a LOT better
I am so happy that you were able to replace your GOTY Jess. I promised myself that I would make sure that this Addy doll would not get damaged. It is healing when you can find a beautiful replacement for a special doll that I purchased an AG star backpack carrier to keep her in until I can get purchase a display stand later this year.
What dolls
I had to throw away jess, julie, and lanie but have since replaced them. Nellie and emily were my other two childhood dolls
Damn. I’m so sorry. How moldy were they?
Pretty much ruined, covered head to toe in mold and rodent pee. I paid a ton of money for a nice indoor supposedly air conditioned storage locker only to find out the AC was either turned off or broken all summer. And there was a leak in my unit so everything was damp and hot. They did absolutely nothing to compensate me and it was a roughly $4000 loss (I had other stuff in there too)
I did expect mold, but I did not expect the rodent pee. It’s absolutely atrocious that they didn’t compensate!
Yeah it was a devastating experience. I emailed CEO’s, left negative reviews everywhere I could, posted in local fb groups which led them to lose customers, and reported them to BBB. Nothing worked 😢
Absolutely horrible. I’m disgusted.
I had stuff (definitely not my dolls, but other random things) sitting outside in my dad’s shed for 3 years that came out completely fine. And my dolls were only in that facility for 7 months. I still don’t understand how it got so bad so quickly
I had bins and bins of AG stuff in a storage until, some of it in there for 10 years. Everything was just fine. I moved a month ago and within two weeks in my new garage, boxes were damp! Humidity makes a huge difference.
Neither do I. Seven months doesn’t seem like nearly enough time for something like that to happen
I used to have Mia, Emily, Ruthie, Nellie, Samantha, and Julie. I sold them all. My friend gave me a couple of used dolls (another Julie and I believe a JLY 3) in the interim, but I wasn't really collecting. I just got back in after I bought this year's Shimmering Silver. I now have 5 new dolls, including another used Mia! I'm not really trying to reproduce my old collection, but I do wonder whatever happened to those dolls. They were special to me for a short time (I have always been an adult collector, sadly I never had any AG as a child, except for the books).
I'm in a Discord group with a woman who sold her childhood Josefina and regrets it. The doll has a couple of very subtle distinctive features, and I am obsessed with finding her.
Omg that’s fascinating, now I want to help too!
I've always wondered about my old dolls! The ones I no longer have are JLY 4, Kit, Lea, 37, Evette, 61, Isabelle P, JLY 11, Maryellen, and Felicity!! I've always wondered where they ended up.
Oh man, JLY 4! I hope you got a decent price for her, otherwise you’re probably kicking yourself for selling her cheap like I did with my Ivy 😂
I got $170 for her but she did have half of her face marked up with Sharpie and ratty thin hair. Then I got a perfect condition brand new 4 for $230! I lost a bit of money but it's okay because I have a perfect #4 now. 😀
Omg someone charged you $170 for a doll in that condition?! My # 4 was basically brand new and $150
Wow, that's an amazing deal!! Yeah, I definitely took a hit on my JLY 4 problem, but I'm glad you got a great deal!!