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(Cathy Weeks) wrote:

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My husband says that girls who had dollhouse really never played with
them, that they all thought they were cool, but mostly they gathered
dust, so he thinks that would be a silly thing to do - and the plan
toys dollhouse for younger kids are much cooler.
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So, first, what do you think I should do? And, for those of you who
had dollhouses, did you like them? Did you play with them?

Get the dollhouse. You'll always regret it if you don't, and you can
find a place to store it if you have to.

I had a dollhouse. I'm not sure where it came from as I got it for
Xmas when I was about 5 I think. My mom refurnished and fixed it up
(it was in the 2nd WW time frame and resources were short) so it may
have been hers. I saw one like it in a museum in Belhaven.

In any case it was a plain 6 room house (3 up and 3 down) with a set
of wooden furniture. The front door opened. It stores flat when you
take it apart.

The first dolls I had for it my little sister broke (2.5 years
younger) by taking them out and dropping them on the floor, and then
the next lap around stepping on them. But we played with it ALL the
time. Made up stories about the dolls - everything. (The first set
of dolls were china with jointed arms and legs and my sister broke off
the arms and legs of the little girl. I tried to make a dress for
her, and I got the needle stuck and couldn't tie the knot in the
thread, so we just turned the needle into a wand, and made the little
girl a magician so it didn't matter that she didn't have legs.)

I gave the dollhouse to my kids in their turn, but I don't know how
much either of them played with dolls. I'll have to ask them. And my
dd#1 gave her dd a dollhouse - one of the fancier ones which I think
her dad built. But she was older and I'm not sure how much she played
with it either.

grandma Rosalie