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Monday, October 12, 2009
Mother has sticker shock over American Girl Dolls
My husband just called to tell me he has an extra person to dress in the morning. No, we didn’t suddenly have another child. My 15-month-old daughter discovered her Bitty Baby.
My husband’s grandmother bought our daughter a Bitty Baby doll before she had become a bitty baby herself. I tucked it away in her closet thinking we wouldn’t get it back out until she was much older.
But then my parents traveled to Chicago a few weeks ago and stopped at The American Girl doll store to get clothes for Bitty Baby - a $34 outfit. For a doll. Granted it had chambray pants, a shirt, a jacket, hat, shoes, tights and a jumper, but still it’s for a doll. I wouldn’t even spend that much on an outfit for my daughter.
Since we had an outfit for Bitty Baby, I decided to get her out of storage just to see how my daughter would react. It was like the angels sang when I pulled that doll out of the box. My daughter quickly snatched it from me like it was her long-lost baby, kissing it and gently patting it’s back. She refused to put it down all night.
Then this morning, she insisted that my husband dress Bitty Baby in her new outfit before anyone else in the house had been dressed.
The husband and I talked about getting our daughter one of the American Girl dolls for Christmas until I saw how much they cost. For an actual doll, it’s $95. Just the doll and a book. If you want a deal, you can get a Bitty Baby for $42.
If that weren’t enough of a sticker shock, you can get outfits that cost $60 to match your dolls outfits. Or a jacket for $98. And if you really want to spend those hard-earned dollars, you can buy a bed for the doll for $108 or maybe even a doll storage cabinet for $349.
I think this is an extravagance we will let grandparents and great-grandparents spend their money on.
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