Which Gift Would A Little Girl Rather Have?

Lee

Lee

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I just hate it when someone asks for your advice and then gets huffy when they don't like your answer. A friend was showing me a picture of a hand made wooden dollhouse, very very expensive with no furniture in it. The workmanship was great in the picture, but I felt it was something of a throwback from years ago, something a little girl at the turn of the century would own.

I told her that I thought that for a fraction of the price she could get a Barbie Dreamhouse complete with furniture and a swimming pool with all the bells and whistles. Spending over $500.00 for the wood one was something she might reconsider.

A bit snarky she told me that since I never had kids "what did I know" and snarky me back replied that the little girl in me would love the Barbie and use the wood one for fire starter.

OK then, those of you with kids weigh in, what would your little darling grand love to find under the tree.

And come to think of it, the monstrosity would not even fit under a tree.
 

Gary O' said:
I'm thinking a service station would be better

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But.....that's the little kid in me


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and no.......I wouldn't let 'em get their grubby hands on it
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My brother got one of those.. it was one of the very few toys we..ever got... He always got more than us, because he was the ''only boy' at home, so he got a bike.. we girls never got one.. etc.. but I remember that garage very well..
 
The Barbie. For one thing, she'd be able to actually play with it, without anyone freaking out that she was mishandling a precious artifact.

Then again, maybe your friend knows the child better than you do.

Once, just before Easter, I happened upon a 3-foot-high rabbit fashioned from hay and baling wire. I bought it for my granddaughter, even though my boyfriend sneered that she wouldn't appreciate it. I sneaked the hay bunny into the back yard, and it was a hit. My granddaughter kept asking her parents to open the door so she could see it.

It was kind of like this, but it didn't have a face. (Very burnable too, of course.)
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I wanted a doll house more than anything in the world and never got one. Just a few years before he died my father said he, an artist who was great at miniatures and had a model railroad layout that covered half the basement, was always planning to build me a really fabulous one, but never had the time.

He would have felt ashamed to give me one of the cheap metal ones like my friends had... and I would have loved it!

We forget that when kids play with something 80% of the joy comes from their imaginations.
 
my opinion - a Barbie house or something similar. An unfurnished, classic wooden doll house for around $500 would make a young lady happy if she's a collector, but not a little girl.

But there are some sweet wooden dollhouses meant for today's little girls. Some are brightly painted, some more traditional, like beige or white, and most of them are 2-story, normal modern houses, and some come with essential furniture pieces that are also brightly painted ..or not. They run from about $35 to $80 or so.
 
You didn't mention the age of the child. An empty high cost doll house seems to me to be pretentious. The Barbie Dream house sounds like it would generate social face to face interaction with others.

Face to face social interaction is beginning to be less & less as technology invades our lives.

At what age do children start using technology?
For example, 73% of parents with a child age 9 to 11 say their child uses a desktop or laptop computer, compared with 54% of those whose child is age 5 to 8 and just 16% of those with a child younger than 5.Jul 28, 2020

https://www.pewresearch.org › ..
 
@Lee I'm extremely sorry for that highly inappropriate comment that you got back. The individual apparently forgot she actually asked.

I'm wondering if what this woman was speaking of was similar to this Etsy search?

Waldorf wooden dollhouse - Etsy

You have a couple of things to consider. Handmade vs. made in China. (Though etsy is having major resellers on their site.) Price of course. If someone has plenty of extra income. I don't have any kids either but I do think a child may be more interested in the bright colors and all. Though I find some of these doll houses in the search adorable.
 
Your reply of the Barbie one was correct. Kids want what is popular.

My SIL bought a fancy wooden one for my two DDs. She also spent a fortune on all the furniture for it. Pieces got lost. It wasn’t used much. It had no appeal to them. My SIL had to buy what was most expensive … because it gave her status, in her own mind.
 
Della said:
I wanted a doll house more than anything in the world and never got one. Just a few years before he died my father said he, an artist who was great at miniatures and had a model railroad layout that covered half the basement, was always planning to build me a really fabulous one, but never had the time.

He would have felt ashamed to give me one of the cheap metal ones like my friends had... and I would have loved it!

We forget that when kids play with something 80% of the joy comes from their imaginations.
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I had one of those metal doll houses and played with it for years! Loved it!

Then I got a construction set of little plastic "bricks" that were meant to build houses, etc., complete with doors that would swing open and windows that opened. I built house after house with those bricks and I figure that contributed to making me such an addict to HGTV later in life. :LOL:
 
RadishRose said:
I would prefer a tree house.
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Best thing I owned when I was a kid. Had to share it with my brothers, but that was all for the better when our "enemies" encroached on our territory.

I'd love to own one now. What a fantastic place that would be to hang out in all day. Big problem would be getting up there and chillin' without getting vertigo and fallin'.
 
Thanks for all the replies folks. Remy, I had a look at the houses you posted the link too, the one my friend had in mind was much more elaborate with a price tag that matched.

Update, while the friendship is still intact on my part, I will wait for an apology and hope for one back. We need our frenemies ;)
 

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