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November 29, 2008 on 1:06 pm | | In Found, General Musing, WTF

The official holiday shopping season is upon us, such as it is this year.

This story in the Seattle PI amused me:

In hard times, nostalgic toys strike a chord

NEW YORK — Counting dollars this holiday season, Tom De Santes wants to avoid buying high-priced techno gadgets as gifts for his two sons.

Instead, he is going to buy the boys, ages 6 and 7, a classic from his own childhood: Lincoln Logs.

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Let’s be clear about this: The kids are not begging for Lincoln Logs. It’s the stressed-out, thumb-sucking grownups reaching for the comfort food. Then they try to pretend it’s morally superior. We’ll sit and build log cabins with our kids… as soon as we’re done programming the new Tivo.

There’s nothing about Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots or Cabbage Patch dolls that’s inherently superior to Transformers or Dora the Explorer. But at last - at long last - we can have all the toys we ever wanted. The Easy Bake Oven that everyone else had and we never got? It’s in the bag, baby.

Still, it could be worse.

This is the kind of misogynist crap that just makes me want to go on a crockery-smashing rampage: A boob job money jar sold as decor for a girl’s room. What fun!

“Here honey, save your money and maybe someday you can fix your poor, inadequate body.”

If you check out the site, you’ll see it’s clearly aimed at young teen and preteen girls. I hesitate to encourage you to go there since it might lead to a purchase of some other item. Don’t do it. Even if you’ve wanted a pom-pom bead curtain your whole life. Just don’t do it.

Grrrr.

A confession: My kids are grown and (mostly) out of the house. Most of their childhood toys are long gone. But I still have the bucket of Legos squirreled away.

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