When I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, the best toy on earth was revealed... The Cabbage Patch Kids. Cabbage Patch Kids, were kids that were "hatched" out of cabbage and just needed a good person to adopt them. They came with a birth certificate, with the Cabbage Patch Kid's name, birth date. Although there were only a few kinds of dolls, the birth certificates made each doll unique. Not only did these dolls promise to make the kids who had them happy, but if you owned one, you were giving an orphan a good home.
What made these dolls ever more desirable, was the fact that they were hard to find. Store were always sold out, and this forced desperate mothers to buy generic knock offs, or like my mom did, make a homemade version. These homemade dolls we dubbed "Crappage Patch Kids" because we knew they were not the real thing.
The other really cool thing that I just HAD to have was a Pogo Ball. The commercials showed kids doing awesome tricks on them and bouncing really high. I was able to bounce on mine, but nobocy on my block could really do any cool tricks with it.
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