Boiling water makes dents and odd things like that pop right back out. But sometimes, I've found that ponies that were smooshed or squeezed just need to have their heads removed and they pop back out again. Though the boiling water helps.

If the ponies have chartruse hair, it might be better just heat them up with a blowdryer on hot and hold in place until the plastic cools. That works too.   For natural curls, cover with a paper towel and keep your hand over it to protect it.

Today a friend and I hit up a McDonalds in search of Rainbow Dash and Cherilee, but they had fluttershy. So I figured I'd just buy two. When my friend opened hers, she was like "Oh there's a hairclip in here? What?" I looked and it was last years!  Pretty cool! But I really just want to finish my 2012 collection! ;_;

The most I've spent has been $80, on Mimic. Close to that for another pony on it's way, and I knew I overpaid but I just wanted her, darn it! :p But for most ponies, I honestly prefer to stay around $5-$15.

Toys R Us has them too. I haven't seen them at Target at all, but I managed to find them there today!

I'm working on some material for an artist alley table at an anime convention. (You basically get a table to sell handmade goods) I'm mostly going to have pony stuff. I'm making stickers, magnets, bookmarks, pins, and keychains (possibly cellphone charms/earrings/necklaces and the like depending on the upfront cost).

Since most people there will be bronies, of course, I'll be doing the mane 6, Pony, lyra, bon bon, trixie, big mac and dr. hooves, the CMC and Cheerilee.  I also want to make the G1 characters which inspired them, Firefly, Sparkler, Twilight, Suprise and Posey. But... I also wanted to toss in a few popular G1 characters just in case there are a few people who love older ponies. I was thinking of making my favorites like Gusty and Mimic, perhaps Masquerade, Glory, Moondancer, Medley?  Opinions? D;  I'm not sure entirely! What would your opinions be? I'm likely just going to put them on printable stickers or magnets for this convention though.

I thankfully am making a template to use for all these ponies so it won't kill me drawing them repeatedly!   Also, once done I might set up some adoptables here cause they are so freaking cute! :3

I recently came across a whole bunch of old childhood photos. But sadly, none of them involved ponies! ;_; I do have one extremely blurry black and white picture of me holding my favorite Popple! :p  I know I had some, but I haven't found the photos anywhere yet. I know my dad is cleaning out the attic and basement, so hopefully he'll discover them!

The thing is, owning and operating cars gets expensive. Beyond just insurance, a second hand car is going to have a lot more problems than a new car. I've been there, done that. My first car was a $400 clunker, that while I took good care of it, it had a lot of issues. Thankfully my family was able to repair it and kept the costs down. But it was still pricey... even 8 years ago!

I eventually ended up selling my car and shared a car with my parents. Thankfully, my dad had his own car and my mom never drove. So I used her car most of the time.  When you get older, your insurance goes down by A LOT. Of course, doing things for you is important... is it something that you ABSOLUTELY need right now? Or is it out of desire to be like your friends and be able to go out and go places. It offers a lot of freedom, which is great. But with all that freedom is a lot of responsibility. Even if you are a great driver, there are a lot of people who are completely wreckless and careless.

I'm 30 right now and I do not have a car. I do however, have my license and insurance. I share a car with my husband and I'm saving for a down payment on a new car.  As much as I would have loved to drive as a teenager, I'm glad that I waited a short while, until I was 20 for the rate to go down substantially.

Of course things for yourself are more important that plastic toy ponies. So of course, selling them if you need money for something important is good. But just remember that you're going to keep shelling out money, and ponies are not going to fund it forever.  It's honestly best if you find a job, or find something creative you can do with your time to fund yourself (or both lol). I would honestly keep my most treasured and favorite ponies and sell the rest to fund something worthwhile, such as a car. That way, there's not much to regret.

They're all over the place around here. Most are on Lillyblossom and Applejack. But I checked one last night that still had Pinkie Pie and Rarity. o_O;  I'm missing Twilight and Fluttershy! ;-;