MH and obsessed kids/parents.

[Sonata]

I was quite spoiled when I was a kid - and still am ! I used to ask for a lot of toys and most of the times I got them all... But I always felt really grateful for having every single one of them, because I've been taught to appreciate them by understanding the effort my family made to get them for me As time went by and I didn't want/need something anymore, I would always feel really happy because those toys would go to charity and to kids who would be delighted to have them So it was a win-win situation in a way. This still stands to this very day, although I re-sell things on Ebay now to make some extra xD

Same here. I tended to get the newer versions of things before others, but I always gave away the older version or traded off something. I'm still a bit the same way nowadays. While we're not as well off as when I was a child, I do still try to give back. Keeping an eye on sales can help you save money, and if I save enough, that goes to buy a doll to donate or to send some money towards a charity.

I certainly don't think being "spoiled" is harmful. It's a mixture of how the parents and children view things and what you're taught. As much as I adore collecting, in the end, they are just dolls. Dolls I love, yes, but they're not as important to me as the people I care for. I've felt that way ever since I was young.

I won the full, I believe it was 50 burger king Pokemon toy set when I was 10. They sat on display for a few years, then we knew a family whose younger kids liked pokemon and I decided to give them my full set along with my console and games as I hadn't been playing with them that much lately.

Getting all I could ever want as a child didn't make me a demanding adult, imo. I think everyone is different and that how you live or what you are given isn't an automatic scale for how selfish or spoiled you must be.

Exactly.

The fact that I gave away so many things and got so happy every time made me love giving a lot more than receiving If I had truckloads of money, I would give SO many things to people ! I just love it~

[cobalte]

One of the reasons I gape even more at that photo posted before is imagining what it would cost to buy all that stuff retail here... at least $1200

[lolaandbean]

Wow! That's a lot of dolls. I buy stuff through out year. I stash it in the closet and don't realize just how much I've bought. This year I held about half of it back for my son's birthday in March. My Dad easily spent $500 on my son's Christmas. Out of everything I bought his favorite toy is the $4 football Santa left.

[rayedelsol]

My mom used to do that stashing stuff throughout the year thing. She always forgot how much she bought, or where she stored it. Three years after my 12th birthday, she pops up with this tiny Sailor Moon T-shirt that she'd bought for my birthday that year.....

[Diamond]

They all (dolls and kids) look wonderful but I think getting this much at once will make the kids loose interest in the toys really quick - maybe I'm mistaken but it always happened to me (though I never got this much).
It's their parents decision but it's quite sad to see: " A MH School set bought for this year's Christmas by Santa and selling because it became boring already" adds on local auctioning sites before December ends...
On the other side I remember getting a fake Barbie doll house for one Christmas and I was constantly playing with it (even when the cardboard items were tearing apart

I can attest to getting so many of one thing has not made Thoth lose the least bit of interest in ponies or some of her other collections.  After she opened everything, she usually chose one or two to open right away and the rest got put on the shelf for her to open year round when ever she needed a new toy fix.

[kaskurgi]

If they lose interest in the dolls hope they live near me and drop them off at the local thrift stores I visit LOL Is that bad I thought of that response immediately? Ah well. I got a lot this Christmas boyfriend spoiled me but I didn't ask for anything for any of the other Christmas's we have been together/known each other or any of my birthdays. So I guess he made up for it. Plus I was lucky and found the dolls on sale that I did get myself didn't pay over $15.00 for any MH doll I own and neither did he.

The only thing I wish I didn't get is the Cat / Vampire CAMs and instead got another Wolf / Dragon one

They all (dolls and kids) look wonderful but I think getting this much at once will make the kids loose interest in the toys really quick - maybe I'm mistaken but it always happened to me (though I never got this much).
It's their parents decision but it's quite sad to see: " A MH School set bought for this year's Christmas by Santa and selling because it became boring already" adds on local auctioning sites before December ends...
On the other side I remember getting a fake Barbie doll house for one Christmas and I was constantly playing with it (even when the cardboard items were tearing apart

[astroasis]

They all (dolls and kids) look wonderful but I think getting this much at once will make the kids loose interest in the toys really quick - maybe I'm mistaken but it always happened to me (though I never got this much).
It's their parents decision but it's quite sad to see: " A MH School set bought for this year's Christmas by Santa and selling because it became boring already" adds on local auctioning sites before December ends...
On the other side I remember getting a fake Barbie doll house for one Christmas and I was constantly playing with it (even when the cardboard items were tearing apart

I can attest to getting so many of one thing has not made Thoth lose the least bit of interest in ponies or some of her other collections.  After she opened everything, she usually chose one or two to open right away and the rest got put on the shelf for her to open year round when ever she needed a new toy fix.

This is what I always do with all of my toy purchases/gifts. It's such a great pick-me-up on a rainy day when you remember there's still toys to be unboxed! In that way, a huge "haul" of Christmas toys end up lasting throughout the year - literally! I still have toys from LAST Christmas that aren't deboxed yet...