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I remember how everyone was trying to get one. They were almost impossible to find. Some people paid alot of money for one because their child wanted one and they couldn’t find one in the store. The were very popular.

I remember in the 80’s where there were fight when there was a new shipment of dolls that arrived at a store. My cousin who was in her 40’s received a doll that her husband had bartered for so she could have one for Christmas. I remember her saying they were so ugly they were cute. I remember the doll hospital where you could go in Georgia and adopt a doll.

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ahhh I still have my cabbage patch kid. I remeber when i got it. It had to look like me. I gave my mom a letter before christmas it said cabbage patch kid blonde hair, brown eyes and a pink dress. It took her forever she later told me , but she finally got it. I was so happy now i see my daughter play with it, even though she has 4 cabbage patch kids of her own my old one is her favorite

OH my fondest memory is searching high and low to find a Cabbage Patch doll for my 6 year old daughter Lacie and the smile on her face when she finally got her doll. Her name was Nan and she has red hair. Now I have 2 grand daughters and I would love to share with them the pleasure of loving a Cabbage Patch doll like their mom had.

I loved Cabbage Patch dolls when I was little. My baby’s name was Ramsey. I took him everywhere I went!

my memory of cabbage patch dolls is being a kid and watching the news and seeing all these people beating each other to get one of the dolls for x-mas . even then i knew they were going to be a great legend.

I remember the dolls having adoption papers and what a treat it was to have one. As I remember Cabbage Patch Dolls had the biggest media coverage as a fad in the eighties. thank you for the contest

Visiting the Cabbage Patch Hospital in Cleveland,GA with my daughter. We adopted an original baby!

I so wanted a set of Cabbage Patch twins but my folks could not find a set. So I got a boy Cabbage Patch instead that Christmas – my son (who is almost twenty) still has him!

It was about 1982 and I was about 5 years old. Well I wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll so my mom went late at night to try and get me one. Well since it was very popular, they sold out real fast. So one night as I lay in bed my mom gave me a doll that she had made to look like a Cabbage Patch. I have gotten real Cabbage Patch Dolls over the years but that one I have always treasured. 25 years later and I still have that Doll.

My Daughter was born in 1981 so we were in the middle of the the Cabbage Patch days. We had/have many but the first one will always be with us and a part of our lives. Her name is Claudia Sabina. I tried every way possible to get one but kept missing out. A friend of mine worked at a Service Merchandise store and finally Claudia was added to our family.

My daughter had a cabbage patch doll when she was small. My son was learning to spell. He took a black marker and wrote butt face on the dolls face. My daughter was horrified.

Oh wow, I had 3 Cabbage Patch dolls (still have 2 of them at my parents house). I remember the craze like it was yesterday – people fighting over them, store shelves cleared off within minutes of them being put out. I even sent in the birth certificate to change the name on 2 of my dolls. One looked like the top picture on this blog, one had red hair and a pacifier and my last one was bald. I had all kinds of accessories too like diapers, lots of homemade outfits, and a carrier for one of them.

My daughter was working at a store that stocked Cabbage Patch dolls. There was such a rush on them, that is was really hard to get your hands on a doll at that time. I have three of the original dolls here at the house and we love them dealy.

My mom waited in line for more than 2 hours at the toy store to get one for me for my birthday!! I still have her!

I remember waiting in line at the store with my parents because I simply had to have one along with everyone else.

My kids were born in 1972 and 1975 and in the 80’s I go the each a cabbage patch doll and we still have them to this day and , I just think it would be great now to win a new one for Jennifers daughter, Mandy didn’t have and children.

ok the year was 1985 and I was on my way to an alternative club with friends..I had on a pair of fierce High heel combat books (don’t ask)…well the heel broke..it was 11pm …the only thing open was Kmart…I walked in to a big hoopla saying I had just won a cabbage patch doll…they were so hard to get at the time!

I worked in a Toys R Us the year Cabbage Patch dolls came out. the rush was so heavy, they made them a ticket item.
I had to stand in a booth, and take orders for the dolls, which were stacked nearly two stories high in the stockroom. I had Cabbage Patch nightmares. the funny part is that with access to absolutely ANY style she could want, my daughter just wanted “a bald baby boy”. she still has Kerry Jefferson.

They were having drawings at K-mart all day because of blue light specials and it being Christmas time. We all had a ticket. My ticket number was called and I was astounded! I was maybe 4 or 5 years old, and really didn’t know what was going on, but my mom said you won! Go get your prize. It turned out to be a cabbage patch doll. I remember naming her Susan. She has since been stolen, and I miss her to this day.

My memory of the cabbage dolls is where the Mom’s were fighting in stores to get one for their kids.

Oh, that brings back memories! Cabbage Patch dolls and Transformers were the must have Christmas gift back then.
Everybody wanted one and there stores would only get a few in at a time. You had to put your name on lists in just about every store and when they came in you’d get a call to come pick it up. It was crazy!!

My memory is of my husband getting up at 1 a.m. to stand in line at a toy store but to find a long with hundreds in it waiting for the doll. Of course, I didn’t get my cabbage patch doll.

I loved my Cabbage Patch doll. He came with the name Eric and here it is now 25 yrs later and I named my new son Eric!

I was about one year old when I got my first cabbage patch kid. she was one of the newborns and I was ecstatic. she was meant to be a christmas gift, but i found her early and was instantly in love. somehow my parents convinced me to give it back to them and wait until christmas, and when I got her christmas morning i was soo happy. I used to get sooo mad when someone would call her a doll and not a baby. she’s still the first thing i cuddle after a bad day!

I remember my daughter had to have one! She was 4 years old at that time. My husband and my father-in-law worked near Macys in Manhattan. When they found out the dolls were to be sold there, they made the mad rush to get one in a crazy crowd! They got 3 of them. One for my daughter and two for my Father-In Law who still has his dolls today! Once in a while he pulls them out to show everyone his Cabbage Patch babies who are still in the original packaging.

Gosh, 25 years! Where has the time gone?!?!
I was 13 years old and I wanted a Cabbage Patch for Christmas. Christmas morning, there she was, although I was less than enthralled with the “given name” of Ernestine!

I remember being teased by my teenaged daughter and her friends about my passion for these adorable little dolls. I repeatedly feel in love and had to have them. I still have many of them, maybe about 20. Still like new. Still in their boxes, never removed. And still as cute as ever.

I remmeber my sister playing with these dolls all the time. Grandma had a stash of them at her house too

I was in the fourth grade and remember a Cabbage Patch kid being my #1 choice on my Christmas list. At the time they were hard to come by, so much so that my mom sat me down and prepared me to not get one on Christmas as they were sold out everywhere she went.
On Christmas morning, I saved the biggest box for last, it was the size of a TV box. I never expected it was a cabbage patch kid, but to my surprise it was! Bridgette Galinda with light brown hair and a pink overalls….I still have the box, it’s in my parents attic to this day. The doll is worn beyond something I could call a “collector”. I was so excited…there is a picture of me with this huge smile, hugging Bridgette. My mom told me later that she had a frind whos mom worked at a retail store and was able to set aside 2 dolls for her when the shipment came in, a boy and a girl doll. My mom was so happy to have found the dolls and waited in line to pay when another mother behind her had said she had been looking all over for the Cabbbage Patch dolls for her daughter as a gift for Christmas but they were always sold out when she got to the store. My mom could relate and gave her the boy doll. My mom is so awesome!

My daughter had a red=headed cabbage patch doll. I remember the excitement when her doll received a birthday card on her first birthday. Many years later she moved to the home of a grandchild.

I had a doll named ‘Carrie Sabrina’- I thought it was a horrible name. That doll is long gone as she made good use of her escape from her original packaging.

I remember my daughters cabbage patch, “Malita Sally” I would love to win this for my granddaughter so she would have as much fun as her mommy did playing with it.

My oldest daughter was a great Chicago Bulls fan so as a teen she bought a Bulls sweater and cap for the Cabbage Patch doll she has for years and set it on her bed. Today she is a mom herself and that doll wearing the sweater and cap still sits on the bed in her guest room.

I remember my daughter loving her Sally! She still has her aftter all these years. I bought it before I was ever pregnant. I would love to have one put away for her daughter just like I had hers before I ever got her.

My daughters still have their Cabbage Patch dolls, now they each have daughters of their own. I would love to have one to give to one of the girls. We had every accersory that you could get your hands on too! They played with those dolls like they were their own children. To this day, their is one in the guest room in a stroller. Hard to believe it has been 25 years…..

I remember when that was all my daughter wanted for christmas. I did get her a cabbage patch bride doll when she got married. I would love to win this for her daughter

My daughter received one after she was born in December of
1983. She has never played with it and has kept it in the
original packaging. It brings back a lot of great memories.

I was six years old when the big CPK craze began. i wanted a girl, with blonde braids, and blue eyes, just like me. When I went to my grandparents home on Christmas eve that year, There she was. Later I found out that my grandfather had stood in line for 4 hours at a time at 3 different stores to finally find the exact one that I had asked for.
That made her even more special.

My favorite memory is the frantic search for a Cabbage Patch for my little sister’s birthday. My mom was hysterical!

Wow, you memory is really beautiful. Mine isn’t so beautiful, but funny in a bad way. I loved playing with my Cabbage Patch doll’s hair so I had undone her braids. When my cousin came to visit she didn’t want to undo her dolls braids, so I did it for her when she was in the bathroom. Looking back I feel both sad that I did that but I also laugh because it is kind of funny (but only kind-of).

When I was little, I thought that African American babies were so cute, and I wanted to adopt a real one when I got older. (By the way, my husband and I have adopted!) Cabbage Patch kids were just becoming all the rage, and I wanted one so badly, but never thought we would be able to afford one. One Christmas, my grandmom surprised me with an African American little boy Cabbage Patch dressed in a Philadelphia Phillies uniform…my favorite team! I still have the little guy all these years later and he reminds me of my desire to help children in need, and my sweet, sweet Grandmom!

My daughter was born in 1983 & my neice was one year older,of course we had to have Cabbage Patch Dolls for them. The search was on & thankfully grandma found two & paid an outrageous amount for them! What they loved even more was an album I found that had the song Lavender McDade on it. My daughter now wants to find a copy of that.

Since I only had one child, a boy, born on Nov. 1, I had two boy cabbage patch dolls! I looked high and low until I found two of them with his birthdate. Sadly, someone stole the two dolls, and I have never been able to replace them. I pray I can win one. Even if it does not have his date on it, it will be nice to have at least one again. Got my fingers crossed, that’s for sure.

I remember my sisiter getting a Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas and I really wanted to play with her and I did, when my sister was gone.

wow i would love to try to win one for my little girl i rember way back when the verry frist cabagepach kids came out it got so crazy that well thay came out with flower pach kids and well even then . i’m happy to say i was a owner of both cabage paach and flower pach kid and well i even had a bunnybee,furskin,and so on. any how i hope i win this thanks

i remember when i got my first cabbage patch doll unfortunately it was the same year i “discovered” there was no santa i was only 5 years old and i was at my aunts house and santa always left us presents there i was so excited that he left me a cabbage patch since my 2 older cousins had some and they never let me play with theres

when it was my cousins turn to open their gifts from santa …they had each gotten a cabbage patch doll mug which they thought was sooo awesome they rubbed it in that santa had brought them to them…however even at 5 i remember my mom and my aunt judy buying them from the neighbor lady who ran a small store out of her house

so in the middle of all the excitement i yell out santa didnt bring that i saw mom and aunt judy buying that at shirleys house my moms jaw about hit the floor

not only did i ruin my own belief of santa but my 2 cousins belief as well……..but we still beleived in the easter bunny and tooth fairy for a few more years lol

now some people may think this isnt a fond memory but my family and i still laugh about this to this day
my doll is long gone having passed it down to 2 little sisters but i still have a birth certificate that came with it

I remember my Cabbage Patch doll dearly…her name was Carlotta Elsie and she had blonde hair and blue eyes…one of the hardest dolls to find. My mom waited in line for hours and hours in the parking lot of the toy store to get it for me after I cried when my grandmother promised me one and then gave me a “homemade” cabbage patch doll made out of pantyhose! It was the ugliest thing I had ever seen…but all was forgotten when I received Carlotta on Christmas morning. I cherished that doll for years and years and wish I still had it to hand down to my 21 month old daughter.

I’m 25 myself so I had quite a few cabbage patch dolls being a child of the 80’s. My favorite memory was when I got the cabbage patch doll with the hair curler. The hair was basically made out of wire so it’s hair would stay in place when you used the plastic curler. It was so cool. Cabbage patch dolls are the best!

All my girlfriends each had their own, and everyone had a doll to match the hair color of themselves. They pushed their cabbage dolls in coaches up to my house, where I (the natural leader) designated where our “homes” were, our careers, and who’s the “baby’s father” was (seriously.) I was so mean and bratty that a new neighbor showed up with a teddybear as her baby doll and I WOULD NOT let her play. “Wheres YOUR cabbage patch doll?!?” Please if I win, I promise to teach my own daughter the value of acceptance someday. Promise.

The doll in the picture looks like my first Cabbage Patch doll “Deloria Andrea” from 1986. I would love to win this to pass on to the next generation!

Wow..memories! I worked at a retail store and I remember the crowds and the bribes…I was even offered $200 to get one for a friend’s daughter. I couldnt, for we were told it would mean our jobs if we bought one before the customers could. Another employee did just that and I remember her crying when they ‘let her go’. I was able to find one at another store for my mother, her namesake “Audrey” is still in the original box, as new as the day I bought it. I did buy a boy and a girl to represent my husband and I (we were newlyweds in 1984) and gave them to our daughter when she was born in 1989.She still has them, along with the pet,Kooska (I think its supposed to be a cat). Memories….

I remember trying to find a Cabbage Patch Doll for my Christmas 25 years ago, to no avail. She would be so surprised if I won yhis for her now! Such a cooool prize! I would luv to win!

ma told me there was no way to get one but her sister found to in n.y. and sent me one all the way to maine just in time for christmas what a great surprise

i remember waiting in line for 7 hours to get one for my daughter

I will never forget my 7th Birthday. I was recovering from major surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital and I was feeling very sad that I was not having a party with my friends at home. My nurse found out that it was my birthday and planned a birthday party for me in the children’s play area. All the children patients on my floor were invited. The mom’s of the patients all got together and bought me a Cabbage Patch Kid doll. I was so happy. I still have my doll 23 years later along with the memories of my special birthday in the hospital.
Thanks!

My daughter was never one to play with dolls. She was more of a tomboy, but she made an exception for her Cabbage Patch Doll. Her name was Lara. Well one time we took Lara with us on vacation to Las Vegas and somehow she got left behind. We figure she must have hit a slot machine and was living in one of those penthouses at Ceasars….

My car broke down when I was coming home from work with two wonderful dolls for my two girls………I was more upset about the dolls in my trunk than getting mugged with my broken down car!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember the craze and how hard it was to get one! I had to go out of town to get my little girl one and now she’s almost 33!!!

I had an 8 year old daughter and a 6 year old son when they first came out. Every time there was a rumor of a shipment amywhere in town,I was there. Our first one was a bald boy renamed Michael Jack (after the gloved one). We ended up with 6 (still have them in a box stored away). I(who donesn’t sew) made them so many matching outfits!

My daughter had a mess of them back in the 80’s. She grew up and we packed them up in storage. I just found them again and now my grandaughter is playing with them. Breat fun!

When my daughter was young, she “had” to have a cabbage patch doll. I made her one, but it wouldb be nice to give her a real one.

I was 5 years old when I recieved the doll I had dreamed of (well maybe screamed for is more like it) for my birthday. I can still remember carrying her with me everywhere.

I was 30 and wanted a Cabbage Patch for Christmas. My
Mom bought me one. I still have her. Still in perfect condition in the box, name is Roma Lee, after my mom. We have moved 7 times and Roma always has a special spot in the house so everyone can see her.

I remember in the 80’s that my mom and dad tried so hard to get me a cabbage patch doll. They waited in lines, called stores and weren’t successful at getting one. Then my Aunt surprised me with one. I was so elated. I loved that doll so much.
What a great giveaway. I’d love to win this for my daughter. Thanks so much.

oh that is so cool. I never had a Cabbage Patch, nor did my children. My sister made us handmade ones and they didn’t go over too big. I would love to have a real one!

WOW…where to start; I was born with bilateral cleft lip and have had 23 surgeries to date (I’m 34 now). Anyways, When I was 9 years old I had a particular surgery that would require me to stay off my feet for months (the doctors took the cartlage out of my hip to replace cartlage in my nose). The cabbage patch kids were fairly new at the time and only the popularly rich kids had them. I remember crying for a long time because I wanted one so badly but because of all the surgeries I had been receiving they just couldn’t afford it. Well, as I was saying earlier; I had a surgery that was pretty tough to get through. It was 3 days before christmas and I had to stay put so that way I didn’t ruin healing time. My mom and dad had to run some errands (so I thought) so my grandmother was watching us (so that we wouldn’t look under the tree for present snatching). A few hours went by and finally my mom and dad made their way home…to my surprise they brought home “Maggie lynn” (my first ever cabbage patch doll). Although she didn’t have the same hair color as mine (which that was very important to a nine year old) but she was all mine. She had red hair, born on March 4th (just like me) and she smelled like a new born baby. To this day I still have that doll and have past it onto my little girls (5 & 6 year old girls). I have bought them one every year since the return of putting them back on the market. Currently they play with them all the time and I am proud that they do. The even baby my baby doll. I love cabbage patch dolls. They made my day at a young age and have given me some awsome memories. That doll went through many more surgeries with me until I handed it down to my girls and I am very thrilled to know that I was able to pass it on to my girls.

In the late 1980’s on Black Friday we had a sale on Cabbage Patch Dolls. When our store opened at 6:00 a.m., everyone rushed to the aisle where the dolls were. I’ll never forget the pandemonium. We had customers fighting over the dolls. My manager finally had to call the police to get things under control!

my very first gabbage patch kid I would say I was about 8. I got it for christmas. My parents now say it was a very hard year to get one. They told me that santa did not show up with one and they had to fight him for it!! As a little kid I did think they were telling the truth!! They told me they would not let santa leave till they had thay doll! (Really they just had to stand in line for hours!!) I still have rick he is on the attic though!

apparently when I was little, I took the glasses off my Cabbage Patch doll because I said she looked ugly with them…I was mad because I wore glasses too! I love my glasses now though and would love a new doll!

I remember as a lil girl I wanted one so badly and my mom got me one and surprised me, I was so happy I think I carried that doll every where I went, I would love to win.

I worked in the Sears catalog department when Cabbage Patch dolls first came out. I fell in love with them from the first time I saw one. I ended up buying 5 of them and then bought another one for my new niece for her first baby doll.

My cousin, Alexis, had a red-haired Cabbage Patch, and she herself had red hair. She named the doll Victoria and had her for decades. She even took her to college with her! This was her most beloved possession. I’d love to give her a new one, now that she is in her late 20’s!!

I remember when everyone was trying to purchase one and the damand was higher than the amount available. People were flocking to stores and trying to get a doll as fast as they could, it was a frenzy! Luckily, my niece was able to get one, as she wanted this doll so badly!

I despeately wanted one of these when I was little. We couldn’t afford one or even find one for that matter. My aunt sewed a knock off doll for me for christmas.

I remeber getting my first Cabbage patch kid when i was 10 in 1984. My Mother told me she could not find it in the store since it was the most popular toy and she would make it up to me. I was sad but know one day i would get one. Well the first day of chanukkah came and out came my mother with a cabbage patch kid in hand. I almost died. I was sooo excited. She waited in line at Consumers (out of bussines now) for four hours. Definately well worth the four hours in line!!

LOL….I have a horror story. My daughter (who’s now 33) wanted one in the WORST way, so I remember getting up at 4:30 AM to be at the store by 5:30 AM that was rumored to have a delivery coming. I stood in a cold, rainy line with about 100 other mothers – freezing our tailfeathers off!

BUT….I got her doll!

My favorite memory is changing my Cabbage Patch babies clothes and just being her mommy.

Oh my gosh, I remember how difficult it was to be able to purchase a Cabbage Patch doll but I do remember that I did buy one for my daughter’s 8th Christmas and she fell in love with her ‘MICKEY LENNIE’. I never realized then what a wonderful memory a doll would provide for us.

My two older siblings and I played with cabbage patch kids all the time. My brother would take the two boy dolls we had (named Nathaniel and LeRoy – I don’t know why he named them this) and my sister & I had our girl dolls. My brother and his “nephews” would visit my sister & I and we would have grand adventures in our bedrooms.
Now my daughters and my niece have the joy of playing with our old Cabbage Patch dolls at our mom’s house.

Just a whole bunch of warm fuzzies when I think of them.

Yes, I remember cabbage patch kids dolls. I remembered that i wanted one more than anything, I wanted no particular one, I just wanted one and x-mas was just around the corner. I remember waking up and seeing my presents and I was so happy because, I knew my mother was gonna get me one! So I started openinng gifts based upon the size. I finally get to the last gift, I knew it just had to be my cabbage patch kid doll, and when I opened it I couldnt believe my eyes, A BOOTLEG CABBAGE PATCH KID DOLL! Can u believe that, I couldnt, I was very disappointed, I cried! My mother said she would get me one the next year, and that they sold out of the cabbage patch kids, and that she didnt just want to nothing! But to me it was nothing, something that someone sewn together! Couldnt wait til the next year, and I did get one then, actually I got 2.

My daughter was born in 1987 and the Cabbage Patch Craze was still going strong. When she was 2 she wanted a baby all her own to “dopt” she wanted one with long red hair. I managed to find her a doll with red pigtails she was dressed in pajamas and her name was Pamela Jo which worked out really great because by daughter called her PJ. When I asked why PJ she said “cause she is wearing her PJ’s mom” My daughter is now 21 and has 4 CP dolls that she has adopted.

I remember my daughter wanting a cabbage patch doll in the 80’s she wanted it from santa for christmas,I searched everywhere that season but was unable to get her one ,I knew I had to do something to make her happy so, I made her one ,I bought a cabbage patch look a like head made the body it looked great to me , I fixed her up an adoption cloth and I wrote a little poem and I named her Gretta wrapped it up and gave it to her for Christmas she loved Gretta with all her heart she is 31 years old now and recently got in her treasure box when she was home visiting and took home her adoption cloth that I had made her she read it and understood all the love and time I had put into it I eventually was able to find her a real cabbage patch doll and one for her brother, I am pretty sure they are still at their grannys house if I am chosen I would love to have another for my daughter she is such a great mother and would love it as she did the first and second ones.

I made a Cabbage Kid doll for one of my children. It turned out to be very funny looking and I later bought them some real Cabbage Patch dolls. But, they still have that doll I made and talk about the good memories it evokes.

I remember my first CPK. Her name was Norma Billie and she was bought because she was the one who most closely resembled me. My sister, who was a baby at the time, also got one (one of the “baby” ones), named Hope Muriel. I remember that, rather than getting me SEVERAL dolls, like I wanted, my mother just bought me one doll and I got new clothes for her all the time! So now, my daughter, who is five, already has three of them! We love Cabbage Patch Kids!!

I remember wanting so badly to have a Cabbage Patch doll. But times were hard for a lot of families in the early 80’s. My dad’s business went bankrupt a month before Christmas. Our home was lost in foreclosure just two weeks before Christmas. I remember sobbing because Santa would not know where we were. My great grandmother bought each of us kids one of the tiny dolls, they are about 2-3″ tall and wrote a note telling us how special each doll was. She told us why she chose that doll for us and how we were special to her. It was the best present ever. Reminded us that even in terrible hard times family loves you just as you are.

My sister was one of those crazy moms who stood in line to get a Cabbage patch doll. My niece was 2 at the time. She just had a baby girl of her own. It would be great to have a 25h anniversary doll for her daughter. By the way my niece still has her original cabbage patch doll.

Those were the days my friends, 25 years later and cabbage patch dolls still going strong. My memory of the first one was try and find one, anyone because they were hot hot hot, we did find one 75 miles from where we live and drove to make our only Daughter happy on her Birthday! Well worth the smile on her face!

My mom made me and my sister our very own homemade Cabbage Patch Kid doll when we were little kids, back in the 80s. She also made one for my two cousins and my grandmother. One day, my sister and I both scribbled on our with ink pen. We were really too young to appreciate the hard work my mom had put into the dolls. Unfortunately, she had to throw them away. For many years I grew up listening to my mom tell the story of how we ruined the dolls. About five years ago, I was visiting my grandmother and she asked me if I wanted hers. I took it! Now it’s on display in a glass box in my living room. The doll sits on a little wooden chair. I’m so happy to have the doll again.

Oh, and when my sister used to ask Mom and Dad about how she was born, Mom and Dad told her she came from the cabbage patch.

Thanks for the contest!

Wow, I remember working in a retail store and just before Christmas we got in a shipment of Cabbage Patch Dolls. My daughters were around 4 & 8 then so I selected two dolls and hid them so I could buy them when I got off duty. I could have lost my job (because the dolls were so popular) but it was so important that my girls had a cabbage patch doll for Christmas!

I remember how special the very first Cabbage Doll was because you received adoption papers with your doll. The adoption made the understanding of my own special daughter understand a little more about what “adoption” meant.

When the cabbage patch kids were the fad in the 80’s, I had a red haired one and a preemie baby one. They were great. They are long gone now. Boy do I miss their cute faces. For Christmas I would put them on a sled by my tree. Everyone just loved them. The whole thing of adopting them as your own child was so touching. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway.

At the age of six, my daughter wanted a Cabbage Patch baby for Christmas. It was the most popular item of the season, and locating one was next to impossible.

I don’t like the crowds during the holidays, so I decided to shop at WalMart in the wee hours of the morning. To my surprise, on the shelf sat a little redheaded girl with an odd name. She was the “icing on the cake” for my daughter that Christmas morning.

I remember my grandma collected them so she had them all over her house and whenever I would go over I would get to play with them

The year that Cabbage Patch were in the most demand, I was a bank teller. Our branch received a shipment of dolls that were to be used as a premium for people opening accounts with a balance of $1000 or more. My best friend’s sister is a person with significant disabilities and she wanted a Cabbage Patch doll more than anything. So, we pooled all of our cash together and opened a joint account so that we could earn our doll. Unfortunately, by the time we made the deposit our inventory was gone. My manager was so touched by our story that she scoured all the branches until she found a doll for Cathy. When she opened “Cordelia Daisy-Mae,” she was so excited that all the work to get her was well worth the effort.

We bought one of the earliest home computers, the Coleco Adam, in part because it came with two bonuses – a free Cabbage Patch Doll and a $500 college scholarship.
At that time Cabbage Patch Dolls were in short supply so this was quite an offer.
Our daughter loved the doll which she named Daniel.
Our son was able to use half the scholarship money before Coleco went bankrupt.
All in all the Coleco Adam was a good deal for us.

My daughter’s best friend had an uncle that worked at Coleco and she had every Cabbage Patch Doll imaginable and it was impossible to find one in a store for my daughter for Christmas! But we got one eventually and she still has it at 27 years old. I remember the riots of people trying to get the dolls!

My daughter wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll in the worst way, we searched everywhere, there wan none on the stores.
My husband was eating lunch at work, while listening to the
radio. They had a contest for the first caller to win a Cabbage Patch Doll, wouldn’t you know it, he won.
Our daughter was so happy. However, the guys at work, teased my husband, and never let my husband forget about the win.

I still have my original doll I bought in 1985. His name is Lindley Roger and his birthday is Nov. 1. He’s still in his original clothes and He occupies a place of honor. My daughter will be turning 13 soon and I’m planning on getting her her “last” baby doll- A Cabbage Patch- for her big day.

I had Alana Donna, one of the Cabbage Patch kid world travelers from Netherlands!

I waited in line for hours at Kiddie City in Atlanta dressed just like my doll – Linda Sylvia. We both were wearing jeans, yellow turtle necks, a green crayola necklace and had green ribbons in our matching pig tails. We finally made it to the front and Xavier Roberts signed Linda’s tush. I was so excited!!! I would love to win a cabbage patch doll to give to my daughter.

when the cabbage patch dolls first came out,my niece was wanting one so bad,at the time I didnt even have a daughter,but I went an stood in line for hours an ran with the crowd to get the few that kmart had,oh my goodness,they went so fast,luckly back then iwas alot smaller an could climb,they were a few on the top shelf,an a man say he would boost me if i would get him one too,soooooooooo,I climbed up four or five shelves an got those two dolls,then when he got his he split an left me there with mine!my mom helped me down,an I said then NEVERRRRRRRRRRRR again,thats my story,too dang funny even now,all these years later

Boy 25 years…time goes by so fast. My first memory is how hard it was to get the Cabbage Patch Doll and when you did get it you carried it with you every where. We still have he originals…It’s something to pass down to your kids!!!

I remember getting my Cabbage Patch newborn doll, it smelled like powder and had a little carrier. I loved it!

Oh yes I do remember the Cabbage Patch Dolls. My daughter was at that age where she wanted one and I do think it might have been the first must have christmas present that the company didn’t make enough, so people were paying outrageous prices for them and going to great lengths to get them. I remember that my sister found a doll for my daughter that had her same name wich was a small feet as her name is pretty unconventional and hard to find things with it on. I don’t know what ever happen to that doll but we still have her birth cerificate.

My favorite memory is when my daughter was graduating from high school. She told this elderly man that was a next door neighbor, when he asked what she wantedfor graduation, that she wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll. She told thim that they were too expensive.He brought the money to me and asked me to get her one. I was in shock, this girl had NEVER played with a doll. She played sports with her brothers. She said she wanted on to give her little girl when she married and had children. She has kept that doll all these years and her baby son is thirteen years old. No girls. Well, guess what! Her brothers girl(the only one in our family) came to live with her and the first Christmas she gave it to her. She is 19 now and that doll is on her bed in the dorm at college. I could not begin to tell you which doll it is but she probably could.

I still have my cabbage patch doll,Lacey jay Bray,setting in a child antique rocker.she is still my favorite.I was in my thirties when i bought my daughterwho was 8 one.hers is Miranda Rose.

My aunt gave me my first cabbage patch doll when I was little. I used to bring it everywhere. When I pressed its belly it would sing to me, I would press its belly all the time, and sing along with it, it sang a sad little song. I still have this cabbage patch doll, among many other ones.

we were too poor to afford one so my mom made me one..i will never forget it!

i had twin, boy & girl, original, signed cabbage patch dolls. my frien and i,(both adults) took them everywhere, to dinner, to the theatre, riding, shopping, everywhere. years later, i gave the two children to my daughters, who still have them.

I remember going out and waiting hours to get my daughter one- so Santa would give that magic of the year.

I was a mom of 3 girls when the dolls came out and I waited in line alllllllllllllllll day to get them and now I’m a grandma…we traveled to The cabbage patch Hospital in GA to Adoped one. I need another one so count me in to win this one. thanks

My favorite memory is getting out my original cabbage patch and playing with my youngest daughter with her brand spanking new cabbage patch. Classic

My son was an infant, and I wanted a doll so badly (for me AND him!) I managed, after hours of waiting at Toys R Us, to get a baby boy with a really awful name (can’t recall it)…so, I sent the name change request and birth certificate back, and he was renamed Noel, just in time for Christmas!

Finding my much wanted little CPK (her name was Eliza Alice) under the Christmas tree waiting for me. I will never forget how I felt.

My sister and I had to have one and guess what: Santa brought us each one for Christmas morning. I remember beeming w/ excitment!

I remember Christmas Eve where all of my grandmothers family gathered, when all of the children upon opening their presents, jumped up and down with glee with cabbage patch dolls in their hands.

I loved Cabbage Patch dolls! Still do… I remember I got one after I was in the hospital when I was little, and can still remember the scent of it

When these dolls were scarce in the local stores, one of the local businesses held a drawing to award a doll and I won! I was thrilled and so were my kids.

I can remember getting my first Cabbage Patch Kid. It was hidden in another room along with a playpen and doll carrier. It was the best gift I have received by far. It was my favorite toy for the longest time. There really isn’t any other Christmas gift from when I was a kid that I remember like my Cabbage Patch Kid.

My favorite Cabbage Patch memory was my 6th birthday.I was heartbroken because my Dad didn’t come home for cake and ice cream.Well just as I was starting to fall asleep he came home with Carlin Aaron in a brown corduroy suit!I no longer have him, but 21 years later, I still have his birth certificate.It also goes without saying, my dad was immediately forgiven for his absence!

my son got a boy cabbage patch doll when he was a young man(he was born 1979)around 3 he still has that doll to this very day. Still has everything along with the box. I wanted to get another one this time a girl (kinda like brother and sister dolls)since I couldnt have anymore kids. My son would take the doll out of the box and talk to him like he was a real person like a brother.I never did get another Cabbabe Patch Doll so I hope I win this one,she is so cute. Thanks

I remember having my Cabbage Patch doll from the beginning of my child hood. She had red hair and I had to sleep with her every night. My sister and brother had one too but theirs weren’t nearly as cool as mine!

I have fond memories of the cabbage patch dolls, although it didn’t start out too great. I was around 6 old and had received a Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas, It was summer in Australia in 1989, I was spending the night at a friends for a sleep over with a few other girls.
I remember playing with the doll and the other girls dolls, and one of the girls had the idea to check out the Tattoos on the behinds of the dolls, well come to find out my doll didn’t have a Tattoo ): I was teased and felt very sad. My Mum found out and when I got home she drew a Tattoo on the dolls behind! Oh mum I love you.

I can’t honestly say I remember specific details because I was so young, but I do remember that at one point, Cabbage Patch Kids were the “toy” to have. I knew I had to have one, and I was soooo excited when my mother presented me with my very own doll. I still have the birth certificate from my Cabbage Patch doll in my cedar chest that I store my treasured trinkets and papers in.

My daughter’s love for her Cabbage Patch babies has been passed down to her daughter. When Alex got her first Cabbage Patch and birth certificate, she began to cry and shake, and said, Now I am really a parent. She would love to add to her Cabbage Patch family.

I remember wanting a boy doll with a bald head. I liked those the best. Mom and I waited in line till a local Ames opened and then we ( and many others) ran into the store and made a mad dash to the toys. I grabbed the first bald boy I saw. I loved that cute doll!

I still have two of my cabbage patch dolls from the 80’s. I wanted a red haired girl and I tell you i had all family memebers watching out for it. And you know I have one boy cabbage doll that we recently got at christmas time.I just think they are so cute

The first time they came out, there were long lines and I told my daughter not to expect one for Christmas because we were not getting up early and waiting in the long lines for a toy, but that we could get one later. I knew that she was disapointed, so imagine our surprise when her grandmother won one in a church contest. We were so pleased to be able to surprise her with this special gift. His name was (and still is) Mark.

What I remeber about the original Cabbage Patch Kid was the smell. The first dolls had a nice powdery smell to them, we had one and everyone loved her and as the years went by we had newer Cabbage Patch Kids but they didn’t have the same smell as the first one. Everyone still wanted to play with that first Cabbage Patch Kid because she still had that smell. Wonderful, comforting smell.

My best memory is of my late mother getting caught in the middle of a Cabbage Patch riot at Christmas 1983 in Owensboro, Kentucky. She emerged victorious with a cabbage patch doll.

I remember going on a trip to Canada and finding out to my amazement that there was no Cabbage Patch craze in the great white north. Oh, they had Cabbage Patch dolls, they had them stacked up in the store, there just weren’t crowds of screaming people battling over them! You could browse at your leisure and choose your doll from a wide selection, which is how I got mine. It was also extra cool because the box and the certificate were printed in english and french.

My neice wanted a Cabbage Patch doll so bad and every time my sister and I went to get one they were gone.Christmas was coming and we were very upset to not get one. One day we were in Kmart, and right on a shelf was a lone Cabbage Patch just sitting there. We could not believe it. We looked back and forth and then at each other and then ran and grabbed it. We were getting looks all around as we walked thru the store holding it.On Christmas morning the look on my neices face was like this doll was meant for her.It was soooooo cool. We still don’t know where it came from, and even the cashier was a little freaked. I think my neice actually still has it, and this was in the 80’s.

I remember a neighbor lady who was knocked down, kicked, and bitten during a Cbbage Patch Kid stampede at K-Mart. That’s what I remember most about CPKs in the 80’s.

I myself had loved the cabbage patch dolls when they came out in the 80’s. Unfortunately being a grown woman I thought it silly to by one for myself. My husband made fun of me all of the time for wanting one as a grown woman. Luckily my best friend gave birth to a girl so I got her one to play with. Unfortunately this child didn’t appreciate what she had and didn’t take care of her and love her like the doll should have been loved and cherished. I was so disappointed with her and her mother for not teaching her to take good care of the doll. My husband took pity on me and went to the store and bought me my own cabbage patch doll. Even though he thought this was such a silly thing he no longer made fun of me and my beautiful doll sits on my dresser in our bedroom to this day, all of these years later.

I remember my mom thinking they were overpriced, so she bought a generic knockoff, then made a fake birth certificate for it on a typewriter, and used brown floss to embroider the words “Cabbage Patch” on the generic doll’s butt. Then she told me it was a real Cabbage Patch doll, and my friends made fun of me when I showed it to them.

My daughter was 6 years old 25years ago and wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll for Christmas. As a single parent and new nurse they seemed expensive and very hard to fine. People lined up at the stores waiting for them to open in hopes of buying one. My cousin who was in the grocery business had a vendor give him one, he had two boys definately not interested in dolls. Tom agreed to sell me the doll for $25.00 and I was able to have her to give my daughter for Christmas.

Ok, so there was a limit of 1 Cabbage Patch doll being sold at the stores…and my younger sister and I were SURE that Santa Claus could still pull it off for us. One for each of us. We woke up at the crack of dawn, but had to wait for our father (who worked 3rd shift as a sheriff’s deputy) to come home before we started opening presents. He FINALLY walked through the door-and it was “on”. Jill and I ripped each box-and there was her doll-a beautiful Cabbage Patch. I wondered it there would be one for me. I opened my next present-and there he was-a ball headed cabbage Patch. I remember the “baby smell” they had. I carried him to chuch a couple of Sunday’s,but had to stop because he scared an older lady who thought he was real-and when she touched his head-she almost fell over. I named him George Herbert Robert. The first names of Dad, Grandpa and my Uncle Robert. It seemed like forever for the “birth certificate” to come. When it did, I framed it on my wall. One of the very, very best Christmas’s ever. Dad told me years later that the sales woman was going to just give him 1-but he said,’LOok-I have 2 little girls at home-how am I going to do that?” The woman must’ve had a heart-because we both had one on that Christmas Day!

i had a beautiful cabbage patch doll she had a gorgeous gown. i took her everywhere with me, she was my favorite. i really loved that doll so much but when i became a teenager my brother gave her away

I remember it was Christmas Day in 1988. I remember opening up a present and I discovered it was a cabbage patch doll it came with adoption papers. boy! I was so excited because I’ve always wanted a cabbage patch doll.

I remember how badly I wanted an African-American doll because everyone in our town is caucasion. It was so hard to find me one. My mother had an African-American doll when she was growing up and loved it– she even sat in the back of the bus with the African-Americans when she visited D.C. when she was a child, and I wanted to have an African-American doll just like my mother. I finally found one — Rikki — and I still have her.

Who can forget the Cabbage Patch craze. I remember my grandmother preparing both my sister and myself for the possibility that we wouldn’t be getting one. Trying to be the good girls that we were we told her that we understood because we’d seen on tv how in demand they were so we knew that it probably wasn’t going to happen that Christmas. Grandma did her best and a friend of hers worked in receiving at Sears and he called to tell her one afternoon that a shipment had just arrived and that it wasn’t being broadcast they were just going to put them on the shelves so she needed to get down there quickly. She was one of the lucky few who were there at the right time and she got two of them. One for my sister and myself. You can’t imagine how happy and surprised we were to open those packages on Christmas day! I still remember his name, Lamar Randall and even though I could have sent the papers in to have it changed I kept that because that’s the given name he came with. What a wonderful memory this has brought back.

I loved my Cabbage Patch Kid! I had one with red curly hair and pink and white overalls. I still remember the real diaper and adoption papers. They’re so cute, I’d love to have one again.

I remember how much I wanted a cabbage patch doll with brown eyes and brown hair. I would write santa a letter every day in december until christmas. I remember waking up christmas morning and there sit that doll, I could not believe my eyes. I am 28 years old now and I still have that doll and I hope to give it to my kids someday.

My daughter would love this.

I was a fosterchild in the 1980’s. I remember wanting a Cabbage Patch Doll so soooo badly!!! I wished very hard that Santa would bring me the cutest & most loveable Cabbage Patch Doll for Christmas. I was really sad and tearful when, I didn’t find one under the tree on Christmas morning.

Several months later, my caseworker (Dee), at the foster care agency, surprised me with a Cabbage Patch Doll, that she had bought for me! I was sooo excited and happy to receive my very own Cabbage Patch Doll!!!! Her name was Doreen Ruby and she had long brown hair (pulled back into a pony tail. I loved Doreen Ruby so much!!! My foster care caseworker (Dee) even signed her name to the adoption papers (she was the witness to the adoption).

My foster care caseworker was such a very special, sweet, caring woman! It means the world to me… that, she brightened-up my world with the gift of a Cabbage Patch Doll and her kindness towards me.

It would be extra nice to win the 25th Anniversary Cabbage Patch Doll as a special reminder of that time in my life.

Thanks for the great contest!

leslie_ann1968(at)msn(dot)com

I found “Janice Monica” at a local toy store when I was 8 years old. My parents didn’t have the money to buy her so I called my grandmother. I knew Janice was for me! She gave me the money and we bought her. She became my favorite doll. One time on a family vacation, we had gotten two hours away from home I started crying that I had left Janice on my bed. I was in such hysterics, my dad turned the car around and went back home to get her. She still is the best doll and I will never get rid of her.

Good Luck to all

I remember filling out the adoption paper and I felt like a real mom!

The Cabbage Patch Doll frenzy wasn’t lost in our relatively small neck of the woods,either. In 1984, my daughter was 6 years old, and she wished for one of those dolls with every innocent bone in her body. Despite my attempts, it was a wish I was unable to satisfy. I purchased a home-made knock-off,praying she would be too young to notice. The look on her face said it all… I felt like a traitor, and counterfeit mother…so much so,that I became embittered toward the dolls themselves-and refused to acknowledge them from that day forward! Today my daughter is 30years old,and although,well past the doll stage,I think,it would mean so much to her to know, how deep her disappointment cut me. I would present it to her as a special keepsake, that she may someday pass to a daughter of her own…

I remember my little sister wanted one so bad and they were nowhere to be found. One day at work I overheard a couple of ladies talking about a store that was getting a shipment in. I left work and stood in line for several hours to get that doll – I’ll never forget the look of surprise on my little sister’s face when she opened up the christmas present with her new baby in it!

In the 1980’s, I was working for Sears, in the sporting goods and toy department, while attending high school. When Cabbage Patch Kids came out, people lined up at the doors before the store opened. I had the dolls behind the stock room door and I actually tossed the boxes out to the mob of women (mostly.) It was like tossing raw meat to a pack of hungry wolves.

Me and my 2 year old son flew to Arizona to see my parents. The only thing he wanted to bring was his cabbage patch doll. Well my dad loaded the car leaving the doll on top. Needless to say he ran the doll over.
We had to spend the first day after a long flight looking for a new one. When we finally found one my son was so happy.

I remember how my parents went to Mexico to find me and my sister talking cabbage patch dolls in 1987. They were less expensive there? I’m not sure why they went so far. My cabbage patch was brunette like me. Darn, I forgot her name! But she talked a lot. She would tell me to feed her, I was very amused! I loved playing with her and changing her clothes. I wish I still had her!

My mother gave me and my cousin our cabage patch doll. Mne ws a boy and he had curly hair. But one strand was long and it was in the top of his head.So I named him alfa. One day one of when I was a teenage one of my male cousins cut the stand of hair. Believe it or not I started to cry.He said he was sorry but the hair had been cut.I said I would have to rename him but I didn’t I just gave him to my nice.

Cabbage Patch dolls became popular when my daughter was about 8. I wanted to get her one but would not fight the crowds. A family member came up with one…how I do not know and I never asked. My daughter was thrilled and still has that doll to this day

I remember my first cabbage patch doll! She had blonde pigtails and her name was Matilda Jean. I was SO excited to get her =)

My daughter wanted a Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas. At that time they were so popular that none could be found in stores. My mother entered a contest at a local mall and won a doll. My daughter was so happy when she received her Cabbage Patch baby, that she cried. She took “Marvin” everywhere with her until he was so worn and tattered that I had to sew his head on twice. Even today, now that she is 34 years old, she still remembers her Cabbage Patch baby, Marvin, with the fondest of memores.

My brother used to put my dolls in the freezer, and the cabbage patch was the only doll who always felt warm to me no matter what! Their soft bodies didn’t become cold like the other dolls I had that had bodies made of plastic, they were always the perfect temperature for snuggling. I have such fond memories of all of my cabbage patch dolls, that as an adult I visited the Toysrus in NYC to see where they were born and to visit “the Cabbage patch” I would love to win a cabbage patch for my little girl:) I know that is probably not the type of memory you are looking for, but that is my memeory and I love it as well as my cabbage patches.:)

I really wanted a Cabbage Patch doll when I was a kid. My mom tried to get me one year, but that was during the time when it was nearly impossible to find them! I got one a year or so later and a neighbor kid kidnapped her from me and hid her in a treehouse! She was nearly ruined when I got her back. I would love to win one! Thanks so much!

Teaching grade school in the late 70s and early 80s, I set up our fifth grade Back to School bulletin board to look like a garden with three long rows of ten cabbages each. Students (boys and girls alike) with Cabbage Patch dolls brought them to share, and model, as each child created his or her own personalized face out of construction paper. On Open House night, parents tried to guess which little darling on the bulletin board was their own little Cabbage Patch Kid. After guessing, they lifted the cabbage leaf to see if they guessed correctly. In all of my 30 years of teaching, that bulletin board was the most talked about, one of the highest interest for visiting parents, and one of my very favorites.

Did I have a Cabbage Patch doll? All year long, Emma Louise was our class mascot. She sat in a place of honor, just below the ’squawk box’ so that every time we listened to an announcement, we looked to Emma Louise!

When I was a little girl,my sister and I always wanted a Cabbage patch doll.We pretty much gave up on getting them until one year my sister got one and I got a bag of strawberries.Now I hate strawberries!

My family and I moved to Upstate NY and spent our first Xmas when the second wave hit for the Cabbage craze. On this particular year my mother decided to bring my grandmother up from the Bronx to enjoy some country surroundings and holiday cheer. On Christmas morn my sibilings and I rushed downstairs to see what gifts awaited us. All we found were comic strip covered packages. This left the four of us a little baffled. After looking to each other for guidance my little sister made the first tear. Underneath the Sunday comics that had been saved for months by my grandma, she found twinkling eyes. She screamed in delight and this urged me to tear through my meager wrappings. There he was, GILL CHRISTOPHER, and he was all mine. I was 12 then, but the memory of how a grandmother on a fixed income took her time to stand in line and purchase two special litle dolls and then lovingly wrap them in the only paper she could save has been a very special memory that will always stay with me for many more years. And if you are wondering if GILL CHRISTOPHER is still smiling. THe answer is yes. He is a constant reminder of the love my grandmother showed me so many years ago just by making that little sacrifice for her grand-daughters.

I remember my Mom and I standing in line for hours at Service Merchandise or one of those kind of places to get one of the elusive Cabbage Patch Dolls! My sister and I eventually had about half a dozen of these dolls, which we just loved! I want my daughter to have one, now!

I remember going to the “cabbage patch hospital” with my Grandma when I was really little and having a cabbage patch kid be “born” while we were there. The guy working there was really cool and said they were going to name that after me!! I don’t know if they really did or not but I was thrilled and talked of nothing else for weeks. I’m 28 now and my little girls have their own cabbage patch kids and babies and love to hear me talk about mine!!

The year the news had stories on the lines at Toys r Us and how all the Cabbage Patch dolls sold out, of course, I wanted one. My mom had said not to expect one for Christmas with a disappointed look in her eyes. Then Christmas morning, my sisters and I all opened Cabbage Patch dolls. It was the best. Now, my daughter plays with my Cabbage Patch doll.

Back in the day I was a hard core runner. My dad took me to see the Olympics in Atlanta and for Easter one year he surprised me with the Olympic cabbage patch girl. I still have her!

I remember wanting one soooo bad and my parents couldn’t find them. I remember seeing on the news that people were getting into fist fights over these dolls! it was crazy!!!

I remember when the Cabbage Patch first came out and all the hype that xmas. I didn’t get one because I had all boys. I would have gotten one if I had a girl then. I have a daughter now and would love to win this for her.
Count me in to win!!

I remeber the very first one I ever got. Her name was Flavia and it was so hard for me to pronounce. Thanks for the opportunity.

I saw them in the Sears Christmas catalog that first year and asked for one for my birthday in October. My mom said, “Those are the ugliest things. No one will ever want one.” Of course, just a few months later people were fighting over them for Christmas.

I was a cabbage patch girl growing up… my mom actually won my cabbage patch in a duel with another mom at a shopping center near christmas one year LOL

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My daughter really wanted a doll, but I could not find them anywhere. Then, one day I was shopping for something else and lo and behold, they were putting a few dolls on the shelf. And that is how Whitney came to live with us. And 30 years later, he is still with us.

When the Cabbage Patch craze started, everyone’s parents were purchasing them for them. At first, my parents tried to convince me that I didn’t want one. But the more I saw the cute birth certificate and clothes, the more I wanted one. Near my birthday, I wrote a note to my parents saying that I ONLY wanted one Cabbage Patch Doll and I hoped it looked like me. My parents later told me that they visited 14 stores before they were able to find a Cabbage Patch Doll.

On the morning of my 10th birthday I was very excited because I anticipated holding my own Cabbage Patch. After school, I came home and waited until my grandparents and aunts arrived. When everyone came, I asked my Mom where my present was. On the table was a tiny box that looked like it held jewelery. My heart sank. I held back the tears as I opened the box. I remember feeling so much disappointment. Inside the box was a charm for my charm bracelet and a folded up note that said, “Another present is behind the chair in the living room.”

I ran to the living room and behind the chair was my Cabbage Patch Baby Camille Lorraine. I was in love with the beautiful brown haired Cabbage Patch. I couldn’t wait to show my friends at my birthday party the following day.

The following day, I dressed Camille Lorraine in a party dress that was given to me by my brother. I put her on the chair outside so I could greet all of my guests when they came. I brought everyone out back and quickly noticed that my Cabbage Patch was gone. Again, I had to fight back tears because my new doll was gone. A party guest noticed that the neighbor’s dog had come over to our yard and taken the doll. We quickly got her back and enjoyed the party.

Of course, I would love to win a Cabbage Patch for my darling! Thanks for having a great giveaway.

I couldn’t afford to buy a Cabbage Patch Doll for either of my young daugters 25 years ago. It’s amazing that today the Internet has become a vehicle by which we all have an equal chance of winning one of these dolls.

I grew up adoring Cabbage Patch Kid dolls – they were the only ones I ever wanted to play with. Every year I would visit my grandparents and every year my Mamma would grace me with another doll. I have been unable to get rid of my collection to this day and have my collection saved so maybe my kids can enjoy them as much as I did!

My favorite memory is when I got my cabbage patch doll. It came for Christmas in a wagon – sitting there with her brown pigtails in the red wagon I was thrilled. I remember playing with her utnil her face was so dirty. I took her everywhere! Please enter me to win.

I can still remember 1983 when everyone was fighting to find a Cabbage Patch doll…my daughter was 8 months old and we bought two for her for Christmas..and we still have them! Since I am a doll collector this one would
have alot of company with all my other much loved “friends”! ( and I know my 2 granddaughters will love playing with her as well! )

My main memory of Cabbage Patch Kids was that I never got one as a child – even though I wanted one. It wasn’t until I was in college, that I finally went out and bought one for myself. I still loved her, but somehow it just wasn’t quite the same.

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I will never forget my first cabbage patch kid. I was only in kintergarden so i didn’t know they were so hard to get or such a hot item. I got picked up from school and my whole family was in the car because we were heading out on a family camping trip. Then my parents surprized me with the most beautiful doll. She has yellow curly hair (like mine) a yellow outfit on and she help a yellow crayon. I still have her looking terrific, and i will never forget that day. I played with her all the time. i love cabbage patch kids and have given my girls them as well. i loved the preemies especially the smell! Happy Anniversary CPK!!!!

I remember having tea parties in my backyard with my cabbage patch kid, Hope Edna and with my sister and her cabbage patch kid, Iris Dorkus.

My first cabbage patch baby doll was named Nancy, I remember she came with her birth certificate and she had blong stringy curly pigtails and glasses and was very plush/soft body and hard face. I always loved playing with all friends cabbage patch baby dolls too, and going to the store and seeing all the new ones available.
I thought it was pretty cool they had boy ones!

I remember buying my daughter one in 1985, she was 1 year old and carried that doll everywhere she went, it was a preemie so it was small. She got it so dirty, but she loved it so much. She is now 23 graduating from college becoming a nurse and still has that doll on her bed.

I remember when these first came out – I worked at a photography studio where we did catalog photos. Most times we could buy the items we shot at a reduced rate. It was an easy way for stores to move items used on shoots. Anyway, I thought these where cute, but did not try to purchase them at the time. Months later everyone was fighting to find them. And although I have no children, y nieces all HAD TO HAVE them. Talk about regretting passing on them at the time. It would have saved so much time and effort. And I could have had my pick! Oh well, such is life. Now I laugh at how I missed that ‘hot’ item.

I was a freshman in high school when Cabbage Patch Doll fever hit. I loved dolls and wanted one really badly. I wanted one of the little bald baby girls. So I put it on my Christmas list and anxiously awaited Christmas night. Well, unfortunately Santa had a little problem with his orders and ran out of supply.

My aunt heard about how disappointed I had been and went to a craft shop to buy a ‘cabbage patch look-a-like’ kit and made me one. Not a baby like I had first wanted but one that looked just like me with brunette hair and blue eyes. I was thrilled! She was even better because she was made with love.

I still have the doll to this day (Wow, she’s now 25 years old) and even though it wasn’t an authentic cabbage patch doll I loved her just the same. Instead of me adopting a cabbage patch doll of my choice ’Kristen Annabelle’ adopted me.

Thanks for bringing back wonderful cabbage patch memories and for having this contest.

Best Wishes.

I remember these being the best thing ever when I was a young child… My favorite was my corn silk red head. I do not remember names of them tho… my ex- step Dad disposed of them all – I think I had about 7. My 6 year old has one, now… I just HAD to get her one… and I’d love to start her a small collection.

I remember I received my first Cabbage Patch doll from my grandmother when I was 4 years old, for Christmas. I was so excited because her name was so similar to mine (hers was Marianne, mine is Mariana). I no longer have the actual doll, but I have her birth certificate in my scrapbook.

I remember like it was yesterday getting my one and only Cabbage Patch Kid. I got her for my 5th birthday about 23 years ago. My grandparents gave her to me and I will aways treasure her. I played with my doll all the time. Infact so much that my poor baby had to have surgery on her knees because they were falling apart. I would love for my old doll to have a new friend.

I remember I just happened to be at the store when the shipment came in. I was lucky get one back then. People were fighting over them; it was crazy. My sister still has that doll and she has a special place in her bedroom for her. Christmas 1983 was one of the best.

My biggest thing about Cabbage Patch Dolls was collecting them and saving my money to get each one!

i would love to win a cabbage patch doll my husband bought one for each of my sons when they were born in 1980 and 1983 qnd i got one for a birthday present my sons still have theris and still have mine i hope that i win

My two daughters would love one of these.

I remember being so excited when I got my 1st Cabbage Patch Doll. His name was Dudley Walt & he had curly brown hair. I still have him 20 yrs later. Thanks

My Mom’s friend had an original Cabbage Patch Doll. I was always so fasinated with that doll. I thought it was the most interesting and pretty doll I had ever seen. Knowing that, my grandmother had a fake one made for me and it always made me sad to look at it. It wasn’t very cute and it didn’t look real. I always wanted a real one.
I am now 40 years old and I would love this doll for my daughter.

I remember everyone wanting one & I was no different. So my mom went to Toys R Us and waited on line for hours. She grabbed the first doll she could get her hands on. The doll was a girl with green eyes & red hair. Having brown hair & brown eyes myself, I remember feeling disappointed. Plus she came with a stupid name, so once my mom told me I could change her name I was so excited. I named her Suzanne. I got the new birth certificate it had her new name & my name on it to as her adoptive mommy. I spent so many hours playing with her. Some of my best memories as a kid was playing with that doll. Looking back, I was really lucky. My best friend wasn’t even allowed to take her doll out of the box! And you know what else I remember – how nice they smelled. Strange thing to remember huh..

We didn’t have a lot of money during the cabbage patch days.. my mother was single raising three kids. I did manage to get a cabbage patch comforter for my bed which i thought was incredible. Then my grandmother bought me a doll. I was so excited… my one compared to all my friends having 5 or so… she was beautiful with blonde pig tails….. I remember i hated her name though.. Abigail Gayle thought that was a silly name

I got my First Cabbie, Corette Eve, on Christmas of 1983. Out of 7 granddaughters, i was the one that got one. My Grandmother got lucky…some lady returned Corette to the store, because her daughter wanted one in a dress(she is wearing the windbreaker outfit). Anyhow, little to say, Corette was the hit of the Christmas Party, and i hardly got to play with her. She is a #4 gold double pony, blue eyed girlie!!

When we moved to a new house, I was 7(3 years after her arrival), Corette helped pave our family driveway…she still has a tar “scar” to prove it…she it still my most precious Cabbie!!!

I remember how hard my parents had to “fight” in stores to get a cabbage patch kid for me. After I had my first one I asked to get a bald baby one for Hanukkah. My parents surprised me with a baby girl that had no hair. . . . or so they thought. When I opened her up there was a teeny tiny tuft of hair on her head. I cried for quite a while about that tuft, but I really did love her.

I wanted a Cabbage Patch kid so bad (everyone had one) and for whatever reason my mother wouldn’t get me one. A couple weeks later we’re at some family thing when my Aunt calls me into a room and says to me: I saw this and thought maybe you would want it. It was a Cabbage Patch girl with blonde hair!! I couldn’t believe she had gotten that more me. I’ll never forget that.

All I wanted when I was little was a Cabbage Patch Kid- my mom and Dad waited on line for almost a day for my doll Ramona. I would not leave that doll and I think that we were inseparable until I went to school. I was kind of sad when Ramona was damaged during a basement flood about 10 years ago.

The christmas of 1984, I was ten yrs old and my mom worked at montgomery wards. They would let the employees have first pick of the dolls. Well I really wanted the red head doll form spain, and there was a line of people waiting and when my mom went over to get the cabbage patch doll I wanted a lady in line jumped the rope and strated pulling my moms hair, for this doll. But thats how I got my angel from Spain.You should make me a winner because despite all that my mother still got the doll….

I remember one Christmas I was at the store and I saw this adorable Cabbage Patch Preemie… Charlene. I fell in love with her. I didn’t think that I would get her, but sure enough, she was under the fireplace on Christmas morning.

I still have Charlene, and my regular CPK, Nicole. My daughter plays with them. We had a house fire and although I could find Nicole, I didn’t know where Charlene was for weeks. I was sure that she hadn’t burned up but I didn’t know where my daughter had left her. I was so happy when I found her. It’s funny how much joy a 20+ year old doll can still bring after all these years.

My first one was given to me by my cousin. She gave it to me when she moved out of state, it was her favorite doll but she was so sweet and I was so sad she was moving, but she gave me her Cabbage Patch Doll. It had red hair and a beautiful dress. I loved that doll so much, I sure wish I had it today.

I received my first Cabbage Patch doll for my 5th birthday Dec. 1983. My Dad came in at the end of the party gave my sister Diane and I each a doll. Mine was blond with green eyes and named Eleanor. I still have her to this day, and I’m 30
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I remeber when the TV commercials first started. I was entranced by the idea that my doll could have real diapers – of all the things to be obesessed with! By the time we were in middle school, my siblings and I had a total of 6 dolls. My sister and I each had a regular doll and a preemie and my brothers each had one too! They were so wonderful!

One of my earliest memories is of receiving my first Cabbage Patch Doll. I must have been about 4. I named him Dewayne after my grandfather who passed away 10 years ago. Little Dewayne came with a football outfit and was bald. That was my first real baby and I still have him to this day. I hope to pass him on to my future children. I have 3 others that I have put away but Dewayne will always be close to my heart.

I was the only girl in a family of four boys. I had three older brothers and one younger. I remember getting a cabbage patch doll with long blonde hair that matched my own, and I bought outfits for that doll long into junior high. When I made the cheerleading squad, so did my doll! My younger brother was so jealous, that my mom finally gave in and got him a boy doll, and I think he was dressed in camo gear or something! He didn’t keep his nearly as long as I did. I would love to be able to pass this joy on to my four little girls. The oldest is 13, the twins 11, and the little one 8. They would love to have a doll like mommy had!

Wow – has it really been 25 years? I remember over hearing my Mother and Aunt planning to get up in the middle of the night, to get a place in line before the store opened. I was in my mid-teens at the time. They were successful, all of us girls got one – two sisters, and one cousin. I still have my doll AND adoption papers.. LOL. She now sits on the guest room bed. I remember the stories on the news about how people were literally fighting, screaming and even clawing for these beloved dolls. I would love to win a new doll to give to my granddaughter

By the time i was old enough to realize i didn’t have a cabbage patch, Hasbro had taken over the manufacturing of the doll line. All my cousins who were a bit older had the original dolls, in the yellow buttercream boxes and their dolls all were a bit bigger then the ones I saw in the stores, when so when I turned 5, I asked for a Cabbage Patch Kid for my birthday. I wanted a friend like my cousins had, as they all had great names and pictures if them and their kids’ doing things like climbing trees and going to disney world. When february 25th rolled around, my godmother, also my Aunt Brenda, brought in a gift and put in in back behind the others, and as all the gifts were opened and the cake was devoured, I felt a little sad I didn’t get a kid too. I had however gotten the camera I wanted to go with the kid, so we too could document our memories. As I was just going to sit with my cousins and watch a movie, my Aunt called me over.

“Brendan I didn’t know what on earth you wanted so I settled for this, I hope it’s ok.” She said with a smile as she handed me the brightly wrapped package. As I tore open the paper, two big brown eyes stared back at me. I ripped the paper off and let it fall to the ground, and my boy, Christopher Sebastian looked back at me with open arms and a big smile, and to this day he still sits in my room.

We did go on to have many adventures and he still looks pretty good for belonging to a five year old boy, and I hope this story reminded someone else of their first kid, because I know I enjoyed remembering his welcome to the family.

My mom still has my first Cabbage Patch Doll in her attic, Maude. She had red hair and was a treasured companion for years.

I was in high school when the Cabbage Patch dolls came out. Though I had no interest in them, my little sister begged for one for christmas. As you know, NOBODY had one available anywhere. Well, one morning, I heard through the grapevine at work that some people were selling a bunch of them at a hotel located over an hour away. I called my Mom and she cried, said PLEASE go and see if I could get one. So my friends and I took off and made it to the hotel 2 hours before the sale started. I guess word had gotten around since the line was huge. After an exhaustive wait, I managed to get one of the last three available for a price of $100.00. My Mom owed me quite a few favors for that one!

I remember when they came out. It was around my birthday, and we were in Chicago visting relatives (one of my cousins has the same birthday as me so this was a tradition).

One my older cousins had a friend that was working in retail. She called to let them know that her store was expecting a delivery, and when they should try to be there. My dear sweet dad went and stood in that crazy mob of people. (you would have to have known my father to understand how out of character that was for him) He managed to snag two of the last cabbage patch dolls available. He was soooo excited to give them to my cousin and I for our birthdays.

My father passed away before my next birthday, so this memory is one that I treasure.

as a child we never got any kind of doll because there was 10 girls and 3 boys in my family and mom and dad could not get use one you know i would love to win this one that way i can say i won a cabbage patch doll thanks for reading my story.

I remember when I was a child, and my grandmother made me a cabbage patch doll. We couldn’t afford to get a real one. But I loved mine very much. I wish my daughter had one too. I know she would love it too.

growing up, my mother was very frugal with our finances and what we had to spare for toyes. i wanted a cabbage patch doll and she asked if i really wanted it to make sure it was a worthwhile expense. she bought me several throught my childhood and they were always very special to me.

I don’t know how my uncle managed to produce the Cabbage Patch Doll that I received for my 9th birthday, but I remember shrieking with girlish excitement when I opened the package. My shrieks must have terrified Poochie, our family dog, because she instantly loathed my doll. Whenever Poochie could sneak her out of my bedroom, I would find her, dirt and dog drool-encrusted, in a remote corner of our yard. Poor Dolly never held up really well to the treatment, and eventually I learned to put her high up on a shelf where Poochie could glare at her and howl!

I had 2 cabbage patch dolls, one with red hair and the other was a boy with light brown hair. I used to think the cabbage patch dolls came to life at night when I was sleeping so before bed I would put them at the back of the hallway closet so they would not scare me to death. I’m not the only one that thought that right? haha

I took my daughter for her 1st cabbage patch doll about 25 years ago. His name was Richard Giles. She now has a little girl of her own and I would love to give her a cabbage patch doll to love.

My daughters really wanted a Cabbage Patch Kid when they were little and we lived in MN but I was a single parent and could not afford them at the time. A friend made dolls similar to Cabbage Patch so my Mom ordered 2 for my girls for Christmas one year and though they liked them…they just weren’t Cabbage Patch Kids!! In 1987 we moved to VA and my daughters had saved some birthday money and allowance and saw one of the boy Cabbage Patch kids in the store. They put their money together and bought him and they were so excited to finally have a REAL Cabbage Patch Kid of their own to share and take care of!! Years later, they lovingly passed on their “boy” to their cousins who were also thrilled to receive it!!

In 1984 our local Safeway store had a drawing for Cabbage Patch Kids – 1 each at Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. There was no way we could afford to purchase a doll for our daughter, even if we could have found one, so I entered her in the drawings. She was so excited to win a girl doll in the Halloween drawing – then she also won a boy doll during the Thanksgiving drawing. The store was so upset that the same child had won both drawings, they put her name and picture up on the wall in the office with a statement that ‘this girl was ineligible to win the next drawing’ – so of course, she didn’t win it. She is 34 now, and still has both dolls – her 5 year old daughter ‘mothers’ them both now. How exciting it would be to ‘win’ another one for her.

My favorite Cabbage Patch related memory is my mother taking both my sister and my dolls to her dentist who put braces brackets on their teeth. To this day, we are the only people I know of with Cabbage Patch Kids with braces. I still have no idea what made my mom do this, but I think it is great!

I have 5 sisters and 3 brothers, when Cabbage Patch came out.. All the sisters wanted one… too bad with 9 kids my parents could not afford to get them. But a couple of years later when they were reasonable, we each got one. I still have mine and I buy them for each neice and nephew!

I remember when I got my crimp and curl cabbage patch. I was so excited because the girls in the commercial made her look like so much fun. I spent all of Christmas day curling and crimping her hair. Usually the CPK dolls had the yarn hair that you couldn’t do much with. I still have her and the original out fit.

Here’s a story that my family STILL tells about me 24 years later… it’s so popular, that they were telling it at my wedding last year.

I loved Jerry Henrietta (my CPK) so much!! I took her everywhere. One vacation when I was about 8, my grandparents were taking me to Florida to visit some friends. I was asked to put my CPK through the security belt to get X-rayed and I stood there and refused. The security people told me I couldn’t get on the plane unless I put her on the belt. I started to cry and yelled at them, “You wouldn’t put your baby on there, why should I! Look at all the other babies. Why do their mother’s get to hold them and I can’t hold my baby?”

After my small temper tantrum, they let me carry my “baby” in my arms like all the other mothers. (I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t work today.)

I remember hearing about fights breaking out over these dolls at some stores before Christmas. I hadn’t seen a Cabbage Patch doll yet, and couldn’t figure out why people were fighting over them. I also remember hearing that some lady got her leg broken when she fell and was trampled on by others trying to get to the dolls when a store that had advertised them opened one morning.

When I was 6 years old, my family went on vacation to South Dakota. I had to have my Cabbage Patch doll, Stephanie, with me at all times. In every picture, I had my doll and my brother had his doll, Kory. I have a picture of Stephanie in front of Mount Rushmore, on the dinosaur in Dinosaur Park, on the train and on the bridge in Fantasy Park. I still have Stephanie but she’s in a box under my bed. Someday, I’ll give her to my kids so they can take care of her and enjoy her.

My favorite memory is playing with my best friend and her cabbage patch doll when we were five. We had sleep overs and both brought our dolls to play with!

My twin sister and I always wanted our own- we didn’t want to share. I remember my poor Mom trying to go to every store in a 10 mile radius to find them. When she did find them, she brought them home to us, and we were happy campers. I remember that same night, she was so tired that when she fell asleep, we took our dolls and put one on each side of her- so while she slept, she would be protected by them!

I never got a cabbage patch kid. I think I am still scarred I was the only girl that I knew that didn’t have one, and when all the other girls brought theirs to school, I only had a mogwai from gremlins that sqeaked when you turned it upside down. The boys threw it in the pond….. I suppose it would never be too late to have one

I so remember Cabbage Patch mania! The long lines, the desperate moms, the sheer excitement of it all. I never got one but would love one for my daughter.

I remember the Cabbage Patch frenzy well. I stood in long lines and had my name on waiting lists to get 2 Cabbage Patch Dolls for my neices when they were young.I never bought one for me opting to make sure they got one. Now one of my neices are expecting their first baby and its a girl any day now. I would love to carry on the tradition and win this to give to her as I did to her mom and soon to be aunt.

My first cabbage patch doll was around 1986, and I got a girl and my brother got a boy. I was freaking out, because I wanted a boy too. My grandma took me back to the store so I could pick out my blond boy Cabbage Patch, who I had forever!

I never was fortunate to have one of the dolls, when I was a child. We were too financially strapped for me to get nice gifts like this, but we made do, and I was happy to have what I got. All my friends had one, and I’d love to be able to give one to my daughter now, which is what I would do if I were to win this one.

Do I ever remember the Cabbage Patch frenzy!! It was about 1981 and I was about 9. I had my Mom going from store to store to get one for my birthday. She finally got one at Toys R Us after standing in line for quite a long time. I treasured that doll for many years.

It was exciting as a kid to have my very own cabbage patch (it was one of many). I saved my CPK’s to give to my daughter some day. I now have a three-year old daughter who plays with the dolls I once played with as a kid. However, the best moment was when I bought her her very own Cabbage Patch Kid (a snuggle bean). She came with the name Natalie but is called Nanie. When she opened it she ooooed and ahhhed and has not let go of it since. I would love to give her one of the 25th anniversay dolls.

I loved my cabbage patch dolls and have so many fond memories. I was surprised one christmas when I thought that Santa didn’t bring me one, but my mom surprised me later by having it at my Nana’s on Christmas morning. I would carry them with me everywhere. My mom has many pictures of me carrying one in each arm. I can’t wait for my daughter to share in the experience of having her own Cabbage Patch!

I remember my sister wanting one. I thought I was too old. Anyway my dad stood in line at the store and he did end up getting one. I guess I was a bit jealous when I saw it, but we both enjoyed the doll.

I remember when my daughter got her first cabbage patch doll and named her “Baby Amy” after her favorite Aunt, Amy, The most wonderful person she knew! We still have Baby Amy and she is over 22 years old.

I got my first Cabbage Patch Doll when I was like…one. I don’t really remember enjoying it when I first got it but I remember taking her with me to my first day of school and crying when my mom made me leave her in the car. It was always comforting though knowing that when my mom came to get me, my doll would be in there waiting for me.

I remember my mother running herself ragged to try and get my little sister the Cabbage Patch Doll she wanted so badly for Christmas that year. It was the very first year the dolls were introduced.
To no avail, they were sold out everywhere. She even tried to win one is several different contests.
All through the next year, Cabbage Patch dolls remained unattainable. Christmas again rolled around. This time my mother was not going to give up until she had one for my sister. She waited hours in line at the local toy store and was successful this time. The look on my sister’s face was too precious. The look on my mother’s face priceless !!

I remember wanting a Cabbage Patch Kid. They were unattainable, and funds were low, back then. Fake versions began to emerge, but even us kids knew the real thing. When I finally got one (that was not authentic), I feigned joy so as not to hurt any feelings. When I took it to a friend’s house, her little brother was fascinated with it, then he mutilated the shoes. I wasn’t terribly attached to it, any how. I had always wanted a real one, but life had other plans for me, I guess. We’ll see what this contest brings.

I was born in 1980 so in the 80’s I was a little girl and I LOVED Cabbage Patch kids and all things associated. I got my first Cabbage Patch Kid in 1985 from my grandma for Christmas she had red yarn hair and her name was Danielle. The second one I earned by doing chores in the summer of 1987. I can remember being sooo excited to get to pick out a cornsilk Cabbage Patch kid she had beautiful cornsilk blonde hair and blue eyes. In the Christmas of 1988 I recieved a toddler cabbage Patch kid that looked alot like me, I also got a record player with two Cabbage Patch kid albums, I listened to them all the time. I really believed they were real and were from a cabbage patch (they came alive when I wasn’t around.) I could almost cry these memories are so precious to me.

I was born in 1977, started school in 1982. It was 1985 when i got my cabbage patch kid (Kristy). I was the last of all the kids in the class to get one but i still walked around proudly with her. Every night i would kiss her good night and if i missed kissing her goodnight i would make it up by giving her and extra kiss the next night. I am 30 years old now and still have her. She is in excellent condition and still gets loved just as much. I often have children come and visit and they love to play with her. It would mean alot to me to own a 25th anniversary cabbage patch kid. I would be honoured.

My family did not have lots of money, with 5 children and one with a heart condition, extra money went to doctor bills. One year for christmas i had told my mother all i wanted for christmas was a cabbage patch doll. She managed to find one and buoght it for me.My gift from “Santa”. I played with that doll for years and had always wanted to give it to my daughters. I lost it to a house fire in the mid 90’s. Both of my daughters first baby dolls were the cabbage batch dolls and they now have several but none as special as the first dolls. It would be great to give them the original looking doll. Thanks for the chance

I totally remember my first cabbage patch kid like it was yesterday. I had 5 sisters and 3 brothers growing up so the money was always tight but all I wanted for my birthday was a cabbage patch kid and I got one alright. It was a knock off but it meant the world to me and my siblings knew it so they decided to cut all her hair off and nail polish her face. I was so upset and hurt by there actions that I will never forgive them but as a mother of two know I went out and bought two new one’s that I keep in there boxes so no one can ruin them.

I remember standing in below zero weather waiting for Hills Dept. store to open. After a 2 hour wait the store doors opened. Within 1 minute the manager came outside and announced to those of us still trying to get into store, that the dolls were gone. Luckily there was a little tiny toy store a mile down the road and there is where I found 2 dolls. Made my little girls very happy Christmas morning!

I remember they were like gold and sold out the minute they hit the shelfs-I never got one but would still like to!

I was around 4 when I noticed that everyone else had one. My Cabbage Patch memories are sad and whiny. My mom would not cave to their popularity, so I went without one for so long. One Christmas I started opening a big present and freaked out, I got one! But then it turned out to be a really ugly doll made to look like a Cabbage Patch. Wow, did my face fall. Finally, a couple years later, my dad got me one of the newborns. I was so sad, because I wanted a toddler doll to play with, what could I do with a baby? After they stopped being really popular, my dad bought me 3 more. To late! I’m not sure my mom understood what she did to my social standing when she refused to get me a Cabbage Patch Doll, My Little Pony’s, or any Carebears. Sad and whiny.

I fondly remember my cabbage patch dolls. I had one boy doll, and 3 girly ones. They helped my imagination on many a day. Now that I am a mom, I can watch my boys lug around their boy dolls.

When my duaghter was 2, I bought her one for Christmas. I was divorced and living on $500.00 a month. But she always went to the dolls in the store and would carry one around until I was finished shopping. Well, she got hers, but not for long. We had gone to the store and her doll went with us, as she went everywhere we went. But she layed her down in the store somewhere and when we were going to the car she said her baby was gone. We went back inside but noone ever found her. I would love to give her another one. She has a few pictures of her doll and still says she wishes she had her to one day give to her daughter. I just hope whoever has her loves her as much as she did.

I remember my mom calling Kmart every night for a month trying to get information on when they might be getting a shipment of Cabbage Patch Dolls. When she finally found out they would be in she got to the store bright and early and managed to grab one, just one week before Christmas. I was so excited Christmas morning to find out I not only got a Cabbage Patch Doll, but I got one with a pacifier!

I still have my Cabbage Patch Dolls. My favorite was a little boy premie whom I named Kirk Michael after Kirk Cameron of Growing Pains. I loved that doll and took him everywhere. When my Mom would stop at a yard sale, I would dig through the baby stuff looking for things to fit him or my other Cabbage Patch dolls. Mom let me get things like real bottles, diapers, diaper bags and toys. I think babying my Cabbage Patch dolls were good practice for babying my real babies today

My greatest memory of my Cabbage Patch Kid, Alyssa, isn’t a happy one. I had more than one Cabbage Patch, but Alyssa was always my favorite. When I was five, my parents decided to take my brother and I on a cruise. I had to take Alyssa with me. My brother, who was two years older than I was, was very antagonistic towards me. We didn’t get along and he’d always try to take Alyssa from me. During a nap (I didn’t always take naps, but the cruise was busy and I was tired), I woke up to notice that Alyssa was gone. Frantically, I ran to my mom, but nobody had seen her. With my brother up on deck, at the pool with my dad, I teary-eyed, was led up there by my mother to join them. When I got to the pool, I refused to go in, without knowing if Alyssa was safe and sound. That is until I saw her floating, face down, in the pool! Jeff (my brother) had snuck her out of the room in his towel and put her in the pool after he saw us arrive. I was so mad that I tried to jump into the pool to get her without my floaties on! Needless to say, Jeff got in a lot of trouble for his “prank”. Waterlogged, even when we tried to dry her, the heavily chloronated pool made sure Alyssa never was the same again. I loved her anyway and now she sits in a shelf in my closet just waiting for me to have kids so she can play with someone again.

Christmas of 1985 I was looking for a Cabbage Patch for my son. I tried everywhere but they were sold out unless you wanted to pay a premium, which as a single Mom I could just not justify. Fortunately, “Santa” found one, and I still remember his delight at finding out that his baby’s name was “Calvin Hubert”. But the best part about it, is that my son is now 25 years old, and he is a tough boy “screamer” in a hard core band, but if you go into his bedroom, Calvin sits right there next to Henry Pound Puppy.
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Back when I was 6 or 7 years old in about 1988, my family was not necessarily the most wealthy. My father was a pastor at a small church and we lived very simply. My brother and I learned to appreciate any luxuries that we were given. One year, for my birthday, I got the most georgous cabbage patch doll with red hair (just like mine!) I loved that doll. I dressed her up, did her hair, and put her to bed every night. One afternoon at the park with my family, I accidentally left my doll on the swingset. When I returned to the car, I realized that my doll was gone. By the time I made it back to the swings, my doll was gone. I was heartbroken! I knew it would be impossible for my family to replace the doll because money was so tight. To my surprise and delight, a few friends of the family and a couple of church members pitched in and replaced my doll. I still have her to this day with my keepsakes. Of course, I was never allowed to take her to the park again!

I love the Dolls! I remember loving mine so much that my grandmother and her friend made a bassinet so that she could sleep comfortably!
A few years later, a child I babysat got one with red hair (like mine) and of course named her after me!
I have to be honest, I went to Cleveland, GA a few years back and went to BabyLand Hospital to see it again…
Thanks for the contest!

I remember visiting the Cabbage Patch Hospital in Ca. I had one doll with such a pretty pink lacy dress! I saved so long for her. . .

I remember a crafting craze at the same time as women tried making replica dolls..but, oh my daughter and nieces knew..they wanted the real ones…the ones with matching hair and eyes to them. I remember women fighting over them, I think they were $25, a LOT at the time. You were cool if you had one.and you were a dork if you had a replica.

I adopted two Cabbage Patch Dolls. We did everything together. And I remember my mom got an old highchair from a garage sale and gave it to me so they had a place to sit at dinner. I was so happy. I always thought it was great they were adopted like me.

My favorite cabbage patch memory is getting the set of twins I got one Christmas. They both had on red velvet pant suits, and red berets…with brown hair. And one of them was named Debra, which was my mom’s name. I already had five other cabbage patch dolls, but these two were so special because one was named after my mom.
I know have a one year old daughter and I already have boughten her her first cabbage patch doll…she’s adorable and brought back so many memories! THANKS!

I still have my first and only cabbage patch doll. I wonted the one that had the long hair but instead my mom got me the newborn and I thought that was the ugliest baby I had ever seen. It name was Carmela Maggie and her birthday was September first that was just a few days from mine and I like that part. It turned out that she became my favorite doll and she has been passed down to my daughter.

Funny story: when my sister was born, my parents still hadn’t gotten a name picked out…they named her after my only cabbage patch doll: Heather. She’s hated me ever since. Lol.

I received my Cabbage Patch Doll the day that I was born and I still have her! Her name is BeBe Alisa. I don’t have a daughter yet, but when I do, I will pass it down to her! If I never have a daughter, well them, I guess my son will get her! Thanks for the opportunity!

I remember as a kid how scary it was to go to the store when they got a shipment of Cabbage Patch Dolls in i was almost knocked over by frantic adult trying to get there hands on a doll. My favorite thing about my doll was her smell, i love the original Cabbage Patch Doll & i would love to win this for my four year old daughter that i am adopting. I think it might be a great way to explain to her about her adoption.

My sister-in-law bought my two nephews Cabbage Patch dolls. I will never forget the looks on my four other brothers faces when their nephews showed up toting dolls. Their dad still hasn’t lived that one down.

Obviously that was back when kids toys were more sexist – back then boys still played with guns and trucks, not dolls.

I had a Cabbage Patch doll named Victoria. I took her with me evrywhere, including one very memorable trip to the dentist where she probably had trouble breathing due to the increased pressure my hug of fear brought her. The timing of this contest is a little funny in that I was just explaining Cabbage Patch Kids to my two oldest girls a week or two ago. Victoria was my prize possession. In fact, she was pretty much all I got one Christmas. Needless to say, her value to me was significant. I would have loved to hand her down to my girls, but one of the other neighborhood children visiting my brother stole her from my bedroom along with a couple of other things. I remember crying all night, not really able to assimilate the loss. Regardless of winning or not, it was fun reliving Victoria’s memory. Thanks!

I can remember when the first Cabbage Patch Doll came out. My friend and neighbor got one of the first one and I vividly remember her coming over and telling me that she had adopted this doll. She showed me the “birth certificate” paperwork to prove that she was her doll and I wanted one so bad. I asked my parents why my dolls didn’t have birth certificates after that and my Dad printed one out for me for my favorite doll at the time.
Thanks for the memories and the nice giveaway.

I was 3-4 years old when I received a Cabbage Patch Kid. All of my male cousins received My Buddy dolls, but I got a Cabbage Patch Kid instead. I was the smallest of the cousins and the My Buddy dolls were so much bulkier than the Cabbage Patch Kids. Byron James was my best friend. We went everywhere together. Even the hospital.

When I had to have surgery, my grandma made a hospital gown for Byron James to wear. We went into surgery together and Byron was with me throughout the entire recovery. Without him, as a small child, I believe I would have been much more scared. All of the nurses thought it was so cute that I had a little doll and he even kind of looked like me. We both had a sandy blonde hair color and blue eyes.

Now that I’m a dad, I recently returned home to my mom’s house. There, I found Byron in a box of some of my old toys. With a little girl who is three years old, I’ve finally been able to give Byron a new best friend. I’m forever grateful to Byron for helping a scared little kid get through surgery. I’d love for my daughter, Aria, to be able to have a new Cabbage Patch Kid of her own, who she can love as much as I loved Byron.

I remember these, we couldn’t afford to get a real Cabbage Patch doll for my daughter so one of her friends made one as close to the actual doll as possible. It would be great to give her a real one at last. Thanks for the contest!

I desperately wanted a Cabbage Patch doll and knew there was no way we could afford one. We were barely scraping by but almost all of my friends had one, except my best friend and I. To both of our surprise, our parents got us MATCHING Cabbage Patch dolls for Christmas! They were the same except for eye color and teeth, and they both had our names as part of their name! I was so excited and still have that Cabbage Patch, 20-plus years later!

I was pregnant with my daughter in 1982 and my mom went out and put a doll on layaway for my daughter. my daughter was born in November and I called her Courtney. On Christmas morning my mom became ill and asked me to pick up my daughters’s gift and when I opened it it was not only my daughter first baby doll, it was her first Cabbage Patch doll and low and behold the doll’s name was also Courtney. My mom is no longer with us but my daughter now has a daughter and being a grandma I went out and boughter her first Cabbage Path doll and the doll name is Madison just like my granddaughter. Abd by the was my daughter still has her doll and she is over 25 now.

When we purchased one for our daughter for her birthday and she opened the box, the birth certificate showed she was born on our daughter’s actual birthday! She still has “Lois” after all of these years. She says it was her first daughter.

I remember buying 2 – one for my daughter, and a boy one for my nephew. His parents scorned me for giving him a “doll” but eventually the Cabbage Patch doll won them over. My nephew actually loved it and both kids dragged those dolls around forever! I have pics of them hugging their dolls.

Oh, how I just loved these dolls. My favorite CPK memory occured when I was just 8 years old. My mom and I walked into our local Hill’s Department Store (gosh, I just adored that store!). I went straight for the clothing section to browse the beautiful CPK outfits to dress my MUCH anticipated first CPK in- we just couldn’t find one. Well, my mom came running up to me with an actual CABBAGE PATCH KID! I didn’t realize the store actually had the kids for sale. There were only 3 to pick from, and I happiliy chose Nora Joann. I was the happiest kid in the world on that day.

It is this contest and reading others comments that brings back the nostalgia of an era that was lost to me but not forgotten. I was 16 years old when the first Cabbage Patch dolls came out. Long past the age of dolls (but secretly envious and wanting one of the precious babies), decided that if I could not get one for myself I would purchase one for my neice, who was 8 at the time. As my family gathered around the Christmas tree my neice looked heart broken each time she opened a gift because she had put in a special request to Santa Claus for a Cassandra Cabbage Patch, and nothing else. We were like everyone in our small town, quit poor. I had enlisted my brother and my dad to help me save the money to purchase this Cabbage Patch Doll. Needless to say, we gave Dad (grandpa to my neice) the honor of presenting Cassandra to my neice. To this day, ever time I visit, I still see “CASSANDRA”, at my neices house, propped on HER daughters bed, she also named her daughter Cassandra. I had my last child in 2004 and named her Cassandra, subconsciously, I assume, I had finally had my “Cabbage Patch Cassandra. Cassy is now 4 and it would thrill both her and I if I were to present her with her very own Cabbage Patch Doll.

I remember 25 years ago trying to get a cabbage patch doll for my daughter for Christmas. They were so hard to get. Long lines and promotions. Took several attempts to get one but it was worth it with the look on her face. Great memory. Would give this one to her also even though she is 31 and I get to see that look again.

The three of us each had girls that wanted one. They were in limited supply and they were only allowing two per customer and they were only letting 10 people at a time in the store. We mad a pack that we would go to different stores with hopes that we would luck up and get one. This was up north and I stood for an hour in the snow. When my turn came, they had some left, and I got two. When I got home I called the other two only to find that neither one (because of the snow)had gotten up that morning; so, my daughter got two for Christmas.

In my family every girl has one, still packaged whose birthday matches hers. All of my cousins, and my little sister (born on the first day of spring) received their dolls at a young age. My birthday is September 29th, it is pretty rare. I have never met anyone else who shares it with me. For years I would search through every doll on the rack to find my birthday. My boyfriends in high school thought I must be crazy. As a 21 year old woman, who had just quit a job she loved due to new ownership I was quite down. I happened to go to walmart to blow off some steam, and there she was my cabbage patch kid. I actually started crying and called my mom to tell her. But the best part I didn’t have to torture myself and keep her in the box. But So unlike all of the other girls I took my CPK out of the box!

My kids were born in the ’80s but were all boys so no Cabbage Patch kids for us! My friends who had daughters told me to be thankful that I wasn’t having to stand in those long lines and try to beat everyone else to get a doll each time a new shipment arrived at the toy store. When my first granddaughter was born 4 years ago I knew this was my chance to see one of those dolls up close and personal. We adopted a Cabbage Patch Kid for her that has her name. She loves that baby and takes it everywhere she goes. She tells everyone that it is her twin sister. Thanks for the chance to win!

I’m 33 years old, so my first Cabagge Patch Doll definitely came in the 1980’s. Of course, it was all I wanted for Christmas that one special year. I honestly can say that was one of my most happy Christmas memories…opening up Emily on Christmas morning. She even had brown hair like me! I took such good care of her too! I “fed” her and “changed her diaper” and “bathed” her! She slept in my room in a cradle. I changed her clothes every day. She came with me everywhere! That summer,we went to Disney World. Emily is in every single picture with me! How patient my mom must have been to allow me to cart her around all over the place, even Disney World! Years later, my mom told me how she got up super early and waited in line for hours and got shoved, pushed, and even knocked down getting me that doll. It really makes me apprecites my mom! I now have 2 little girls of my own ages 3 and 1 who are just beginning to get into dolls. Recently, I found some of Emily’s old clothes n a box in my mom’s basement. I washed them and gave them to my girls. It is so neat to see how excited my 3 year old was to dress her favorite doll in Emily’s old clothes. I have really come full cirle with that doll, and I love her more now because of it!

I remember my 1st two Cabbage Patch Kids! One was a redhead and then there was the other one–a brunette! My Mom won a raffle that got me the brunette one! One how I loved those CBK’s! I still have them-they’re such a treasured keepsake to me. I remember having and playing with a CPK boardgame too! That was a lot of FUN!

When these were unable to be found anywhere, a radio station in town started giving them away as prizes. We tried unsuccessfully to win one. Later, we found out that the radio station even had a hard time obtaining the prizes; I guess they did not plan ahead. We received a homemade doll as a gift.

I really wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll bad when I was little and always begged my mom whenever we went anywhere with a toy store. But they always seemed to be out all the time. I kept begging them for one and I pretty much gave up when one day one of my aunts sent me one from out of state! It was a real surprise and it was suppose to be kept until my birthday but since my dad knew I wanted it so bad he just unwrapped it and gave it to me! I really loved it! Unfortunately our dog chewed it up!

I was born in 1980 and got my first cabbage patch in 1985. Her name was Mary Sue. I remember seeing her when we was visiting family in South Carolina. My grandmother got her for me and I now she is waiting for my daughter to get old enouth to play with her. Mary Sue also has a cabbage patch brother but I forgot what his name is!

I saw this and did the memories come back. I didn’t have children of my own yet but my nephew who would absolutely kill me if he knew I was writing this wanted one badly, so of course hi Nanny, my mother got on one of her Im a new grandmom gigs and drove about an hour away to a mall that she had called daily to see if they got any in and more importantly did they have a boy. Well she did it God bless her soul, she found a boy Cabbage Patch doll and my newphew who is in his late 20’s loved that doll. I just know my mom went through an enormous amount of time, money and trouble all to make her grandson happy, but my father almost had a coronary when he saw his grandson with a doll that day, lol.

I was 20 when the Cabbage Patch baby hit the stores and they flew off the shelf, probably one of the first toys to go “viral”, every one wanted one and they stood in line for hours at Christmas. My Fiance went out of his way to make sure I had one. It was a spcecial time.

I remember that it was 1984 and I had been on the waiting list to be able to buy one. My daughter wanted one so badly and we were counting down the days till we were leaving for overseas with the military and all wondering what would come first. It was the morning we were ready to leave for the airport and my neighbor ran over to the house. She was out of breath and said that Kmart had called saying they had 5 in stock and I would have to buy one now. I had left her number just for this reason! I will never forget telling my husband to go on to the airport with our daughter while I ran to the store with my best friend. Unfortunately, people had heard about their being new ones in stock and the store was packed with hundreds of people. We both pushed our way through the crowd to get to the customer service to get my doll. They gave her to me and my friend had to actually put me on her shoulders as people were trying to take it out of my hands. I made it to the register, she drove to the airport at lightening speed and I arrived at the gate just as they were ready to close it. I made it to to my seat and placed the doll in my daughter’s hands just as the door to the plane was closed! Now it seems like I must have been crazy but I will never forget the tears in my daughter’s eyes as she cradled the doll and know I would do it all over again! The doll is still in her possession but it is now her daughter’s favorite doll and still loved as much by her as it was by her mother.

I wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll so much. My uncle worked at a Kmart and got one – but gave it to my older cousin. I couldn’t stop crying!

I was an adult when the Cabbage Patch Dolls came out and remember the Christmas shortage. Three years ago, I was able to buy my granddaughter her first Cabbage Doll, and I filled her in on how they were the toy of choice in the 80’s.

I was born in 71 so when cabbage patch kids came out I was still into dolls and wanted one really bad. My mom would not buy me one because she said they looked really ugly and kids would just make fun of me so I never got one and grew up and had my own kid. Well just last year they finally made it back on the shelves at our local department store and I wanted one so bad for myself, since my daughter is 13 and thinks they are ugly too. My husband would not understand if I splurged on myself with times so tight but I am sure glad to see other adults remember and wanted one too. I just had a granddaughter 1 month ago, I wonder if she would like one?

I was living in Germany and was in Junior high and I trally wanted one and my father being in the military said ” I can’t afford that much for a doll” I never got one, and still don’t. Thank you for giving me a chance to finally get one.

I clearly remember wanting a Cabbage Patch doll even though I was in high school. Unfortunatly we couldn’t find any, especially the black dolls. That is until my mother went to Japan for her annual family vacation. While there, she went shopping with her sister and found tons of black cabbage patch dolls. The black dolls weren’t in demand in Japan, which was perfect for me. So on this trip home from Japan, my mother didn’t bring any Japanese souveniers, just one very American Cabbage Patch Doll.

When my son and nieces were little I took them to Cleveland, Ga. to the Cabbage Patch Hospital where the dolls were “born”. The staff would announce over the loud speaker that “another delivery had just taken place”. After the “birth” of a new doll, you then had the opportunity to adopt one. Everyone who visited there really enjoyed it! I would love to win one for my son’s daughter and share the story of the Cabbage Patch hospital with her.

I remember how hard these were to get. My sister worked at Venture Dept. store and they got a shippment of about 10 dolls. The store didnt put them out because they were actually afraid there would be a riot over just 10 of them. Instead employees got to draw for them, and my sister was lucky enough to get one. It ended up being my bd present. I was so thrilled. They were so hard to come by, and it made by b-day that I actually got one.

Gosh I have so many but a few months before the craze started I was in the store with my aunt and there were a bunch sitting on shelf at store and I remember her saying she should buy her daughter one and I said no she wouldn’t like it. What an idiot I was LOL eventually her daughter got one and they bought my son the chicago cubs one and he loved it.

My sisters and I all got Cabbage Patch Dolls in that first Christmas madness, even though we were just getting a bit too old for dolls. No matter, I cherished Werner Ferdinand and have him to this day. My two year old son discovered him the other day and I tried to convince myself that I should just let him play with the doll. But as he dragged poor Werner around the room and tore his (original!) diaper, I thought… nah… and tucked Werner safely back into his spot of honor. Bet my son would love to have a Cabbage Patch Doll in the house that he’s allowed to play with!

I got one boy doll named Nathan. He was my baby and I took him everywhere with me. I even had a neighbor lady believing that I had a real baby in the stroller one day.
I’d love to win this. I have 2 girls and they’d just love to have their own doll to cherish.

I remember the Christmas they were the biggest present on every little girl’s wish list. I was 5 years old, I believe, and I wanted one so badly. My parents had been unable to get one anywhere, though. My dad was a truck driver, and happened to be out driving in another state when he heard an announcement on the radio that a local Wal-Mart was going to get a shipment of them. He immediately went to that store and got in line, waiting for it to open. When they opened their doors he was right there with all those rioting moms, and made his way to the pile, he grabbed the first he could get his hands on, a beautful blonde haired, blued eyed doll, whose name happened to be Amy, just like mine. I treasure that doll to this day. I think about my father, and how much he hates shopping and crowds, and I realize that he would have done anything for me, and that doll represents that in a small way.

I had a younger sister that was born with Downs Syndrome. Her communication skills were very minimum and she had the mind of a two year older. Even though she was in her teens she still played with dolls. When ever she saw the Cabbage Patch commercial you could see the delight in her eyes and she would try to communicate. My mother decided that would be her big Christmas gift that year. But my mother did not know how hard they were to get. On our fifth attempt and after waiting 3 hours in the cold and rain we got her one. She was the happiest person in the world when she opened that box on Christmas morning. Her eyes told it all. She died several years later and she was buried with her doll.

I for one am so glad they are back and my daughter collected Cabbage Patch dolls and even won a doll at the local Maloneys’ when they opened in our town(they don’t even exist anymore,Maloneys).My Mother had to have a Premie and she was so happy.
All of my daughters Cabbage Patch Dolls burned up and she was devestated as well as I.
Shannon is 29 and she still talks about her Cabbage Patch Dolls and remembers their names.
This past Christmas I bought my granddaughter one(she is 5 now)and she was crazy about it.
Cabbage Patch Dolls are the best dolls in the world and this 30th birthday I will be getting Shannon a Cabbage Patch Doll.She will be soooo happy.

Okay, but it isn’t pretty. It was the day they started selling them, at 4:00 AM people already started a line at the Wal-Mart. I ended up with one for my daughter. Out of no where a woman ran to my cart, and TOOK MY DOLL! I was a young wife hipping my 2-year old I left the store, leaving the cart there. I was mortified! To this day, every time I see a Wal-Mart, I think of that woman!
However I am sure my granddaughter wood enjoy your featured giveaway!

My mom bought one of these for me for Christmas one year. I think I was around 11, 12 – a little too old for dolls but it was the craze that year. She actually found some (without fighting the lines and battles) at a department store that did not advertise they were selling these. It was pretty much just her and another lady buying the dolls when she was there These Cabbage Path dolls were french canadian and had french and english birth certificates. She NEVER would have gotten one in a normal toy store – they shelves cleared out within minutes of the dolls arriving.

Oh I loved my Cabbage Patch kids! I remember their names (Billy, Andy and Crissy) and I still have their birth certificates somewhere in my childhood memory box! I was 7 or 8 when the craze hit and some of the fondest memories I have as a kid are the slumber parties me and my friends would have with our Cabbage Patch kids. Thank you so much for the opportunity to win one!

My daughter was very small for her age. I remember buying her a Cabbage Patch doll. Taking her to the playground, I sat on the swing with her. I held her and she held the doll. This was such a bonding moment. I never realized in years this would be a memory that pops up whenever I look at my grown daughter.

His name is Kelsey Hugo. Cutest little bald guy you should ever hope to love. I still have him..well, he lives at my Mom’s house. I took him everywhere..including college! His birthday is October 1st. The first couple of years, we had birthday parties for Kelsey. My mom even baked a cake.

Got him for Christmas. And, yes, he still smells good. How did they do that?

It was a half-hour before closing on Christmas Eve at a local toy store and unbelievably they were stocking their shelves with the illusive Cabbage Patch Doll! You may not remember, but as the hottest toy of the season they were impossible to get anywhere. Our daughter, almost three-years old at the time, tightly held Santa’s gift to her all day long. When asked, she reluctantly shared her treasure with her Uncle. Teasing her, he took out a pen and pretended to sign the back of the doll. It took a long time for her to forgive him for writing on her doll! Trying to distract her from her Uncle’s antics, we asked her what the doll’s last name was and, of course, expected her to say our last name. Instead she was appalled that we didn’t know that the doll’s full name was, Kristen Ginger BREAD! She and Kristen Ginger Bread were inseparable. They had a doll clinic at the local hospital. She and Kristen Ginger Bread had their picture featured in the local newspaper. Beth was wearing a paper nurse’s cap and stethoscope giving her beloved doll a checkup. Everyone was a Cabbage Patch Kid at that time, since everyone’s parents got them from a cabbage patch!

I wanted one of these dolls so bad when I was a little girl, just like everyone else. They were all the rage and people were standing in line for hours for these dolls. Being a divorced, single mom of three kids, my mom was not about to stand in line for hours on end to make my dream come true. Who could blame her? But, due to the dolls popularity, they are still around and years later, my mom fulfilled my wish by actually getting me a cabbage patch doll. I still have that doll and passed it on to my daughter. I thought the birth certificate was the neatest part!

I remember the first time I saw the Cabbage Patch doll in the store I was pregnant with my daughter Victoria. I thought that they were different than any doll I had seen before but they were cute. It wasn’t long after that the public went Cabbage Patch crazy and the dolls were flying off the shelves.
Now it’s 25 years later and I am a grandma of a little girl and for her first Christmas in ‘07 I bought her a Cabbage Patch, the Silver Edition. It’s it nice to see that some things remain for a new generation to enjoy.

I always loved Cabbage patch dolls, when I finally received one after months of beggin, I found out my mom had stood in line outside in the rain for hours to get one, I felt so bad about that but it meant even more know what she went through to get it for me!

My grandfather bought my sister and me our first Cabbage Patch dolls in 1984. We were visiting our granparents in New York for Christmas, and he stood in line at the store in the freezing cold in a crowd of clawing people all wanting to get there hands on must-have toy of the year for their kids. His tenacity paid off–he scored two dolls that day and made our Christmas the best ever. He died the next year from lung cancer, which makes my memory of my first Cabbage Patch even more special since my grandfather was sick when he waited in that line. Years later when I moved to Atlanta, one of the first things I did was drag my husnad to the Cabbage Patch Land in Cleveland, GA to watch the newborns get picked in the “hospital.” I had such a good time reliving my Cabbage Patch memories that day!

my son who is 26 had one named Lance Darren. His sister who is now 30 had one but I don’t remebe her name.

My daughter was three when the earthquake hit. Her Cabbage Patch Doll was trapped under a bookcase on the second floor. She screamed like a person was trapped. My husband had to rescue her even though we were still having major after shocks. Georgette still has a major place of honoe in her room. I would love to win this for her.

I remember playing with cabbage patch dolls when I was younger. I use to comb their hair and change their clothes. Although their old and beat up looking, I still have them, and I”m ready to pass them on to my kids.

Just remembering that my mother, grandmother, aunts, and every other relative stood in long lines and had such a hard time finding them. So we were so thrilled when we opened one on christmas morning.

When I was younger, I remember not having a cabbage patch doll when all my friends did. Finally, we went on a trip to Georgia and stopped by the place where cabbage patch kids are “born”…Everyone was shouting out names when a new baby popped out the patch! At the store there, I finally got one! I was super happy I got one there and felt mine was extra special…

My niece would love this doll.

I remember it was impossible to get one in the 1980’s. They sold out in the stores as soon as they arrived . I like a lot of parents tried to get one anywhere but couldn’t. Great marketing to spike demand for sales but a disaster for all of the disappointed children.

I remember the anguish of being a mother and trying to find a Cabbage Patch doll for my daughter for Christmas. I lived in a small town about an hour away from a big city. I spent days and weeks trying to get one of the dolls. I had my name on lists all over the city. I finally got a call that one of the stores would have them held on a certain day at a certain time. I battled the rush hour/holiday traffic for my one shot at making my daughter’s Christmas merry. When I got there, they actually gave me a choice of the one I wanted — and they even had a set of blue-eyed blonde boy/girl twins. I bought them on the spot! You should have seen her face when she opened up the brother/sister duo!!! Priceless!!!
Thank you for the opportunity to win!

I remember waiting at Kmart hoping that my mom’s number would be called so that I could get one. Thinking about that makes me laugh!

I remember wanted one so bad for Christmas and not just anyone, it had to share my birthday and have the same color hair as I have. When I got one Christmas morning, I was so excited! I can not believe that they have been around for 25 years!

Well, my first Cabbage Patch Kid memory is very vague, but I do remember somewhat. When I was 3, my appendix ruptured and I had to have emergency surgery. They had to keep me in the hospital almost a week because I was so young and at a high risk of infection. So to keep me company, my mom bought me a Cabbage Patch doll that looked just like me. I remember sleeping with her and telling her how nice it would be when we could go home. My mom still has “Sandy”, and now my daughters play with her

We bought alot of cabbage patch dolls for my daughters and I made alot of look a likes . My mom has one I made with rolling eyes and a chocheted outfit she will hand down to my youngest daughter.

my mom bought me 2 the day they came out!!I was the happiest little girl!

I remember getting my first cabbage patch doll after my Mom searched forever. I was never so thrilled with a gift in my life. It reminds me of how much my Mom always wanted me to be happy and how she went out of her way for me.

I remember waking up on Christmas morning when I was five and looking out my bedroom door to see what was under the tree. When I saw that yellow and green box I was so happy and I took off running toward it. What my mom remembers from that morning was that I was so excited and I ran to my Cabbage Patch kid, but I also started running to give her a hug, but I stopped before I got to her. Apparently, she was crushed. I do not remember this, but I really wish I had given her a hug because now I feel guilty about it.

Oh, how I remember! My daughter wanted one sooooo bad. Christmas was coming and her birthday was January 7th. I hunted and hunted to no avail. Finally, about 5 days before her birthday, I bought a pattern and made a cloth doll. she liked it but it was no cabbage patch!! How many lines did I stand in? How many early mornings? Wow.

Nikki was ten that year, very grown up for her age. She never ask for a cabbage patch doll and it was years before I knew what really happened that Christmas. Jared was two and he looked like a little Cabbage Patch Doll himself. I tried so hard to find one for him. I know he was a boy, but he loved his stuffed animals so much, I knew he would love a little doll that looked like him. I couldn’t find one and I was so disappointed. A friend told me to order one from Sears and even though it wouldn’t come before Christmas, I would get it as soon as their stock was replenished. To everyones surprised it came, the ladies at the store said they had dozens on backorder, they couldn’t believe it came. On Christmas morning Jared loved the Cabbage Patch Doll, it had a little bald head and he would try to chew on it, he carried it around for months. I still have it, tucked away with all his childhood memorabilia. Nikki never said a word, never showed a sign of disappointment, but years later I found out the real story. Her girlfriend had overheard her mother and me talking on the phone, she found out that I had gotten a Cabbage Patch Doll. The girls assummed it was for Nikki and she was thrilled. She never asked for a doll because she believed she was getting one. She was grown before I found out and even though she says she has gotten over it, I know that it really hurt her. I told her last year I would buy her one for Christmas this year. I don’t think it would make up for the disappointment she felt that morning, but I hope it lets her know how much I love her and would love to go back to that Christmas and see her face when she opened her Cabbage Patch Doll.

I remember getting a hand-me-down one from my cousin. It was one of the best days of my childhood.

I will never forget taking my (now 26 year old) daughter and my Down’s Syndrome sister to the Cabbage Patch Hospital in Georgia. I still have the photos and they still have the dolls. My daughter was 9 year old so that was 17 years ago. Wow!!

I still have my step daughters red haired cabbage patch doll; I remember how hard we looked an found one at K-Mart shoved back in the hardware section. Luck or the draw!!!!!! It was the very one she anted. Many Thanks SW

I remember walking over the Christmas tree after church on Christmas eve and seeing a gift for myself and one for my younger sister. We both got to open one present before we went to bed. Low and behold we each had gotten a Cabbage Patch doll. We went to bed excited as can be thinking that Santa couldn’t top this. We’ll low and behold Santa brought each of us another Cabbage Patch doll the next day. I still think of getting those dolls every time I see them now in the store as an adult! Years later, mom told us what she had to go through to get those dolls. If only ebay had been around then, it would have been a lot easier!

All of my friends had cabbage patch dolls in the 80s, but my family was so poor we didn’t even have a car. My mom wanted to get me one so bad, so she talked a neighbor who was really crafty into making a knock-off. It was a sad, sad knock-off and my brother pulled her head off after a few days because it was poorly hand-stitched. Only when I got older could I appreciate my mom trying to do the best she could to get me one. I LOVE THAT WOMAN!!

Yes, I remember my youngest daughter, wanted one so bad when she was little, but at that time when they first arrived in the stores around here, they would fly off the shelves, the minute they got them in stock. One day just before her 4th birthday, my sister called, she had gotten information they were getting some in a store about 30 miles from where I lived, so we got there as quick as we could, hoping to buy one. By the time we got there, they only had a couple left, but my daughter got her cabbage patch doll, for her birthday. She loved that doll, took it everywhere she went!

i remember i wanted cp doll so bad,but we did not have the money for one.i was only about six or seven i did not know we were poor.my grandmother was a great sower,so she made me one.it looked just like the real thing ,i never new the difference.i loved her so much.i was a teenager before i knew she was not the store brand.i later got a store doll,however it could never replace the first one.

Whenever I think of Cabbage Patch Kids I think of my grandmother who was always buying them for us. My grandmother loved them so much when she was alive. I remember how she looked so hard to get Cabbage Patch Kids Dolls for us for Christmas when they first came out and how she actually managed to get some for us. It seemed liked times were so much simpler and happier back then. And I really loved all the Cabbage Patch Kids Dolls I received over the years. They were designed so well.

I still love them from when I was a child.

I could not get a doll for my daughter at the time and I made her one!

I remember my best friend and I were in the early years of high school when we got “OUR BABIES♥” We went on a camping trip together and we had beds in our tent for our kids. We spent so much money on film for our digital cameras. We took pictures of them quite a bit that summer. My Cabbage Patch has been used by all three of my girls. It’s amazing that she still has a faint smell of that wounderful baby powder smell. I will always cherish the memories I have and all the new ones that my children have made with her.♥

My fondest moment is getting my “Rachel” cabbage patch kid at Christmas, when I was 7 years old. I never knew the trouble my mom went through, just to make sure I got one. I am now 33 and still have my Cabbage Patch Doll. But now my 3 year old daughter plays with it. I think it’s just great. And I tell her the story of how Grandma waited in line hours on end to get it. She already knows her Grandma is special. But I can’t help but look at that doll and think of how great my mom is.

One of the happiest day that I can remember was the day I adopted Kristina Rena. She had red hair and blue eyes. I took her to school when I was 10 years old (1984) and all my friends were excited. I allowed them to hold her while I ate lunch and swung on the swing set. On my way into the school after recess three little girls said to me what is a black girl like you doing with a white baby. I responded because I was chosen to love her and it doesn’t matter what color she or I am as long her we care for each other.

Thank you,
Patricia

After MUCH deliberation and discussion – our panel of judges has decided on the following winners.

First Prize: Michael Elliott
Second Prize: Allison T.

Thanks so much to all who entered. Michael and Allison have been emailed to claim their prizes!

I got my first cabbage patch kid when i was 5 she from was from 1982 i got her in 83 and i still have her now 25 yrs later nothing really wrong with her but her one foot needs to be fixed but it kida reminds me of my childhood. and the other day on tv when i saw they came out with the 25 yr anniversay i was so happy my 30th birthday is coming this thursay on the 4th and i aske dmy husband for the anniversary doll as a presant he thought i was nuts but i briught a tear to my eye when i saw they broiught them back i love my doll and we get to have a part next week.

I remember when my daughter was young and her school had a raffle for a cabbage patch doll. I bought some tickets and waited. Low and behold, we win!! When we picked up the doll, her name was the same as my daughters’, Jessica. She was thrilled, and called her Jessica #too.

thanks for a chance to win another.