Some parents are crazy

lyndausvi · April 2014

http://www.today.com/moms/frozen-out-market-desperate-parents-pay-thousands-elsa-dresses-2D79516107

KeptInStitches · April 2014

Insane. Didn't this crap used to be confined to Christmas?

SBmini · April 2014

I just sent this to my friend. His daughter has the dress/wig. I bet he could make a killing selling it.

MrsMack10612 · April 2014

I agree. That's ridiculous. My parents never gave in to all that merchandising BS. We got some of that stuff when we were kids, but never what I see today.

jdluvr06 · April 2014

My friend's daughter wants one of those dresses. They looked online, saw it was sold out and told her she would have to wait for Christmas to see if Santa would bring her one.

JCbride2015 · April 2014

Maybe I'm just bitter because my parents could never have even bought that dress for me at $50. But really? Thousands? And staying up in the middle of the night? No no no.

Find your own blue dress and have your kids play make believe. That's what imagination is for. I'm pretty sure I had a "magic carpet" that was made of offcut carpet leftovers, and it was awesome.

pinkshorts27 · April 2014

Yea, so not worth it. Who cares? Kids need to learn that they won't get everything they want and they should make do with what they have.

lyndausvi · April 2014

And parents wonder why their kids end up entitled?

SBmini · April 2014

JCBride2014 said:

Maybe I'm just bitter because my parents could never have even bought that dress for me at $50. But really? Thousands? And staying up in the middle of the night? No no no.

Find your own blue dress and have your kids play make believe. That's what imagination is for. I'm pretty sure I had a "magic carpet" that was made of offcut carpet leftovers, and it was awesome.

Bingo! When I wanted a cinderella dress as a kid, my mom made me one! Imagination people!

blabla89 · April 2014

Maybe I'm just bitter because my parents could never have even bought that dress for me at $50. But really? Thousands? And staying up in the middle of the night? No no no.

Find your own blue dress and have your kids play make believe. That's what imagination is for. I'm pretty sure I had a "magic carpet" that was made of offcut carpet leftovers, and it was awesome.

Stuck in the box (as usual): Same here. Maybe I'm a little bitter, but mostly I'm glad my parents imposed reasonable standards and limits when I was younger, especially when I see my over-entitled peers' disappointment at not getting everything they want all the time.

MrsMack10612 · April 2014

Growing up, my mom made me a "Cabbage Patch Kid" from the patterns that Xavier Roberts put out pre or post (can't remember which) selling the idea to Coleco.

I didn't get a "real" CPK until at least 2 years later.

I still have both of them, but I can tell you I treasure the one my mom made me a lot more than the store bought one.

afox007 · April 2014

I'm seriously tempted to run to the fabric store and make like 5-6 of these I could probably pay for our wedding!

lyndausvi · April 2014

My SIL's nephew is an amazing seamstress. He made his prom dress to look like Belle's from the beauty and the beast. STUNNING. I sent him the link and suggested he could pick up a few bucks making these costumes.

Fairyjen1 · April 2014

OH man, I sew really well and have sewed many costumes for my FI and I to do cosplay. Maybe I need to start whipping out Elsa dresses!

SBmini · April 2014

I sent this story to my friend who just threw a Frozen-themed birthday party for his 10 year old. This was his reply:

I appreciate you sharing this with me considering the craziness I tried going through with my 10 year old. If this mom only knew the easier ways to get the same things but not spend ridiculous amounts of money. Like buying the "Albino Barbie" that didn't sell so well, so now they're dirt cheap. Then roll that bitch in some glitter... Boom, Elsa doll! Or shaving your blonde haired friend while she's sleeping (leaving behind a note that says: "you don't own me that $20 anymore"), soak the hair in bleach over night, glue the hair to an old baseball cap and braid it. The outcome pretty much matches the little girl in the picture except this one has the hats bill to keep the sun out. Forget the idea of a dress. It's mainly just the jeans she already owns and dads old Corona shirt he painted light blue and rolled in the same box of glitter as the doll. Believe me, at the end you're little girl will be smiling but her dad will be smiling more knowing he got everything from the Dollar Store.

chibiyui · April 2014

Fairyjen1 said:
OH man, I sew really well and have sewed many costumes for my FI and I to do cosplay. Maybe I need to start whipping out Elsa dresses!

I have a friend who cosplayed Elsa recently, I oight to send her this article.

doeydo · April 2014

WTF. My mom made me a Disney princess costume when I was a kid and I loved it and wore it religiously. For goodness' sake, it's a dress that a child will grow out of in no time.

jenna8984 · April 2014

doeydo said:

WTF. My mom made me a Disney princess costume when I was a kid and I loved it and wore it religiously. For goodness' sake, it's a dress that a child will grow out of in no time.

Same! My mom sewed me a princess gown for Halloween that I was obsessed with and wore about 6 years in a row. (She made it big enough to fit over a winter jacket here in New England so it fit for a long ass time)

Cookie Pusher · April 2014

We never had brand-name toys as kids, always knock-offs from China. Literally. My grandparents went to China twice a year and bought us stuff there. I just don't understand the hullabaloo.

FiancB · April 2014

JFC like someone else said even at $50 my mom would've been like ummmm no. What do these parents think they are doing for their kids in the long run? I never had any of the fad toys. My sister and I used to make our own "toys" by drawing them and then cutting them out and that did a lot more for honing my creativity and artistic skill...

Little kids are not going to know the difference between the "official Disney Frozen dress" and some glittery fabric and a wig.

Glad that some etsy people are probably doing very well though.

CMGragain · April 2014

I put my time in making Halloween and play dress-up costumes for my kids. Once, daughter had a friend who was obese, and couldn't fit into the costumes, so I grabbed an old flowered sheet. cut it up and made her a princess dress so she could join in the fun. Her mother couldn't believe it! It cost me nothing.

shaylagirl · April 2014

Let's be real; the cheap crap costumes from the Disney store won't hold up to the wear and tear kids put on them.

It's just a wiser "investment" to have an Etsy one made, or make one yourself, that a kid can actually PLAY in.

I used to play dress up ALL the damn time, and I'd have shredded that flimsy little Elsa dress in days by running around in the yard or tearing through the house.

Also, come ON parents!! Kids will suffer MANY disappointments throughout life. If the WORST thing they've got to deal with up to this point is "No Elsa dress", I'd say they've got life pretty damn good.

When did parenting become a competitive sport for fucks sake?!

climbingsingle · April 2014

Another generation of entitled assholes!

abbyj700 · April 2014

FI's daughter loves Frozen. Honestly her mom threw her a Frozen themed birthday party only to get the reply that she liked her "deli party with her family better" - aka we had a party at FI's family deli where all his daughter wanted was to have "Thanksgiving not on Thanksgiving "(lol - it's adorable what kids will come up with!) Long story short - I think sometimes as parents we get it in our minds that these kids will just die without this crap - and the kids are just happy to have macaroni, corn and mashed potatoes on a day other than Thanksgiving. Sometimes it's simpler than we think it is.

(and yes, we talked to her about not comparing what we could give and her mom can give - everyone loves her and does what they can, it's not a competition)

Vivandiere8 · April 2014

MrsMack10612 said:

Growing up, my mom made me a "Cabbage Patch Kid" from the patterns that Xavier Roberts put out pre or post (can't remember which) selling the idea to Coleco.

I didn't get a "real" CPK until at least 2 years later.

I still have both of them, but I can tell you I treasure the one my mom made me a lot more than the store bought one.

Hah! My mom bought my sister and I "Flower Kids" for Christmas the year of the cabbage patch kids crazy and we were thrilled and didn't even know the difference. We were probably three and four but I still remeber that. It wasnt untill many years later when she pointed some out at a garage sale and said, "Oh look, that's what I got you guys instead of cabbage patch kids. I didn't want to have to fight other moms in the toy store isles over the stupid dolls and I knew you guys wouldn't know the difference."

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