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Raised eyebrow at niece’s Christmas list

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Princessmushroom · 14/11/2018 22:31

Mostly posting for traffic. For context we are an early 30s childfree couple.

We received our niece’s Christmas wish list, (well husband’s niece), she’s just turned 13 and I have to admit that I raised an eye brow that 95% of her wishlist were some plastic horse toys of some sort. Popped on to Amazon to buy some and the recommended age was 4-10 years old IIRC. The upper suggested age was definitely 10.

It made me think about toys when I was 13 years old. I didn’t really have any apart from my favourite stuffed animals. I was all about make up, music, posters, books and magazines. I don’t have any siblings to compare to (20 year age gap) and my friends didn’t really have toys at 13 either.

So my question is if you or your children still had lots of toys or got new toys like this (plastic horses, Barbies etc) aged 13?

(We obviously did buy something from her wishlist, just to clarify).

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OneStepSideways · 19/11/2018 18:54

I think it's lovely she plays with them. 50 years ago 13-year-olds still coveted dolls. I'm in my 30s, I played with dolls and horses until I was 14 and had a friend who collected beanie babies when she was 16. Lots of adults love dolls houses and collecting models.

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