What's the ugliest item you've seen on sale?

[kaytee]

Have seen some really ugly items, large and small, while out and about recently. Topping my list atm: (No I'm not going to apologise if your heart's desire is here; you can say what you like about my taste - I won't mind)

• the new Land Rover Discovery. They've given it a facelift that makes it look like a scouts' minibus
• the current fashion for buggies which not only become a travel system, (fine if that's what you want) but are then cluttered up with the extra travel system hood, a drinks holder, and about 15 toys for the tiny occupant, all dangling off the front
• those Bugaboos; just don't get them
• Hummer 4wds imported from USA

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meggymoo... what do you like about the multipla?
I laugh every time i see one...

What's a multipla???

What on earth does "reborn" mean? What a strange website.

The web really is full of groups of v strange people.

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It looks like people buy these weird limited-edition dolls, wash them, paint them and resell them? And apparently they're all meant to not have sand in them but instead "Real to Hold baby fat product".

What a strange strange little world.

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Oh, and they put hair in their heads, and open their noses, sometimes. They also put magnets in them, so the dummy will stay in.

Sometimes they also have glass beads in them, in the head and limbs. There are loads of these things for sale, search for "reborn" or "berenguer". There's a whole ebay category of them. There are guilds of people who bathe, paint, stuff, and stick hairs in baby dolls.

And now I'm just going to go away and have nightmares.

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God, those realistic babies make me tear up...Not because they are gorgeous, but because I wonder why people would buy them. I mean, are they buying them because they have lost a newborn or can't have babies and want something to cuddle and dress?
Breaks my heart.

Am I just over emotional at the moment?

there was another thread about the dolls.... misdee knows someone who had a stillborn baby and got a doll because it looked like the baby, she keeps it in a moses basket in her room!