I was at a small town craft fair 2 Saturdays ago and purchased 2 handmade 18 dolls (vinyl heads, arms and legs, cloth body) and six handmade outfits with matching shoes for $53 total. They each have a skating outfit, fancy dress and casual fleece outfits, sandals, roller skates, ice skates, mittens and earmuffs.
My two girlies are going to be thrilled and frankly I wish I had bought more outfits as the quality was awesome and each was totally unique.
I grew up learning games to play with dirt and sticks, since my mom only had that to play with growing up, and boy, was I thankful for the one or two toys we got at Christmas. So, save me the trouble of being pressured to spend 100's of $$$ on a doll and accessories.
This article is manipulative and dishonest. It's like those "pro-choice" folks who really are pro-abortion. Choosing TO reproduce is an anathema to them. So, if I CHOOSE to reproduce, don't I have a responsbility to raise the products of conception? Yet, here they are, stepping in to tell me I'm an idiot if I don't throw money at a company supporting the opposite of my beliefs?