Growing up as a 90's girl gave you just about the best of everything. Toys, clothes, notebooks (Lisa Frank), TV shows, and cool candy (baby bottle pop), but even though things were perfect most of the time, there were definitely a few struggles 90's girls know about when it came to toys.
1. The bear you could draw all over never got washed . Your mom probably told you it would mess up the washer or something and thus your beautiful doodle bear was stuck with a terrible messed up flower on her arm.
2. Anything that was supposed to take batteries could expect to work maybe a month or two. Kids do not know how to conserve battery use and parents aren't always so inclined to keep buying packs of triple A's just so your robot dog can walk across the room and bark. Bummer.
3. Play-Doh was obviously a super cool toy, but it could go bad really easily. It could dry up, get stuck together, or you could try and make it into a swirl of ice cream and get it stuck inside the plastic piece, rendering them both useless.
4. Blow up furniture. Pause. Reminisce. These were often purchased at Limited Too and when you got home with them they were often left sitting half blown up in your room for weeks. What kid had the lung capacity to blow up a whole couch? Then they could always get a hole in them or deflate when your annoying friend jumped on it. Open it up to try to blow it back up and all of a sudden a rush of air comes out and it's dead yet again.
5. Polly Pockets were always so fun to play with... until they had to change clothes. Those rubber outfits seemed simple enough some of the time, but other times you would rip her shirt and then the rest of the outfit would look dumb AF paired with anything else.
6. Ripping the tag off your beanie babies was always a bad idea. How would you remember its name? Its birthday? What it likes to do in its spare time? You would always end up kicking yourself for ripping the tag off and losing it.
7. What could be worse than getting a beautiful new Barbie for Christmas and then your parents telling you that you're not allowed to take it out of the box because it's a "collector's item."
8. It seemed like a great idea to get Barbie and her whole family to play with until you realized that literally none of them can wear the same clothes because none of them have the same body type. Barbie is a total fashionista and Skipper and the baby sister are stuck in the same outfit all the time. Forget trying to get them to coordinate.
9. As creepy as it seems, I really loved the baby dolls that ate and peed and stuff. The main problem with them was that after they ran out of diapers they could never eat again because it's not like you could drive to Toys R Us in your Barbie convertible.
10. My Little Pony horses were and are popular, but one problem has remained over the years. Their hair. It is a beautiful and luscious mane at first, but then you play with them for a while and it gets real ratchet real quick.
No matter the struggles you had with your 90's toys, you know you still had the best childhood of any generation, and you still wish you could cuddle up with your doodle bear on your blow up couch night and forget about all your "adult" worries.
