<p>At Christmastime my daughter asked for a “duck with a button that quacked”. Would have been much easier if she had asked for it around Easter. Found a stuffed duck in a Hallmark store. She slept with it for years. It did not have a “button that quacked”.</p>
<p>When Cabbage Patch kids first came out (around 1980?) my nephew wanted one desperately and, being the good aunt that I was I looked all over for it. Sold out everywhere. One day I was in a little ungentrified drug store in my neighborhood in NYC and there on a top shelf hidden away I saw a box. Down came the box, dusted it off, and I was the favorite aunt from then on! (JK).</p>
<p>Cabbage Patch Kids search circa 1982:</p>
<p>We couldn’t find them anywhere prior to Christmas. We went to the Toys R Us on the South Side of Chicago, but they told us they didn’t have any. We decided that as long as we were there, we would look at other kinds of toys. And there in the middle of the doll aisle, we found a pyramid of boxes stacked 4 or 5 dolls high…of black Cabbage Patch dolls.</p>
<p>The store staff had assumed that my (white) sister and I wouldn’t want them, but that seemed crazy to us. They were the genuine article, and anyway the whole conceit with those dolls was that you adopted them. So why would we need them to look like us? Anyway, we went home with two Cabbage Patch dolls that night and were happy as clams.</p>
<p>Two years ago my grandmom bought us a Wii for Christmas and was put on the wait list. When she went to pick it up, she tripped on the curb and broke her pelvis. Was in a rehab/nursing home for 3 months.<br>
We have mixed feelings about the Wii now!</p>
<p>Wiis are in SUCH high demand.</p>
<p>I put my Wii up for sale two weeks ago on Craigslist, and I’ve gotten nearly 100 replies – it’s insane.</p>