Do you have a stash?

[Felicity_Fan85]

My Jess is stashed away in my parents' room until I can officially have her for Christmas! Though I have taken peeks at her which my mom knows about.

[cowgirlsue]

Originally posted by OSusannah:
Katie, I'm with you on doling it out. Good grades, doing extra chores, first day of school, last day of school, I can come up with a lot of "reasons" to reward them with an AG goodie.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh man, I was SO glad to read this! LOL. I find all sorts of reasons to gift my DD with items from my stash. I try to make them legitimate rewards, but sometimes they are "just because."

Neither set of elderly grandparents are up to shopping any longer, so I was able to give them many items from my stash to pass along to DD for her b-day in 2 weeks.

[kikilives]

I too have a little bit of a stash. Last fall I went with my sister to a conference in NY and my daughter asked me to pick up a few things with some of her money. She had no idea I had gotten these items several months earlier and had stashed them away.

I can always think of excuses to give her things as well but I've had to stop with the thought since I have two boys and do not have anything stashed away for them. It's hard with the boy thing. I mean you buy them a $40 video game and 6 months later it's worth about $5. Wish I could find something for them that would be somewhat collectable.

<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ July 13, 2006 11:16 PM: Message edited by: Brown*Eyed*Girl ]</font>

[smwoodsie2004]

It is just me & dd, so I guess I have no self-controlb b/c I order and then as soon as it comes i give it to her, I have a million reasons to justify, but I play with her with it right away. I do keep my obsession from my sister & parents who completely don't understand but then spend way too much on christmas & bday, I guess I would rather have disbusments than one lump sum. In fact when bday & xmas come, dd is ok with one or two things from me, b/c I give all year, but it usually is traditional gifts. I guess I don't see the reason to wait and hide. I can't wait b/c i love buying and giving to dd. She is such a good girl that I feel she deserves it. She doesn't give me much trouble and gets good grades so i feel she deserves it. I love playing with new stuff, I think as much as she does.

[muppetquilter]

This is too funny! My poor Jess is currently living in my closet. I ordered Jess the day after winning Lindsey on eBay. We have been trying (and trying!) to teach oldest DD that you cannot have everything you want and less is more and all that so DH was concerned about the message it would send when I got two new dolls at the same time. Lindsey arrived first so poor Jess has been religated to the closet till we can come up with a good excuse to justify another new doll for Mom. [img]redface.gif[/img] But she does get regular attention and Samantha lent her a party dress and fabulous shoes.

DH was cleaning out the store room the other week and I kept waiting for his head to explode as the boxes of gifts for the kids piled up and piled up. He did comment that there seemed to be a lot of them, but that was it! I had to break out the laptop and do an inventory of all the AG stuff. I said something about an order being a little pricey and he just laughed and said he was used to that where dolls are concerned in our family. I definitely married the right person!

Currently the stash includes: two HHS castle carrying cases, two rainbow activity boards (one for a friend's dd), 5 HHS dolls (again, 2 for friend's dd), flower pot desk, 2 Razzi Rabbits, HHS outfits, dressup trunks and hair care kits, three or four Bitty outfits, the pram, rocking horse, twin's sled, 2 of Molly's aviator outfit, 2 of Addy's striped dress, Kit's Christmas dress, Kit's camera set, AG suitcase/backpack for girls... it's amazing we can fit anything else in the store room!

I cannot resist an AG sale and fear of retirements certainly feeds my habit! My oldest DD loves her HHS dolls and my youngest loves her sister's dolls so I had to stock up when they went on sale. Seriously, I could probably go two years without buying anything for the kids and be fine for Christmas, birthdays, Ground Hog's Day.... But my oldest *needs* Kit and I really think my youngest should have the BB 2 in 1 travel time outfit for girls, I mean, that counts as school clothes so it isn't even indulgent, right?

[Momtoatrio]

Doesn't everyone have a stash? I have stuff from the MCM sale from two years ago still in my storage/stash area! Gee, maybe I should skip it this year? [img]wink.gif[/img] Stuff from sales, on clearance, with codes. I'm set for Christmas and Birthday. Now, I also have two DS, and Amazon had an AWESOME sale earlier this summer, so I have a stash for them too! Luckily for DPS, Lindsey got to come OUT of the Stash. She was acclimated into DD's room, so DH never knew about her. Bad Mommy!

[monimarine]

When it comes to AG, I can't stash it. I have no willpower and will end up giving the stuff to DD ahead of time! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[jlogemann17]

Yep, I have a stash! It should be gone by Christmas, though. With shipping prices being so high at AG, I always place a big order, then store some away for the next birthday or Christmas. I also just got a huge order from a person I met through e-bay (who sells AG dresses without the shoes, etc.) Right now I think I have about 8 outfits in the basement, plus Kit's scooter. That will get me (& my DDs' grandmas) through one DD's birthday, and both DDs' Christmas.
Jo

[judiaci]

My stash got so big, I didn't remember exactly what was in it between the code, the outlet and placing big orders to maximize shipping value. Since we are getting ready to move, I had to clean out my closet in the spring. I put a lot on e-Bay. I can't wait until we move in August and have more space to finally get some of the stash out. The rest of Felicity's furniture is coming out as a housewarming present to DD (and me [img]redface.gif[/img] ).

[danaspillar]

I can't help but LOL at this thread- there is a bit of me in every response. (I even envy Octavius-wish I lived nearer to a Hanna outlet!)

We have a stash, and it does get a few pieces pulled out for "Imaginary Holidays" for DD-5, and I do feel like I leave out her younger sister and brother. I guess I can justify it since they will get more as they grow older-even DS has a Bitty Boy Twin.

And (don't tell DPS) my #26 is still hiding, but she gets loads of attention anyhow, I just dressed her in the new Tunic outfit yesterday. My Mom taught me the easiest way to assimilate a new doll without notice from DH is to change all the girls' clothes and move them around the room. So every doll looks different already, a new one blends in. I already did that with Jess and Clara, and #26 will be out soon. It's harder with the historicals however, -he'd recognize them too easily.