Dumpster Diving For Barbies
I left my garbage can at the curb a little longer than I should have after this week’s collection. When I picked it up a day late I found it half full of Barbies.
I have no idea who put them there, but I am sure that somewhere on this base there is a very sad little girl. A very sad little girl who was a pretty spoiled little girl, from what I can gather, because I had to haul about half of what was in our trash can out of the trash can so there would be room for our actual trash. In the third that I managed to take out of there before the smell of rotting remnants of food drove me gagging from dumpster diving, I grabbed twenty-eight Barbies, mostly naked. There were at least twice that amount left, but I gave up rescuing them because of the stench.
Jonas, of course, thought it was Christmas. He had just gotten out of his bath and while I had the can tipped on it’s side so I could reach stuff, he crawled in butt naked and started grabbing everything he saw. I let him have one Barbie scantily clad in roller blades on her feet and nothing else and sent him indoors. Since then he has pulled over the trash three times because he knows there are toys inside.
I have added the rescued dolls to my growing rummage sale pile, where they will be sold for a song, unless the sad little nudist girl whose parents tossed her Barbies comes to claim them.
Wow, a can full of mostly naked barbies in bizarre, painful looking poses. Rather surreal, it must be said.
Comment by erika — July 30, 2005 @ 12:37 am
That is crazy! From what I see there really isn’t anything wrong with these dolls. I usually consign the kids old stuff and if nothing sales it’s off to goodwill.
Comment by Irish Breen — July 30, 2005 @ 2:13 am
You know, I go away for the weekend and mom is throwing away all my stuff again. I’ll try to get over to pick them up before the rummage sale.
Comment by Croaker — July 30, 2005 @ 2:43 am
That is really strange.
Comment by Julee — July 30, 2005 @ 3:05 am
Who does that, just comes and throws there shit in your garbage can. Especially half naked barbies…I bet they smelled amazing lol
Comment by Beth — July 30, 2005 @ 4:11 pm
This is going to sound really, really strange, but my girlfriend and I have need of several Barbies– just the heads, actually, though we’ll find some use for the bodies, I’m sure –for an art project we have planned. Would you have any interest in going to the trouble of shipping them? If nothing else, you’d have a couple of dollars in your pocket, and the satisfaction of having helped to advance the cause of art and the intractable whims of the deranged.
We’d even be happy to send you a couple of prints of the finished product. Thanks for your time and consideration.
Comment by greyspace — July 30, 2005 @ 4:34 pm
Poor little girl. You know those barbies came there under punishment-type circumstances.
Comment by Eulallia — July 30, 2005 @ 4:42 pm
Hope my son doesn’t read this one….we’ll be up all night waiting for the “derobed Vader” and “naked Princess Leia” gnomes to grace OUR trashcan.
Shannon
Comment by Shannon — July 31, 2005 @ 2:24 am
oh, that is sad! And for anyone who doesn’t have a Barbie fan under age 8, they are frequently naked because they are really hard to dress - the fabric sticks to their little tanned rubber bodies and the child gets frustrated and just leaves them nude or merely in a tutu or other item that’s easy to get on the doll.
Comment by brandy101 — July 31, 2005 @ 2:10 pm
Am I the only one here who thinks Barbies give children a bad sterotype of the female body? If BArbie was a real person she would snap in half because of the weight of her chest and the witdth of her hips. I don’t think all dolls are evil just ones that show the female body in a form it can not be in.
Comment by Zach Cone — July 31, 2005 @ 3:14 pm
I always knew Ken was a psycho: you could tell by his bad toupe… Sorry you had to uncover his ‘dumping ground’.
Comment by scott — July 31, 2005 @ 6:28 pm
The point is that toys are for fantasy. If you cannot seperate fantasy from reality, then that is the real problem. It was clear to me from a very young age the difference between toys and the real thing. The toys were always inferior.
Comment by MAYBF — May 9, 2006 @ 7:55 pm
that poor little girl i loved my barbies but never had that many even combined with my sister together it was about 30-maybe 40 at the age of 12
Comment by em — November 24, 2007 @ 6:24 pm