When I was a little kid, I guess you could say that I was a little spoiled. But that was mostly my grandma's doing. Every time I went to her house she would always buy me all kinds of toys. I played with stuffed animals, barbies, and Polly Pockets mostly, but I remember when a toy called "Betty Spaghetti" came out. The commercials for Betty Spaghetti always made her look so awesome. She was completely made out of a rubbery material, and she had stringy hair that you could do whatever you wanted to with it. And unlike the Barbie Doll limbs where there are not flexible, you could move Betty Spaghetti's rubbery arms and legs how you wanted. She could be put in virtually any pose. So of course I beg my grandma to get me a Betty Spaghetti for Christmas. When Christmas came around I got my Betty Spaghetti doll. I was so happy because she even came with her own koala bear. I got the "safari style" Betty. On the box it talks about how flexible the doll is and how it is nearly impossible to break her. Well it wasn't long before I started playing with the doll that things went wrong. Her arms were not as flexible as the commercial made it seem. Before I knew it the doll was ruined from me trying to fix it so many times, and eventually just getting frustrated and not even caring any more what happened to it. Looking back, I don't know why I ever wanted a Betty Spaghetti, or any kind of doll like that. But the commercial made it seem like you just had to have one, and if you didn't, you were missing out.
As far as trends go, when I was in junior high, and my early years in high school, I saw a lot of people with the Northface jackets. These jackets looked so clean and nice, and came in tons of different colors. Everyone talked about how comfortable they were, and how warm they kept them in the cold weather, and how you could even wear them in warm weather and not burn up, which seemed weird to me, but I HAD to have one. To me, anyone that had a northface was "popular" or dressed nicely. I guess you could say all of the well-liked or popular kids at my school had a northface. So I begged my mom for a good while to get me a northface for my birthday(which is in August), and she thought it weird that I wanted a jacket in the hot August weather, but I had to make sure I had this jacket before school started back. I actually ended up getting my first northface on Christmas, not my birthday. It was aqua blue, which at the time was my favorite color, so I was definitely ecstatic. Over the next few years I accumulated an orange and a black northface as well. I absolutely cherished the black northface, because it was made out of a different, softer material. Looking back, I don't understand what the hype was about those jackets. Yea they're nice and comfy, but I feel stupid for going so crazy over them. I do still wear the black northface, but I wear it because it is comfortable. Not like back in the day when I thought I was so-called "cool".
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