Does this seem silly to you?

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When I was growing up in the seventies there was a Barbie Doll I wanted called Malibu Barbie but I never got it, after seeing it on ebay I'm thinking of getting the original 1971 Malibu barbie does anyone think its silly to want to get a barbie doll that I wanted all those years ago?

i think that is beautiful.

Nah, I think it's awesome.

Not at all. Lots of non-children people are doll collectors.

You are an adult, act like one!

Now go buy that Malibu Barbie!! !! !

You should see the magnet toys spread all across my work desk

Are you trying to express your personal power, like, now that I'm older, I'll have what I couldn't have before?

Does it bring back nice childhood memories?

Is it about the doll itself and how much you still like it?

Anyhow, even if it is silly, is that a bad thing? I think if someone loses all their silliness, they're more likely to become a grumpy old man/woman before their time.

No. Go for it

Totally not silly. One of the joys of being an adult is spoiling your inner child from time to time.

Not at all. It's adorable. I've done plenty of things that I wanted to do when I was little but couldn't, and I think a lot of people can say the same thing. There's a great feeling that comes with finally accomplishing it, like fulfilling a long-standing goal, or relieving an itch that you've needed to scratch for ages.

Although honestly, this made me think of this from The Addams Family Values:

Not silly at all I have done this with a couple of things from my childhood. Treat yourself!

No, not at all. My mum and her 3 siblings grew up in the 60s-70s and they have just purchased each a soft toy of characters from 'Banana Splits', because they didn't have soft toys of those characters when they were children.

i think that's the kind of thing that's really worth spending disproportionate money or time or effort on, for yourself or as a gift to someone you know well. nothing can replace that emotional link to your childhood

I finally got my baby bwue bwankie returned to me in my 40s, so there is IMHO nothing wrong with wanting your Malibu Barbie at the same age.

Buy it!! !! Not silly at all!

Because my family is fractured, parents died while I was still a young adult, family house was sold, I never got to keep any of my childhood stuff that even people of my age now probably still have at their elderly parents' house, I lost all my things I would have liked to still have, including a set of very nice books.

Those books are now highly prized by collectors. I wanted to "recreate" about ten years worth of the books I was given for Christmas each year, so I spent years on e-bay buying copies of the ones I remember and felt most nostalgic about.

It actually took ten years to do, as some of the prices are so high, I had to wait to get a bargain as I strictly limited myself on what I could spend. I love the fact that I "still have" those books even though I had to buy them again.

A family member stole a particular item from me that was a gift from a friend when my first kitten died. It took YEARS to find it on e-bay but one day there was another exactly like it, and I bought that too.

Go ahead and buy that thing from your childhood that you never got to have, or had and lost. I think more people do this kind of thing than we suspect, I sure did.

That doesn't seem silly to me. It's natural to buy things to build the childhood that you wanted around you. I think you should buy it.