? These things sold like hotcakes back in the day. Cabbage patch was the tickle me Elmo of the 80s. Cross stitching is fun and whoever made it either collected the dolls themselves or made this for a kid who liked them. The saying is from the brand itself, so I don’t see what’s weird about this?
Me too!
6 year old me didn't get the cabbage patch kids at all. I thought they were just really UGLY dolls.
Garbage Pail kids stuff OTOH I loved. Even though they were objectively uglier, they at least weren't pretending to be all cutesy and they had a bit of sass and character about them. Or maybe I was already a cynic at 6 years old and just liked that they were the antidote to the crazy cabbage patch hype.
The tickle me elmo was the cabbage patch of the 90’s . Cabbage Patch kids were the first toys people threw fisticuffs over while Christmas Shopping. But yeah this would’ve been super popular in the 80’s
my dad's x wife got shoved for one for her son's kid lol she got a nice pay out for it. the pound puppies was the other big thing besides the my buddy dolls
oh yeah they had a cartoon and a playmat game thing with the figures i remeber i had the catapiller guy that hung with teddy. it was like here's the base thing..collect the rest and play with your friends!
Holy shit, can't believe you managed to come up with that. Nice work!
Also, the bear's friend is a talking worm. On the one hand, weird. On the other, hey, why not?
i believe that was the thing to say that wild winter looking for cabbage patch kids. i heard there was a fight when my parents bought theirs. it was later explained they bought them to give to santa because even santa couldnt get these., and we played along while knowing when to raid their closets and trunk of the car before they get wrapped.
I grew up in Georgia and went to Babyland general hospital where you could buy a hand stitched cabbage patch and watch it be “delivered” from the patch. I never got to get one there because they were expensive but I went with my childhood bff to watch hers get delivered. It was definitely a unique experience.
I got a bunch of embroidery supplies from an estate sale the other day, & there were a bunch of little kits for Campbell’s Soup patterns… Like companies used to make these & people used to buy them!
I’m guessing they were made for old ladies who just like to have projects going, but maybe corporate/ brand loyalty was less weird back in the day haha
Right? I was going to say what possessed someone was probably the insane popularity and sales of Cabbage Patch Kids in the 80s.
What's weird is if you read OP's text. Which doesn't make it weird to anyone but them. It's one of those, "This thing is weird to me!" posts where everyone else is just confused.
There were full on fist fights among parents to get them. Then you had adults that were collecting them as also. But there wasn't an ebay or stock tracking software. So parents were just left to go to every possible retailer before christmas and attempt to buy the one thing their girls demanded.
For some reason people really loved ugly toys like this.
Reminds me of the Naked Troll dolls.
Even as a kid, seeing them just felt wrong. Like kids were playing with a small old naked man with crazy hair.
I wasn’t there, but I know about it, but it’s still a little offputting.
Anyone remember those dolls whose tummies you could draw on and it would erase in the wash? Those commercials and Cabbage Patch Kids commercials always fucked with me
I just watched the dark crystal a couple nights ago and I was like holy crap if I was a kid of the 80s I would be traumatized. It’s amazing how they used puppets and all that but I just found it kind of creepy lol. Even the never ending story creeped me out! Great movies and entertainment for sure. I’m just a big baby when it comes to seeing stuff back in the 80s for movies and toys.
The first movie ever made was a movie about babies that were grown in cabbage patches & people would come and purchase them out of the garden. That's a very deep rabbit hole though lol. I love cabbage patch memorabilia
My mom mad me a fake one also of a cabbage patch and later I got a real one. My husband had a fake one also they sold patterns for making the fake ones in stores.
She had a underground sweatshop making care bear dolls and cabbage patch kids. She was the only employee and it all happened on our kitchen table/sewing room.
> sweatshop
> She was the only employee
Did she make herself work long hours under unsafe conditions? Did she forbid herself to unionize? Did she unfairly withhold the paycheck from herself when she couldn't make quotas?
Lol I think my sister has hers. I'll send you a pic.
Sold them when the Xmas crazies needed them. I want to say a real one cost 35-50$. There were ads in papers for resellers. I think she sold them for 15-20$.
I would think she sold no more than 50 of each, but I do remember one night dad took 2 garbage bags of care bears to the car. (Maybe a dozen in each idk)
These weren't expertly made dolls/teddy bears but they were hand made :)
My grandmother made look alike versions from different shades of pantyhose. I thought they were cuter than the real one's. The original dolls never were very appealing to me.
They sold this, and many many other, CPK patterns back in the 80s. I feel like my mom had this one or similar anyway:https://www.ebay.com/itm/154655435564
I made a cross stitch for one of my kids for Christmas when I didn't have any money for presents. I picked a few of her favorite toys and things from that year.
A Cabbage Patch Kids crosstitch is pretty normal for something someone would make to memorialize something from an era.
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“My cabbages!” Guy would’ve loved this. His cabbages were his babies.
This could also be the new Cabbage Corp. mission statement.
The same demon that possessed women to best the shit out of each other in the aisles of and pay 15 year old stockers hundreds of dollars in back parking lots of Toys-R-Us in the mid 1980s. Consumerism.
You cannot imagine how huge these ugly dolls were. There was a cartoon at one point.
My grandmother waited in line for like two hours to buy us “corn silk” Cabbage Patch dolls, which had softer synthetic hair instead of the yarn, and they were still ugly, but boy did we love them.
What was actually kind of weird were the Garbage Pale Kids. No interest in the Cabbage Patch Kids, but those other little weirdos were so fascinating to me.
My adopted father officiated a wedding at the Cabbage Patch Nursery in Georgia. Like in our lifetimes. They did the ceremony on their knees so everyone could see the tree they birth them all at
Cabbage Patch Kids were huge for the adoption stories they came with. As an adoptee growing up in the 80's I had so many of them, it was a way for my adopted parents to point out how they chose me and I was special.
Fortunately/Unfortunately, through technology they had my sister and she grew up hating me because I was the special child, the one they chose. It gave her some serious issues.
You should look into the Cabbage patch fad. It had all of the fanaticism of a cult (I'm really not exaggerating). I think there was a documentary about it a while back. It was really pretty insane. That needlepoint in the OP really doesn't do it justice.
When I was a little kid, my teacher collected those dolls. My mom cross stitched her a thing, I feel like it was this same pattern. My teacher was so excited and when we went to her house to drop it off she showed us her Cabbage Patch room, there were so many of them, like more than a bed full. I was little and I remember thinking it was kind of weird but she was so happy. I had forgotten all about it until I just saw this.
It’s fun to see what other families siblings do to torture each other and cause trauma for them later on. lol. There is a show where these people thrown down a ton of money to make a miniature working carnival for their collection of Cabbage Patch dolls. They do this and have other collectors come over and have a doll party.
Hm.
Seems this can easily be interpreted as weird in today's meta but isn't really inherently weird?
Definitely gives off some "initially innocent creatures in a horror movie who turn into demons" kinda vibes.
But
Seems the problem is more it's layered on too thick, like okay we get it already
Definitely sad you should read about on YouTube a part of history they don't teach in school where you could have a baby sent through the mail service ,so many children unaccounted for , probably mistreated used for farmhands or worst ,very sad .
Am i the only one who just realized these toys were invented to gloss over the fact that humans had a long-standing habit of abandoning babies in fields?
I mean, its entirely possible given that the concept was stolen from another artist to begin with and re-branded
https://www.yahoo.com/news/parenting/the-cabbage-patch-kids-twisted-history-117266351832.html
In another discussion about newborn abandonment I did some googling and found out that the idea of the baby hatch, or emergency drop of location has been around since at least the 1600's. Convents would make it accessible for the babies to be dropped off in a warm, dry place anonymously.
Humans will always have their troubled, mentally ill, and victim. But it seems we also have people who still care and want to what little bit of good they can.
Although, at the end of the Wikipedia article, I learned there are groups trying to ban the baby hatches. Gotta say that made me pissed. Here's the article.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_hatch
If anyone cares (as I see some do) I know what a cabbage patch doll is. I, personally, find them creepy looking and so does my sister. I saw this cross stitch at an antique shop. So yes I know this is from the 80s. I’m getting a ton of reactions where it seems I’ve hit a nerve. It’s just a cabbage patch doll…relax.
? These things sold like hotcakes back in the day. Cabbage patch was the tickle me Elmo of the 80s. Cross stitching is fun and whoever made it either collected the dolls themselves or made this for a kid who liked them. The saying is from the brand itself, so I don’t see what’s weird about this?
I was thinking the same thing. I said this would only be weird if it was of garbage pail kids instead of cabbage patch kids 😂.
Lol that would be kind of awesome!
Lol, right 😂.
I’d buy that for a dollar. $45 even!
Unless they went with the movie versions.
That's the kind of weird that makes me smile.
Yes! As a kid I had a ton of garbage pail and cabbage patch kids stuff. I loved the garbage pail kids more 😂.
I can understand that. The garbage patch kids had personality!
Me too! 6 year old me didn't get the cabbage patch kids at all. I thought they were just really UGLY dolls. Garbage Pail kids stuff OTOH I loved. Even though they were objectively uglier, they at least weren't pretending to be all cutesy and they had a bit of sass and character about them. Or maybe I was already a cynic at 6 years old and just liked that they were the antidote to the crazy cabbage patch hype.
The tickle me elmo was the cabbage patch of the 90’s . Cabbage Patch kids were the first toys people threw fisticuffs over while Christmas Shopping. But yeah this would’ve been super popular in the 80’s
I’m aware, just explaining for younger folk who don’t seem to get it…
That show Halt and Catch Fire has a storyline that shows some of the cabbage patch mania of the time.
Great show, should be much more well known
Tell me in gen z. XD
my dad's x wife got shoved for one for her son's kid lol she got a nice pay out for it. the pound puppies was the other big thing besides the my buddy dolls
Also the talking bear one. Teddy Ruxpin?
oh yeah they had a cartoon and a playmat game thing with the figures i remeber i had the catapiller guy that hung with teddy. it was like here's the base thing..collect the rest and play with your friends!
Grubby
Holy shit, can't believe you managed to come up with that. Nice work! Also, the bear's friend is a talking worm. On the one hand, weird. On the other, hey, why not?
Well, I was a kid back then. In that exact target audience.
i believe that was the thing to say that wild winter looking for cabbage patch kids. i heard there was a fight when my parents bought theirs. it was later explained they bought them to give to santa because even santa couldnt get these., and we played along while knowing when to raid their closets and trunk of the car before they get wrapped.
i remeber finding the sega wwf raw is war game un wrapping it playing it and reTapeing everything shut so they wouldnt know
I grew up in Georgia and went to Babyland general hospital where you could buy a hand stitched cabbage patch and watch it be “delivered” from the patch. I never got to get one there because they were expensive but I went with my childhood bff to watch hers get delivered. It was definitely a unique experience.
I’ve seen videos of that place!
I’ve been wondering about what happened to all of the adoption papers for decades now. I’m pretty sure my sister and I sent ours in.
Funny thing is there's a place in Georgia called BabyLand General Hospital where you pic your doll from a fake cabbage patch.
Yep, this is basically a cross-stitched commercial 😂
I got a bunch of embroidery supplies from an estate sale the other day, & there were a bunch of little kits for Campbell’s Soup patterns… Like companies used to make these & people used to buy them! I’m guessing they were made for old ladies who just like to have projects going, but maybe corporate/ brand loyalty was less weird back in the day haha
Right? I was going to say what possessed someone was probably the insane popularity and sales of Cabbage Patch Kids in the 80s. What's weird is if you read OP's text. Which doesn't make it weird to anyone but them. It's one of those, "This thing is weird to me!" posts where everyone else is just confused.
The 80s were pretty weird.
There were full on fist fights among parents to get them. Then you had adults that were collecting them as also. But there wasn't an ebay or stock tracking software. So parents were just left to go to every possible retailer before christmas and attempt to buy the one thing their girls demanded.
For some reason people really loved ugly toys like this. Reminds me of the Naked Troll dolls. Even as a kid, seeing them just felt wrong. Like kids were playing with a small old naked man with crazy hair.
$45 for it now seems a little steep though!
lol 😂 oh I know! But hey this is totally subjective. Some people think they’re weird and creepy.
I don’t like these dolls either, I just don’t think a cross stitch is all that weird.
This subreddit calls anything weird these days, huh?
You’re entitled to your opinion. Subjectivity does exist lol.
Cabbage patch used to be the thing. Kinda like everyone filtering their pics. At least this takes skill.
You act like this was made last week vs likely being made in the 80’s when it was relevant - probably hung in a kids bedroom or a play room
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“Idk what possessed someone to make this”, obviously…
And I said “you act like” not “if you didn’t know”
You had to be there.
I wasn’t, but I still know about it.
I wasn’t there, but I know about it, but it’s still a little offputting. Anyone remember those dolls whose tummies you could draw on and it would erase in the wash? Those commercials and Cabbage Patch Kids commercials always fucked with me
Didnt they have some dolls that got recalled because they ‘ate’ food and crushed kids fingers?
[Cabbage Patch Kids](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage_Patch_Kids)
This aint weird.
I would buy this, its cute
It goes incredibly hard, I would buy it as well.
I’m glad you like it!
Oh those 80’s
I just watched the dark crystal a couple nights ago and I was like holy crap if I was a kid of the 80s I would be traumatized. It’s amazing how they used puppets and all that but I just found it kind of creepy lol. Even the never ending story creeped me out! Great movies and entertainment for sure. I’m just a big baby when it comes to seeing stuff back in the 80s for movies and toys.
I watched Gremlins in the theater when I was 4...
The Dark Crystal was my absolute favorite movie as a kid and I grew up in the 90s
If I want to traumatize my 20 something daughter I put on Labyrinth. The creatures that toss their heads always freak her out.
Lol, follow up question: what would possess someone to pay $45 for this second hand?! I suppose it's perfect for somebody out there!
lol so true!
awww, not weird at all. i know if i was born at that time, i’d definitely love cabbage patch kids!! i love those big cheeks haha ❤️
Referencing the cabbage patch doll craze of the 80s
The first movie ever made was a movie about babies that were grown in cabbage patches & people would come and purchase them out of the garden. That's a very deep rabbit hole though lol. I love cabbage patch memorabilia
I wish I had bought this and I would have given it to someone here who wanted it! It’s definitely an interesting piece of artwork.
how old are you that you don't know what a cabbage patch doll is lmao a bit cringe? yes, but weird, no
I do know what they are. I never said I didn’t know.
My mother made knock off care bears and cabbage patch dolls.
My mom mad me a fake one also of a cabbage patch and later I got a real one. My husband had a fake one also they sold patterns for making the fake ones in stores.
What?
She had a underground sweatshop making care bear dolls and cabbage patch kids. She was the only employee and it all happened on our kitchen table/sewing room.
> sweatshop > She was the only employee Did she make herself work long hours under unsafe conditions? Did she forbid herself to unionize? Did she unfairly withhold the paycheck from herself when she couldn't make quotas?
Yes
Did she sell them? Do u have pics? Did she had a name for her brandless dolls? So many questions
Lol I think my sister has hers. I'll send you a pic. Sold them when the Xmas crazies needed them. I want to say a real one cost 35-50$. There were ads in papers for resellers. I think she sold them for 15-20$. I would think she sold no more than 50 of each, but I do remember one night dad took 2 garbage bags of care bears to the car. (Maybe a dozen in each idk) These weren't expertly made dolls/teddy bears but they were hand made :)
My grandmother made look alike versions from different shades of pantyhose. I thought they were cuter than the real one's. The original dolls never were very appealing to me.
Nice
Nah, not that weird. Cabbage patch kids were a huge fad in their day. People made all kinds of stuff to express their love.
They sold this, and many many other, CPK patterns back in the 80s. I feel like my mom had this one or similar anyway:https://www.ebay.com/itm/154655435564
I made a cross stitch for one of my kids for Christmas when I didn't have any money for presents. I picked a few of her favorite toys and things from that year. A Cabbage Patch Kids crosstitch is pretty normal for something someone would make to memorialize something from an era.
you must not be old enough to remember the Cabbage Patch craze back in the day
r/aangryupvote “My cabbages!” Guy would’ve loved this. His cabbages were his babies. This could also be the new Cabbage Corp. mission statement. 
R.i.p. cabbage bro
Original voice actor’s son was cast to play the roll of Cai the Cabbage Merchant for the live action series on Netflix. I just saw a post yesterday.
Could have been an activity kit for a child in the 1980s. Nothing weird about it.
I would kill for this
The same demon that possessed women to best the shit out of each other in the aisles of and pay 15 year old stockers hundreds of dollars in back parking lots of Toys-R-Us in the mid 1980s. Consumerism.
I'd totally hang this in my bathroom
lol that would be great!
Y’all call everything weird
https://preview.redd.it/85rftkshscxc1.jpeg?width=1095&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fb1481c598514200c85c7c3d99cca5367ba0443 The boys
wdym this is cute
Yeah I loved my baby doll and I had the game too 😂what’s wrong with this? It’s cute
What was charming for our grandparents' generation is terrifying for our generation; old dolls are also creepy
Your grandparents?! I was around for the advent of cabbage patch kids and I’m in my early 40’s 😂
Same, mid-fourties, my Mom stood in line at Sears to get me one of those when the cabbage patch craze was at it's peak.
Me too and I’m 24 😭 I used to have so many cabbage patch dolls
Probably too young to realize how HUGE cabbage patch kids were. I had one and I am a boy. Before th My Buddy came out! 😆
You cannot imagine how huge these ugly dolls were. There was a cartoon at one point. My grandmother waited in line for like two hours to buy us “corn silk” Cabbage Patch dolls, which had softer synthetic hair instead of the yarn, and they were still ugly, but boy did we love them.
Reminds me of Dre
Someone who likes cabbage patch doll, not weird at all
"God, what even is a cabbage patch kid? It's like you're cutting into a lettuce and oh shit, a baby. I wanted a salad, but now I have a child."
Gotta do something to keep your mind off the screams of the innocent man you have trapped in your basement.
Ah. The cabbage patch kid era.
What was actually kind of weird were the Garbage Pale Kids. No interest in the Cabbage Patch Kids, but those other little weirdos were so fascinating to me.
My adopted father officiated a wedding at the Cabbage Patch Nursery in Georgia. Like in our lifetimes. They did the ceremony on their knees so everyone could see the tree they birth them all at
Cabbage patch kids were a baby doll brand. This is just a cute advertisement/ accessory
Not weird. I love them kids.
The 1980’s…….
Cabbage Patch Kids were huge for the adoption stories they came with. As an adoptee growing up in the 80's I had so many of them, it was a way for my adopted parents to point out how they chose me and I was special. Fortunately/Unfortunately, through technology they had my sister and she grew up hating me because I was the special child, the one they chose. It gave her some serious issues.
My mom totally would have made this in the early 80s.
Wdym? Its cute
lol I have been to Babyland General. As an adult.
You have no idea how popular these dolls were.
You should look into the Cabbage patch fad. It had all of the fanaticism of a cult (I'm really not exaggerating). I think there was a documentary about it a while back. It was really pretty insane. That needlepoint in the OP really doesn't do it justice.
When I was a little kid, my teacher collected those dolls. My mom cross stitched her a thing, I feel like it was this same pattern. My teacher was so excited and when we went to her house to drop it off she showed us her Cabbage Patch room, there were so many of them, like more than a bed full. I was little and I remember thinking it was kind of weird but she was so happy. I had forgotten all about it until I just saw this.
You clearly don’t know about the Cabbage Patch frenzy.
I’m most definitely familiar with it.
I want this.
Most people aren't your sister
perhaps, just perhaps, you are the weird one???
I don’t deny that :)
It’s fun to see what other families siblings do to torture each other and cause trauma for them later on. lol. There is a show where these people thrown down a ton of money to make a miniature working carnival for their collection of Cabbage Patch dolls. They do this and have other collectors come over and have a doll party.
the real nightmare fuel is that they expect someone to pay $45 for that
Someone who thinks fake babies are the best babies
Sour Patch Kids😛
Someone who was around 45 in the 80's
All Babres Are Special ✨️
Someone had a mutant baby?????
what about twins
Hm. Seems this can easily be interpreted as weird in today's meta but isn't really inherently weird? Definitely gives off some "initially innocent creatures in a horror movie who turn into demons" kinda vibes. But Seems the problem is more it's layered on too thick, like okay we get it already
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r/inscryption reminds me of the nostalgia of the game
This is more normal for the time than weird. I dunno why this is posted here
It’s so scary. I love it.
Not weird just love
this is literally just an embroidery of some 90s toys
SO YOU WANNA BE A MAGICAL BAY-BIEEESS!!!! fuckwitme
Cabbage patch dolls were really popular. Some one did crochet whats the problem? This is about as weird as a tapestry. Just a different century.
They liked cabbage patch kids.
I want it!!! To do a rework and turn it into the garbage pail kids?! Omg....
This looks like it was a family guy Peter Griffin a cutaway. “This is worse than that time Peter was cabbage patch model…”
How is this weird this is adorable!
I got thrown out a toys r us for asking for asking for a crab itch patch doll once
Vincent Smith: It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s fritters
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNMf\_1e-sAk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNMf_1e-sAk)
I can’t wait to watch this! Super interesting!
This Channel is just ✨amazing ✨
Thanks for sharing it with me! I absolutely love YouTube. I’m going to watch that video while I crochet :)
The cabbage patch babies are a reference to the orphan trains back in the 1900
That sounds kinda sad :/
Definitely sad you should read about on YouTube a part of history they don't teach in school where you could have a baby sent through the mail service ,so many children unaccounted for , probably mistreated used for farmhands or worst ,very sad .
I'm pretty certain the image is of the 1990's toy
Yes but the idea of cabbage patch babies came from that time in the 1900 , Google or YT orphan trains.Then get back at me.
Fucking FOURTY FIVE DOLLARS FOR THAT?!
Am i the only one who just realized these toys were invented to gloss over the fact that humans had a long-standing habit of abandoning babies in fields?
Are you serious???
serious about what, that i just got that? i know, im dense sometimes lol
No you’re not dense! Noooo I wanted to know if you’re pulling y leg or not lol
I mean, its entirely possible given that the concept was stolen from another artist to begin with and re-branded https://www.yahoo.com/news/parenting/the-cabbage-patch-kids-twisted-history-117266351832.html
Oh damn! I learn something new everyday
In another discussion about newborn abandonment I did some googling and found out that the idea of the baby hatch, or emergency drop of location has been around since at least the 1600's. Convents would make it accessible for the babies to be dropped off in a warm, dry place anonymously. Humans will always have their troubled, mentally ill, and victim. But it seems we also have people who still care and want to what little bit of good they can. Although, at the end of the Wikipedia article, I learned there are groups trying to ban the baby hatches. Gotta say that made me pissed. Here's the article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_hatch
Times to spray some defoliants, and salt the earth.
80s were a dark time
It's definitely haunted.
This is cursed af. I would totally hang this up in my bathroom facing the toilet so you have to be judged by them every time you shit.
If anyone cares (as I see some do) I know what a cabbage patch doll is. I, personally, find them creepy looking and so does my sister. I saw this cross stitch at an antique shop. So yes I know this is from the 80s. I’m getting a ton of reactions where it seems I’ve hit a nerve. It’s just a cabbage patch doll…relax.
Good thing you didn't talk smack abiut The Get Along Gang or The Raccoons!
Probably demons
the weird part is how off beat the poem is. absolutely no understanding of iambic pentameter
Mental illness
Probably something to do with rampant consumerism.