Couple Has 5,000 Cabbage Patch Dolls: Cute or Crazy?
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2012/03/05 22:08:58
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Some of you probably aren't even old enough to remember the Cabbage Patch Kid craze of the 1980s. But one couple is still obsessed -- in fact, they have 5,000 dolls and consider them their own children, ABC News reports. Pat and Joe Prosey -- who will be profiled on TLC's "My Crazy Obsession!" on Wednesday -- collect the Cabbage Patch dolls, but say they're not in it for the money.
"They are kids. We don't use the word D-O-L-L -- they might hear," said Joe, a former shipyard worker. "They went from freckles to teeth to glasses and toothbrushes, and before you know it, our whole house in Baltimore was filled with Cabbage Patch Kids," said Pat Prosey. The Proseys have since started an "amusement park" for their "kids." Joe has even taken Kevin -- one of his kids -- waterskiing. He also writes a column in a collectors' newsletter using Kevin's voice.
But it pays to be this weird. Original dolls from the '70s and '80s can sell for as much as $25,000 to $35,000 each, ABC News reports. And Pat says her hobby isn't strange at all. "People pay $2 million for a painting -- is that crazy? I love my Cabbage Patches like another person loves a Rembrandt or a shiny new car." What do you think about the Cabbage Patch doll collection?
But it pays to be this weird. Original dolls from the '70s and '80s can sell for as much as $25,000 to $35,000 each, ABC News reports. And Pat says her hobby isn't strange at all. "People pay $2 million for a painting -- is that crazy? I love my Cabbage Patches like another person loves a Rembrandt or a shiny new car." What do you think about the Cabbage Patch doll collection?
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justnotsaying (: 2012/03/06 05:03:27
Aren't the people on that show normally crazy?
If you have answered yes to these questions you have came to the right answer.
They are crazy
PATCH KID! WHAT AN OBSESSION!
There is a show on TV about people like this it's called 'Hoarding Buried Alive: Release the Dolls'
I think we've moved beyond crazy to seriously disturbed.