Of Toy Clothespins and Baby Powder | This Used to Be My Childhood Toy #4

Marie's "semi write-up":

"I didn't have any "proper" toys. I remember asking my mother why they didn't buy me a doll. They did buy me some (or one?) when I was maybe really young. Sinisira ko lang daw. (They said I just destroyed them.)

I played with paper dolls, sort of. Natuwa lang akong mag-drowing (I just liked drawing them) and it was rare that I cut out the paper dolls.

And I played with clothespins, the bamboo and plastic ones. I would build a family out of clothespins--the father would be made of a bamboo, yung nanay tatlong plastic na pang-ipit na pinagdugtong-dugtong (the mother, three plastic clothespins joined together). 

I also played the same way with baby powder and astringent bottles, etc. I don't know know what storylines I made up using Mr. Polbo (Mr. Baby Powder) as a character. I did get a doll, though, when I was around 8. It was bought by my father from France. It was a baby doll with a cradle that played a melody. Still, it was not my favorite toy."

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We had bamboo clothespins too!, made by my grandfather.  But I used them to count numbers or form letters.  The plastic clothespins, I also used to clip to each other and make towers or airplanes (The general shape tended to be a triangle, that's why airplanes).   Maybe if I had stopped at three clothespins, it might have occurred to me to make up a storyline.  :)

Anyway, more often than not, the best toys don't require batteries.
Thanks, Marie for the semi write-up!