Time Out Doll
I have a really cute:
Time Out Doll
3 ft tall (approximately the size of a 2 year old child).
This doll has no face. Can be either a boy or a girl. Has Auburn curls.
Has a stuffed frog hanging out of back right pocket.
It can be placed in a corner as a time out child and can be displayed inside or out.
NOTE: Clothes on child come with some very light stains on it.
I am asking $25 for it.
(Cash only with exact change please.)
“Hi, I’m selling a nightmare I had about two weeks ago. It involved a doll. Without a face. Want it? I’ll throw in other subconscious fears for the right price.”
I have no idea why this exists. To show other children you must be obeyed? To terrify them into thinking they, too, may one day be subjected to a 6-week-long, day-and-night “timeout”? To lure compassionate adults to tap the motionless child on the shoulder, only to be startled when they learn it’s not a child, but some sort of decoy, by which time you’ve stolen their wallets?
Dunno. All I know is that a doll that has no face is going to have real trouble selling as “cute.”
@Nicole
I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one who thought they were playing hide-n-go-seek. When I was really little my mom used to shop at this craft market and I’d pretend that I was playing hide-n-go-seek with them. They never found me. Lame, I know, but when you’re four, it’s awesome to have an opponent that can never beat you.
When do you see them? ALL. THE. TIME!
Anyone else think this looks just like Luigi? I mean seriously, that’s a freaky Luigi doll.
I too hate these creepy little dolls. Who the heck thought these were a good idea!?
@E-Faerie
I’m guessing the same weird women who get those realistic baby dolls and treat them like a real baby. Loony tots. O.o
Okay, glad to see I’m not the only one creeped out by the ‘light stains’ part.
I actually live with someone who has a matched set of these. One male, one female. She thinks they are cute…
Any decent craft fair or antique/craft market has these. I never cared for them but I guess there’s a niche for these somewhere.
Blurgle wrote:
“Oh, God, these things are ubiquitous among a certain variety of Christian conservative women over 60. They seem to think they’re cute and wholesome.”
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Ah, that would explain the creepy factor, then!
Dolls are creepy normally. But make them human sized and pose them like the Blair Witch kids and I’m outta here!
95% of the homes where I live have (or had) one of those stupid dolls. One can’t walk down thru a fair without seeing every other stand selling them. And to here they have migrated to Germany? Tragic
A close friend of my (a transplant that doesn’t “get” local culture) wept with frustration when given one by her MIL.
Why, why, why are they popular at car shows? There goes my day, wasted, because I will be trying to solve this mystery.
Sadly, these aren’t as strange as they may seem. They’re incredibly popular at classic car shows. I’m not sure why, and I absolutely detest the things, but you’ll see *dozens* of these “Time Out” dolls at car shows involving vehicles from the 50s. As you can see in the pictures, it’s already leaning against a car tire.
Oddly enough, someone is probably going to actually buy this, because they’re going to want it in THEIR classic ‘57 Chevy Bel Air display.
Good gosh, I saw one of these a few years ago when playing “Urbz: Sims in the City” as the “Creepy Kid Doll”. I had no idea they really existed.
I want to know where the “light stains” came fro–oh wait, no I don’t.
@watch me boogie
Oh Really? How?
@watch me boogie
ROFL…..the creepiest thing you’ve ever seen?!? You shudder because of this?? Oh please. Tacky, yes. Creepiest thing ever….no.
My grandmother has two of these, in Edwardian-style dresses. They are even more horrifying in real life, believe me.
* may contain actual DNA…in the form of “light stains”
I can only begin to imagine how badly one of these could traumatise your kids- walks up to doll, hi, what game are you playing?…why wont you talk to me?…*turns faceless monster doll around* AHHHHHH!!!
This has Steven King written all over it…. “Oh yes darling that is just the Time Out Dole my Mother bought us..” Could you not imagine turning your head and finding it has moved to a wall closer to where you were sitting…. Maybe it became animate the day it was bought a toy red car (In the background of picture)..
.. You go to drive off in your car, only to find it waiting at the wheel.
Your commentary on this made me laugh so hard I cried!
You know, if you were forced to live in a house with these things, it would be fun to move them around randomly. After taping a knife into their little hands. Later, you could draw creepy eyes on the place where the face should be in glow-in-the-dark paint.
why would you want to do that so they could apear at your bed at night and say why why why
my dentist has the same doll in his waiting room. Creeps me out every time.