How the Cabbage Patch Kids craze of 1983 helped create Black Friday as we know it

Photo caption: Cabbage Patch Kids drew serious shoppers at Christmas 1983. Photo credit: Andy Hosie / Daily Mirror / Mirrorpix / Getty Images. Article by Raechal Shewfelt · Editor, Yahoo Entertainment. AOL – November 22, 2023. Originally published by Yahoo Entertainment.

As shoppers line up for Black Friday, whether online or in person, be thankful that those lovable, squeezable Cabbage Patch Kids are not atop the wish lists of most kids, like they were this time 40 years ago. As heartwarming as the dolls with various eye colors, hair colors and dimples were, parents’ mad dash to buy the plush toys to have under the Christmas tree for their children in 1983 led to uncontrollable mobs. […]

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