OH.MY.GAWD!

That is the funniest shit I've read in quite some time. Doll cooties, SMELLYASSBABYDOLL, and "Mommy, the dead people left a present under my bed".....I will be giggling ALL day from this. Thanks, Ali

maybe the stinky doll could take a header off that balcony of yours? and if she is hell bent on a doll replace the stinky one with a plain jane baby doll without smell or even better one of the princess barbies. my princess has ariel and is coveting jasmine. my folks got the princess some dolls over the years and she never quite got into it. ponies---a must, and now it seems barbies are breeding in the corners at night. yet another reason we keep extended family at an arms length away :O)

Oh I feel your discomfort from waaay over here in Wisconsin. A well-meaning relative once gave my youngest son a teddy bear (musta been a freebie or somesuch) that was soooo soaked in perfume we nearly keeled over. After the unnamed relative left, my darling baby allowed me to run that sucker through the wash...over and over. After, oh, about 5 wash cycles and some uberdetergent, the thing still stunk, but below migraine-trigger level. So we compromised. He kept his lovely bear (he was 3 at the time, so ya know, it was hard to convince him to say byebye to it) in the toyroom in our basement...in the farthest corner. The odor did eventually fade, but by then Christopher no longer cared about the bear. Good luck with your stink-reducing ploys.

Ooh, nothing worse than smelly baby dolls! Maybe you should take baby for a walk in the park...let her air out in the sunshine, lie quietly in the grass, maybe take a swim in a fountain? Maybe she'll soak in some new scents to replace the icky smell.

Balcony. That was my first thought. I found an old Vicks inhaler, one of the tube things you sniff. I can't smell anything but menthol/eucalyptus now, things are looking up.

Wonder if you can OD on the sniffer stuff.

OH my gosh, too funny!! Who even thought to MAKE babydolls perfumed is my question!

Zibbi, you haven't been playing this game long enough. What you do is very sweetly tell DD and MIL that the doll stays at MIL's house so DD has something to play with when she visits. {evil grin!} Of course MIL will put up an arguement, but this is a good time to stick to your guns; especially since she had repeatedly been told that you didn't want that particular toy bought for DD. She'll think twice before buying the next obnoxious gift that crosses her path.

Waiting for The Man to get home and take a whiff of this.
Need some backup here.

It's like Zibkryptonite or something .

HAyelp! HAYelp!

Maybe she could go for a stroll in the zoo and meet the tigers. That sounds sooooo nasty! Better yet - keep it at your MIL's house!

Jacqui has stated exactly what I would have said! Time for a visit to the Grands house with dolly in hand. "Oh Honey, let's leave The Lil Stinker here to visit for a while. Then you'll have something to play with when you come here."

And definately stick to your guns!! Double barrel baby!

Will have to triple bag it and stick it in the trunk for transporting.

*taps fingers*

Won't happen today at any rate. For the moment it is in quanantine. Of course Kiddo has the stink on her and I have a headache bigger than (insert something really big here).

I need a drink.

UPDATE: So it went in the wash. And came out of the wash. I do believe water simply intensified the stink.

Zib, I definitely agree with the "something to play with at Grandma's house" ploy. Perhaps these dolls are part of a terrorist bio-warfare plot? Also time for the man to 'splain to his parents about "When we say 'Don't buy her anything', we mean DON'T BUY HER ANYTHING."

SMELLYASSBABYDOLL! I'm laughing so hard that I'm crying.

Yikes.

I'm with the, it's a doll to play with at Grandma's house. I sure as heck wouldn't keep it in my house! I can barely handle receiving magaiznes with purfume samples in them let a lone a stinkydoll that she will end up leaving on all the furniture. And it will suck up the odor. Oh yes it will. I say let grandma's couch suck up that odor! ;)

Ok thanks for tummy ache I got from laughing so hard. I had a similar thing with an Aliencosmolite bought by relatives - the thing is mondogross, stinks and the goo it's in knackers clothes and he loves it!! Swap you it for a perfumed dolly if you like.

Oh I am so with the "leave it at Grandma's house"!! I had a tiny stinky doll when I was a wee child & every now and then I get one of those 'scent' enhanced memories & it still makes me want to hurl!!

UPDATE: IT is now triple bagged and waiting by the front door for transport tomorrow. It shall live with the MIL. Now, what are the odds that is is BACK HERE within the oh, next 4 days. I am most certain the MIL will wash it and say it does't smell. Oh yes, per her it IS profumato (as opposed to offensively reeking). *Shakes head*
For some reason I don't think we've seen the end of it.

OK, I'm gonna admit right off the bat, I HATE scary movies,clowns, and such. Now, there was a movie about a doll; his name was Chuckie. Remember that? Seems to me like you might have your own lil scary movie going on. If that SABD goes to MIL and makes it way back to you.....RUN!!!!

Oh goodness! When Owen was a baby, someone gave him a stuffed turtle with "baby scent" on/in it. Every now and then it surfaces from some dark recess and all these years later, it still stinks!

Scott and I are both intolerant of perfumes. He calls the smelly inserts in the Sunday newspaper or The New Yorker "stinkbombs." Once or twice Owen hid them under Scott's pillow as a joke. Some joke!

Good luck with MIL. I have a feeling you're going to need it.

Note to self: never sniff Italian perfume, EVER.

Does the triple-bagging keep the stench contained?

If that THING ever dares return to your house, take it back to MIL's AFTER giving it a migraine-level dosing of a nasty flowers and musk perfume that's gotten too old and gone all alcoholy-smelling.

Or is that a little TOO evil?

holy hilarious, zib...since it's triple bagged *picture a rotting babydoll CSI style* how bout she gets accidentially taken out with the trash? Or, better yet, she's randomly dollyknapped one morning while out for an airing while Kiddo was at school? Or, one of my favs - let's give her to a child who isn't lucky enough to have a (STINKYASS) dolly like this...share the wealth, charity is good for the soul...

Or, just tell Kiddo the scent is killing you and you need her help in figuring out how to make it go away or you're going to make the dolly go away? Is that too honest?

In the meantime, how's that voodoo doll of your MIL coming along?

The voodoo doll on the needles is Kofi Annan. Next will be her ;)

Now THAT comment, zib, made me laugh out loud...

Maybe we should get our two MIL's together. They'll cancel each other out...

Ok, First thing you do is put on rubber gloves, take the doll and rub it all over a piece of stationery. Then you write a "thank-you" letter to the in laws on said paper. Take a snippet of doll hair to add to the letter. Send immediately.

Then follow these steps...

1) While child is at school, wash the doll as many times as you can. Child returns, make sure doll is back in her room.

2) When child goes to school again, repeat #1. Give the doll a nice spray with Febreze or some other freshener.

3) Repeat 1 and 2 as many times as needed to knock the smell down to bearable. Use a little non-chlorine bleach to help.

**In best southern, white-trash voice**

dat baby ain't gonna nevah stop stinkun