In 1995 Pleasant Company introduced the American Girl Savings Game. The idea was you would figure out your savings goal for an item, both the total amount and how much money you needed to save per week to get there. You would write your goals on the spaces on a game sheet, give the stickers to your adult, and when you had saved up each sticker's worth you would get the sticker from them to put on the sheet. When the puzzle was full, you would have saved everything for your goal and could buy what you had been saving for.
I must have written in for seven or eight of those sheets. I never had enough allowance to save for a doll, but I did use them for all my books. They were very motivating!
I don't know when they discontinued them but probably not long after, because I never saw any with Josefina on them. I 've been looking for an intact set in good shape for about a year - I set an eBay search for it last January. Last week I was lucky enough to be the only bidder on a very reasonably priced set. And it arrived today, unused and with all the stickers!
I intend to take really good quality pictures and print them at a smaller scale to be able to keep the original intact and use the smaller ones for myself and maybe even for my kids, just for the fun of it. Might use sticker paper, might just use regular paper and a glue stick.
In other dolly mail news, the My Life As boy arrived yesterday with a squished in face that wasn't obvious from the listing photos, so I've put in a return request on eBay. I found an OG boy while looking for his replacement - the very one I was going to buy brand new from Target, in fact - and ordered that, but seller hasn't shipped yet. I'm not yet sure if I will buy another MLA boy; those aren't sold in stores here and I expect they won't be very popular among my craft fair customers anyway.
