Remember to keep checking Want Not: she combs through ZERLLIONS of Amazon toy listings every day and posts the really good ones. I’m only posting the stuff I get distracted by while I’m browsing around looking for things for my kids.

I have NO IDEA if most of these are any good, but they are marked way down. If you have any of these things and can comment on their suckitude/awesomeness, please do. I’m only looking at items that qualify for the free shipping, so if you get your total up to $25 and order before the 16th or 17th, they (1) ship free and (2) arrive before December 25th. But double-check, because if Amazon.com sells out of their free-shipping quantities of something but it’s available from a non-free-shipping source, the link will go to THAT.

 

Hannah Montana Deluxe TV game. The hell? But it’s $15 down from $50 (I doubt that $50, since other sellers have it for $40. But $15 down from $40 is still nice).

 

Barbie used to look kind of bad to me, until I saw the more recent dolls. Now Barbie looks like a senator’s wife. Here’s a Barbie house playset for $14 down from $40. Cheap piece of crap? Quite possibly. But CHEAP is a GOOD word.

 

Jakks Pacific Girl Gourmet Cupcake Maker, $13 down from $30. The problem with this kind of thing, of course, is that the replacement mixes will KILL you. I saw an Easy-Bake Oven mix for FIVE DOLLARS. Five dollars! For a tiny little mini-mix! But I remembered seeing make-your-own Easy-Bake recipes online so I looked to see if there was something similar for the cupcake maker, and found this post, where in the comment section she says you can use regular cake mix (at $1 for about 24 cupcakes, and I’ll bet you could freeze the batter in little portions for other days) and regular frosting.

 

High School Musical sing-along microphone, $8 down from $25. Hey, whatever, it’s YOUR house it’s going to be living in. There’s also a matching dance mat at $15 down from $50 (or down from $25-30, according to the other sellers—I hate when Amazon inflates the original price), so the child can step on his/her idols’ faces while he/she sings.

 

25th Anniversary Cabbage Patch Kid, $13 down from $30 (but I’ve seen them for less than $30 at Target, and you’d have a choice). Outfits are $5 down from $10 but it looks like it’s totally random what outfit you get. Wait, it’s been TWENTY-FIVE YEARS? Do you realize that your own Swistle was ALMOST TOO OLD for Cabbage Patch Kids, because she was in something like sixth grade when they came out? And NO, I do NOT want to hear that you were not yet BORN. SAVE IT.

 

My advanced age may be why I have never heard of these “DVD game” things. Here’s a Disney Princess DVD Game for $9 down from $28. It looks like it’s….like a computer game? but really simplified? and you “play it” on the television so you don’t have to hog Mommy’s computer? There’s also a Disney Pictionary one for $10 down from $30, a Hannah Montana one for $8 down from $26 (poor reviews on that one), a Deluxe Disney Scene It one for $14 down from $40, and a High School Musical one for $9 down from $30.

 

This is not such an amazing steal, but it’s what I would have wanted as a child so it grabbed my eye: the Melissa and Doug deluxe bead set (with alphabet letters) is $12 down from $15. There are several other sets in a similar price range: playful pals, happy hearts, gleeful garden.

 

Or, okay, here’s one of those things where you put a bunch of plastic thingies in a pattern and then weld them together: the Magic Beads Deluxe Playset is $9 down from $30.

 

Littlest Pet Shop pig toy, $7 down from $15. I don’t even know what this IS. But there’s also a big-eyed dog for the same price.

 

This Dressy Daisy doll looks like a sweetie, and the description says she’s easy to dress. She’s $7 down from $15, and there’s an African-American version for $6, but if you want the little blonde she’ll cost you $8 (she does have dark eyes, which is a plus: I’m always looking for non-blue-eyed blonde dolls for my brown-eyed blonde daughter). I’d get at least two dolls, so they could be friends and share clothes, because the outfits are t’expensive.