I hear you, Terrance. LOL Ours was a single mom, so she had dbloue duty   she wasn't able to just hand off the disciplinary duties and go for a glass of wine. I think that's part of the reason my siblings and I are so nice to her nowadays. :pKelly, you just reminded me of a third trick my brother and I used to flesh out our modest collections: Transformers. When we ran out of Lego men, we populated our floor cities with Transformers. Once or twice we staged an invasion using Pound Puppies. It was glorious. As for hair, I think hindsight glosses over a lot of the actual details regarding logistics, manageability, etc. It's easy to  remember  my hair having perfect hold throughout my teen years, even though that most certainly wasn't the case. LOL