Did any of you have a Toni doll from the 1950’s? I copied this photo of an ad on the internet that shows the doll with setting lotion, a curler, and a comb. I had a doll like this, only mine had dark hair. I am amused now, because I disliked dolls. Not only that, my miserliness can be documented to the day I received this doll as a gift. I wouldn’t use the setting lotion because I wouldn’t spend money to get more. My mom read the label and said we could make our own lotion, because the listed ingredients were sugar and water!! Today I am appalled at that memory. From time to time we have infestations of ants in our kitchen. Can you imagine having a doll that might draw ants like a magnet??? I wouldn’t have taken a doll to bed, but some girls might have. Ugh! How totally disgusting!
Now for today’s story. I was gathering branches John had trimmed from the bushes near our back porch. It was tedious, since the branches were small and had been rained on. My head was so full of grumbles that I paid no attention to the hummingbird feeder. That is, I paid no attention until I began to straighten up right under the feeder. My head hit it, not once, but twice. Sugar water splashed onto my hair. You know what happened then, don’t you? I BECAME A LIVING TONI DOLL!
Aauuggghhhhh!
Mehrling Muse 
Okay, speaking of humor, you just made me truly laugh out loud. I did not see that one coming. Hopefully, no ants were nearby. I did not have a Toni doll, but I had my share of Toni perms, most of which I hated. 🙂
I do still have my Revlon doll.
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Your doll must have been precious for you to keep it. I am doll-free.
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Well, truthfully, she was at Mother’s house along with all the porcelain dolls my mother made. I now have her, and 3 porcelain dolls Mother made as they had to be re-homed when Mother went to assisted living. I am not really a doll person since I outgrew playing with them, but I cannot seem to dispose of these…yet. 🙂
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Keep them as long as you want!
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Who knew you could become even sweeter than you naturally are? lol Hope it didn’t hurt too much.
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I didn’t feel very sweet!! The only hurt was to my pride. My pride needed emptying, anyway.
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That was funny!! I don’t remember having a Toni doll put I knew about them. I had lots of Toni perms when I was little. I prefered Teddy bears over dolls. I still have three of them.
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That’s super that you kept three Teddy bears.
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Oh this is a good story. I vaguely remember the existence of Toni dolls, like I knew older girls who had played with them. As for ants, ICK! Don’t like them, sorry this happened to you. But I am laughing.
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Thanks for joining me in laughter. The incident is amusing to me now.
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I’m also laughing Anne! Glad you’re alive to tel; the tale ..
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I was rather antsy until I got in the shower to wash off the Toni doll setting lotion.
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I remember Toni’s both the dolls and the perms. I am amazed at the lengths (and pain) we went to to make our hair behave different. It’s one thing I like about now. People usually wear their hair the way it is. My granddaughters (age 15 going on 30) just let it dry naturally and it’s beautiful. I, on the other hand, used Dippity Doo goop and gigantic rollers with lots of hairspray.
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We have lots of hair freedom now. My hair dictates what it’s going to do, and I stay out of the way.
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That’s best. It frees up your time considerably. Can’t even imagine all the time wasted on “fixing hair.”
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Pin curls…or spit-curls…I once got ready to go to a formal dance in 20-minutes…starting with pin-curls in my hair. I don’t remember the Toni doll, but I sure remember perms. One of my least favorite, it was like torture to sit in a chair and get the perm, with all that dripping of foul-smelling liquid chemical stuff. Yuck.
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I was never fond of the smell in salons, but I’m lucky I had a permanent only once in my life.
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Oh…now Im see ants every where when thinking about the sugar water. Ants do give me fits every now and then…like the other day when I had made a cake, for the first time in along time,and by morning the little sugar ants had found it on the counter…Ugh
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What a shame you lost a cake to ants!
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Oh no. I was able to brush off the ants nd the cake was fine. It did take a while to rid the ants from the counter top.
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Marvelous! I would have brushed off the ants, too, but some in my family would be horrified.
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I hope you made it up to the poor Hummingbirds Anne. I can’t help but wonder if all the little bottles in the set were just filled with Sugar Water, and then the firm charges an arm and a leg for refills. I’m glad you didn’t dry rock solid before you could reach the shower.
Huge Hugs
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I prepared fresh sugar water for the hummingbirds, so my mishap was good for them.
Sweet Hugs
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That’s hilarious!!
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You would have just licked the sugar off. I was not so inclined.
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So true.
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I’m sorry but I’m chuckling a bit…
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Laugh away! I’m sure I looked as silly as could be.
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😉
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What a funny story Anne! I’m sure you decided to wash your hair quickly!
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I was not comfortable until shampoo was rinsed out of my hair.
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I do not remember Toni dolls, but remember the Toni perm, but later in life. My mom washed my hair on Saturday afternoons and put it into pincurls and she did use some type of setting lotion as my hair dried. So when the bobby pins came out, I was supposed to look pretty for Sunday School, but looked like I stuck my finger in a light socket most of the time. 🙂
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Hilarious! My mom used to wash my hair on Saturday night, too.
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I hated those pincurls – and she had a chiffon scarf she wrapped my head in so the bobby pins did not fall out while I was sleeping.
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I think my mom used curlers. Both bobby pins and curlers were painful.
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My last year of high school, a friend of the family, who was a hair stylist, wanted to give me a perm for my stick-straight long hair. She brought all the fixin’s to the house and I have no idea what she did, or how she made a living, but when the perm event was done, one side was frizzy and the other side didn’t “take” – I was very unhappy about it and until the perm grew out I had to have orange-juice size curlers to dry my hair (with a bonnet-style dryer in those days) and the other side, a mass of tiny sponge curlers.
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A hair nightmare!!
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OMG! Straight into the shower I imagine you flew! 😬😁
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