The most desired Christmas gift when I was 11 was a Caboodle. Part tackle box, part makeup carry-all, I was desperate to get one. This is the exact model that I had. I used it every day for like four years and it held all my treasures - LipSmackers, Wet and Wild mascara, Love's Baby Soft "perfume", a variety of scrunchies and plastic slides we stuck one corner of our t-shirts into. It was a box of girliness. As a kid I was always really heavy and I think I loved the Caboodle because makeup fit everyone and it didn't make me feel overweight or different. It depicts middle class, aspirational girlhood and I drug it to every slumber party I attended.
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