(Possibly demented) Children of the Thrift Store Shelves

You'd like to think all representations of children fabricated, whether in ceramic figurine or plastic mold form, were created to be sweet or wistful...but no. I often come across some pretty strange children on the thrift store shelves.

But they are certainly not all demented or otherwise freaky looking.

These two, for example, are very cute, even though it appears there may be a bird building a nest on her head for some reason...so a little weird, but not creepy really.

And this little angelic girl. She just wants to play with her blue kittens, and why not? I think we all would like to play with blue kittens

But then here we have an early representation of a Twerking Hobo boy, not sure what to make of him.

And these two...is she surreptitiously about to pick her nose? Is he stealing apples in his hat?

Do I really need to say anything about these two? I'll just call them the empty-stare, mouth-breathing twins.

I think this might be their nanny.

Can I just ask, why was this guy ever created? Creepiest nick knack ever.

And these two weirdos...oh, wait, they're mine!

Happy thrifting, my friends!