These ugly little kids were super popular back in the day. We guess in some ways they're kind of cute, but it was still a bit of an odd concept (babies being born in cabbage patch gardens). The whole idea was that you didn't buy a Cabbage Patch Kid, you adopted it. For an adoption fee, off course. Since their beginning in 1978, numerous special edition dolls have been released, including twins, and even a set of quintuplets. Not surprisingly, they're worth a fortune today.
If you have a 1985 James Dudley ($3,000), a doll from the Mark Twain Collection ($900), Irish Fraternal Twins ($800), or just any original Cabbage Patch Doll in its box, you could rake in a bunch of money for it. We're now regretting throwing ours away when we thought we'd outgrown them.