beanie baby's

[monkeyboy]

and people thought the housing market dropped


Was talking with someone who said years ago they "invested" hoping for a future in these stuffed lil guys.


I worry for us

 

[OK!]

Years and years ago, I bought a couple of the Garcia beanie babies because they were supposed to be worth more than others. I did end up selling one to a shop for something like $75 pretty soon thereafter, but I always kept the other one because I liked it (they were tie-dyed looking...very cute.)

 

[Axel]

People do the same with baseball cards, glass items, pretty much anything you can collect.

Had we sold my Beanie Babies back during the peak of the craze, I probably could have paid for a good part of a semester at school. However, it seems we've held onto them for too long now. Whatever, though.

 

[mrsxsparrow]

I bought as many as I could when they were popular because I thought I could sell them later and make some money! Of course, I was like seven

After seeing what they were going for online I gave up and just donated them to a children's hospital

 

[wdwiala]

Never collect something that is "collectable".

I have fed my beaning babies one after another to the dog. She likes to tear their eyeballs out.

 

[Rora]

DH and I had tubs and tubs filled with Beanie Babies as kids. I absolutely LOVED them. I don't think my parents (or I) ever expected them to be valuable later on (which was a good assumption! ). That being said, I do have the Princess Diana Beanie Baby.

They were so much fun to collect. I love that they had birthdays, their own names, etc. LOL- I'm still impressed, even as an adult.

 

[wdwmom0f3]

Never collect something that is "collectable".

I have fed my beaning babies one after another to the dog. She likes to tear their eyeballs out.

Love it!

I wish I had all of my money back from buying those stupid things. I learned my lesson though. I will never collect anything like that again.

 

[SandrA9810]

I have quite the collection of pokemon cards. I never did expect to sell it or really care how "valuable" they would be in 10 years. A couple years ago, I did give a fellow DISer quite a few of my cards to her daughter who's into it. They were all duplicates that I hung on to for no particular reason.

I wonder how much a first edition holographic charizard would go for now??

 

[overlyspoiled4sure]

I think the market's dropped for Barbie dolls also. As for beanie babies, well, I had to have a Princess Di beanie too; would be too embarrassed to say how much I paid. Thank goodness I don't remember....senior moment you know.

There was a member of a teddy bear club I used to belong to who sold a few of the first teddy bear beanies at just the right time. She made enough money for a trip to Alaska. As I recall, it was for a week & all expenses were covered. This was at least, oh goodness; I quit work almost 10 years ago so perhaps 20 years ago? 15 maybe. Not important I guess but I'll never forget her giggling while telling us this story.

Does anyone remember the frenzy when McDonalds first had teeny beanie babies included in their Happy Meals? The lines were out into the streets around here. Now you can't give those things away.

 

[mrsxsparrow]

Does anyone remember the frenzy when McDonalds first had teeny beanie babies included in their Happy Meals? The lines were out into the streets around here. Now you can't give those things away.

I was pretty young when they did this (I'm 22 now). When I took all of mine out to donate, I had a BUNCH of them still all nice in their bags. I really thought I'd make some money of them!

Also, all of mine had those little tag protectors. I was serious about my babies!

 

[PrincessKsMom]

and people thought the housing market dropped


Was talking with someone who said years ago they "invested" hoping for a future in these stuffed lil guys.


I worry for us

We obviously know each other IRL.

 

[Buckeye Princess]

My mom spent way too much on beanie babies. My sister and I really weren't that into them either. I remember her going to Mcdonld's like crazy when they were the happy meal toys. She purchased three complete sets each time they did the promo. One for my sister, one for me, and one for who knows what reason. She recently gave me several boxes of my old stuff. Included were the beanie babies all in the original packaging. I don't know what to do with them. They aren't worth anything, but after all that time and money she spent on them I feel bad just tossing them. Even opening the packaging feels wrong. I'll most likely eventually cave and tear into the bags and give them to DD 20 months to play with.

 

[npmommie]

and people thought the housing market dropped


Was talking with someone who said years ago they "invested" hoping for a future in these stuffed lil guys.


I worry for us

oh LOL, did you talk to my SIL??
seriously the woman has totes filled with beanie babies, with the tags, she thought she would be investing and making a fortune.
what she has is a load of boxes she has no idea of what to do with.

she tried to give them to my kids, I say NO WAY

 

[barkley]

Never collect something that is "collectable".

I have fed my beaning babies one after another to the dog. She likes to tear their eyeballs out.

never collect anything that despite how much it increases or decreases in value- you don't enjoy owning just by virtue of owning it. nothing is worth anything more than someone is willing to pay for it.



at the height of the beanie babie craze, i had staff that i supervised who made time off requests in order to be at mcdonalds the minute the new happy meals were released-in addition to the dollar amount they were paying for the meals, they were eating up their annual leave. they were aghast that i would let dd (then a toddler) actualy play with the beanies people gifted her with. i had one staff member who i suspect invested in beanie babies what could have been a down payment on a home (the craze was at it's height right before california's home market transitioned from a buyer's to a seller's market).

 

[barkley]

I have quite the collection of pokemon cards. I never did expect to sell it or really care how "valuable" they would be in 10 years. A couple years ago, I did give a fellow DISer quite a few of my cards to her daughter who's into it. They were all duplicates that I hung on to for no particular reason.

I wonder how much a first edition holographic charizard would go for now??

i don't know that there's much of a dollar value to pokemon cards these days, but they are worth their weight in gold to kids like my son who have become ardent fans due to reruns on cartoon network and you-tube, only to find that unless they luck out and find tattered odd cards at garage sales, the newer packs don't have the characters they've come to know and love.

 

[SandrA9810]

i don't know that there's much of a dollar value to pokemon cards these days, but they are worth their weight in gold to kids like my son who have become ardent fans due to reruns on cartoon network and you-tube, only to find that unless they luck out and find tattered odd cards at garage sales, the newer packs don't have the characters they've come to know and love.

I don't even know a fraction of the new pokemon that have come out since the original 151. I used to sporadically buy a pack of cards to try and complete my set, but now they're all the new trainer cards.

My first sets were Base, Jungle, Fossil. I later got a little into Base 2, and Team Rocket set. My Base set is just 2 or 3 cards away from being 100%. The other's have about a dozen cards missing.

But it is amazing how pokemon is still around. Magic the Gathering is another that has been around, and will be around for a long time. Although there's not much value to those cards.

I keep my collection for sentimental reasons. I don't think I could part with it. Including all 151 cards from BK and all 59 toys and pokeballs they released from the first set. I also created a master list of the code numbers they used for each pokemon (since the bags were solid, and each pokemon was inside the ball). My BK thought I was insane....

 

[barkley]

I don't even know a fraction of the new pokemon that have come out since the original 151. I used to sporadically buy a pack of cards to try and complete my set, but now they're all the new trainer cards.

My first sets were Base, Jungle, Fossil. I later got a little into Base 2, and Team Rocket set. My Base set is just 2 or 3 cards away from being 100%. The other's have about a dozen cards missing.

But it is amazing how pokemon is still around. Magic the Gathering is another that has been around, and will be around for a long time. Although there's not much value to those cards.

I keep my collection for sentimental reasons. I don't think I could part with it. Including all 151 cards from BK and all 59 toys and pokeballs they released from the first set. I also created a master list of the code numbers they used for each pokemon (since the bags were solid, and each pokemon was inside the ball). My BK thought I was insane....

i'll be holding on to ds's pokemon and yugioh stuff (if he ever bores of it). i remember how hard it was to find anything themed with it by the time he got interested (i literaly got the last bedding set an on-line company had sitting on the shelf, it had been discontinued several years earlier). for me it's like the tinker toys, lincoln logs and erector sets of my brother's childhood. it's something that i want to hold on to in the event he ever has kids-if nothing else to prove that 'dear old dad' actualy played with something other than video gamnes (and i'm saving those and the old gaming systems as well-ds got a huge kick out of seeing dh's 'ancient' pong gaming system, i can't imagine how much gaming will progress by the time any future grandkids might come along).

 

[Planogirl]

I collected Beanie Babies with DS and we had a blast. He was just a little boy and it was so much fun to try to grab the things when we heard that a store had some. I never paid over retail price for any though.

I read that the craze stopped mostly because Ty put an end to it. The owner was disturbed by the fights and frenzy going on so he quit making them for a while. The interest died out then and then Ty started quietly making them again. You see them in stores and it's funny how inexpensive they are now.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Oh yea! I have Beanies in totes and I still have several sets of the teenie beanies in a bag in my closet. I just can't part with those guys.

You have to admit it was super fun to get those teenie beanies.

I also have Pokemon cards. My dd's were into collecting the cards.

Now my nephews are into Pokemon.

NOW, I have a few Webkinz on my desk, but I am not going crazy. I learned through those beanies not to collect fads and stuffed animals.