China Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 And you thought your investments had tanked: Studies in Crap rages against The Beanie Baby Handbook By Alan Scherstuhl in Studies in Crap Thursday, May. 14 2009 Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The Beanie Baby Handbook Author: Les & Sue Fox Publisher: Scholastic Date: 1998 Discovered at: Maj-R Thrift, W. 47th Street The Cover Promises: Your toys are commodities. Representative Quotes: "Basically, if you can afford to do this, simply putting away five or ten of each and every new Beanie Baby in super mint condition isn't a bad idea." (page 27). "As seasoned McDonald's collectors, we had little doubt that $2 would be less than the future value of any Teenie Beanie. Unfortunately, we were only able to accumulate 500 or so Beanies during the mad rush." (page 190) A heartless, mercenary endeavor that strips whatever innocence remains in childish hording, Les & Sue Fox's The Beanie Baby Handbook teaches kids that fun, imagination, and all of the other qualities we love in toys get in the way of profitability. Instead, the Foxes encourage kids to become stuffed-animal speculators. The Foxes dedicate a page of their handbook to each of the Ty Beanie Babies the children of America believed might pay for college. They chart each Beanie's cost at issue date, its worth in 1998 and then forecast how much it might be worth ten years out -- provided you don't hug or play with it, or anything stupid like that. This typical entry also shows how Beanies get made! Stripes currently fetches $.99 on eBay -- just one one-thousandth of the Foxes' estimate. The Foxes took all their own photos and wrote heaps of cutesy filler text. The last line reads "NOTE: Otters can break open nuts on their chests." Remember that the next time someone asks you "What do otters have in common with sorority girls?" (Current eBay price of a mint-condition Seaweed, with tags: $.99.) Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattFancy Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 those thing faded in a hurry! my mom has a bunch in our basement at home and they are pretty much worthless now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinz4Life12 Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 i remember those things... why were they so popular again? and weren't they really hard to find at one time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forehead Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 i remember those things...why were they so popular again? Who knows, why the hell did people keep pet rocks in the 80's? Actually, I want one of the children of the 80's on the board to explain themselves for that one. How did people allow "taking care of a rock" to be a fad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted May 14, 2009 Author Share Posted May 14, 2009 Who knows, why the hell did people keep pet rocks in the 80's? Actually, I want one of the children of the 80's on the board to explain themselves for that one. How did people allow "taking care of a rock" to be a fad? Pet rocks were a fad of the '70s, not '80s. I blame drugs. Enough mescaline and those rocks appear alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurntToast Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 I remember when my best friend spent a ton of money on POGS telling me he'll be rich in 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morneblade Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Pet rocks were a fad of the '70s, not '80s. I blame drugs. Enough mescaline and those rocks appear alive. Exactly. Cabbage Patch Kids were the 80's. As to why, I have no earthly idea. Maybe it was all the Crack and 'ludes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skins PR Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 My God!!! What are those two tigers doing in that picture?!?!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reic Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 my sister and I collected hundred of these things. They are still cool to have, but jesus, we could have made bank if we sold them in their prime, because we have a ton of mint condition rare or retired beanies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted May 14, 2009 Author Share Posted May 14, 2009 My God!!! What are those two tigers doing in that picture?!?!?!? Tiger-style? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enter Apotheosis Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 my sister and I collected hundred of these things.They are still cool to have, but jesus, we could have made bank if we sold them in their prime, because we have a ton of mint condition rare or retired beanies. I actually had a collection myself (accrued from having a mother who enjoyed the thrill of the beanie hunt) that I was actively looking to sell right before that whole phenomenon came to an end. I wasn't able to get my parents to list them on eBay and ended up missing out on about $3500 of sheer profit at the age of 12. :mad: Not sure what happened to the damn things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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