Whose retirement account is this?

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ThemanfromNumenor@reddit

I (and everyone I knew) thought that beanie babies were ridiculous and only collected by morons. No idea how actual adults got conned into these dumb things

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three-sense@reddit

Just another one of the things labeled “collectible” in the 90s which creates the inverse effect of intrinsic value.

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ThemanfromNumenor@reddit

Yeah - baseball cards in the late 80s to mid 90s was the one I fell for. Worthless.

But, thankfully, also cheap.

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mnfimo@reddit

Okay but baseball cards were fun and involved a sport and tied into how the player did to some extent. Beanie babies were just random stuffed animals

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ThemanfromNumenor@reddit

For sure- which is why I collected baseball cards (and football cards!) and why I always thought Beanie Babies were dumb

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staring_at_keyboard@reddit

My Topps Nolan Ryan silver signature is going to be worth something someday!

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three-sense@reddit

Same… worthless paper. About ten years ago I chucked a box of 3-4k “commons” in a goodwill donation bin. There’s a high likelihood they just tossed them out.

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ThemanfromNumenor@reddit

Yeah…I tried to donate a bunch once, and they didn’t even want them, lol.

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RealityOk9823@reddit

I love the folks that tried to cash in at the end of the craze. "I just ordered a bunch of those beanie baby things for cheap!" ...yeah bud, good luck with that.

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ThemanfromNumenor@reddit

lol, I mean, seriously- they are just stuffed animals. Hard to understand how it was ever possible!

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blackhorse15A@reddit

"It can only rise in value"

If you think about it, this is another way of saying "it is worthless". It's the only way it can't fall in value.

Granted- that was more often said about collectible plates. Beanie Babies at least had some intrinsic value as a stuffed toy for a child.

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ThemanfromNumenor@reddit

Haha- true enough. All those mass produced “collectibles” were such a scam.

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I don't understand the "collector" mentality/habit, especially the amount of money people are willing to pay for silly things like printing errors, like the tag with this beanie baby or with coins that are missing certain identifying marks. To each their own, though.

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TheJustBleedGod@reddit

today's Pokémon cards

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MotherofaPickle@reddit

People are lucky enough to own a mint beanie baby?

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DoctorFenix@reddit

When NFT’s came along I started calling them Digital Beanie Babies.

And I was right.

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lostcosmonaut307@reddit

Now it’s Labubus.

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DoctorFenix@reddit

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three-sense@reddit

But… can you throw NFTs at your siblings during breakfast?

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brakeb@reddit

Except people still like beanie babies

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DoctorFenix@reddit

No one likes beanie babies. They are STUCK with Beanie Babies.

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Ineedavodka2019@reddit

My kids got many for free at garage sales when they were young.

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brakeb@reddit

Some folks stuck with NFTs too...

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lastminutealways@reddit

My mom’s.

She still has them, she uses some to decorate her Christmas tree. It’s kinda cute.

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Conscious_Home_4253@reddit

I’m concerned they won’t get its true value. The heart tag needs a plastic heart protector. Amateur.

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coogden@reddit

In 1995/1996 my father came back from a business trip to china with a literal trad bag full of ‘rare’ counterfeit beanie babies . My then 14 y/ o brother managed to sell them online for a small sum with an understanding all profits would go towards a stock investment of some sort .

The family was torn between putting all the illicit beanie baby money into Amazon or palm pilot stock . We chose palm pilot my dear reader . Easy come, easy go.

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photogypsy@reddit

If you’d dumped the Palm Pilot stock at the right time it would have been lucrative.

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SoilPleasant4368@reddit

I'll give you tree fiddly?

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LaszloPanaflexxx@reddit

How much was the Mer-Man?

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PorgCT@reddit

I tried selling a couple my family had on eBay; I had no bidders

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Scrounger888@reddit

I have a few of them, but it was because I thought those particular ones were cute. I never understood why people thought they would become valuable? They were cute little beanie toys, like many other stuffed toys before and since.

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ihatecatboys@reddit

My mom was friends with our local florist shop owner, which was the only place in town that ordered in and carried Beanie Babies. The show owner would hold one back of each that came in weekly for my mom, she developed quite a collection, and sadly we never sold them when we should have.

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stavago@reddit

I’m so glad that I was too old for this