Comments on: Pausing to remember…Beanie Babies

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:50:13 +0000

Being kind of oblivious to trends in pop culture I did not realize the cute stuffed frog I had bought for my baby to chew on while teething was an oh so collectible Beanie Baby. First thing I did when I bought it was cut off the tag (gasp) and then I gave it to my child to gnaw and drool on and washed every few days in with the rest of the laundry. My sister is more suburban and in touch with trends than I am and she almost fainted when she saw what I was letting me kid teethe on. Evidently the frog was one of the “Original Nine” Beanies and would be worth a gajillion dollars if I had left the tags on it. I still have that worn out, plush chewed off frog tucked away in a memento box.

My son and I continue this trend but taking toys out of boxes and playing with them.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:29:15 +0000

I still have all of mine…some of the tags included. It’s fun to go through them and remember how crazy we all were about them. They’re in storage above my garage now, I think.

Man, I wish they were still worth something, because I would totally sell them. Oh well!

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:41:35 +0000

Oh how I remember trying to talk my mother out of investing in Beanie Babies. It was near the end of the craze and interest had already started to wane. She called me with this brilliant idea because she had just stumbled upon this “new” investment idea.

Thankfully, she got distracted and didn’t invest her life savings, but every few months or so I hear about the latest “can’t fail” investment. I think the last thing she came up with was lighthouses and how EVERYONE was going to be into lighthouses soon. Ugh!

By: Kelly J

Kelly J — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:22:10 +0000

I also had the obsession with spending $$ at least once a week on Beanies. My dad built me a shelf along the long wall of my room to store them all. I don’t know where they are now… my family moved while I was in college and I haven’t seen then since. I assume they’re worth nothing these days?

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:52:57 +0000

omg my mother used to be in love with beanie babies! she thought we liked them, little did she know she had been the one addicted to them for so long. I mean we had every single one, when we auctioned them off she made quite a profit off of a little bag full of beans. Strange how society works sometimes

By: Em

Em — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:30:34 +0000

my aunt had every single beanie bear- even the Princess Diana bear. she actually had two Diana bears- she found out that the first one was a fake, and tracked a real one down on ebay. it cost hundreds of dollars.
i used to live with this aunt- and the beanies were lined up on every tier to our book shelves. she must have dumped thousands of dollars on those things- and they serve no purpose what so ever.

god, people are weird.

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:14:44 +0000

Joe P, I was there for David Wells’ perfect game too! My mom put that beanie baby in a case along with the ticket stub right away… Couldn’t tell ya now, but at one point that thing was worth almost a thousand dollars!

By: Pointy-Hatted Geek

Pointy-Hatted Geek — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:45:24 +0000

Hey, BBN, have you by any chance ever met Jessie? Just wondering.

By: anon.

anon. — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:09:55 +0000

Being an only child with few friends, I would line mine up and have meetings. It wasn’t school, just meetings. My damn secretary whatever animal it was did a terrible job.

I was a strange sad kid.

By: Joe P

Joe P — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:10:16 +0000

I was at Yankee Stadium on a Beenie Baby givaway day with my son in ‘98. Forget the stupid toy, we saw David Wells pitch a perfect game!

Funny how a stuffed doll is now associated with history.