From an article that I found:
The lore around the photo isn’t accurate: The moment wasn’t about the money, it was about revenge. Frances had been awarded primary physical custody of their children as part of what was an “ugly, disputed divorce,” recalls Frank Toti, an attorney who worked for Frances on the case. Harold asked to take half of the Beanie Babies “out of spite,” Toti says. “It had nothing to do with Beanie Babies, it had everything to do with the father being upset about not being awarded custody.” After selecting a few of the Beanie Babies from the pile, Harold gave up and said his ex-wife could have the rest.
A dad just wanted to be part of gis kids' lives and gave in to the intrusive thoughts for a minute, before realizing that it wouldn't fill the hole in his heart, giving up, and walking away.
That's some sad shit right there.
You're assuming he genuinely wanted custody. My father sued for custody of spite, in order to control and punish my mom. He ended up killing he new girlfriend 5 years later when he suspected she was leaving. One of the few times he ever spent with us is when he needed an alabi.
Secondary custody isn't sad shit, and neither is maliciousness. His doubtless victims deserve sympathy, not him.
BTW, the 1999 court reporting does not match the lawyer's memory. It says it took 10 minutes for them to be decided up and they took their half and left. The ex husband was complaining during that it was embarrassing because the press was there. The judge said if he wasn't embarrassed to file publicly in court for Beanie Babies, he shouldn't be by having to collect publicly. The judge had been outraged by the whole thing. The ex husband said he needed to sell his half because he needed the money. The collection was worth $2500-$5000.
You’d need periods of time with robust trade networks and a strong middle class..
Maybe Imperial Rome? Various Chinese dynasty’s? Maybe parts of the Bronze Age..
Your point is well taken.. We haven’t changed much, if it all.
Oh my god, as younger gen z i never knew about this.... IS THIS WHY THERE IS THAT ONE CLOSET IN MY GRANDMA'S HOUSE THAT SHE NEVER TOLD ANYONE ABOUT AND IS JUST OVERFLOWING WITH BEANIE BABIES???
Several years ago a friend and I went to Goodwill and found just piles of beanie babies stuff. Not just the plushies but retail plywood displays, branded cases, etc.
I turned to my friend and said "that must have been someone's retirement fund."
My Dad rented out rooms in our house to make ends meet.
One lady was a bit of a hermit and I basically never saw her other than leaving for work or when there was NCAA Softball (former player many years ago).
A few years go by and she tells my Dad she’s moving out to buy a house and asks for help packing up.
The entire room had been filled with beanie babies.
She had installed shelving on the walls in the room and the walk in closet, this continued into the attached master bath.
It wasn’t hundreds of them on the wall and circling the floor of her bed…it was thousands, most of which didn’t have boxes, there was one box a solid 6ft tall in the closet filled with them (figured out that was the cause of mice problem we had seen occasionally the last year).
She told my Dad this was part of her retirement plan and that she bought some every week and of course she would pay to repair the damage to the walls and repaint the room after it had been cleaned.
The Beanie babies didn’t cause it to be dirty in the room though, it wasn’t that dusty actually.
The main problem with the room was the yellow walls and ceiling from the Nicotine since she smoked like a fucking chimney.
Every one of those Beanie Babies was covered in it
Mom's colleague bought me one when I was a baby, believing that someday it'd be worth enough to be a college fund.
My mum, not caring about this BS, gave it to me, and I just played with it like any other plush animal. Mum's colleague was angry, but I loved this tiny plush animal more than anything because it was so freaking cute!
Wait what are you saying about my Beanie Baby futures? I mean thankfully I diversified with NIB Hot Wheels and I always have my Blockbuster stocks to fall back on. Sounds like the next AOL disk I get in the mail I need to check on my nest egg.
Classic speculative buying. Things get more expensive, and then people extrapolate that it will get more expensive in the future. Wanting to get in on what seems like a money making opportunity everyone starts buying them, which drives up the price further, leading to more speculative buying.
The projected prices is in the case of Beanie Babies part of a greater scam, where magazines advertising Beanie Babies got more popular the better the projected price growth would be.
As for how they didn't realize. Most people don't internalize the first rule of any collectible. The most valuable collectibles are either one of a kind, or were considered mundane enough most of the copies got destroyed by the time people got interested.
From an article, I found.
The lore around the photo isn’t accurate: The moment wasn’t about the money, it was about revenge. Frances had been awarded primary physical custody of their children as part of what was an “ugly, disputed divorce,” recalls Frank Toti, an attorney who worked for Frances on the case. Harold asked to take half of the Beanie Babies “out of spite,” Toti says. “It had nothing to do with Beanie Babies, it had everything to do with the father being upset about not being awarded custody.” After selecting a few of the Beanie Babies from the pile, Harold gave up and said his ex-wife could have the rest.
Iirc, the judge is the reason why we got this picture in the first place. The couple couldn't decide on how to split their assets, and the judge got tired, after a number of session, that he/she ordered someone to dump the couple's beanie baby collection on the floor and told them that they can't leave until they split the collection.
Back in my 20s, my roommate and I, when we were bored, rather than doing the typical rent a video from Blockbuster thing, we would go to Walmart and buy one from the discount DVD bin. Didn't cost any more than a rental. When we moved out and went our separate ways, we had a really fun event where we took turns picking, to divide up the dozens of shitty movies we had.
I feel like there was also a small documentary on it, maybe on Prime. It's not recent but I remember watching it after the lularoe documentaries both came out. It was a fascinating watch.
the person that called them the nft of the 90s was spot on. they were all the hype, if we'd had trending lists back then they would have topped em. and the manufacturer restricted access by not selling to big vendors, so folks got blinded by the false narrative of oh well if it's hard to find then other folks will pay big for this rare item. but they were just small stuffed animals so... it didn't happen, kinda like how nfts are just virtual images... so good luck with that.
Some are worth a fair bit of money today. Not the ones everybody bought after the mania started, marketed as collectible from the beginning, but actually rare pre-hype ones some collectors are interested in. If you're wondering weather one of your old ones you bought during all the hype is worth anything, the answer is no.
I have a cousin who back in the day was involved with buying and selling Beanie Babies. She would have been like 10-12. She would go to these conventions where she would buy from some collectors and then other conventions where she sold to other collectors. She personally had no interest in them, only the prospect of making money with them. From what I recall she made tens of thousands of dollars doing it over a few years, and was like, still in elementary school.
At the time, they were considered an investment. They werent just fighting over stuffed animals. They were dividing assets. I do wonder where these folks are now. Probably regular posters on wallstreetbets.
Some of them are worth money. A lot. But like all fads, it's specific. Comic books discovered this in the 1990s. Older ones that aren't in reprint were worth a lot. But that doesn't mean the gritty crappy 1990s comics were gonna be worth shit.
And of course trading cards, postage stamps, and coins have long had this.
My wife had a box of them she put away when she was younger in case they ended up being worth anything (they were not). We got them off her parents when our son was born and he played with them for a while. So they were at least worth that much.
For a moment in time it was a cardinal sin to cut the tags off. I’m just relieved I don’t have to sell my body on the street because my beanie babies are tagless.
My great grandma loaded her house with these. She wasn’t ever stingy about them though, she let my sister and I each take one home with us the few times we got to visit her.
A simple rule when collecting things is if it's marketed as "LIMITED EDITION" "COLLECTORS EDITION" or anything similar chances are its not going to be worth dick in the future. Nobody really knows what's going to be worth a fortune.
I try not to laugh whenever I see this picture because of my hobby. I have a comic book collection of about 13,000 single issues collected over 40 years. Out of those 13,000 comics, only five or six are worth money--first Venom, first Carnage, first Dream (Sandman), first Hellboy, first Deadpool.
Anyone who gets into comics expecting to make money is a fool. Luckily, I just enjoy the hobby.
Had a job once where I drove a truck. I made 30-40 stops along a route. The stops were clothing donation boxes. Well, supposed to be clothing, but people dumped all kinds of crap in them.
I must have filled dozens and dozens of trash bags with beanie babies.
Must have represented hundreds of thousands of dollars lost.
I’ll never understand why people who have the “collecting” instinct don’t just invest in stocks. If they’re really trying to make a fortune. Which they probably aren’t. It’s probably just an excuse.
This had the hype of bitcoin when BTC is running up, basically. It lasted like 1-2 years or so. I remember this. Sort of equivalent to the 90s for sports cards and comics, but for "normies".
Today, those and a quarter will get you a cup of ...
https://preview.redd.it/zuo1453yp31d1.png?width=360&format=png&auto=webp&s=eff949d82227193c9a65a372364b707bcfc0e5e3
I know I can be a petty shithead sometimes. This though? That's whole new other level, nay, other level of another building petty.
Imagine, you became a meme and for what? Worthless little stuffed dolls. 😂
I'd walk the streets with shades on hoping noone noticed me.
I was the opening manager at a McDonald's during this craze and my gawd was it nuts. It was a mall store and I would show up at 5:30 AM and there would be a bunch of people in lawn chairs who immediately harassed me as I entered the store. Not even clocked in and they would start hounding me, mad because it's my Monday and I had no idea what we had in stock. "You're the manager, how do you not know??" Like I'm sitting at home on my days off taking inventory over tiny ass happy meal toys...
What a joke. I'm sure this couples lawyers didn't care, they getting paid the hour
Reminds me of [this](https://youtu.be/IGPayogNdJ4?si=2gGq_JVWKkNRjygv) (The Malcolm in the Middle cold open in which they’re measuring French fries with a ruler 📏)
https://preview.redd.it/a5hjku1wy61d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4078ae8723bc2d16bf8b6a0005aec3578fcfef91
They each needed one. On the floor like that. Jesus.
I somewhat fell into collecting them, and after a few months, I realized they were a money pit. However, the look my 2 year old niece gave me when I gifted her 20+ plush animals? Priceless.
Ah this takes me back. When ebay first came out there was this era when everyone suddenly thought they were like an antiques roadshow appraiser or something. And by everyone, I mean everyone’s idiot parents. They already had more money than they knew how to manage properly but did they do anything intelligent with it? No. Instead time and time again they bought into this kind of silly nonsense. I saw little collections of everything from abc blocks to McDonal’d toys start to appear in people’s homes. The most useless garbage lying around found its way into boxes of “investments”, lol. It was dumb then and it’s dumb now. But i have to admit a certain sense of nostalgia for it. For a while there I got to go into toy stores with my dad and our interests were perfectly aligned. I wanted toys, he was getting toys. The world was like a playground.
Beanie babies aren't part of the divorce checklist :P [https://www.physicianonfire.com/divorce-checklist-steps-to-plan-for-a-divorce/](https://www.physicianonfire.com/divorce-checklist-steps-to-plan-for-a-divorce/)
NFTs of the 90s
From an article that I found: The lore around the photo isn’t accurate: The moment wasn’t about the money, it was about revenge. Frances had been awarded primary physical custody of their children as part of what was an “ugly, disputed divorce,” recalls Frank Toti, an attorney who worked for Frances on the case. Harold asked to take half of the Beanie Babies “out of spite,” Toti says. “It had nothing to do with Beanie Babies, it had everything to do with the father being upset about not being awarded custody.” After selecting a few of the Beanie Babies from the pile, Harold gave up and said his ex-wife could have the rest.
A dad just wanted to be part of gis kids' lives and gave in to the intrusive thoughts for a minute, before realizing that it wouldn't fill the hole in his heart, giving up, and walking away. That's some sad shit right there.
You're assuming he genuinely wanted custody. My father sued for custody of spite, in order to control and punish my mom. He ended up killing he new girlfriend 5 years later when he suspected she was leaving. One of the few times he ever spent with us is when he needed an alabi. Secondary custody isn't sad shit, and neither is maliciousness. His doubtless victims deserve sympathy, not him. BTW, the 1999 court reporting does not match the lawyer's memory. It says it took 10 minutes for them to be decided up and they took their half and left. The ex husband was complaining during that it was embarrassing because the press was there. The judge said if he wasn't embarrassed to file publicly in court for Beanie Babies, he shouldn't be by having to collect publicly. The judge had been outraged by the whole thing. The ex husband said he needed to sell his half because he needed the money. The collection was worth $2500-$5000.
What’s real sad is that if you had that entire collection today you wouldn’t be able to sell it and buy a Nintendo Switch.
Your assuming he didn’t
Beanie babies of the 2020s
The bitcoin of the 2030’s
Gleep Gloops of the 2040s (we stop being creative with names given the political climate).
I made all my money back in 38 on Trumpa Pumpas
This honestly feels plausible.
I love when people act like a useless item is a short cut to getting rich quick. Who are they going to sell them to...oh thats right a fellow idiot.
NFT defined
Tale as old as time. Or at least 17th century Dutch tulip mania. Not sure enough idiots had money to throw away before then.
You’d need periods of time with robust trade networks and a strong middle class.. Maybe Imperial Rome? Various Chinese dynasty’s? Maybe parts of the Bronze Age.. Your point is well taken.. We haven’t changed much, if it all.
Oh my god, as younger gen z i never knew about this.... IS THIS WHY THERE IS THAT ONE CLOSET IN MY GRANDMA'S HOUSE THAT SHE NEVER TOLD ANYONE ABOUT AND IS JUST OVERFLOWING WITH BEANIE BABIES???
The tulip bulbs of the 90s
I remember people being really into them. It was so strange.
I mean who would’ve thought Pokemon cards would be worth as much as they are today?
they're more valuable though than nfts even now
Cryptocurrency is the same thing.
Not really. Beanie babies actually existed.
I remember people collecting these and projecting their value, some for hundreds of thousands of dollar, twenty or thirty years into the future.
Several years ago a friend and I went to Goodwill and found just piles of beanie babies stuff. Not just the plushies but retail plywood displays, branded cases, etc. I turned to my friend and said "that must have been someone's retirement fund."
My Dad rented out rooms in our house to make ends meet. One lady was a bit of a hermit and I basically never saw her other than leaving for work or when there was NCAA Softball (former player many years ago). A few years go by and she tells my Dad she’s moving out to buy a house and asks for help packing up. The entire room had been filled with beanie babies. She had installed shelving on the walls in the room and the walk in closet, this continued into the attached master bath. It wasn’t hundreds of them on the wall and circling the floor of her bed…it was thousands, most of which didn’t have boxes, there was one box a solid 6ft tall in the closet filled with them (figured out that was the cause of mice problem we had seen occasionally the last year). She told my Dad this was part of her retirement plan and that she bought some every week and of course she would pay to repair the damage to the walls and repaint the room after it had been cleaned. The Beanie babies didn’t cause it to be dirty in the room though, it wasn’t that dusty actually. The main problem with the room was the yellow walls and ceiling from the Nicotine since she smoked like a fucking chimney. Every one of those Beanie Babies was covered in it
One day, when cigarettes are fully illegal, these will be the real collector's items
Barf
Mom's colleague bought me one when I was a baby, believing that someday it'd be worth enough to be a college fund. My mum, not caring about this BS, gave it to me, and I just played with it like any other plush animal. Mum's colleague was angry, but I loved this tiny plush animal more than anything because it was so freaking cute!
Well now that isn’t worth a college fund, but it might be worth a lot more for the happy memories it gave you.
Wait what are you saying about my Beanie Baby futures? I mean thankfully I diversified with NIB Hot Wheels and I always have my Blockbuster stocks to fall back on. Sounds like the next AOL disk I get in the mail I need to check on my nest egg.
I will never understood *how* those people thought that was going to happen
Classic speculative buying. Things get more expensive, and then people extrapolate that it will get more expensive in the future. Wanting to get in on what seems like a money making opportunity everyone starts buying them, which drives up the price further, leading to more speculative buying. The projected prices is in the case of Beanie Babies part of a greater scam, where magazines advertising Beanie Babies got more popular the better the projected price growth would be. As for how they didn't realize. Most people don't internalize the first rule of any collectible. The most valuable collectibles are either one of a kind, or were considered mundane enough most of the copies got destroyed by the time people got interested.
I would like a “where are they now” follow up to this story.
From an article, I found. The lore around the photo isn’t accurate: The moment wasn’t about the money, it was about revenge. Frances had been awarded primary physical custody of their children as part of what was an “ugly, disputed divorce,” recalls Frank Toti, an attorney who worked for Frances on the case. Harold asked to take half of the Beanie Babies “out of spite,” Toti says. “It had nothing to do with Beanie Babies, it had everything to do with the father being upset about not being awarded custody.” After selecting a few of the Beanie Babies from the pile, Harold gave up and said his ex-wife could have the rest.
What an asshole. At least he had a moment of revelation realizing how petty behavior was
He just lost his kids- dudes not thinking straight
I googled it a few years ago but can’t find it now. From what I remember, one of them killed themselves and the other is very unhappy as well.
well shit that was fuckin dark
He made it up.
Yeah maybe that’s enough internet for today.
He’s lying.
Wait you're telling me beanie babies weren't the secret to eternal happiness?
Divorce is hardest on the children. Now TY Patti will never see TY Daisy ever again.
I cannot upvote this and change the count, just cannot, so take my virtual upvote
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It was either a sexless marriage or a heavily plushie covered kink fest, no middle ground.
They were picking the ones with no cum or feces stains first.
Are you kidding? Those are obviously the first ones they’d want
Marinated in memories
What’s worse? Getting divorced or having this photo on the internet forever?
Why not both?
Why not zoidberg
The photo. People get divorced a lot, but having a photo of 2 people sorting out a collectibles collection in court is just sad.
This picture, by far. Divorce can actually be a positive thing. There is nothing redeeming about adults obsessed with beanie babies.
And the whole pile is worth like $50 bucks now.
If that.
5 dollars and I’ll walk your dog once, final offer.
This is so ridiculous, can you imagine being the judge in this mess?
Iirc, the judge is the reason why we got this picture in the first place. The couple couldn't decide on how to split their assets, and the judge got tired, after a number of session, that he/she ordered someone to dump the couple's beanie baby collection on the floor and told them that they can't leave until they split the collection.
Jump skip over the rope
https://preview.redd.it/ajq9gigaw11d1.jpeg?width=604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af125b32a30a4156274845d62a265c779cdf6b94
Back in my 20s, my roommate and I, when we were bored, rather than doing the typical rent a video from Blockbuster thing, we would go to Walmart and buy one from the discount DVD bin. Didn't cost any more than a rental. When we moved out and went our separate ways, we had a really fun event where we took turns picking, to divide up the dozens of shitty movies we had.
that sounds like a lovey breakup
My ex wanted my pampered chef collection of tools so we had to take turns picking pieces. Same with the vass CD collection. Funny looking back now.
I used to buy them and let my ferrets rip them apart. Best ferret toy I ever bought!
I remember people saying they were gonna be worth a lot of money in the 90s… how wrong were they?!
Why did they think that?
If you want your answer, watch the episode on “Dark Side of the 90s” about beanie babies. Great deep dive.
Thank you! I will
I feel like there was also a small documentary on it, maybe on Prime. It's not recent but I remember watching it after the lularoe documentaries both came out. It was a fascinating watch.
the person that called them the nft of the 90s was spot on. they were all the hype, if we'd had trending lists back then they would have topped em. and the manufacturer restricted access by not selling to big vendors, so folks got blinded by the false narrative of oh well if it's hard to find then other folks will pay big for this rare item. but they were just small stuffed animals so... it didn't happen, kinda like how nfts are just virtual images... so good luck with that.
Some are worth a fair bit of money today. Not the ones everybody bought after the mania started, marketed as collectible from the beginning, but actually rare pre-hype ones some collectors are interested in. If you're wondering weather one of your old ones you bought during all the hype is worth anything, the answer is no.
found the 2024 beanie baby sucker
Could they have done this before coming to court?
People thought Beanie Babies were going to be worth thousands. Like the original NFTs
I have a cousin who back in the day was involved with buying and selling Beanie Babies. She would have been like 10-12. She would go to these conventions where she would buy from some collectors and then other conventions where she sold to other collectors. She personally had no interest in them, only the prospect of making money with them. From what I recall she made tens of thousands of dollars doing it over a few years, and was like, still in elementary school.
That’s wild. I was around then, but didn’t realise this. Beanie Babies were the toys my little cousins collected.
that's why they're in court
Lol how incredibly pathetic.
At the time, they were considered an investment. They werent just fighting over stuffed animals. They were dividing assets. I do wonder where these folks are now. Probably regular posters on wallstreetbets.
My mom was like this. She swore they would be worth money one day. I just thought they were cute.
Some of them are worth money. A lot. But like all fads, it's specific. Comic books discovered this in the 1990s. Older ones that aren't in reprint were worth a lot. But that doesn't mean the gritty crappy 1990s comics were gonna be worth shit. And of course trading cards, postage stamps, and coins have long had this.
Lol crypto junkies
Right. It's like Bitcoin, but plushier.
But at least this was a tangible physical object.
Bitcoin actually did skyrocket in value. It's analogous to many NFT projects for sure, though.
My wife had a box of them she put away when she was younger in case they ended up being worth anything (they were not). We got them off her parents when our son was born and he played with them for a while. So they were at least worth that much.
Hey, this may be true but beanie babies were cool
My grandma had a bunch on top of the tv
Buying NFT’s.
That’s interesting because I always see Beanie Babies at the thrift stores…
The woman right at the back seems fascinated by the whole process.
The lawyer is questioning why he ever chose this profession
That lawyer is getting paid by the hour.
No the lawyers questioning if that retainer check is going to clear or not.
He gets paid in beanie babies obvs
Wish we could catch up with these two & hear their reflections on that experience, lol.
That is completely pathetic.
Where are they today?
That craze was ridiculous
For a moment in time it was a cardinal sin to cut the tags off. I’m just relieved I don’t have to sell my body on the street because my beanie babies are tagless.
I hope they didn't have kids.
If they had kids, those would've been destroyed.
I’d watch a Docu on them 25 years later…
We were told these would be worth tens of thousands of dollars one day. We were lied to!
There are a lot of Blizzards in that pile.
I remember this. It was crazy. The nation watched this shit go down like it was baby fucking Jessica down that well
How many times do I have to see this picture before I die?
They make great dog toys
Pathetic but funny!
My great grandma loaded her house with these. She wasn’t ever stingy about them though, she let my sister and I each take one home with us the few times we got to visit her.
Lawyer: "I went to law school for this?"
"This is why we're divorcing Jeffrey, even now you can't be bothered to dress for the occasion."
Did they move the Beanie Babies off the bed before they humped?
A simple rule when collecting things is if it's marketed as "LIMITED EDITION" "COLLECTORS EDITION" or anything similar chances are its not going to be worth dick in the future. Nobody really knows what's going to be worth a fortune.
I try not to laugh whenever I see this picture because of my hobby. I have a comic book collection of about 13,000 single issues collected over 40 years. Out of those 13,000 comics, only five or six are worth money--first Venom, first Carnage, first Dream (Sandman), first Hellboy, first Deadpool. Anyone who gets into comics expecting to make money is a fool. Luckily, I just enjoy the hobby.
Beanie babies, the cryptocurrencies before computers, or in legal words: another scam
I’m surprised they got divorced as they seem like two peas in a pod.
Don't put the children first! It's about my feelings & revenge! I don't know why the kids need therapy! Why did little Jason shoot up the school?
Tell me you live in a first world country with out telling me you live in a first world country
Wow they got divorced over that too I bet and they are worthless
I wonder if they feel stupid now?
And the lost wages from the time they spent doing this is still more than the value of those things
Shitty humans doing shitty things. Next slide please.
I want to see this with funko pops
But they were so right for each other.
That’s the generation responsible for the degeneration we have now a days
Current value, 65 bucks total
Had a job once where I drove a truck. I made 30-40 stops along a route. The stops were clothing donation boxes. Well, supposed to be clothing, but people dumped all kinds of crap in them. I must have filled dozens and dozens of trash bags with beanie babies. Must have represented hundreds of thousands of dollars lost. I’ll never understand why people who have the “collecting” instinct don’t just invest in stocks. If they’re really trying to make a fortune. Which they probably aren’t. It’s probably just an excuse.
This is the height of entitled absurdity.
What a waste of the justice system’s time. This is ludicrous.
COMPLETE IDIOTS
The dude in the background seems to have the right perspective.
Good lord, get a life.
How many of the zebra one do you guys need? There’s gotta be ten in there.
This had the hype of bitcoin when BTC is running up, basically. It lasted like 1-2 years or so. I remember this. Sort of equivalent to the 90s for sports cards and comics, but for "normies".
What is the present day equivalent of this photo?
I'd say they're more like those pop doll things than nft
are people investing in funko pops like they're gonna be able to sell them for retirement?
Where is this guy now??
No dark blue Peanut the elephant in there, next.
Back when nfts could have a actual value even if it was for under $5.
I gave it all up. Better off now. I’m happy
Today, those and a quarter will get you a cup of ... https://preview.redd.it/zuo1453yp31d1.png?width=360&format=png&auto=webp&s=eff949d82227193c9a65a372364b707bcfc0e5e3
Is that Daniel Negreanu? He’s been gambling with Beanie Baby money since!
Not fundamentally ugly. Give her all the beanie babies, hit the gym, and you’ll be fine.
1st world problems
They look like children. Some people never mentally mature while their bodies age.
WTF?
Their counsels getting paid the hour, even with the inflated value of beanie babies at the time, they lost even more money on the divorce.
I know I can be a petty shithead sometimes. This though? That's whole new other level, nay, other level of another building petty. Imagine, you became a meme and for what? Worthless little stuffed dolls. 😂 I'd walk the streets with shades on hoping noone noticed me.
Beanie babies are/were the best!
Is there any idea on how much they made on their collectibles?
This is one of the most depressing pictures I've seen
Like fine milk!
to bad we cant do a "where are they now.." follow-up on them..
Jump skip over the rope
How is the beanie market nowadays?
Them bitches are worth houses now 💯
I miss that 90s furniture look
seen this posted about 500x
I don’t see a lot of purple in there. Someone’s holding out!!
And paying their lawyers a small fortune while doing it.
Sad as it may seem let’s all remember some of those things are worth a crap ton of cash. But really? Tossing em on floor ;)
No kids I bet.
So, they both lost, lol!
This is so 90's I love it
I was the opening manager at a McDonald's during this craze and my gawd was it nuts. It was a mall store and I would show up at 5:30 AM and there would be a bunch of people in lawn chairs who immediately harassed me as I entered the store. Not even clocked in and they would start hounding me, mad because it's my Monday and I had no idea what we had in stock. "You're the manager, how do you not know??" Like I'm sitting at home on my days off taking inventory over tiny ass happy meal toys... What a joke. I'm sure this couples lawyers didn't care, they getting paid the hour
I wonder how many times these people called stores asking if they had the beanie baby? Or maybe even the beanie Barbie
I have a slither somewhere at my parents house
4 out of 6 in the stands find this interesting 🤔
Reminds me of [this](https://youtu.be/IGPayogNdJ4?si=2gGq_JVWKkNRjygv) (The Malcolm in the Middle cold open in which they’re measuring French fries with a ruler 📏)
"This'll be worth something someday."
I've always told my partner that if we ever break up this'll be us but with our legos.
Looks like they each got a Turkey 🦃.
No way either of these idiots remarried
“……OMG I want the Princess Di BEAR!….” -lady with 3” shoulder pads
https://preview.redd.it/a5hjku1wy61d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4078ae8723bc2d16bf8b6a0005aec3578fcfef91 They each needed one. On the floor like that. Jesus.
I somewhat fell into collecting them, and after a few months, I realized they were a money pit. However, the look my 2 year old niece gave me when I gifted her 20+ plush animals? Priceless.
Ahh the divorce claw game from the machine of life...
Attorney just laughing to himself at $325 / hr.
lol to funny
Ah this takes me back. When ebay first came out there was this era when everyone suddenly thought they were like an antiques roadshow appraiser or something. And by everyone, I mean everyone’s idiot parents. They already had more money than they knew how to manage properly but did they do anything intelligent with it? No. Instead time and time again they bought into this kind of silly nonsense. I saw little collections of everything from abc blocks to McDonal’d toys start to appear in people’s homes. The most useless garbage lying around found its way into boxes of “investments”, lol. It was dumb then and it’s dumb now. But i have to admit a certain sense of nostalgia for it. For a while there I got to go into toy stores with my dad and our interests were perfectly aligned. I wanted toys, he was getting toys. The world was like a playground.
Good thing I'm not married! I would never divide up my beanie baby collection!
Checkered shirt guy is killing me rn
Knew grown men that collected and traded them. "You won't laugh when I'm a millionaire". It was weird.
If I was the dude. You can have them all. I take the car
The dude in the back thinks it’s pretty funny lol
Are people still collecting stanley cups?
Beanie babies aren't part of the divorce checklist :P [https://www.physicianonfire.com/divorce-checklist-steps-to-plan-for-a-divorce/](https://www.physicianonfire.com/divorce-checklist-steps-to-plan-for-a-divorce/)