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Beanie Babies, man; research it.

If you've never heard of the late 1990's Beanie Baby craze, you will be amazed.

But what happened to Beanie Babies could never happen to Vancouver real estate.

Your one bedroom condo will be worth $40 million by 2050, honest to god, no shit!

My favorite bit of Beanie Baby trivia is a divorcing couple had to pick through their collection one by one in front of a judge because they couldn't come to any agreement over who got what; there's a hilarious photo. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beanie-baby-fever-in-1999_n_5...

I wish someone would do a follow-up interview with them.

That's great, thank you. I probably sold them those Beanies. I basically extorted all the stores in the UK to sell the rare ones out of the back door and then sold them to rich husbands in the USA to give to their rich housewives.

I would buy them from Ty employees too as they had the limited edition ones. I remember one I sold for $13,000 that I was playing soccer with in my living room before I boxed it up and mailed it out.

Beyond pathetic. I hope they didn't have kids.

It really is one of those pictures that on face value is hilarious and tragic at the same time. But I suppose it is entirely possible they had an amicable and problem-free divorce otherwise and that it came to this because Beanie Babies could genuinely be flipped for a lot of money for a brief moment in time, a judge felt ill-equipped to divide the collection fairly and trusted the couple to handle it.

I highly doubt you can have an amicable and trouble free divorce whilst you end up in court over your beanie babies.

Ah yeah good point, I guess normal divorces don't end up in court and are resolved without having a judge or anything like that :D Bit of a morning brain failure on my part :)

Since they have so many "Beanie Babys" the whole thing seems like a compensation for not having kids (hopefully).

"OK, so we couldn't have kids. I totally accepted that. But I'm not leaving this marriage without some kind of custody battle, in a real court and everything, god damn it!"

> $40 million

Given enough inflation, it's pretty doable! It only would take 70% inflation a year, in the 7 remaining years, given the current price is around $1M.

We've got 27 remaining years until 2050, so a little under 15% per year would yield that 40x increase.

IKR!

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