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[phosfate]

So what do you do when you're insanely bored on a national holiday? Go to Aardvark Antiques, obviously.

We didn't expect much except a nice walk on concrete, but there was a bunch of new stuff in. From a pile of *yawn* Boyds bears, an odd little gold critter stared out at me:



A Merrythought M-type, in the traditional gold mohair. The same make as this fella, but smaller (he's about 8 inches, sitting down) and older (from whenever the wishbone tag was held on the chest -- the poor bastard still had the plastic tag thing going through him). Ribbon and paper long gone. The dealer, who was asking book-plus for the B**** bears, wanted $7.00 for him.

Well okay.

(For those of you who are not bearheads, this is roughly the equivalent of finding a Beatles butcher cover at a thrift store in Mexico City.)

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[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't even get me started on tag fascism! Let alone people who don't play with their stuffies. (If the poor thing is old and fragile, that's one thing. But putting brand new animals in plastic containers to preserve their 'value' is just cruel.)

Beanies were cool because they were well made and inexpensive -- perfect for kids and young teens to collect or give each other as presents. While the whole frenzy thing is hardly the animals' fault, seeing a gift shop jammed with people on cell phones every time a new box comes in is just...annoying.

Weird. For a moment my head tried to make your sentence into a no-kill shelter for Beanies, and I thought, Man, they really have overproduced the poor things if it's that bad...

There's resale value on anything that anyone collects. It's not necessarily high (that's why comic stores have quarter bins), but it's there. There are also a couple of Boyds price guides out now. Great for keeping track of them, but a lot of guides' prices are pulled out of somebody's ass.

I have a cache of Boyds Bearwear. How can you not love a little tennis sweater, or a turtleneck with TEDDY on it?

I am so happy with Booster that I could spontaneously give birth. His eyes are off center, giving him a pensive air, and his gold color is really quite jolly. He seems to get on with the others okay. (Moth is a bit aloof, but I think the heat makes her cranky and she doesn't like anybody right now.)