The 29 Beanie Babies That Could Make Someone VERY Rich Very Quickly

Picture it. Suburbia. The ’90s. Your parents hand you this kinda cute thing that’s made of one of the weirdest materials in existence (hello, plastic bean pellets!). They called it a “Beanie Baby”? Eh, sure, I’m a kid, what do I know? Now cut to more than 20 years later and you’re sipping martinis in your sunny Monaco mansion because someone on the internet wanted to buy your Beanie Baby for, like, a lot of money. In this economy, the nerve!

Okay, sorry to burst the fantasy I just laid out for you, but here are some hard truths. Not every Beanie Baby is that valuable—there are a lot of conditions that render it that way. It depends on which “generation” it’s from (how early it was made), what kind it is, whether it was made for a special occasion, how many were made, even what pellets were used, and—obviously—the condition it’s in. Apparently, the more errors there are, the more valuable it is? Phew. According to this online Beanie Baby price guide, the ones that sell for exorbitant prices are often ordinary items that just get inflated. A lot of these prices are based on bids rather than the actual value. With that, it pays to do a little research to make sure that your Beanie is a valuable Beanie and not a regular Beanie and find the right vendor, not just eBay or Etsy. There are even online social media groups where vendors come together and chat all things Beanie!

And yet, being the caring, generous BFFs we are, we dived into the deep, deep world of the eBay Beanie Baby market and resurfaced with 29 lil Babies that are selling for prices that would make them Bougie Babies. Do you have any hiding in your parents’ storage unit?? If yes, can we be friends?