You know you are a Beanie Addict when...
1.) You tell your children that the heart hang tags on the Beanie Babies are JUST like the tags on the mattress, and there will be a severe penalty if they are removed or tampered with in anyway.
2.) Your family library consists of "Mary Beth's Beanie World Magazine," Beanie Mania, The Beanie Phenomenon and any other book that has price guides and Beanie Baby information. Children's bedtime stories are, of course, the poems on the heart hang tags of their Beanies.
3.) You clear out your curio and china cabinet to make room to display your Beanie Baby collection.
4.) You have a garage sale to get rid of all that china and crystal that is cluttering up your dining room. The money, of course, is used to buy retired Beanie Babies to display in the curio cabinet.
5.) Your child is invited to a birthday party and you insist on coming along to "help out." You spend the entire time going through the birthday boy's toy box looking for old retired Beanie Babies that the child may not realize he has.
6.) Friends and relatives have stopped calling and stopping by because if they hear one more word about Beanie Babies they will just scream. They have also stopped invition you to social gatherings that you were invited to in the past, like children's birthday parties, or Thanksgiving diner.
7.) You admit to invreasing your Visa limit seven times this year.
8.) You are asked to leave a store because you insist on going through all 50,000 Beanies looking for an "odd" one.
9.) You catch yoruself counting dalmatian spots, tiger stripes, or octopus legs.
10.) You are having a tough time explaining the phone bill when it arrives. Who do you know in Bramwell, WV; Monk, AL; Butte, MT; Fargo, ND; Thompson, IL; England or Canada?
11.) You rush into a stranger's office, ask to make an emergency call, plug in your laptop and check your e-mail, Ty's web site, and Beaniemom Newsletter, just in case you missed important news while you were out shopping for Beanies.
12.) United Parcel Service security guards have given you their last warning to STOP STALKING OUR TRUCKS!
13.) In the middle of an important and long-awaited event (e.g. child's first recital, Bulls fifth championship game, etc.), you politely excuse yourself to go browse the gift shop in search of Beanies.
14.) You contact everyone at your spouse's office and beg them (since they travel anyway), to PLEASE check the airport shops at Logan, O'Hare, DFW, Kennedy, Miami, Atlanta and Houston.
15.) Your Beanie Baby collection weighs more than your Suburban with a family of eight seated inside after a trip to McDonald's for Teenie Beanies.
16.) Your children think that "retirement" means that people at your work put you aside so now you are worth tons on the secondary market.
17.) You have been thinking a lot about retirement, (yours, not Beanies) and have decided, "Who the heck needs those silly mutual funds and an IRA?" Who knows what Tabasco will be worth by then!
18.) You pack some "extra" Beanies in a box marked "Christmas stuff" and put it in the basement where your spouse will never find them.
19.) You purchase a "Beanie beeper" so merchants can reach you at all times when a new shipment arrives.
20.) You cash in all of your Fortune 500 stock to invest in the Beanie Market.

--Myrtle Cecil
Mary Beth's Beanie World Magazine



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