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[mayalaen]

 

My mom came out of her room this morning with a small Beanie Baby in her hand.

"I've had this sitting in my drawer since somebody - I don't even remember who - gave it to me. I think it was new at the time, but I like lizards and they thought it was a lizard, but it's not 🙄 so I just put it in a drawer and kept moving it whenever we moved. Now I realize it's a chameleon and you're The Chameleon (thanks mental illness) so here this has always made me think of you!"

I looked at the card, which said it was an iguana, but it clearly wasn't an iguana. The only iguana-like part is the weird spiky thing on the back.

Confused, I looked it up (I was never into Beanie Babies but my cousin was).

It's a misprint from the 90s, and one of them recently sold for $6500 because it had some of the errors this one has, but this one has ALL the errors and apparently is worth even more?

So my mom has been carefully moving this from one spot to another for over twenty years and it's this super rare misprint Beanie Baby that some idiot gave her without paying attention to what it was or what she liked 😂

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[shipperslist]

It's so wild to have something like that. Reminds me of my Greenwood Tarot deck that's been out of print for over two decades and is, apparently, currently a collectors item worth way more than I ever thought...

[mayalaen]

That's so cool! The only part that sucks is if you have sentimental ties to it and don't want sell it but need money. But there's something fun and exciting when you find out something you've had just hanging around is valuable!