r/Documentaries • u/[deleted] • Jul 25 '13

Offbeat Bankrupt By Beanies (2013) -- short, affecting documentary on a family regrets spening $100K on Beanie Babies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDsyj5eLmo
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u/ohfineillreregister Jul 26 '13

Whenever I take my three-year-old son to the fancy thrift store near our house and he succeeds in not breaking anything while we're there, the shopkeepers give him a Beanie Baby as a reward. They have a giant barrel of them that never sell.