Life on the farm

Now I’m not one to jump to state my opinion on who should or shouldn’t run for president, well until today.

I think the person who marketed Beanie Babies should run for President. Yup, H Ty Warner has my vote. 

Why you might ask? Well I was talking to my sister when she was cleaning and organizing out her daughters closet and she said she had a lot of Beanie Babies and wasn’t sure what she was going to do with them. I had to laugh (or cry – just not sure) when she said this because we also have joined the millions and millions of people that had gotten sucked into the marketing craze of absolutely having to have the latest and greatest Beanie Baby that was coming out that month. And this went on for months and months until about 3 years. Do you have any idea on how many of these stuffed toys you can buy in that time frame? Well a LOT! 

And to make it worse we had even bought specific cases that were sold to protect the toys because of their future value. Well you know that these were the ‘Limited Edition’ ones or the discontinued ones which probably made them even more valuable.

OK, now to step back and evaluate this whole thing. First of all millions and millions and millions of these toys were made and there is no way that any of these can be of much value at this point, so I did a little research on the web. Honestly there is a lot of information out there which I was quite surprised at first, and then I thought that maybe the moms of the kids who collected them are cleaning out their kids rooms 🙂 Getting back to the prices, some are actually priced at $10,000 to $30,000 on Etsy and others? Well there are some posts that people can’t even give them away at a Garage Sale. 

So by now I’m sure you’re wondering where all this is going with elections right? Well if someone can market a small toy that you literally could not play with because you were afraid to damage them or something,  and then sell accessories to boot? Then to top that off get the whole World to buy in – I’m saying that if H Ty Warner invested all his money including his inheritance to come up with $50,000 to start a company and reported earning over $700 million in profits in a year and then within about a decade his net worth was $6 BILLION, can you imagine what he could do if he was president? Yup, H Ty Warner has my vote this November. Just check out your tubs stored in your closet or the plastic cases on your shelves and tell me that you won’t be also wouldn’t be tempted to vote this way too! 

Dad has been gone now for 9 years and it seems just like yesterday that we were taking rides in one of his old cars. See Dad loved what is called now ‘vintage’ cars and even though he had quite a few of them – I think us kids all would vote that the 1948 Packard would be our favorite! 

This car was not only a rarity in the car world with not many made in a span of a couple of years, but also with the depression going on and with the wood on the outside of it, it made it even more rare.

So when Dad would get the car out and the back tail gate would flip down and we’d all crawl in, we knew that it was going to be fun. This was a time when us kids could all crawl in the back and not need any seat belts or even seats to be honest. See the back was an open area so a lot of us could fit in it at one time! I’m guessing we were loud like you would expect kids to be, but I never remember getting into trouble for it. Weird now that I think about it. And back then living on the gravel road never stopped Dad for taking a Sunday drive!

Eventually as time went on, Dad sold it a few years before he passed away but he did have a chance to visit the owner one summer to check in on it. As I was talking to my brother tonight about the car,  we think that someone should go visit it again just to see how it’s doing 🙂

And how did this whole memory start? Well Ma found a picture while cleaning out an old drawer or something and it was Dad with his car. Pretty cool picture and a pretty cool Dad!