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applegrove

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7. Beanie babies were created to be a fad and sold at exactly $5.00
Mon Jun 24, 2019, 02:44 PM
Jun 2019

Last edited Mon Jun 24, 2019, 06:23 PM - Edit history (1)

so parents would feel inclined to give into their kids at the store. They had the price before they had the product in fact. They were indeed created to be a dopamine hit for kids and families. They were created to be a drug. I have one and i don't have kids. Darned are they not cute. I had little china figurines as a kid that were baby animals. I had a baby monkey stuffed animal as a kid that had a three foot tail. I stayed on a farm as a kid and was all about the baby animals. It was an old childhood love repackaged to be a trend. Now we have the internet that plays the same role and we get addicted there.

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