Beloved Toy

The choice of my favorite toy from childhood is a very simple one; Beanie Babies. Beanie Babies were my everything; I played with them, my mom bribed me to mow the lawn to earn more of them, and i even tried to eat one of them. My favorite way to play with them was a game that i creatively dubbed "Beanie Baby Football." 3 beanies would line up opposite each other and hit the gridiron of my living room floor. The best player was Jumper, the frog beanie baby. He was the Jerry Rice of Beanie Baby Football. Those Beanies were very important to me when i was little. If i lost one of the starting 6, i would cry and cry until my mom eventually yelled at me. Now that I'm older, those Beanies don't mean much to me. The box they occupy in my closet has rarely ever been moved since approximately my 8th birthday. Maybe Ebay might change that though.