Are you addicted?

1. You can’t go anywhere in your house without seeing a beanie product.

2. Every time you go shopping, you have to check your local retailers for new beanies.

3. You regularly check Ty.com to see if there is any news.

4. You have a room in your house where your beanies live.

5. You can’t see the colour of the paint on your walls because they are covered in shelves.

6. You enjoy searching all the old, rare beanies on eBay and getting mad that you can’t afford them.

7. When you go on holiday, you spend most of the time in the beanie shops, or going to nearby towns in search of different beanies and then looking for an Internet Café so you can check Ty.com and the other Beanie sites!

8. From collecting Ty, you get hooked on other beanies.

9. Your best friends are made through Beanie websites and forums.

10. Your excuse for bulk-buying Peace bears are that “they are all different”.

11. You can predict when your retailers have their deliveries!!

12. You start your own beanie website even if you don’t have a clue about doing it.

13. You moan when you overhear other people calling the beanies “T - Y’s” and give them a Beanie History lesson as punishment.

14. When asked who your favourite celebrity is, you reply “Ty Warner”.

15. When you are too sick to go to work/school, but you take a de-tour around your local retailers on the way to the doctors!

16. You name your pets after Beanie babies.

17. When told by your parents to tidy you bedroom, you react by taking all you beanies off their shelves and re-arranging them.

18. You use the words ‘Authenticity’, ‘Authenticated’ and ‘mint’ in everyday sentences.

19. You travel across the country for one beanie shop, and spend 10 minutes in the shop, and then spend hours travelling back home again!

20. You get so excited when you see a beanie on the set of your favourite TV show.

21. You get your grandmother to create clothes for your favourite beanies.

22. Every year you buy your friends beanies for their Birthday and for Christmas even though they don’t collect!

23. Your friends never buy you beanies for your Birthday or Christmas in case you already have it.