On Eating Teddy Bears

[primsong]

The lady who runs our Food Cupboard has much use of food, but not much use of teddies. SO - when someone recently donated a big bag of collectible teddy-bears she turned to me where I was busily bagging rice and flour and said "Do you think you can sell these online for me?"

I've now spent two afternoons sorting, photographing and identifying teddies, typing up descriptions and such. One more round to crop/resize blah blah and I can finally get them up on Bonanzle - that way there's no listing fee if they don't sell. (Bonanzle only charges if it sells, and it never expires). Worth it if we can buy more food, we've had so many people coming to us. Only a few were really generic bears - we'll just stick those on the freebie table for little kids to do what they will with.

I'm not a teddy-bear/beanie baby person so I'm learning about them as I go. I'm hoping for a really rabid collector to come along.

Comments

[shirebound]

Good luck!!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Too bad that onslaught of Beanie-mania that swept so many people in the 90s didn't pan out as they'd hoped - I recognized one stuffie as 'Mystic the Unicorn' because I remember it was in great demand at some point when my kids were little. Now it's worth maybe 2 bucks, if you're lucky. Ah, how the mighty have fallen.