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RE: Family "invests" $100K in beanie babies, goes bankrupt
July 26, 2013 at 7:27 pm
(July 26, 2013 at 5:15 pm)Rahul Wrote: (July 26, 2013 at 5:03 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: 30-year-old beer is worthless.
I don't even understand the statement. 30 year old beer? You couldn't age any beer at my house longer than a week. No matter how much you store.
That shit would be gone.
I have to agree. I brew my own, including some that take a fair amount of time to age in the keg. I can tell you, six months maximum - the stuff just evaporates or something.
30 year old beer? Impossible!
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RE: Family "invests" $100K in beanie babies, goes bankrupt
July 27, 2013 at 11:12 am
LOL! What morons! I bet they thought they were being so clever, too.
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RE: Family "invests" $100K in beanie babies, goes bankrupt
July 29, 2013 at 6:11 am
(July 26, 2013 at 8:50 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Family goes bankrupt after putting $100K into beanie babies
They had $100,000 to invest 17 years ago? If they'd followed Andrew Hallam's plan, they'd be millionaires today. And he started with, lemme see... zero.
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RE: Family "invests" $100K in beanie babies, goes bankrupt
July 29, 2013 at 7:13 am
Or they could have just put that 100 grand into their kids university fund.
Fuckwits.
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RE: Family "invests" $100K in beanie babies, goes bankrupt
July 29, 2013 at 7:22 am
I had a beanie baby, but I cannot recall what happened to it.
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RE: Family "invests" $100K in beanie babies, goes bankrupt
July 29, 2013 at 9:41 am
(July 26, 2013 at 5:15 pm)Rahul Wrote: (July 26, 2013 at 5:03 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: 30-year-old beer is worthless.
I don't even understand the statement. 30 year old beer? You couldn't age any beer at my house longer than a week. No matter how much you store.
That shit would be gone.
Again, you have to read the history of Billy Beer. Once the plants stopped making it and people thought it was worth a lot of money to collectors, they didn't drink what they had bought and saved it for years. Even to this day there's plenty of unopened cans out there. You can even get them on ebay.
Same also goes for M*A*S*H beer and JR beer, both made from the popularity of TV shows, but turned out to be pretty lousy beers. However, as with Billy Beer there's this recurring idea that the cans are worth a lot of money to collectors.
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RE: Family "invests" $100K in beanie babies, goes bankrupt
July 29, 2013 at 11:47 am
(July 29, 2013 at 9:41 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Again, you have to read the history of Billy Beer. Once the plants stopped making it and people thought it was worth a lot of money to collectors, they didn't drink what they had bought and saved it for years. Even to this day there's plenty of unopened cans out there. You can even get them on ebay.
Same also goes for M*A*S*H beer and JR beer, both made from the popularity of TV shows, but turned out to be pretty lousy beers. However, as with Billy Beer there's this recurring idea that the cans are worth a lot of money to collectors.
A lot of people started hording Twinkies when Hostess went out of business late last year. Now we have the same product from the company of "Hostess Brands". Indistinguishable from the old type of twinkie.
But that doesn't make twinkies worthless. It's a freaking twinky! Inherent worth right there.
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RE: Family "invests" $100K in beanie babies, goes bankrupt
July 29, 2013 at 12:07 pm
(July 29, 2013 at 11:47 am)Rahul Wrote: But that doesn't make twinkies worthless. It's a freaking twinky! Inherent worth right there.
If someone had one that was sitting around for over a year, I'd be inclined to disagree with you. I don't care how many preservatives they put into those things. Anything with a shelf life becomes worthless after so much time passes.
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RE: Family "invests" $100K in beanie babies, goes bankrupt
July 29, 2013 at 12:51 pm
(July 29, 2013 at 12:07 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: If someone had one that was sitting around for over a year, I'd be inclined to disagree with you. I don't care how many preservatives they put into those things. Anything with a shelf life becomes worthless after so much time passes.
That wouldn't happen with me. That twinky would be in my belly before the day was over.
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RE: Family "invests" $100K in beanie babies, goes bankrupt
July 29, 2013 at 3:44 pm
I'm really not a big fan of Twinkies. Now Ding Dongs, on the other hand...
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