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In a message dated 11/27/2001 2:20:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:


My kids used to love getting new Pogs.  It gave them joy, frenzied delight,
visions of electric sugarplums.  Now there are ziploc bags of pogs in boxes
here and there.  Someday some younger kid not yet born now is going to have a
GREAT few hours going through those, claiming the best as a new treasure,
putting most back in the bags as weird old stuff, and a few will probably
make it a hundred years into the future to be oddities in some future
person's collection of antiques.  


This makes me think, as we head into Christmas, of the things we've spent money on, and what has been worth it, and what hasn't.

Upstairs there are many, many Beanie Babies, at about $5 each. They're not collectible, because we did the unthinkable and immediately removed the tags so Julian could PLAY with them. And he has, and still sometimes does, even though he's twelve. (He's a major animal freak.)

The Playmobile castle stuff was ridiculously expensive, but again, it was played with so much it was worth it.Over the years we've bought other stuff that hardly got used at all, and even if it was cheap, it wasn't worth it.

The D&D stuff certainly is, although I often wonder where those dice go...it always seems we're buying dice....

Kathryn