'Someone is listing it on eBay for $20,000': Millennial discovers a ‘rare' Princess Dianna Beanie Baby in their mom's attic, then get a hilarious reality check when they realize it's nearly worthless

If you're as chronically online as we all are, you've probably seen that viral picture of the couple dividing their Beanie Baby collection on the courtroom floor during their divorce. Back in the 90s, Beanie Babies were all the rage and rubes everywhere lined up to buy these collectible children's toys under the guise that they'd one day be valuable enough to pay for their kid's college education. 

Welp, I'm a millennial and grew up with a box full of Beanies and while I played with a select few toys, my parents kept the 'valuable' ones up in a plastic box on the highest shelf in my room. As the Princess Diana bear looked down at me from the highest throne in my bedroom, I imagined the glorious things I'd do with my paid-for college education–because one day, this Beanie would be sold to pay for it all!

Here we are, two decades later, and that purple bear is nearly worthless, I'm up to my ears in student loans, and I'm starting to wonder what sort of Ty-brand hypnosis fooled an entire generation of boomers… It must be the same Kool-aid all of the crypto bros are drinking. 

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