My great aunt had all of the beanies! I don’t think she had any illusions about them being a gold mine though, she just liked collecting them because they were small and cute. And she liked giving away her duplicates to her grand kids — a group which my siblings and I were included as honorary members because her sister, my grandmother, was gone before I was born, and auntie took it upon herself to make sure that we had a grandma in our lives. One of the sweetest people I have ever known.
My mother thought her collection would bring her riches! They did not😉
My great aunt had all of the beanies! I don’t think she had any illusions about them being a gold mine though, she just liked collecting them because they were small and cute. And she liked giving away her duplicates to her grand kids — a group which my siblings and I were included as honorary members because her sister, my grandmother, was gone before I was born, and auntie took it upon herself to make sure that we had a grandma in our lives. One of the sweetest people I have ever known.