Bankrupted by Beanie Babies

[Video Link] Chris Robinson produced a short documentary about his family's "sordid past with beanie babies." The tulipomania-like obsession started when Chris' brother wanted to get a Beanie Baby when he was four, and his father got hooked. He spent $100,000 on 15,000 to 20,000 Beanie Babies and Beanie Buddies, and they now sit on shelves and in boxes, nearly worthless.

(Ty Warner, the inventor of Beanie Babies, has a net worth of $2.5 billion, according to Forbes.)