Michael Steele is Afraid of Beanie Babies

While house shopping here in Maryland back in March, we went with our realtor to see one house that we still laugh about. We refer to it as "The Beanie Baby House" because of this one, upstairs bedroom:

It was even freakier in person, because the picture only shows you about half the room. Extrapolate out that the rest of the room was the same. About a third of the animals had little protective, heart-shaped, hard plastic covers on their tags, I assume to preserve their investment value.

Making it even weirder (yes, that's possible!), everything else in the house was perfectly staged: minimal furniture and no other personal effects visible anywhere else in the house. It was just this one room filled with Beanie Babies lined up like Terra Cotta warriors on every available furniture surface, staring at you in unison with their blank, beady eyes.

The house is still on the market, in case you were interested in the property; we were not interested, and bought something else. I believe the Beanie Babies do not convey.