Beanie Jeanie, how did you organize the Ty Beanie Babies collection and determine which Beanie is a variation of another Beanie?
There are a lot of Beanie Babies and many variations of them today. Since Beanie Jeanie is a truly relational database (not a 2-D spreadsheet database), I can really organize the hundreds of Beanies in the most efficient and clear way. As of January 98, including Erin, Beanie Jeanie shows 136 Beanies that included 207 variations. Here are some of the rules I established for organizing the Ty Beanie collection: 1. Any Beanie with the same appearance, style#, birthday and poem will be variations of the same Beanie (i.e. Nana is a variation of Bongo). 2. Any Beanie that has a first generation heart tag, and is not retired as of Jan 1, 98 will have a “Old Tag” variation (i.e. Chocolate has a “Current” and a “Old Tag” variation). This is to show the enormous price difference between an old tagged Beanie and a current one. 3. Oddity Beanies with an established history on other websites and price lists will have a variation of its own. (i.e. Libearty with an upside down flag is a variation of
