I Labubu'd Too Close To The Sun

I didn’t have a cabbage patch kid. I missed the whole beanie baby craze. But I’m ready to labubu like it’s nobody’s business.

In case you are unaware of this new craze - a labubu is a stuffed little monster like creature that has millions of fans and is worth billions of dollars for the company behind it - POP MART. Created by an artist named Kasing Lung - they come in cool colors, have cute names, and you never know which one youre going to get inside the box. The unboxing of the labubu is almost as big as the labubu itself. I made a funny video on tiktok unboxing my quip toothbrush head as if it were a labubu - mocking the whole thing and the next thing I knew - i was in line for the real thing. I got Love from the Big Into Energy series. She’s pink. I was a tad disappointed. If I was going to hang this fuzzy little monster from my purse at 64 years young - perhaps a chicer color like beige (or Soy Milk as she’s known) would have been better!

Do i just go buy more until i get the one I want? Do i unbox till I drop? And therein lies the rub - at anywhere from 69-89 dollars a pop - this is an expensive habit. You can go labroke for your labubu’s. But here I was without ever having my own craze to get behind- and i wanted more.

Thankfully a tiktok mutual named Ciarra came to the rescue and we’re doing a trade! Love is going into the mail and winging her way to the east coast and Soy Milk will be making her forever home in Montecito. It’s only fitting. She’s the color of sand and I live near the beach. I just have to keep her away from my neighbors dog who has already eaten a purse and a dog collar while in my home. If he eats my labubu - he’ll be ladeaddead.

Have I lost my mind? Is this the dumbest thing an adult grown ass person can be involved with? Well I don’t care. I need a distraction. Even if that distraction has weird monster teeth and tiny plastic feet. At least she’s not a lafufu (a bogus labubu)

I can’t wait to clip my little monster to my fake Louis Vuitton purse. I definitely won’t be buying more but I may get her a cute outfit and perhaps a necklace. I hear those are all the rage.