My wife is in love with Squish Mollos.

For those of you who don't know, they're basically these pillow stuffed animal inventions that come in different designs, resembling animals and aliens, plants, mushrooms.

They have these cute little faces and little backstories for each one.

They're stuffed and sewn together with the proprietary material that's

especially soft and plush. Some people get really obsessed with them.

They've been compared at times to Beanie Babies or other very popular trendy novelty items.

People resell them at a ridiculous profit because when someone wants a specific squish mallow,

they're often willing to pay top dollar for it.

My wife Christine has 30 of them stacked on a shelf in our living room in various designs, shapes,

colors, and sizes.

Some people have entire rooms devoted to the stuffed creations.

The designs are pretty cute and I'm happy that she has a hobby. I buy her

a new squish mollow sometimes when I'm at the store. They sell them pretty much everywhere now, but they used to be more difficult to find.

When I try to figure out what Christine wanted for her birthday I got the impression

that she wanted one particular squish mala. She hinted at it not outright asking.

Finding a specific squish mallow isn't always easy, since some are more rare than others.

Apparently the most uncommon ones sell as high as $2,000. Luckily she didn't want one of those.

The one she wanted looked like a big black spider with like a weird smile. So it began looking online for it. None of the stores nearby had

it, of course, they would have been too easy.

But eventually I found a seller on eBay and I purchased it, requesting the express shipping

so the Squishmallow would arrive before her birthday.

They had a few other ones that looked pretty unique too, so I'm Squishmallow had arrived before her birthday.

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