13. Hot Wheels

13. Hot Wheels

We bet you're wishing that instead of zooming around the house with your Hot Wheels cars you were keeping them in mint condition in their boxes instead. These little vehicles are worth a fortune now and we're kicking ourselves for being so frivolous with ours. We would have been picked on for not joining the car races as kids, but we'd truly be having the last laugh now.

If you own the 1971 Purple Olds 442, 1968 Custom Volkswagen without sunroof, or 1968 White Enamel Camaro, they could fetch anywhere between $1,500 and $2,500. The 1970 Red Baron with white interior, 1995 Collector Number 271 Funny Car, 1970 Ed Shaver Custom AMX, and 1970 "Mad Maverick" Base Mighty Maverick will net you $3,000 to $4,500. The most valuable is the 1969 Pink Volkswagen Beach Bomb, at $72,000, but that's because there's only one.

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Did You Know...

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Chefs made their way into celebrity land a while ago. But how many celebrities that weren’t trained as professional cooks are actually whizzes in the kitchen? Here are several that come to mind.

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Actress Julia Roberts is confident about her cooking skills. “I’m quite a good cook,” she told E! News. “I’m like a closet home ec teacher…I can really cook anything.” Roberts has said she often cooks fish for herself and her kids. And speaking of her three children, “They think that I’m a good cook,” Roberts told People. “They actually told me that I should open a restaurant.” She also relishes cooking for the holidays, particularly shredded Brussel sprouts. Roberts hasn’t published a cookbook, but we did find recipes attributed to her for peach crisp and banana hemp muffins. Or you can make the same summer salad the actress supposedly eats.

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Chrissy Teigen started off as a supermodel. Then her love of cooking filtered into her professional life too. At this point, she’s created recipes for a limited Blue Apron release and also just launched her own home and cooking line at Target named “Cravings,” after the two cookbooks she’s released. Teigen describes cooking as “a time of peace” for herself. So maybe peace out to her tuna melt sandwich or the fried chicken wings that are a favorite of her husband, John Legend.

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Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, comes from a cooking Italian family. Her father started his own restaurant in New York and also published a cookbook. And apparently, Lady Gaga has inherited the family’s cooking genes. Her Instagram account occasionally features photos of her culinary activities. Sure, sometimes it’s topless cooking. But other times it’s more poignant like in the post she shared about her bringing food to the family of her dear friend who passed away. Want to try a Gaga/Germanotta family favorite? Check out her recipe for whole wheat pasta with a sweet fennel sauce.

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