Famous People Cookie Jars

Today's marketplace offers a diverse collection of people cookie jars. Celebrities tend to dominate the category with folks such as The Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, Rosa Parks and Emmett Kelly. You can find character replicas of Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara from Gone with the Wind, Hopalong Cassidy, the Lone Ranger, and Andy Griffin. Wonder Woman and Superman represent the super hero department, whereas Stone Cold Steve Austin represents the WWF. You can find the sassy Betty Boop, The Wizard of Oz's Dorothy and Toto, and even the hysterical Lucy of I Love Lucy fame.

But if you're in the market for regular folks, there are plenty of those available as well. There are service-inspired people, such as military, police and firefighters. There are job-inspired people, like bakers, chefs and musicians. And there are characters in cowboys, bikers, glamour queens and grannies. You can find many nice African-American renditions as well.

So, go on. Do your research. Determine your ideal make and model. Figure out what material you'd like your people cookie jar to be made of (like ceramic, glass, porcelain or plastic), and come back in 2006 to make your selection. We'll be ready. Will you?