r/MadeMeSmile • u/ShadowRex • Feb 10 '25

Wholesome Moments This is what the hobby is all about

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u/totemoff Feb 10 '25

And then he'll look at pokemon card prices in 20 years, regret giving them away for a second, and then remember that he made another kid happy. Such is the cycle of pokemon cards.

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u/SpareWire Feb 10 '25

If it goes anything like it did for me he'll leave his binder at home when he goes to college and it will get sold in a garage sale for 5 dollars.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '25

or step sister will steal it when you leave for college, along with all your old gameboy systems and games. classic

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u/dbwoi Feb 10 '25

Or you'll give them to your cousins who end up becoming rich and not valuing a goddamn thing.

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u/Signal_Bee7457 Feb 10 '25

I'd take the 5 bucks I guess, mine got thrown away 🥲

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u/UrUrinousAnus Feb 10 '25

Lost mine in a water fight.😭 I even had a shiny Charizard!

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u/withalookofquoi Feb 10 '25

I wonder if my shiny Charizard is still stashed away somewhere…

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u/Signal_Bee7457 Feb 11 '25

Same, lost a shiny charizard, blastoise and venosaur along with many others and sadly the holo mew they gave us when we went to see the first pokè movie in theaters. I tried to explain to my mom what she had done at the time but only now does she understand what she actually tossed out 🥹

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u/UrUrinousAnus Feb 11 '25

tossed out

Fuck. I had vintage computers from the 70s. Got them for free, but they were worth thousands. My dad sold them for about £100 (including the van he made me put them into) for scrap metal.

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u/Signal_Bee7457 Feb 11 '25

Absolutely devastating, RIP, may parents one day understand long-term implications of getting rid of their children's possessions

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u/UrUrinousAnus Feb 11 '25

I had a whole fucking cluster! All I've got now is the storage unit (not sure about 70s terminology), but it's water damaged and missing its disks.

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u/gnometoaster Feb 10 '25

Exactly what happened to me lol binder full of first gen Pokémon cards. And my Kamigawa era magic cards 😀🥲

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u/turbopro25 Feb 10 '25

Perhaps. But making an innocent kids day is invaluable. Pretty cool to see some people still get it out there.

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u/dbwoi Feb 10 '25

I did this myself but instead deeply regret it. Gave away all my OG cards and a FAT stack of rares to my younger cousins as a nice gesture. Years later, I found one of them bent to shit in the couch cushions and asked if they still had any others. Surprise, they didn't, and didn't give two shits about them lmao.

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u/darkoleander21 Feb 10 '25

I've done this. It was the latios latias in a heart shape. There was a 12ish yr old girl that wanted it soo bad because it was cute. We traded it to her and today I think that card is worth about a grand. But she loves it so I don't regret it.

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u/WardenUnleashed Feb 10 '25

Gotta keep the cardboard crack consumer pipeline steady.

The kids of today are the buyers in 20 years 😉