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Friday Fun Thread for May 15, 2026

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I recently stumbled upon my childhood Pokemon card collection. I had a couple binders sitting in storage for many years and now I finally have some time to catalog and sell them.

Aside from being a trip down memory lane, it has been quite a treasure hunt. My ten-year-old self organized them by color, and at some point later I took a bunch of them out to play with and never put them back. I have since learned that there are a couple of gems in there - who would've thought that a promotional card received in a magazine, or one that came with a movie ticket, would have resale value twenty-five years in the future? And then recently I learned about misprinted cards - apparently there are a handful of known typos or printing mistakes that can 10x the price of a card.

I had some family who went to Japan, came to visit my family in the US, and brought me a couple packs of Japanese cards. I didn't know anyone who could read Japanese during that time, and there were no easily accessible translation services, so they remained a mystery for many years. I remember getting on the internet in the early 2000s and finding a website where someone posted their English translations, and I copied a bunch of them down into post-it notes that I stuck to the back of the card.

There must be a bunch of 90s kids in here - what happened to your collection?

Hah. I lost it a long time ago. Possibly in a move, possibly thrown out after water damage. Possibly given away to a younger cousin?

Still remember when my cousins and I were opening packs, and I got a second holographic Charizard and had to give it away to another cousin out of "fairness". Was pretty bitter at the time, but it was definitely the thing to do in hindsight.

Was pretty bitter at the time, but it was definitely the thing to do in hindsight.

You can still hang it over their head if you ever need a favor called in.

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