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I Can’t Stop Buying Pokemon Cards
Old habits die hard — then come back
I have spent approximately $250 on Pokemon cards in the past week.
I didn’t see this coming on my approach to 2024. But here we are.
All it took was my friend spending $1,000 on Pokemon cards and hitting on a HUGE card to get me back into one of my childhood hobbies.
Collecting trading cards of some sort is something every boy does at some part in his childhood. Then we give it up at some point because we realize we like girls and start focusing on that.
But then news breaks of a huge Pokemon card sale and you start to wonder, “Where are my old Pokemon cards?”
It’s hard to completely give up collecting Pokemon cards. If you loved the game when you were a kid, it lives in your heart forever, and you’ll always have that nostalgic love inside of you.
We’re all pining to go back to our childhood, after all. What better way to do that then spend hundreds of dollars at a time on cardboard cartoons?
I wrote a couple years ago about the insane price runs of all trading cards, and how it was kind of dumb. And at the time, it was. Everyone had free government money and time. They spent a lot of both on Pokemon cards.
The fact that trading cards have any value doesn’t make a ton of sense… unless you get to know a human or two. We’re emotionally driven beings, even the “manly” ones. The things we love as a child stick with us forever, and we want to remember those simpler times.
To do so, we have to spend a little dough.
It’s OK, though. Those dumb pieces of cardboard actually have some value — and continue to gain value over time.
Most cards you draw out of a pack are worth cents at best. But some can be worth $10s, $100s, $1,000s, even $10,000s. Over time, the super rare ones can be worth $100,000 or $1,000,000.
