Hey everyone 
Seasonal greetings and I wish you all a happy end of the year. I just sold roughly about a third of my collection! So, for the last time, please allow me to flex this portion of my collection with you all.
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My name is Chris, and I had been a collector since I was a young boy in primary/elementary school. I remember bringing my cards to school (despite them being banned from school) and having them stolen. I remember trading with schoolmates in the playground and shoving an Unlimited Fossil Moltres Holofoil into my pocket. Then, I remember waking up the day after and finding out I forgot to take said card out of my school uniform and having the card go through the washing machine, coming out all damaged and wrinkly.
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What I mean to say is, I was there like you all since the beginning of Pokemon.
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As I grew older, I moved to different countries and different schools and made a best friend through Pokemon. It was difficult when I had to move again and I lost contact with him.
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Collecting during my high school years during the mid 2000s had been tough because people thought Pokemon was childish and I worked minimum waged jobs to buy Pokemon cards from the United States and around the world.
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During university, YouTube launched in the mid to late 2000s and I started making Pokemon card opening videos there because I thought to myself “why couldn’t he show the card this way” or “I would enjoy it more if he opened it that way” so I decided, I was going to do it myself.
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I was lucky enough to make money off of my videos on YouTube for a short period of time in the early 2010s. With that money, I continued to buy cards and to me it was essentially like free money where I open packs in front of a camera to buy more packs to open more packs in front of the camera.
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After university, I had to be an adult, get a job, pay the bills, and put food on the table. So, although my collecting did not stop, it slowed down in the mid 2010s. I had no time to make videos or open packs so I kept all of my sealed untouched.
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Well, I suppose the rest is history from 2020 onwards is pretty much the era that we are all in for Pokemon collecting.
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It was difficult letting go of this part of my collection, but I know they will go to someone who had been polite, great to deal with, and I suspect, someone with as much love for the hobby as I have.
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This is getting quite emotional for me because all the sealed you see in the photos represents 20 years of my life.
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However, I know selling a third of my collection will help make my life easier and for me to pursue my goals. For one, I had finished my Master’s Degree and dreamed of doing a PhD but life got in the way. With this sale, I plan to enroll and study to finish my dream of doing research within the medical/health sector.
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If you had read this far, I would like to thank you. This has been hard for me, but my friends and family have helped me through out this entire process to help me make the decision which I feel is “right.”
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It is not all of my collection and I would still be collecting. And one way I look at it is $1,000 to a 20 year old is different to $1,000 to a 90 year old. I may hold onto my collection for longer but even if it appreciates in value in a few years time, I would be headed for middle age. By that time, money would mean less to me.
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Anyway, lastly, if you see my motorcycling down the road with my Pikachu backpack, don’t forget to say hello. I would appreciate it.
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Slayerofmca signing out with one last flex of this part of my collection.
Chris.
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such a cool story!
congrats on owning these amazing items and congrats on the sale! I am towards the end of my own PhD in biological research science, it will be a lot of hard work but also very rewarding and interesting if you commit to it. Happy for you to reach out if you ever need someone to vent to or bounce ideas off