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My mother worked at a factory and they had a machine like a vacuum sealer. I was the only kid in school with his favorite cards sleeved … and then they got all stolen, but this is another story.
This is kind of a different take, but only speaking of course on my own collection and items I have the cards that really hit me the hardest are the ones that have my name on them and were signed to me. Some of the most important and meaningful situations in my collecting happened while meeting artists at events, so those that I have where I can connect the dots and go back in time to those moments truly fill my heart with so much joy. Its of course a shame that these kinds of things aren’t as common anymore and that some bad things caused a downfall of lots of these events, but while they lasted and the ones I were able to go to, confess to the artist my love for them and their art, and then through their good will they gave away a piece of them to me as a gift is truly an incredible thing. It makes me see that were all human, were all people in this world navigating through life, and what matters most above all else is connection and togetherness.
This same thing extends to non cards as well, but for sake of the thread well, you get the idea lol.
It reminds me of my wife everytime, I even offered it to her and she agrees, and all her colleagues too : small, cute, angry and mighty.
An aura of do not mess with me !!!
I’m dodging the question but my strongest feelings are with the actions surrounding collecting as a child. My mum buying me packs of Fossil (and opening them and getting absolutely nothing), or finding Neo packs in a small town store years after they’d gone out of print (and opening them and getting absolutely nothing), or selling my childhood collection for my first laptop so I could play WoW (this emotion is called despair).
That collection included the three premium files. I’d come across those at a hobby store in another smallish town a few years after the third one released and convinced my Dad to buy me them, in exchange I would trade in some of my games at Gamestation for cash and pay him back (he never held me to this deal).
I poured over all of these cards, but I have a vivid memory of opening the third one and finding the shiny Celebi which was obscured behind that blue rectangle. I love second gen, and I was most excited about the Entei’s as I’d watched the third film about a trillion times, but the Celebi was a surprise and always took centre stage (slot 5) on page one of my Ultra PRO binder! If there was one card I’d like to find my copy of it would be that one.
The card I bought my 6 year old son at our very first Pokemon card show that started it all! An amazing journey I’ve been able to share with him and amazing father-son time.
I’m remembering making a wish for Xmas and I hoped for a Japanese Neo starter deck (which my local shop sold). And when I received it I immediately opened it and I got this cute holo Pichu which I really wanted at the time. I was super happy.
