I really admire the one pack a week nostalgia trip you’re taking. Must feel great looking forward to the pack opening every week! Nice job and awesome collection.
Side note: Whatever you do keep your cards out of direct sunlight.
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I agree, great idea to make it once a week, something to look forward to 
Maybe I’ll try something out like that in the future!
For now, I don’t think I could contain myself to 1 pack a week, even for an expensive wotc set, because it leaves a sour taste in my mouth to open a dud, I like to go out on a high 
@pieterpie
Haha it isn’t easy… especially since I’ve pulled 4 trainers and have to wait a week until the next one!
@missingno
Don’t worry I’ve invested in a safe now. Long live my cards!
@acebren
It does make it more rewarding than doing it all in one go (as I would end up getting another box soon after lol).
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I’ve been building a little collection of ungraded cards to send off to PSA (never sent cards off to grading before). I think maybe by the end of next year I will have around 50-100 to send off. Opening all of the rares from the booster boxes helps too. Anyway these are two cards that I got. When I got them I paid just under PSA 9 price for the Raichu and and under PSA 8 price for the ninetales. I got the 3 legendary birds for $8usd too so that wasn’t too bad a purchase either.
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I got these next 3 from a seller I’ve bought cards off of for over a year now. He said that he thought they had a good chance of getting a 10. Can’t argue with that after seeing them in the flesh!
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Andddd my favorite Pokemon, Mewtwo, with some big green creature. Would love to get a Mewtwo in a 10 one day but stoked to have this one. If I do ever get a 10 I think I’ll start a Mewtwo collection with the different artworks (shining Mewtwo would be next on the list).
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Really cool collection thread, spent the last 5 mins browsing through,
Love the idea of the 1 a week booster and the PSA 9 Base 1st Holofoils have me pretty jealous! 
Grrrr…
What I mean to say is I’m very happy for you 
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Your base set holos are gorgeous! Very nice collection!
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@gradedgroudon thanks man the 9s have definitely been a bit more expensive than I thought when I started all of this. However, I do look at the 10s and think if I was only a few years earlier… but you can only go with what you’ve got at the time soI’m pretty happy with them. I guess whatever you can get your hands on now someone will look at them in a few years and think the same thing. Opening the one packet a week has honestly been one of the most satisfying parts of the hobby for me. The good thing is that the box lasts me 9 months and I have something to look forward to every weekend!
@pkmnflyingmaster mate we are in the same boat now. Only one holo to go! I have a feeling we’ll get it around the same time and life will be swell haha Are you only collecting a thick stamp set? I seem to have a mixture of both… at this point I aint being picky that’s for sure.
@rethe Cheers mate, appreciate it
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@pkmnflyingmaster mate we are in the same boat now. Only one holo to go! I have a feeling we’ll get it around the same time and life will be swell haha Are you only collecting a thick stamp set? I seem to have a mixture of both… at this point I aint being picky that’s for sure.
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1 more! We actually had a very similar journey, I even started out with the 8’s too. I definitely prefer the thick stamps but I have a fair mix of both. Maybe I’ll slowly accumulate a full thick set. My charizard is thin… it’ll be a bit annoying to try to replace that one.
Either way, having a complete set is an impressive feat, regardless of thick or thin!
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I was going to wait another 10 weeks before I show my next 10 pulls but I had to share this. It is Saturday morning, which means I pull another one of my gym challenge boosters. After last week getting pretty much my favourite card ever I am pretty content with anything I get for the rest of the box. Low and behold this is what I get haha. Gonna be a good week I feel
@pkmnflyingmaster yeh I think so too. I have about 9 of the 8s and it just took one card in the 9s for me to change what I was going to do. I prefer the thick stamps but with the way the market is going anything is good enough at this stage. And yeh my charizard is thin too… oh well. There’s a gyarados on eBay atm so I might just have to bid way way over so I can finally sleep at night 
I’m hoping you get your Chansey (EDIT: Mewtwo) soon!!
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Awesome collection, so jealous!!
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Nice pulling the Gengar already! Are you planning on getting it graded?
I actually got the Chansey in the last pwcc auction. Just need the mewtwo (hence my salt about your mewtwo on the last page and my avatar / signature haha )
Yeh gonna get both gengars graded. Over the next year I’m trying to build up enough cards for a PSA submission but that’s a little while away yet.
Oh my bad I meant Mewtwo not Chansey. Nice work I got the clefairy in the last pwcc auction. As I said we will get there…soon I hope!
Neat Collection! Congrats on your PSA 9 Mewtwo and Ninetales. Those r two cards I been looking for lately!
Good luck man! Those two seem to be going for a bit more atm. Especially Mewtwo but that card is very cool so it’s worth it haha.
im so jelly… that display of all the cards would be amazing to have. Congratulations!
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