Hi. Thanks for stopping by.
After collecting Pokemon cards in elementary school and shortly in 2015 I got back into the hobby in early 2021. This time I decided to collect in English so I needed to start completely from scratch. I try to mainly collect Diamond & Pearl, HGSS and Altarias but I mainly buy EX Era cards because … I don’t know I’m just bad at focusing on my goals. Therefore I wanted to make this thread where I can follow my progress and look back on my journey in a few years.
My current short term collecting goals are:
catching up on my modern binder sets
completing my childhood LP german binders completing a Pokedex binder from Gen 1-4 with my childhood cards
getting all S&M Alt Art PSA 10 (20/29)
I will update this thread every once in a while and add some more categories once I figured out what the best way to photograph binders is.
You are doing a great job at collecting. The only way you’d be a bad collector is if you do something illegal or expect people to give handouts. However, you are not doing that, so no worries. Your goals sound like a lot of fun and the cards you have so far are great. I love pokemon cards with the sparkly borders.
and some CGC slabs which I bought a couple month ago to cross them over to PSA but never did as I wasn’t confident that they would upgrade/stay the same.
Thanks. This ones definetely in my top three. Those two look simply so adorable. Only the Latias&Latios and Espeon&Deoxys Tag Teams are more beatiful in my opinion.
That can definitely be hard. Grabbing a bunch of stuff shows you really collect what you like though which is cool. If you’re looking to get more focused I hope you can
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve slowly (and silently) added some cards to this thread but didn’t make an update post. I didn’t feel that it was necessary to make a post for a single card at a time.
Therefore I’ll just squeeze them into this update.
Today I received one of my 15$ specials back from PSA with a lot of sparkly cards. Overall I was very pleased with the grades although one or two were a bit iffy.
In addition to those I got the Shaymin EX from the XY Premium Collection which is probably one of my favourite modern card. I’ve been looking for a mint looking copy forever but never really found on
e so I just bit the bullet and bought a graded copy
After my 15$ special was stuck in customs for 5 days the cards finally arrived today. Honestly I can’t really express how happy I am with the grades (especially the Rayquaza)
First I got some modern cards really liked and/or needed for my SM Alt Art collection
As always there was a bit of Diamond Pearl/Ex Era in my submission.
I never really paid to much attention to the BW era and never actively searched for them. This might change in the future as I fear that I may have released a monster when I picked up the Darkrai.
I NEED MORE BW FULL ARTS NOW!
Thanks!
I got relatively lucky finding Tin Promos in good condition. At least from the EX Era… let’s not talk about LV.X or Prime Promos though Those are always absolutely awfull.
great additions!
But there’s just so much nostalgia in those cards.
Those are always absolutely awfull.