Cheers!
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All the appreciation and gains of my personal collection have been offset entirely by the explosive gains of the housing market. (I don’t own a house but am saving for one).
A tougher pill is the possibility that the housing market has far exceeded my collection’s appreciation.
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That’s what I get for not finishing my coffee first. I’m gonna leave it as is. 
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BW & XY sets will never fly under the radar anymore…
I love ryo ueda full arts, team plasma, mega evolutions, code cards with individual graphics for each set… 
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People who try and shit on it are just gutted they missed out on the golden era!
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Youd hope so, but its almost like a lot of newbs legitimately think swsh is a more collectable era. You cant really argue with these people. Just gotta let them run wild
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100%. I used to be one cheap SOB. I’m fortunate to have a great career and I used to save every freakin penny of that money. As I’ve gotten older and unfortunately have had lots of family members and several friends die pretty young, I’ve sort of gone in to YOLO (as the kids said in 2017) mode with some of this. I’m not saying to go out and be irresponsible, but if you want the card and can afford it, screw it, do it. I could be dead tomorrow and like BK said, you can’t take it with you.
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The people you hate the most are the ones who think about you the least. Through natural selection, they are also the ones most likely to succeed in life.
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Bad centering on cards. Period.
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Sugimori’s water coloring will probably never come back 
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There are two tragedies in collecting and life, not getting what you want, and getting it.
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As Shakespeare once said,
In sooth, two woeful tragedies dost dwell,
In mortal life and gathering alike:
To covet that which thee desires, but fail,
Or, in possession, rue the prize achieved.
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This can only be said by someone who doesn’t own a japanese trophy card.
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Thank you for illustrating my point.
The last time we saw it was Gen 2, which was over 20 years ago. So barring a drastic change, you are unfortunately almost certainly right.
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Japan’s super limited prints of sets and their relatively low print time and amount won’t change because it keeps bringing attention to the cards.
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People have different tastes in cards
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Me continuing to read all of these because I like the pain.
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24K toilet rolls, Lürssen Shipyard on speed dial, chairing horse breeders conventions in Monaco, doing mushrooms with politicians, marrying into royalty, iceberg housing, one bowling alley for each child in the basements of your many homes-away-from-home and buying a spanish island to go on vacation once with all your mistresses.
That is the level if you want it to be a competition of money on its own.
I always thought scott was just a poor human clone subservient to the true AI overlords. Just as Elon is a genetic augment, subservient to the paypal, tesla, and now twitter-verse. These true AI have the long-game locked down! 
Swallow this pill:
Feeling a need for colored, shiny cardboard is in fact, a purely egotistical sentiment that only highlights the true insecurities or perceived inadequacies of self in one’s concept of their own existence.
I’m a slave to indulgence, whenever I buy cards, and dammit, I don’t want to be free!
