My Pokemon Cards

     Finally, after I don't know how long, it is here now. Not a whole lot to say on this due to the fact the picture kind of speaks for itself. I have been collecting Pokemon cards since I was around six or seven. I didn't actually buy most of these from the stores, many of the cards were found at yard sells. I'm a bit of a cheapskate, even when it comes to things I like.

     I have roughly eight thousand cards now, it would be nice to have a lot more, but you can only find so many good deals. Believe it or not, I will go into more detail about this when I do my Collection post, but collecting/hording is a part of OCD, which a few weeks ago I knew I had some degree of it, but here lately I'v been wondering how bad it actually may be.

     To those who don't know much about Pokemon cards, these are actually sorted by the printed sets, and even sorted from oldest to newest prints. The larger stacks hold all my duplicates, while the many small ones are the sets. I didn't believe how close I was to completing sets until I sorted them out. I'm only missing five cards to a set that is worth a pretty penny. and ten in two other sets that are worth just about the same.

     One thing many don't realize is if you were to buy these in big lots or new from the store, you are more than likely to make, not much, but enough to at least cover the cost of what you bought them for. Depending on the cards even a profit. Sometimes the profit will be wide, sometimes it will be just a few pennies. Honestly it is like that with about any kind of card game, but I don't know anything out of the Pokemon world.

     I was hoping to put them in binders before this post, however I started feeling fairly claustrophobic. Mainly because I was setting on the floor for hours on end trying to sort the cards out by number. I ended where there is a missing set. I started from the top of the picture and the stacks only get larger from there on out.

     Buying new cards from the store, I'm unsure how long they have been doing this because I only recently got back into collecting, but within a pack of new cards, comes a online code for online cards. I have a little over a hundred codes meaning if I wanted to I could say I have closer to nine thousand cards, but that doesn't seem very legit. Also again I feel claustrophobic using/looking at my online cards, because I am limited to how I can sort them,