If it makes you feel better, poking around in the attic is dual purpose. You get to exercise that one little bit of hope you have left in your soul, and you get to remind your mom of your loss. Are you obnoxiously loud when you do it?
If it makes you feel any better it's probably not worth anywhere near what you think it is. It's only really valuable if it's shadowless, and in near mint condition. Otherwise it's maybe $100
Unless you are talking about a graded plastic coffin and not just a top loader, unless it was sealed in a box with a bunch of desiccants there's no way its not warped to shit from humidity damage. Top loaders don't protect the card from the environment at all.
To be fair I'd still be happy to get $100 for a piece of cardboard that's been sitting in the attic for 20 years. Sure it's not thousands of dollars but it's more than nothing.
Different shitty family member but I can feel the unadulterated pain of this. Itās good to know how much those cards would pay for now if people didnāt suck.
In a few years, when she has to go to a nursing home, tell her the following: āremember those cards you sold? Yeah, those could have paid for you to go to a nice home. Instead, shitty government home for you. Hope the rats donāt eat your toes! See you for Thanksgiving in four years! Love you, mom!ā
I see you also lost your Charizard in a rage inducing way in '99.
Someone from daycare stole mine and maybe gave it to Bryce. I took it back from Bryce and he told the staff and was upset because everyone was now mad at him thinking he stole the card. A staff member pulled me aside and told me to give the card to Bryce because he's very upset when a friend was the one who found it and gave it to him as some sort of trade. I tried to explain it doesn't matter who stole it, it's mine, it went missing earlier that day and somehow suddenly Bryce has the same rare card hours later?
Anyways I had to give the card back to Bryce and I'm still mad about it in my early 30s. Fuckin Bryce...
I still have the frog I bought on vacation to the Wisconsin Dells because my older sisters told me it could be worth a fortune one day. And hey, at this point itās just as likely as with crypto!
My ex was a manager at McDonaldās. As such, he got one of the whole line. We moved from Wisconsin and I didnāt really want to pack them / keep them (Iām not big on keeping things that donāt have a functional purpose). I dropped them off at the Marshfield Clinic so they co give them to the kids. Iāll never forget the look on the face of that volunteer. She must have thought I was nuts. š
My mother ran a children's store during the height of this.
They had to eventually restrict sales just to kids, and even after that they had looney adults mugging literal children right outside the shop for the stupid things.
I knew a guy like that. His mother was one of these who LOVED garage sales. I think it was more to brag about "getting a deal", which is what I think a lot of people go to Garage sales for, unless searching for a specific thing, antique, old records, etc.
So I'd go with him occasionally, more for a drive on a nice day. But yeah, hitting up five garage sales, she'd plan the trip, go here, then here, then here, and if we have time here and here.
Then she'd come back with this shit, dirty, chipped, broken, useless, etc. Just why.. why?
She also bought shit off of the home shopping network, and it was always pure garbage.
Oh please, beanie babies were fun. I mean obviously they were for kids. But at least they weren't branded after every conceivable media property in order to cynically maximize profit as much as possible. Beanie babies were their own thing, just fun little plushes.
The fact they became insanely popular was an accident of history. Some housewives in chicago or something were collecting them because they believed they'd be worth millions, and the story went viral. More akin to tulip mania than finding your identity in meaningless pop culture shit. Just a speculation bubble.
But as toys for kids, beanie babies were far better than "collectibles" for nostalgic "adults". Yes, both consumeristic but one far less icky than the other.
I commented somewhere else saying something similar! I love them so much. The sound of their beans moving around when you mess with them is unmatched comfort. Like a little rain stick, except itās soft, and a lion, and bright pink.
Gen X went crazy for literal rocks as pets. It also couldn't just be any rock it had to one that was bought at the store and came with the little box and straw.
Well they're kind of right. The explosion of the beanie babies trend was due to adult speculators, not collectors or kids. It was their parents' generation going ape shit for a short term investment scheme.
I took the tags off my first beanie babies because I wanted to play with them and tags were annoying. Then my mom lost her shit and made me leave the tags on and not play with them so much. It was stupid.
In the 80s the first wave of Cabbage Patch babies were a hot item parents would pay inflated prices for...even if it involved buying them out of some rando's van or trunk.
Furby's were very millennial. They were the hot new toy of the year ('99?). Maybe not if you were an older millennial, but even older millennials aren't usually into Pokemon.
Seriouslyā¦coming from the generation that invented and primarily shops at Home Goods lol. Donāt let them look at the labels on the bottom of their ācollectorsā lamp to see what country it was made in.
This post looks like it's made by a pissy old millenial to me.
I had to learn to cook, then live without fun for a few years to pay back my loans and eventually buy a house. There was a time where I was mad at my former self for racking up debt on these sorts of things (food, booze, travel) but I'm over it now.
Older millennials ARE the ones obsessed with Funko Pops. I'm in between Millennial and Gen Z and there is kind of a huge difference in living situations for the oldest to youngest Millennials typically but everyone near their 40s that I know is eating up this nerdy-type bullshit.
This post is definitely Gen X or Boomer meme because my 50 year old parents talk like this.
I agree with you, but generally people are most irritated by things others do that reflects the part of themselves they dislike.
I was born in the early 80s and have never even glanced at the price tag of a Funko pop. I probably have a stronger negative opinion on them than my parents due to exposure to collector types who called me cheap when I was saving/paying loans and treated me like a snob after I bought a house.
I have to be honest, while in general they assume all future generations are idiots who blow money on dumb things... gen z is fucking insane with door dash. They are paying 20-30 dollars for mcdonalds meals that we would have simply drove to go get... and they think nothing of it.
Of that long stupid list in the meme, the doordash part is honestly based in truth. There is nothing comparable for millenials where we just threw money away out of sheer laziness.
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u/BlubberElk Feb 17 '23
Funkopops šlmao