Took MY ipad away from her and came back from work to this. Lovely idea to soak my collection in water then slather it on the wall. Thankfully it’s my regular cards I left out last night bc idk what I’ve would’ve done 💀💀
90’s kid here. I recently visited my parent house and threw away around 10,000 baseball, football, basketball, and comic cards. This was supposed to be my early retirement.
Nobody wants them. There are millions in circulation and they are literally not worth the cardboard they're printed on. Mine were also stored in an environment with high humidity. I did kept one unopened set of about 100 baseball cards - the label said "Limited Edition" and then "300,000 Sets Made"
The thing iwith sport memorabilia is that no one remembers (or cares about) all those old players after a couple of decades.
Pokémon is the biggest franchise there is. All the millenials have disposable income to spend on youth nostalgia. And at the same time they raise their kids to like Pokémon.
So I don't think Pokémon cards will become less popular in the next 20 years at all. The price might drop if the print more but so far that does not seem to help. In the last 2 years there have been more cards printed than in all other years combined.
Yea, looking at some other cards, there's some serious wear and tear that just happen from kids not properly storing them. Looks like a lot of my comics from when I was seven and would just toss'em on the ground after reading and occasionally step on them.
I still remember finding an awesome collection of Polly Pocket toys (tiny little figures in tiny little houses and stuff) at a garage sale for a few bucks. I bought them for my daughters and they were over-joyed, as they didn't have a lot of toys like that. But then I found out my wife wasn't letting them play with them and had put them away in a box, as being too valuable for the kids. She wound up selling them a couple years later.
When I was little I got a Beanie Baby for my birthday from a friend. One of the cats but it was missing the tail. So my Mom took it away and put it in a cabinet because it must be "rare".
She didn't buy a replacement and almost never bought me authentic TY.
Jokes on her I buy ones I want for a few dollars every so often now. I guess I need to liberate that cat from the cabinet too.
We talk loud about things like lootboxes in video games being labeled as gambling, but all these collectables and card games are the worst cancers ever made.
Just make it illegal to sell any form of lottery unless its by a charitable organization. Scratch cards, baseball cards, everything.
Ban all the Pokemon cards you want, but leave us Yugioh players alone. We actually play our card game. Most pokemon card "collectors" don't even know how to play Pokemon TCG.
Honestly I did that for a bit but later swapped to a knob with a cheaper keyless lock that I could unlock on the outside using a coin because my moronic ass kept locking myself out lmfao
when I saw the headline I immediately thought of the time my little sister deleted my file on Super Mario Bros for GBC, but it was an accident and she was four. Your sister is doing this at eleven with no repercussions? Yikes.
As someone who works in tech, keep it away from her. She doesn’t need to be on it at all. Let her entertain herself. That shit is a poison to their minds. Sorry you have to be her parent.
At 11 years old she needs parental guidance not you hiding your crap from her. And not from you. You're her brother not your dad. Are your grandparents just providing room and board or do they actually get involved with raising her?
Yeah my niece and nephew live with my parents (grandparents) and they suck at parenting because my older siblings raised us. I’m the youngest of 5 and I remember more of my older sisters buying me school supplies and giving me money for school more than my mom. Dad was breadwinner and mom was SAHM but my parents are refugees so no American parenting.
You’re gonna have to take things into your own hands and deal with micro-parenting your sibling. 11 is old enough to know right from wrong. Just be a good example for your younger sibling and set boundaries
I was just a bit younger when I tried to get my older brother in trouble by carving "[brother's name] was here" into the bannister with a push pin. My mom immediately knew it was me, but I still tried, "But it says HIS name! Why would *I* carve *his* name?" while looking confused yet outraged.
A toddler would do it because "Hey, pretty colours stick to wall fun!"
A pre-teen would do it because "OMG how dare he take the iPad away from me! Doesn't he know how unfair this is? He can play games whenever he wants. He doesn't know what it's like to be me and need an iPad to hang out with my friends. This is so unfair! I'm going to teach him! He likes Pokemon cards like a dumb, stupid baby, so I'll take his Pokemon cards away and then he'll be sorry! Yup. Oh no, what have I done..."
I was like "please be 5, please be 5..." But no... That's way too old for this shit. I know a girl who's 13 and she was like this. She's worse now. Literally runs the streets with other delinquents, argues with her mom about said delinquency, breaks shit and just leaves. And it's absolutely her parents' fault. I'm not involved with that family anymore, thank God. The mom was "my friend." Yeah, no. So happy not to be caring about her children anymore and doing her favours. I feel bad about the little boy I babysat, but my peace is more important than her convenience. That's what I was to her: convenient, not a friend.
Do what my ex friend wouldn't: force the kid into services. She doesn't want mental health counseling? Too effing bad. She's a minor and her guardian can absolutely make her go. Can't make her talk, but they can make her go, especially if it's through CPS. Your grandparents either have to step up or give her to someone who will, because she WILL get worse.
11 is about the age I was at when I got pissed off at a game and broke my Gameboy Advance SD. I was so shocked and I think that was the last time I did anything like that but if this 11 y/o hasn't had a wakeup call yet it's completely plausible.
So as someone who's hobby is to conserve paper stuff.
Hope is not lost. Obviously if you hope was to have these as some sort of investment that will increase with value forever then all hope is lost. However modern inks are extremely resilient (Since I like to fuck around with 75-100 year old things, I know that some pigments in those prints are less resilient (Reds and oranges especially) while others are very resilient).
Here is what you do. Keep them humid for now. Get some distilled water (Basic shit works just fine...) from hardware store and a squeeze bottle. Then some watercolour paper (If you happen to find acid free cotton, even better, but anything works. Thicker the better). Then from pharmacy some of that non-stick gauze that is safe to use with burn wounds.
Gently with the distilled water remove them to a shallow dish, let it fall on it's own weight, do not force it. You might need to do some "pressure washing" with the bottle; if it is really stuck the dental pick/palette knife/non-sharp but thin implement can be used to give some extra encouragement - non sharp is important because you don't want to actually cut the print surface by accident).
Now. Take a square of the gauze, and put it on the water colour paper, then slide it under the card in the dish. Then slowly lift it up; then leave to dry. It'll get curled up... But we deal with that later. The gauze is important to prevent sticking - which can happen when the paper is soaking went (the water opens the fibres, and as they dry they can close and this can cause it to stick to things).
Once you got them all dry, cut squares of watercolour paper that are slightly bigger than the card (1cm margin on all side is good enough). Mist the card again just slightly. Like imagine taking a perfume bottle and misting the air above. Then you sandwich the card between those sheets under a weight (Wooden block is a good one since it also eats up humidity at steady rate; but you can use a piece of drywall; or a heavy book). And leave them for like.. 3-6 days to acclimate in a dry room (Doesn't need to be warm, just dry; warm and dry really just tend to go together). They should come out perfectly flat and rebonded.
If the bonding fails, then just set those aside, get some conservator's paper adhesive (It's not expensive, it is just adhesive with very clear optical clarity (Any glue that is archival safe (Reads on the bottle proudly) works, you find it most likely in the office supplies sections instead of arts&crafts), thin it out just slightly with relevant adhesive (Nearly all of them are water based), and bond the layer or peeling edges. Then compress them again.
At best you have recovered your card to decent condition, and you get a cool story about recovering them. At worst you have lost the cards which you have lost already.
I do shit like this FOR FUN. You wouldn't believe the surfaces I have managed to recover old newspaper clippings and such from. I mainly do consumer goods (packaging, labels, ads... etc prints). It is my art to take these mundane old things and preserve -to best of my ability- as if they were important relics. Then I display them as collections. I call it "History from the bottom of a purse".
This is the best comment in the entire thread. A helpful comment from a person passionate about a hyper specific niche. This is what makes reddit great.
I started this hobby really as an extension of my watercolour painting hobby. I'm very comfortable around different kinds of paper mediums, and used to handling water paper.
Many people who's hobby is to do watercolours don't actually know that you can reuse watercolour paper by washing it clean. My process is that I use it on reqular aquarelles first; then if I wash it I move to gouache; and if wash it once more I use tempera (Which even if water based, doesn't wash off after the oil and binder in the mix cures).
What started this really was that our family had a villa that was sold to settle a inheritance mess (Not as fancy as it sounds, it was more or less a big summer cottage that was a money sink and frankly a bit of a burden); and had to be completely emptied; and it had like lots weird paper things hidden in it (It had NEVER been fully cleared out to this degree), and some of the very cool but all had some degree of damage from water, staining, sun, even some mold.
I'm even comfortable with bleaching old paper things to clear them up; I even do slight touch ups if I feel like it helps to bring out the essence of the thing.
Like we had lots of old deteriorated books; which had nice prints in the and really cool covers. So I just started to reclaim the prints and covers as artworks. The fact it was damaged is part of the point of the artwork. I do not try to hide the fact... I'm very clear and honest about what I am doing.
I even offer to help to take in old stacks of paper things, clear attics and estate if need be; and I do one specific thing along with it. I offer to help go through them all, to get all family history and valuable things out from the stacks. I am not interested in those personal things or valuable historical things... I actually want to stuff collectors, antique dealers, and such do not want. I want the damaged, the broken, the faded, the sad and forgotten things that would end up in recycling or kindling for the sauna. (Also a sidenote... To fix things, you actually need paper that matches in it's type, quality and age/era... You can't buy that stuff; you need to collect it from where ever you get your hands to it).
Well today I learned way too much about something I'll never use. Appreciate you :)
For the record though, you can't do any of this on trading cards which are used in games since it will affect the weight and/or texture of the cards which will make the cards unplayable in anything but the absolute most casual of settings (since they are marked when shuffling).
But seriously OP make the runt mow the yard or some kind of work to make up the money or something. Things cost money and she’s gotta learn its not free to break other peoples things.
Its sibling 101. But since OP is closer to adulthood idk how they feel about doing that to the kid so i offered the parental way of correction. Whatever retaliation is taken is deserved though from a sibling standpoint
I remember my little brother stole my pokemon cards as a kid and gave them away to his friends at school and I was the ONLY ONE who got in trouble. My step dad said I had no right to be mad over some dumb cards.
She's 11, OP's grandparents seem to not care, this is a genuinely important moment for OP to teach her a very valuable lesson right now, and to do it the right way.
Real answer: She needs a pretty serious reality check and consequences. Destroying someone else’s property, doubly so over being denied access to something that by all rights she is being given privilege to have access too. That is well beyond spoiled, entitled, and actively mean. Idk who is in charge of raising her but that is worthy of massive repercussions and well it shouldn’t be traumatic, it should be something she doesn’t forget because this is a civil society basic empathy problem and without being checked it is what creates the worst people in this world
Yeah 11 is kind of too old to be doing shit like this. My daughter is 9 and she’s been too old for things like this for a long ass time now. There’s a 9 year age gap between her and her brother and she’s always known not to mess with her brothers stuff; like his collectible action figures he has sitting around his room, or his funko stuff, or his video games, or whatever.. doesn’t matter.
I have a 7 year old cousin and even she knows better than to do that. I collect a lot of anime figures and manga and she never touches anything without permission
By the time they’re pre school they’re learning actions have consequences and individuals have belongings.
By the time they’re in first grade, they know they have their own things, they can share, and they can say no. They also understand that goes both ways.
By 11, this is either a developmental defect or intentional.
Never EVER let her touch your tablet again. Lock it up if you have to. Delete all the games she has maybe downloaded on it just in case.
And make it clear the reason why she cant play on the tablet anymore is directly because she ruines your stuff.
Oh yeah and also put a password on your tablet
And make it clear you wont forgive her if she doesnt clearly apoligize. I have 2 little sisters with a similarly big age gap between. And one of them stole a plush of mine once. I didnt talk to her before she apoligized, which took almost a week. She hasnt stolen anything from me after that
Me and my sisters actually have a pretty good sibling relationship but you have to be strict with them if you have been seriously disrespected like that. Luckily you dont have to usually do this many times, just a couple. They should learn after the first time
Shes 11? Is she missing 30% of her skull and its contents? She is entering by adolescence and this is the behavior of a YOUNG child. Barring a severe cognitive disorder that prevents her from controlling her behavior this is inexcusable. She is not being properly prepared for social life outside the home.
I was going to comment that. That would be understandable if she was 3 or 4, 5 maximum. With 11, or she has late mental development, or she did it of pure evilness.
nah, this is just the behavior of a mean kid (coming from experience... i was a mean kid). I grew up with a mildly autistic little brother and we fought CONSTANTLY. he got on my nerves so much and i was always after revenge, whether that be taking his money or fucking his shit up... imo he hit me enough to deserve it (he still hits me at 17!)
this girl is just mad as fuck lmaooo. she needs a reality check
Younger sister of two older brothers who had consoles, cards, and other such stuff while growing up- I would *never* destroy anything of theirs and they wouldn’t do that to me. At 11 I was playing with my second oldest brothers Gameboy and treated it and the games with the highest level of respect I could possibly have- this kid absolutely should know better.
If your sister behaves like this at 11 years old, she is going to have some serious problems as her life goes on. Kids who do stuff like this without punishment and never develop respect for others are the people who grow up to be total shitheads
I would, at minimum, look into getting a lockbox/safe to keep Pokémon cards as well as other valuable/sentimental possessions. Maybe you could talk to your grandparents about getting a lock for your bedroom door? Not sure how strict or old fashioned they are, but maybe you could get permission to lock it only when you aren’t home or the grandparents can have a copy of the key. Anything to keep your bratty little sister out of your shit. Makes me grateful that I’m the younger sibling and didn’t have to deal with disrespect like this.
A bunch of people post EXTRMELY infuriating shit and put it under "mildly" then when someone's posts an actual mild issue, everyone says it's not mild enough
"I got Brian cancer, my gf fucked her brother and got pregnant then my dad died and my house caught on fire" R slash Mildly Infuriating
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This was my thought too. I'm far too old for the Pokémon trading cards obsession, but I KNOW how much effort, niche knowledge and passion is involved in this sort of collection. This is well past "mildly "
Been there - my child spilled on the SIR charizard chase from obsidian flames.
He pulled it out of my binder and left it on the floor, then spilled water on it. Sleeve couldn’t save it from that much water - it just seeped in. Devastated.
I had my good cards all up in a box on my top shelf, and my cousins came to visit one day. That night, I noticed the box was missing. I didn't find the cards until the next afternoon, outside, under the stairs, in the dirt, in Florida humidity. Best guess is that he hid them there when he realized he would get caught. Caught for what?
Oh, for opening up a sealed pack and two other cards which were still in their original plastic - one was an unopened ancient mew - not incredibly rare, but sentimental. Others were valuable. This was two decades ago, so while some of those were worth hundreds then, a few are worth thousands now (seriously - I wish I would not have looked up the prices for some of these cards...), likely due to stories like this making them more rare.
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u/Danny5247 4d ago
This one might hurt.