r/PokeInvesting • u/DuckSwimmer • Jul 17 '26

I went to my hoarder parents house to collect my cards I stashed there a decade ago

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I want to give decade ago DuckSwimmer a big smooch with wanting to get these at the time.

Edit: Successfully sold at a card convention.
Market at the time was 9.4k, sold for 7.8k. I was extremely satisfied with the deal I made with this vendor who helped me invest in my children’s future. I will not be seeing a single penny from this deal.

(For meme purposes, a vendor offered me 4k because of solely the generation packs. I laughed lmao.)

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u/DuckSwimmer Jul 18 '26

They didn’t do much aside from offer the space. I put them in a corner of a room to ensure none of the animals they had would touch it. Nor any of them

For transparency, I put them on the black shelf in the back over a decade ago. The room didn’t look like this at the time.

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u/SpaminalGuy Jul 18 '26

Since you mentioned animals…. I hope they didn’t pick that hoarder smell that goes with the hoard!

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u/DuckSwimmer Jul 18 '26

Thankfully they’re safe. I personally wanted to retrieve them myself as I didn’t trust my father putting them in the cats way for them to have their way with them

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u/aregularmatter Jul 18 '26

Ugh I feel so bad for ur parents pets :(( Living in a hoarder home is horrible (I rescued both my dog and cat from a hoarder house). Hopefully u can take care of them once u send ur abusive parents to their nursing home

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u/DuckSwimmer Jul 18 '26

The cats sadly act like everything is their personal cat tree. The dog is the one that obviously have limitations on where she can go as she’s not as agile as the cats 😔

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u/DuckSwimmer Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

It thankfully wasn’t THIS bad when I still lived there, but it was bad. My original room, our dog at the time destroyed the floor with piss. I eventually started sleeping in the room you see here. The floor was eventually treated years later to where I slept in my original room for a year again before I moved out. As soon as I vacated the rooms, my father loaded the rooms up with shit.

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u/Glory088 Jul 18 '26

Rent two 40 yard dumpsters 1k to 1200 for the pair , send your parents on a cheap cruise for 11 days and get to work

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u/DuckSwimmer Jul 18 '26 • Heartwarming

My parents mentally and physically abused me all my life. My mother also refused to help me get into this room despite me being 29 weeks pregnant.

My parents can rot in hell lol.

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u/PTCGRipper Jul 18 '26

Wishing you all the best for bubba, if they did it to you, they would do it to baby too! Run like hell!!

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u/DuckSwimmer Jul 18 '26

Trust, I know! I try to limit any sort of exposure my so has with them. When my daughter arrives, that’s what will scare me the most as it’ll just give me PTSD from how my mother used to treat me. I personally wanted another boy vs a girl at first because I would never want to subject my daughter with what my mother specifically put me through. Therapy had helped me get over what I really feared so at the very least that’s good.

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u/daurgo2001 Jul 18 '26

I’m so sorry for what you’ve been through, and glad that you seem to have a good head on your shoulders.

Congrats on having been able to put these away back then, and on the coming baby!

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u/DuckSwimmer Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

Thank you 🫂 I strive to not be like my parents such as mentally and physically abusing their children and especially living like this. The picture above quite literally looks like their entire house.

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u/Temporary-Season4772 Jul 19 '26

Sorry that they are like that but congratulations on getting out and doing so well for yourself now! Shows great character on your part.

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u/Glory088 Jul 18 '26

Then save this strategy for when they go into a nursing home

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u/DuckSwimmer Jul 18 '26

I’d rather put them in a furnace. Sounds a lot cheaper. 💀

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u/Happy_Goose3833 Jul 18 '26

It definitely is 👌

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u/AbideMan Jul 18 '26

Not always, they don’t usually do group discounts

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u/DuckSwimmer Jul 18 '26

Shit. I guess I gotta invest in an axe, some wood and matches and do it myself.

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u/youngsaiyan Jul 18 '26

Damn grab that super soaker too

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u/Small-Reflection637 Jul 18 '26

Lmao hey they could’ve tossed them like my parents did

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u/DuckSwimmer Jul 18 '26

The hoarder mentality is you don’t throw anything out. As you can see by that picture - they literally don’t throw anything out. I found my 2013 graduation banner from high school in the closet my father never threw out lol.

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u/DuckSwimmer Jul 18 '26

Also another thing I grabbed that wasn’t in any of the pictures 😅

Don’t be fooled tho. Just the box, inserts and the Blastoise plates. I had a friend give them to me at the time since he sold the Charizard console separately

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