So, I have this thing. Basically I’m obsessed with organizing Pokémon cards. When I was younger and the only cards available were Base set, Fossil and Jungle, I’d find a million different ways to rearrange them – by element, evolutions, sets, names, card numbers, etc.– and I’d do so on a monthly basis. And when you have a binder full of cards that’s half of the size of your body, well, it’s not a simple task. There were many times I grew tired of organizing those cards halfway through the process, in which case I would erratically shove everything into sleeves and stash the binder away like it was the plague or something.
But all in all I find it an incredibly tranquil thing to do.
A few days ago I was searching my woman cave for something or another, but instead ended up finding a tin full of *GASP* unorganized Pokémon cards. (Don’t ask me where they came from, as I have no effin’ clue, although my best bet is I probably bought them at a garage sale.) Now that I knew I had loose Pokémon cards floating around in my woman cave it required a call to arms…eventually. I needed to find this thing called “free time” first.
Yesterday I found myself with the aforementioned free time and I thought most amazing-est, perfect-est and best-est way to spend it would be to immerse myself in Pokémon glory and organize ‘dem loose Pokémon cards.
But, uh, hello. HI. THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT SETS I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON. How many sets have been released since Jungle and Fossil?! Before I knew it I had several different piles of sets scattered in my living room—it reminded me of when I went through this last June when you guys helped me figure out WTF is what.
Aaaaand this is where I left off yesterday. Thinking about continuing Operation: Organize Things of Which I Don’t Know What They Are makes me feel warm, fuzzy and giddy inside. Any of you guys remember organizing your ish like I did? I don’t know what it is, but there’s something EXTREMELY satisfying about it! Like, “Yeah, I’m a badass, I have binders full of Pokémon cards.”
Or something.
OH GOD! Not Pokemon cards! I remember when Pokemon was THE thing to do and I used to collect these too, I’ve still got a binder of overflowing cards stashed away somewhere. I can still remember those little packets I used to buy and would hope for the omg-rare holographic one haha.
And btw I guess you really can’t get much more obsessed with Dragon Age since there’s a picture on the background of your phone of Alistair. (It’s nice to know who these characters are now that I finally played the game)
HAHAHAHA…oh yes. I was hoping no one would see that. ;)
Butchyeah, you should find those cards and send me pics so I can internet-fap to them.
same as me with my comic collections….Only that it’s harder to choose to how to set it in? Alphabetical, By Number, or By Sheer Awesomeness
EXACTLY! That’s why I kept on organizing them…I could never come up with an order that satisfied me for more than a month or so.
I have the same problem, always organizing the cards, and never satisfied how i organize them… >_<
I know exactly what you mean!!
To be honest, I’m sitting here, TRYING to organize my collection, which is currently at around 4.000 Pokémon cards.. And it’s hopeless!
I can’t just pick my favourite cards because that splits up evolutions, and I can’t make myself do that! Type is kinda ridiculous since Charmander and Charmeleon suddenly became lightning Pokémon later on.. So I’m just lost -.-‘
you’re stupid, charmander and charmeleon never became lightning types. fire maybe? n00b