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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Immediate-Cherry-195 on 2025-07-03 16:59:12+00:00.


I was helping my parents clean out their attic and found my old pokemon collection from when I was like 8 and the cards looked pretty rough so I threw them in the trash right away thinking they’re pretty much worthless.

My dad saw them later on (at the garbage can) and told me to check in case they’re worth something so I pulled them back out and decided to check them out on ebay in case they’re worth something. I found out I had a first edition Charizard that was apparently worth some nice money. After checking out all the cards (I had to check pretty deep cuz some of them were pretty much destroyed so they weren’t worth anything) I ended up selling the Charizard one for 3.2k and the rest of the collection for another 1.2k. I almost threw away literally over four grand because I assumed they were trash. Thank you dad!!

TL;DR: I put away my old pokemon cards thinking that they’re aren’t worth anything, turns out they’re worth over 4k