>>47378230I'm still pretty pissed about something my parents did even though I'm a grown-ass adult. When D/P/P came out, I prided myself in having every pokemon game that came out, even the other versions. The only time I ever got a new pokemon game was when my birthday rolled around, and only if it was a new generation, so I wound up working hard to gather the money to buy the other versions. I remember I got a few versions, like leafgreen and sapphire, from straight up trading up pokemon cards until I had enough foils to trade my friends for them. I got Pokemon Ranger after trading away my Metroid Prime and Super Mario World carts, which stung at the time.
I even had XD: Gale of Darkness and Pokemon Colosseum, despite not having a gamecube. I bought Hey You Pikachu, along with the microphone, at a garage sale. As a kid, it was probably one of the things I was most driven about.
Around when I turned 13, my mother gave away almost my entire collection, including my old red cart that I had from when I was 3. I learned how to read playing that game. When I protested and pleaded, she said I didn't play the games much anymore, and that the people she was giving them away to could use them better than I could. She said that when I was an adult, they would be worth pennies, so I could always just re-buy them. She told me I was too old to care that deeply about children's games, and that I needed to grow up.
What stung the most was that, the family she gave these games to, just wound up hawking them off at gamestop for cash anyways. We found that out after I asked about it a while later.
Sometimes I think that experience is why I have a hoarding problem now.
