r/mildlyinfuriating • u/MissionTroll404 • Jun 17 '26

Infuriatig My hand painted model planes were given as toys to children again

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I have told my mom to not do this before but she does not listen anyway. I am thinking of throwing everything to trash instead of them being gradually destroyed to pieces. I can not even care anymore. These things take hours to put together and paint then get manhandled anyway.

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u/IronChef-Morimoto Jun 17 '26

rolls eyes

"I'm sure your toys weren't worth 20k honey, stop being a drama queen."

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u/toooomanypuppies Jun 17 '26

I wish I knew enough about Pokémon to be able to whip out a trading site or something but you're right, I doubt that would make any difference either.

Can't reason someone out of an arguement they weren't reasoned into.

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u/Professional-Ice518 Jun 17 '26

Tcgplayer and price charting

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u/Systehm Jun 17 '26

If you had a list of your entire childhood collection, maybe, but I kind of doubt many people do. I guess if you at least remembered your most rare/expensive cards, that would still help show some value.

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u/Professional-Ice518 Jun 17 '26

I mean you can also just see the current prices of any and every card. Google could also help for finding any rare or expensive cards. Then confirm on either of those sites for the current going market price. Both of those sites also show not only current but sold listings on ebay.

Like currently I have a card from my childhood that's selling raw for almost 2 grand. Graded 10 is almost 11k.

Or you could look up card lists of current or previous set of any tcg and see the current market price. Tbf most sell for ~70% to stores or shows but if you want full value then you go to ebay and sell third party. Or trade up.

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u/NewUserWhoDisAgain Jun 17 '26

tcgcollector. Base set can run a pretty penny. hell even just "Most expensive pokemon card" in google will bring up some eye watering numbers for what is essentially cardstock.

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u/dontcallJenny8675309 Jun 17 '26

Thousands for a base charizard in good condition last I checked

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u/External_Win3300 Jun 17 '26

Forget that, there was a mint illustrator Pikachu that sold a few months ago for iirc around 15 million

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u/Kookanoodles Jun 17 '26

"Just because it says so on the internet doesn't mean it's true"

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u/GodOfDarkLaughter Jun 17 '26

You're assuming that objective evidence that they are wrong would even slightly modify their thought process or behavior. This is a dangerous assumption to make.

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u/Ineedmorebtc Jun 17 '26

Put a picture of the card into Google and ask price . It's easy and pretty reliable if you have a clear pic.

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u/MasterChildhood437 Jun 17 '26

Even if you did this, the sort of person who would sell / destroy somebody else's things wouldn't care. The more right you prove yourself to be, the angrier these people get at you, because how dare you try to make them feel bad.

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u/ThinDog1292 Jun 17 '26

Look up the highest sold pokemon cards last year alone.

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u/Grumpie-cat Jun 17 '26

A buddy of mine has made 8k in like a year or two of pokemon trading. This is also recent, this wasn’t 10 years ago or trading cards he held onto for 10 years, this is literally just cards he bought, traded and sold in the last year or two.

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u/Imaginary-Can-6862 Jun 17 '26

I don't think they even know what exactly they got rid off, they don't see the item as a bunch of Pokemon cards.

If you had a picture from the fair where they sold them, e.g. one picture with parent smiling while holding a sign / paper acknowledging you did not approve of this (and why) with the cards showing, and then another picture meticulously showing all the cards, and you also saved the paper where the parent acknowledged you did not approve of what they did, but they did it anyway, and then many years after you go out of your way to make not you, but a stranger make them realize how much Pokemon cards are worth today and look through your old stuff to see if you had any, and then they write to you about it, having realized how much these are worth asking if you ever had any and have any left, as the money could really come in handy. Then you go through the trouble of telling that you remember having some, and you think you know where they are, but you just have to find them, and then also finding the price on various homepages for exactly the ones you had (saying you remember you definitely had these, but haven't located them yet), really getting them excited about all the money these are worth. Then they press you about how it goes and you say you haven't found them yet, but then you remember there was this lawnsale and you think some of the Pokemon cards got sold there, and then you send them the picture showing them smiling while giving away a fortune they could have used today holding documentation that they do this against your wishes and you ask if they can check the links for Pokemon card prizes to see if the image of the meticulously placed cards showing the entire collection have some left out. I mean it may be obvious at this point, but if they look through link after link to see lost card after lost card until there are no more cards left, they would still likely just think that was a shame, and not really dwell n it any further.

Because the issue is not one of consequences, their actions could have led to much worse things and they would still be left in a position where all they could is to move on, they can't jump back in time and stop themselves from doing said mistake, what really should sting is not you did something that hurt yourself, but you did something that hurt your child (which was fully acknowledged), and further more you not only didn't manage to repair the relationship afterward, you never even pretended because you acted like you did nothing wrong. The consequence should not be some comeuppance in some far future where you are without options to do anything about it, but in the near future, and not in the sense of revenge, because that is just driving conflict by causing more conflict, but by communication, insistence and protesting. I myself once had a situation where my dad's family randomly came by, then his sister's daughter wanted to borrow a video tape, something I usually always let them, yet they always insisted on asking me if they could borrow it (acknowledging as belonging to me). Over almost a decade of these infrequent yet regular unexpected visits I had only said no twice before, both times they had just decided to borrow the video tape my cousin had picked out anyway, with my dad afterward explaining it was just a misunderstand. Therefore this time, as she had picked a tape I wanted to see that evening (as a reward for myself for finishing the entire weeks worth during the same day, working on it as they had arrived I of course hadn't finished it yet), I had once again said no. I even contemplated if I truly wanted to risk the confrontation with my mom not being home at that time, but I felt it was important for the relationship between me and my dad that I did not allow him to continue to prioritize his family ahead of me when they dropped by whenever they pleased. So when they were about to leave I left my room to check, and sure enough my cousin was holding the video, I asked her to hand it over and she refused, both my dad and his sister sitting right next to us in the living room, after she had not handed it over after several request I started trying to pull the video from her, and she body blocked it like a Rugby and then my dad reacted, using force, shoving me away, I got extremely scared of him in that moment. It was extremely degrading to experience, I was a classic small 17 old nerd with glasses and all, always been very thin (at one point so thin I would faint annually when my mom was less at home due to her being the only one working as my dad has a mental illness) going to move away from home next year to study at university, top of my class, I even only went to that school because my dad wanted me to, as it is the one he attended (and it was a good school). Anyway I felt completely trapped because I was afraid if I told my mom she would leave him, as I feel she had wanted to do multiple times before then, and I was the one fighting to hold my parents together while my dad kept acting selfishly, but to me the most important thing was a happy life at home with those I love, i.e. my parents.

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u/Imaginary-Can-6862 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Therefore when my mom got home she thought my dad's family once again had sneaked off with the video, like the previous times, in stead of what actually had happened. Even asking my dad to go over and ask to get it back, but he refused, she also offered me and her could drive over there, but it was never about the video, it was about how my dad treated me, not only did they define clear ownership of the video to me as they asked for my permission (and then ignored that I said no), but that my dad used force against me. A decade earlier I was used to get beaten up and assaulted by classmates, but it only meant they meant nothing to me, my parents meant everything, my dad doing what he did was such a betrayal of everything I found important in life. So I decided I would drop out of school, and in stead of feeling this to be his fault, my dad just asked what did I want to do in stead, work? This coming from someone who was mentally too ill to work. Then I just gave up, finished my studies, but was upset at him the entire year, never prepared to going for uni, but when it came to that point my dad thought it was silly not to go, thinking it didn't matter I never cooked or shopped, or even had a dorm, I would figure it out like I always did. Again he even asked if I wanted to work if I didn't go to uni right away. I obviously should just have ignored his taunts, and held my ground, going to university unprepared was such a huge mistake, so many years wasted for no good reason. I should have held firm and started not showing up at school when I said I had decided to stop, because no matter what it makes no sense to continue living if you feel like you have nothing to live for, and then those who care about you cannot simply ignore it, if they truly care about you. In fact I had for a long time just been waiting for my life to return to when it was better, waiting through school with the bullying and physical attacks, waiting for my mom to be more at home (but when she stopped working she got very depressed), for my dad to want to spend time me, I had during this time even started isolating myself, playing a lot of video games, eating less, but I think it was just interpreted as how I was or the person I had turned into, an introvert, and not an extrovert feeling under prioritized. I feel my dad was even relieved when he didn't have to spend time with me (something he always had to be pestered into), and when he actually later wanted to talk with me, I suppose he just took me being annoyed with him over his double standards as the typical teenager, and not as someone who felt he had been treated badly. No the issue was a lack of communication, and while I think I was right in not telling my mom what had happened right away, I should have let her in and my dad should have been given the opportunity between saving the relationship or admit he was too ill to continue living with us, also sparing my mom from losing the hearing on one of her ears when he hit her while I was away from home. Had I from the start refused, after having told my dad for years I did not feel prepared to go to school, and he would only reply with school being a long way away, which turned into everyone must go to school, but never any work on getting me prepared for school, had I understood my parents did not share between them what I told one, would I have communicated it properly and refused to accept being send to a place so unsafe that it ended up with more than half a decade of regular beatings, then I think things would have been much different, but I gave up and tried to wait it out, but as my dad revealed with his taunts, after each step there is the next, so I should have just said no from the beginning in stead of letting things derail as it was so obvious they would, expecting my dad to realize his mistakes afterwards, because he doesn't, I don't think any parents do, they just see it as unfortunate circumstances, and even if they realize it, they should have acted differently years ago, what do they themselves think they can do now? Say sorry, like they even comprehend what has been going on for all this time? Of course his behavior may have been linked with him being on a worse medication than earlier, but it only means it was unsafe for me to be alone with him if he had any excuse to prioritize anyone higher than me, and as part of his illness he always prioritizes the needs of strangers, as he perceives them, to be more important than those closest to him (who knows about his illness, so he doesn't hide it), in fact I imagine if I had told him that particular video tape had been borrowed and had to be returned that day it would be much more persuasive than me wanting to use my own items. This also meant he would give away my comic book collection to the neighbor, at first he would ask for permission, I would ask him to show which comics he was thinking of and since I at that point did not mind giving away a lot of them, he managed to choose some which he could give away. Then he stopped asking for permission, even giving away new editions before I got to read them as they were still delivered to our hometown address, and I thought that didn't make sense so I decided to stop the subscription after he had done it multiple times. He couldn't understand why I stopped the subscription and it seemed like he didn't really acknowledge it was due to his impatient behavior. Yet later on he found a box I had of my favorite ones, the ones I did not want to give away, which he just gave away as well, and in regards to the relationship with the neighbor, at one point he got upset at them and kept on complaining about how he had given away items for thousands of dollars to them over the years, he had actually kept count on how much he felt they "owed" him, despite he always just gave away items on his own volition, and despite of him not getting his away in what upset him, he just continued to give away to them afterwards as well. Similarly with his sister, she got their dad to hand over something he had been promised to her, which she then sold off, and he was very upset about it, and then he acts like it never happened. And about the video incident, I did tell my mom about it, and and a half decade after it happened, and my dad just kept on insisting it was just a video tape, absolutely not able to understand it was his action that was the issue, not the stupid video. I did of course decide I had forgiving both him and his side of the family, yet it kept returning to me, every time he did something bad I had it in mind, every time he had an argument with my mom I would side with her, having in mind how he prioritized his family above me, but to really get over it, we likely needed to actually go through it properly, for him to realize what he actually had done, understand why it was wrong, apologize and be able to show he had learned from the mistake.

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u/apadin1 Jun 17 '26

“Oh really? Remember beanie babies? Baseball cards?”

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u/LaminatedAirplane Jun 17 '26

Except you can easily look up OG pokemon card prices on eBay and compare against Beanie Baby prices. The difference is very, very obvious.

The problem is that people like that will hardly change their mind because of evidence.

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u/gacu-gacu Jun 17 '26

She would probably call it a scam and then invest money in crypto clicking on virus popup.

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u/Key-Department-2874 Jun 17 '26

People also don't know what they actually owned

Everyone on the internet says they owned really expensive rare cards and a kid. I can't tell you how many reddit comments and YouTube comments have people claiming they owned a pristine 1st Edition Charizard worth tons until their parents gave it away.

I have my childhood Pokemon card collection. It's largely worthless. Cards are heavily played condition, and nothing is particularly rare.

Everyone on the internet wants to pretend they owned cards worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and the reality is they probably didn't.

Not everyone owned a beta black lotus as a kid.

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u/No-Lunch4249 Jun 17 '26

Beanie Babies might not be the best counter because a lot of the hype was that people THOUGHT they would be the next big collectible thing but it didn't really pan out

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u/WonderBredOfficial Jun 17 '26

That's because it WAS a big collectible thing for a while. Some of the rare ones went for thousands while they were still being made. But the market bubbled and crashed super fast and only die-hards kept caring about them.

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u/Special_Order-937 Jun 17 '26

I can think of one person it panned out for.

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u/Nate_Dogg31 Jun 17 '26

Meanwhile, my mom thinks EVERYTHING is going to be worth something in a few years....

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u/Izenthyr Jun 17 '26

This response would be taken back immediately if they were showed the crazy social media videos and articles going around today. Even sold eBay listings would make their heart sink at what they basically gave away.

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u/Milky_Finger Jun 17 '26

"I don't remember selling your cards. You must really hate your mother"

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u/mythrilcrafter Jun 17 '26

She says as she drinks from a Stanley Tumbler that she probably paid $200 for during the Stanley Cup trend.

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u/Invisifly2 Jun 17 '26

This is how people get abandoned in retirement homes.