Who didn’t? A late-eighties baby, I turned double digits at the height of the Pokemon boom.įor several years, I begged my mom to buy me single packs at a local card shop, Target, 7-Eleven, wherever one could find them.

They flashed the one headline my eyes (and mouse) simply couldn’t gloss over. (The digital marketer in me can appreciate the cookie-setting, browser-spying, API-integrating, web property-tracking behemoth that Facebook is.) Today, Facebook’s algorithm accidentally guessed correctly. But I do enjoy the occasional Starbucks workday.) I’m mindlessly scrolling my Facebook news feed and up pops the dreaded “Suggested for You” section that almost never contains content I’m actually interested in.īut today was different. (I work from home, so this isn’t new to me. It’s mid-October and I’m trapped at home like millions of other Americans, weary of the restrictions put in place to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Six months and six figures later I’m sharing the lessons I learned flipping Pokemon trading cards to make money during the pandemic. The latter of those aforementioned rediscoveries - an old hobby - turned out to be the most unexpected, but one of the more welcome, developments to resurface during my last trip around the sun.

After all, even binge-watching Netflix gets boring after a few weeks. You name it, we learned a lot about what we used to do during our downtime way back when handheld technology didn’t occupy our every waking moment. Reconnecting (virtually) with old friends, their love for being outdoors, a rekindled fire for an old hobby. If there were a silver lining to be found amidst an angst-filled 2020, it was that many people had the free time to rediscover things that were previously important to them.

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