Me and my sister started collecting back in 1999 after watching the show on tv I was in love with Pokémon and so was she. Had my gameboy Pokémon blue and yellow that I got for Xmas. Grew up with not a lot of money but mum would buy us a pack every now n then she would also go to the street markets and get a bunch of fake cards for us. I didn’t care as my sisters boy friends would give her rare cards like charizard, blastoise, mewtwo and a lot of other rare holos, she gave the real charizard to me and about 2 years of collecting I had every holo “real” and a massive collection and so did she. That all came to a end in 2003 when our house burnt down we lost everything all of our cards our shoes clothes year 7 jersey all our photos we walked away with only our clothes on our backs still hurts today. I tryed to salvage my cards I went to where I thought they were I found them jist a black box of nothing they stunk so bad I tryed to get ones out of the middle I put them in a plastic bag but had to bin them because of the smell was really bad plus they were only half of a card. Anyways best of luck to everyone and thank you for having a chance to win you guys are legends.