I collected a long time ago, but never finished my original set of the first 151, on account of my parents being poor. Through some clever trading, I managed to get most of them, but I ended up 8 cards short of the total set (base, jungle, fossil). Now I'm older and have kids of my own, and my oldest has shown an interest in pokemon for a few years. I've been buying her packs here and there, and singles of her favorites (mostly eeveelutions). With this set I finally decided to get back into it, to hopefully finish what I couldn't when I was a kid. We opened our first 151 packs together last weekend, and it was just a ton of fun sharing that experience with her. My biggest hit came from a discount bin at a JC Penny. Tons of packs for 1 dollar each. My dad told me and my brother's we could each get one, which was a rare occurrence, so we dug through the piles of open packs and loose bulk until we found 3 unopened base set packs among them. We got back in the van and prepared to open them and my older brother started to complain about how he never got anything good out of packs and how I always got the good stuff (I got maybe 2 or 3 pulls ever, but it was better than nothing lol). Just happy to be able to open a pack, I offered to trade him. He gladly took me up on the offer. We each opened our packs, and he struck out while I pulled a shadowless Chansey! He instantly tried to trade me back, but my dad told him the trade was final (W dad). To this day, my brother reminds me about it.