Family stopped father from throwing $36,000 worth of Pokémon cards

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Family stopped father from throwing $36,000.

For over four decades, the dedicated employee embarked on a 40 minute commute that involved him taking a bus and a train back and forth to work every day.

Despite the low salary and strenuous journey there and back, John – who’s over 70 years old, however, his exact age is unknown – ‘loved working there so much’ and ‘didn’t want to retire.’

It turns out that all five of their children had a sealed box of cards, which had been purchased back in 1999.

“During the clear-out, the cards were taken out of the cupboard [and] Dad planned to throw them away,” she explained. “A few did end up in a skip, but I said, ‘Blimey, Dad, some of these might be worth a bit.’”

The box will be auctioned off at Derby’s Hansons Auctioneers later in October. But in 2021, the same box sold at auction for a whopping $36,000. An 81-year-old man in the UK is thanking Arceus he didn’t throw out his entire card collection while clearing out a room for his terminally ill wife.

The BBC reports that the man was in the process of throwing out Pokemon cards when his daughter stopped him, believing the cards could be worth a good chunk of change. When it came time for him to finally leave, his co-worker, Soniah, became fiercely outraged when she found out he was given ‘no bonus’ for his decades of hard work. Instead, he was thrown a meager BBQ. 

She took to TikTok to share her frustration, where her video quickly went viral, earning hundreds of thousands of views and sparking a firestorm of people to come to John’s defense.

TikTok users quickly asked how they could help give him something more special, and thanks to Soniah’s video, strangers have now donated a whopping $36,504 through a GoFundMe page. 

According to the man’s daughter, he took his grandkid into town during the weekend to buy cards while growing up, and in turn, amassed a large collection.

“My daughter got into Pokemon when she was young and started collecting the cards with my dad in the late 1990s,” she said. “She was his first and, at the time, only grandchild. It was their thing. They went on trips to Chester together at weekends to get the cards from a hobby shop.”