I'm not nearly as much of a hustler as either of you, but I traded three pokemon cards I got for free from a friend into 400+ cards back in 4th grade. (Pokemon

I'm not nearly as much of a hustler as either of you, but I traded three pokemon cards I got for free from a friend into 400+ cards back in 4th grade. (Pokemon cards were as good as currency for us.) I would trade a pokemon to someone who didn't care about energy cards (and would give me 10:1), then traded 5:1 for better cards, traded those cards for some star cards, traded star cards with better stats for holos with worse stats, traded holos with worse stats for multiple non-holo star cards, and kept this up until somehow I had a lot of cards. Never ended up buying a pack of pokemon cards either. My parents thought I was crazy. Yeah I ended up accidentally sticking most of my holos into the wash on one occasion though. :(