Joshwrecks
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Joshwrecks
@joshwrecks
📦 Cardboard Connoisseur 📦
The Hobby Katılım Aralık 2018
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@jeffthrowcards @nicollajek The disrespect for Machampions Path... 🫠
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@DonnnySins @SteeloAndKri Great read, Donny! So sorry for your loss, man. Granny sounds great. Just know she's proud of you and you did everything you could! 🤝
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Good morning everybody. I wanted to take some time to let you guys know a few things about how and why I'm making Switchmas happen. I always try to be extremely open and honest with you guys and I know a lot of people have asked. I warn you it's sad, like damn sad and a lot of stuff to read, but I'll tell it still.
So first off, not my first rodeo when it comes to giving and kindness. I built a community on it before and things ultimately ended up with me switching my content, being mentally affected by the view count difference and falling off repeatedly to the point where I was essentially washed up for years with just a handfull of the homies.
Fast forward to last year where things were really fucked up financially, we had issues with the bank and to cover the bills and mortgage and our needs i got a warehouse job working my ass off pulling overtime every week so we could barely scrape by. My granny had enough money that I should have just been able to stay home with her and enjoy my time with her as she wanted but because of the issues we had i couldn't and had to keep us afloat.
Here's the harder part to talk about. While I was working Liam was here taking care of granny while I was gone. One day he called and said she wasn't doing great and stopped eating, so I took some time off work to be there and make sure we got over the hump. We live together by the way. Granny's done this 10 times over before and I've nursed her back to decent health 10 times at least over the years. She kept not eating so I took her to the hospital and she ended up having a kidney injury and the hospital recommended hospice as she made requests that she wanted the same, that she had had enough.
Shit was truly heart breaking for me, ugly crying in public the whole nine. I supported her decision because this time things truly felt different, like she wasn't gonna bounce back from this. Granny's first day in hospice was when the bank finally got back to our lawyers about removing all the restrictions they had put. They forced me to have to be away from her for several months of the time we would of had together and the day she begins a journey to the end they wanna tell her to come in to get shit resolved when she's too weak to go.
I took all the time I had at work and used it all, stayed with her through everything. I even slept in the same room throughout the whole process so when she went she wouldn't go alone. Idk if you've experienced hospice. It is honestly shitty as can be, it forces you to accept things when you're right there. I made sure she was completely comfortable through the whole process and wasn't in any pain, but I did deal with everything myself essentially. God I fucking miss her so much.
My granny was by far my biggest fan, my biggest supporter, and probably the person who loved me most in this world. She supported all of my kind endeavors before and loved that we were building something on the base of kindness and good karma. When she passed I did inherit what she left me. It wasn't a small amount but it didnt make me rich or anything. I try to think about how granny would feel about what I do when, I know she would have loved the Switchmas idea.
She was truly the best person, to me, objectively, she was just genuinely the best. Thats why to honor my granny I'm back to building with kindness and one day intend to open animal sanctuarys named after her so she leaves behind a legacy. That's why I'm giving the content such a big swing, shits expensive. We need a big enough community to do so, so build a community big enough I shall.
To those of you who have read this far, I applaud you. It was a long rough read. Trust me it wasn't easy writing this, this is the most emotional I've been in a while. Hopefully you guys understand my motivations more and how I'm making such a big swing. Because granny would co sign every bit of it and she would always push me to make a big swing to pursue my dreams. RIP Granny ❤️
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Just fired my best employee today
She was with us for 7 years
Perfect performance reviews, clients loved her
"Our compliance officer found something on your laptop" I told her
She went pale
"A VPN. You have been accessing American websites"
She started shaking
"It was just Netflix. The European catalog doesn't have the shows I want"
I couldn't believe what I was hearing
"So you bypassed European content regulations because you wanted more options?"
"Please. I'll delete it, it was only once and after work hours" she begged me
"The data already crossed American servers. There's no undoing that"
I handed her the termination papers and called for security to escort her out
I promoted the compliance officer the same day
That's the kind of initiative we need
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Unpopular opinion: The Base Set Charizard isn't just iconic, it's the backbone of our hobby. But here's the twist - Shadowless PSA 10 versions are actually undervalued. The history, the rarity, the nostalgia? Priceless. Change my mind. 🔥 #PokemonTCG #Charizard #InvestInCards
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@CoolGuyPodge Wow these are amazing.
Gotta see these in TAG 10 Pristines.
Will look even better!
Just as valuable too!
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