Earlier this month, the neighborhood I grew up in hosted its community yard sale. This Camelot Yard Sale has occurred since before I even lived there and it draws hundreds and hundreds of people from around Spokane.

It was a beautiful day for a yard sale even if we didn’t have much to sell at my parents’ house.

This year, my kids and I visited my parents during the Camelot Yard Sale to observe the action from the best driveway in the neighborhood (but perhaps I am biased) and to do our own browsing. Among all the clothes, golf clubs, and furniture I noticed I also saw A LOT of baseball cards. People were trying to unload all the cards they have held onto since they were kids.

Truth be told, I could have done the same thing. I probably have thousands of old baseball cards tucked away in my parents’ basement. But I didn’t, and there is a good reason for that. They are worth nothing. Back in 2019, I wrote a blog post about a documentary I watched that said old baseball cards are worthless because too many of them were printed. Even prized rookie cards of today’s most recent Hall of Famers aren’t worth the paper they were printed on because of overproduction.

Many of the houses we visited at the Camelot Yard Sale had baseball cards and other sports memorabilia for sale.

Oh well.

But what I didn’t see at the community sale was any evidence of another fad during my youth. I am not talking beanie babies, furbies, or fanny packs. Rather, I am talking about pogs.

Pokémon cards were also one of the former “fad” items up for sale. But I never saw pogs.

In the same blog post I wrote about baseball cards, I mentioned pogs. I touched on my obsession with the circle-shaped disks and the slammers that accompanied them. My friends and I would “play for keeps” in high stakes battles. My nerdiness for the fad went so deep that I entered a pog tournament at a local shopping mall. During the time they were big, any money I had (which wasn’t much) went straight to purchasing them.

However, at the yard sale event I didn’t see a single pog. It got me to thinking, did people just throw them out or are they hoarding them somewhere waiting for the trend to get hot again? Playing pogs was a lot of fun but I don’t think a comeback is likely given a climate that is focused almost exclusively on digital entertainment.

Sloan shopped the Camelot Yard Sale without any idea what was a pog was. No matter, I didn’t see any pogs at any moment during the sale.

Did you play pogs growing up? If so, I would love to hear any stories you have about the hobby AND whether you still have your pog collection somewhere. Don’t Blink.