Retsy Series 1 · Card 0503 · 90-MEM

Pixel Pet Babysitters

Will feed your pet for one cookie.

Kids hiring younger siblings and grandmas to tend their virtual pet keychains during school, paid in cookies and stickers.

Card no.: 0503 of 1,280
Set: 90s Memes & Fads · 90-MEM
Year: 1997
Type: Virtual pet sitting craze
Found at: Kitchen counter, next to the cookies
Cost back then: One cookie per feeding

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Nostalgia9/10

Hype8/10

Weirdness7/10

Trade value5/10

The story · 1997

The story of Pixel Pet Babysitters

Schools banned the pixel pets, but the pets still wanted snacks at ten, noon and two. So a whole playground economy was born. Little siblings at home charged one cookie per feeding, grandmas worked for free, and one fourth grader ran a weekend pet daycare from her front porch. Rates doubled during field trips, and nobody complained.

Fun fact

The best babysitters left handwritten reports, like Ate twice, played once, very sassy around lunch.

Six finishes

187 copies of Pixel Pet Babysitters exist

Pixel Pet Babysitters comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.

Pixel Pet Babysitters, Retsy card 0503 in the Base finish — **Base**100 copies · Common

Pixel Pet Babysitters, Retsy card 0503 in the Holo finish — **Holo**50 copies · Uncommon

Pixel Pet Babysitters, Retsy card 0503 in the Laser finish — **Laser**25 copies · Rare

Pixel Pet Babysitters, Retsy card 0503 in the Gold finish — **Gold**10 copies · Very rare

Pixel Pet Babysitters, Retsy card 0503 in the Super Laser finish — **Super Laser**1 copy · 1 of 1

Pixel Pet Babysitters, Retsy card 0503 in the Misprint finish — **Misprint**1 copy · 1 of 1

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