# Pixel Pet Babysitters

> Pixel Pet Babysitters is a Retsy Series 1 NFT on Solana, card 0503 of 1,280 in the 90s Memes & Fads set, made in six finishes. Kids hiring younger siblings and grandmas to tend their virtual pet keychains during school, paid in cookies and stickers.

URL: https://retsy.fun/collection/pixel-pet-babysitters/

- Card number: 0503 of 1,280
- Set: 90s Memes & Fads (90-MEM)
- Year: 1997
- Type: Virtual pet sitting craze
- Tagline: Will feed your pet for one cookie.
- Found at: Kitchen counter, next to the cookies
- Cost back then: One cookie per feeding
- Stats: Nostalgia 9/10, Hype 8/10, Weirdness 7/10, Trade value 5/10
- Finishes: Base (100 copies), Holo (50 copies), Laser (25 copies), Gold (10 copies), Super Laser (1 copy), Misprint (1 copy)
- Images: https://retsy.fun/nft/0503-base.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0503-holo.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0503-laser.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0503-gold.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0503-super.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0503-misprint.webp

## The story

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.

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