We all have them(well most of us).  And we all have no use for them.  They are uncommons and commons.  Yup, the so called "worst cards I own".  However, they are really good.  Example: You only have 2 Gyarados, but you need 4 for your deck.  Well look no further than your shoebox of uncommons and commons.  You just happen to have 5 Seels and 5 Dewgongs.  They replace Gyarados easlily.  I'm not trying to say that you can replace your Computer Searches for Pokeballs and your Item Finders for Recycles.  Its just that some common/uncommon cards can replace those holofoil or rare cards until you can get those holo or rare cards.  Haymakers go real good with Machop and Stall decks go good with Lickitung.  Keep those cheap cards in your deck until you find your way towards bigger and better things.  Nothing replaces a Blastoise or a Venusaur, so you just have to stop going to tournaments and use proxie cards against your friends until you can con your parents or granparents(who just started collecting and think that vulpix looks a lot cuter than blastoise) out of those cards that you never dreamed of pulling out of your first five or so packs.  That is another story though.  But remember...you can still have a deck without those 3 Chanseys you need, just use Lickitungs to hold their place for a couple weeks ;)
 
Daniel Perdue
neopolatin@earthlink.net