"It definitely can be," Keith said. Luckily, he'd been doing fairly well on the gym circuit and battling other trainers out there, so income hadn't been too much of an issue as long as he budgeted things well. He was good at that after having been on his own for a lot of his childhood.

"You're handling it okay, though? I find that sometimes you can find things loose on the ground, and, if it's not something you really need, you can sell it back to the PokeMarts for extra cash."