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paradox3 said:
These tales of sorting out the LEGOs always make me wonder. Wouldn't it be more creative just to build stuff from scratch?

Apparently there are places to order replacement parts for even the old kits. This is talked about a lot on the Reddit subs re: decluttering and minimalism.
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Years ago, building model cars, ships and planes was popular. The Lego kits, to me, seem to represent the same kind of thing, without the messy, gloppy glue getting all over the place.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
First, you get more money for complete sets than for lego by the pound.
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I also spend that much time and effort with putting that together because that was all money spend from the mortgage I had to take on to pay him out half of the value of the house. I was going to pay for this for years to come. I think, some of my attitude did help my son becoming different from his father with regards to handling money ( another part was probably that his dad invited him on vacation and then my son ended up paying for him).
 
My son had a bin of lego, all the various kits having become mixed up.

Was he ever mad when I sold it at a garage sale years after he'd left home.
 
Phew - well it's been a meditative Lego sorting few days! Fun to read all your comments & recollections. I'm pretty much done now. This batch came with some core robots (heehee - vintage Star Wars!) & motors - so it's kind of helpful to - at the least the first time - follow instructions to create something that will work. It's also a great cognitive & perceptual task - and exercise in patience & perseverance to work from the instructions. I must say, Lego has extremely well done pictorial instructions. After that, free-styling is great! And I'm happy to say that the vast majority of the basic kit is actually there. One of the developer books had an 'inventory' list in the back of it - OMG - so many bits & pieces. All the muffin tins in the house were put into service.

I did go to the Lego store today to get a 'tool' - a wise investment of $2.50 to save my finger nails which were certainly the worse for wear after prying things apart. So of course I picked up the "Easter Catalogue". My goodness ... A Tolkein lover's Rivendell for a mere $669.99! Just over 6,000 pieces. Or perhaps you'd like to remember your trip to Paris & make the Eiffel Tower? Standing 1.5m tall, it's a mere 10,001 Pieces (yes - 1 at the end!) $799.99 - I think you could probably fly to Paris for that much!

It's all tucked away now - Birthday celebrations start tomorrow for my husband - it's a big one this year!
 
Good morning! Memories of Lego, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys, minibricks, Flintstone blocks, erector sets, and all the other building-type stuff we or our kids and grands have played with over the years, as well as dolls and other mementoes. Let us gather round about the Coffee Cart, careful not to step on anything Lego-like (not a pleasant way to wake up), and continue the conversation. All is ready, come on in.

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Interesting Pub Group yesterday ... got into some essential stuff that would be mud in the eye of many! Out there in the cosmos dirt is still afloat!
 
Is chaos in humans a natural disturbance? Indicates how the cards fall ... quantum ...

Did you know that quovadis means where are you going ... alas most people do not wish to know such things as relayed in the bible after the relations under that primal tree ... history follow suite! n history those in the present perfect ... are left confused ... explaining that niche ... that hole we've put ourselves in! May be construed as self-destructive ... and anal of time's inverted ... imagine an up-end!

May entertain whatever great unknown is a head of us! Is psyche virtual unknown? I cannot say ...
 
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JayneWonders said:
Though Lego hurt to step on, our kids had little rubber or plastic farm animals.

I tell you, the bull with his horns, was the worst in our house.
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Yeah, Lego is far from the only culprit, eh.

Redbaron said:
Years ago, building model cars, ships and planes was popular.
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I used to do a bit of that. Was quite thrilled when I discovered that the WWII museum in New Orleans had a B-25 Mitchell bomber, which I built a model of as a kid (the model of plane used in the Doolittle raid). Also had a model triceratops as part of my dinosaur fascination.
 
I can't add to the Lego chat at this time. I finished the sweater I started in 2017 and it fits. Now I'm using the yarn I got in about 1999 to make a sweater for hubby. Knitting a sweater back then was ambitious. Now this will be a pretty simple sweater. It's bulky yarn so will knit up quickly. It got up to 15 and was sunny yesterday. It's March break here so lots of families in the park. There was some "revelry" around midnight last night. Part of the hazards of a location like this. It did settle quickly. Today is another day.
 
I added some fresh doughnuts to the 'share' table this morning. Trying to keep busy while I continue to wait for a needed CT scan. Currently at Day 8.
 
Speaking of donuts. Our hospital foundation gave out free donuts to staff yesterday, advertising it in an email with:
”We donut know what we would do without you”.
There were other times they gave us popcorn and a drink. They used to do coffee and sandwiches and pie in the cafeteria pre-covid, I suppose now everything has to be individually wrapped.
 
We had similar staff appreciation events in hospitals where I worked. I remember a really nice Swiss Chalet picnic on a beautiful day in June.

Most people appreciated the effort, I think, but some were cynical. The cynical ones still ate the food LoL
 
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