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Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
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Thu, 22 Jul 1999 16:42:56 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > Here's an idea I've been itching to try out for about 4 years... I've got
> > a box of several hundred (or maybe 1000 or more, I haven't counted) LEGO
> > elements that I know I'll never use. These come from buying up large
> > collections at garage sales or on the net, in order to get a few sets I
> > wanted for my Space collection, but there was always stuff left over.
> > [...big snip!...]
>
> Zoinks! I just dug the box out of the closet, and it's more than I'd
> remembered. There's 16 pounds of LEGO semi-sorted into about two or three
> dozen ZipLoc bags of varying sizes (from a pint up through two-gallon).
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> At first blush, this complicates things, because now instead of one big mix
> there are several big less-mixes. But let's forget that and just say that
> this is good like it is, because now there's definitely plenty of fodder for
> several packages (at least 5, I should think), and I wouldn't want to mix
> stuff together that's already semi-sorted.
>
> Suzanne is away this week at a trade conference and has the camera, so when
> she gets back I'll snap some photos of the LEGO and take queue requests.
> Mostly, it's mixes of 70's & 80's stuff -- a bag classic red 70's windows
> (many sizes), a bag of town and space and castle parts, a bag of minifigs,
> a bag of trees, a bag of old gears, a bag of old wheels, a couple bags of
> generic bricks, etc. Too much stuff to list; photos will work better.
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> I'm not going to sort any of it into sub-bags; I'll probably actually combine
> a few bags so that it works out to 5 or 6 roughtly equally sized packages to
> mail. Fair enough?
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> --Todd
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> p.s. This is straying off-topic from the spirit of .general at this point
> and into the spirit of a person-to-person "trade" type of thing, so follow-
> ups on this article are set to .market.buy-sell.trade (stay tuned there for
> more details)...
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