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Re: Questions for those with LARGE collections...
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Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:22:57 GMT
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In article <Fq1I6J.7yt@lugnet.com>, Bill Farkas <kfar@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> of you guys are just incredible!! I was wondering if some of you
> heavyhitters would mind feeding my curiosity:
My collection isn't all that large, but...
> Roughly, what is the size of your collection?
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 35,000 pieces.
> How long has it taken you to accumulate such a large collection?
The past 29612 pieces (roughly) have been accumulated in the past five or
so years, post-dark-ages. (I know that number because I have all the
instruction sheets to those sets and am going by the piece counts published
on LUGnet.
The rest of them are pre-dark-ages Lego and were accumulated over a period
of oh, about fifteen years.
> How much of it is from your childhood?
Best guesstimate, based on approximate volume of lego then compared to lego
now, completely neglecting the fact that I am probably mis-remembering the
volume of lego I had in 1995 and the fact that Lego bricks have changed in
size in the recent past (BURPs and 5-tall columns come to mind), about
5,000 pieces.
> How much time per week do you spend building? (not playing - I hate when
> my wife tells me to stop playing and put my "toys"(!) away)
Not enough. Some weeks I don't spend any time at all building-- and for a
while, I not only didn't get to touch my lego, I also unsubscribed to rtl,
so I wasn't getting any virtual lego time in, either. (this would be one
reason why it took me so long to migrate over to LUGNET-- it came about
while I really wasn't paying much attention to rtl...)
> What is your monthly lego budget?
Insufficient. I don't actually budget Lego. I figure I've probably averaged
somewhere around $30-40 a month on Lego over the past five years. My usual
buying pattern is I drop about $200 on Lego each year the month new sets come
out, and about $100 on clearance sets when I find them way cheap. The extra
$5-15 per month in my guess is just for slop-- that's not the entirety of
my spending, but definitely the bulk of it. Very rarely does a set catch
my eye after it failed to to begin with.
Hm. I was expecting that number to come out bigger. Since most of my
Lego purchasing is done in a big lump, it seems bigger, I suppose, than
it really is. I knew it wasn't up in the realm of "tuition" or "truck loan",
but I figured it would be higher than "gasoline" ranks on the budget.
> Does any of this cause family conflict? (For some of you, I wonder if you
> have contact with anyone NOT made of abs)
I do have contact with anyone not made of abs, but I don't keep a family
in the apartment, so no, no conflict at all. :)
> When you build a large project, do you sketch plans or improvise as you
> go?
I suspect I should be doing more of the former. I solely improvise. I find
I rarely finish a big project-- I suspect if I did more planning, I'd know
beforehand what I can do in other colors so I don't run out of grey bricks
so quickly.
-JDF
--
J.D. Forinash ,-.
foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu ( <
The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
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