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Subject:	Re: LEGO box
Newsgroups:	lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains
Date:	Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:32:00 GMT
Reply-To:	Selçuk <teyyareci> <SGORE@SUPERONLINE.COMnomorespam>
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Z <leahy@concentric.net> wrote in message news:FoHy7y.Ivz@lugnet.com... > I can see why someone would use a large one for storage. What I think is • odd > is that people sometimes collect the boxes. LEGO boxes just don't seem • like > the right material for a collection [especially if you never use the • pieces > [LEGO stuff is for building, not for dust collecting]] Those strong ones • are > useful, I agree. > > Z I use my bricks for building, and I never put any set aside from the other pile of bricks and I only use 3-4 of the bigger boxes as storage for not frequently used parts (spuds, big wheels, baseplates, etc.) but I save all the boxes that I have. I'm generally intended to buy sets online without boxes, even if they were MISB, to minimize the postage fee, though. Why I'm saving the boxes then? I don't know exactly. Maybe just I can't stand to get rid of anything Lego..:-) I'm also aware that the reselling value of Lego is higher when offered with its box. I will never sell my legos in anyway other then a real must (like losting my job, or suffering from a disaster, etc.) though. Actually it's getting a rather big problem to store them, actually to make my wife believe that they must be saved..:-) Selçuk

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		Re: LEGO box
May I suggest trimmming the followups down to just storage at this point? I'd say we're off topic for most of the rest of the groups. (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)

		Re: LEGO box
As it is now, all my sets are in their respective boxes, piled up in my closet at my apartment. Lack of room to set up my town being the main reason. Once I do get the room I will set up my town again and probably just pile the empty boxes (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)

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		Re: LEGO box
(...) I can see why someone would use a large one for storage. What I think is odd is that people sometimes collect the boxes. LEGO boxes just don't seem like the right material for a collection [especially if you never use the pieces [LEGO stuff is (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)

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