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| Are my parents blind?! This Christmas I got NO I repeat NO Lego. Gee I wonder if they have noticed that 6 ft long Lego ship sitting on the top bed of my bunk bed. Maybe they just thought that 4558 Metroliner was my gift, maybe they thought the dog (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Well, I hardly get any LEGO for anything anymore, unless I can get my NLSO (Soon to be wife) to buy me some. She is building my sets now, though. My parents have not gotten my LEGO for many moons. Welcome to the club! Scott "Ah, I will buy (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Bummer Erin :( you have to do what I do.. when anyone asks you what you want for Christmas just hand them a list with only Lego sets on it :) when they ask what else you want, tell them there's one more thing... MORE Lego :) I only got 3 non-Lego (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) My story is a bit different. I wasn't expecting any Lego for Christmas. My parents have been telling me for months that they don't know what I have, need, or want and that they weren't going to get me any. However, they did continually ask me (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) top (...) gift, (...) RESQ (...) they (...) OK here's my 2c worth. I had NO LEGO as a child, and even worse, neither did anyone I knew!!! Strange, but true. When I met my partner, he had all his childhood Lego in mint condition, some still in (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| I know your feeling well! I fell in love with Lego at age 8, and since then that's all I wanted (I'm 34 now). For years though I rarely got Legos for Christmas or birthdays. Occasionally one set here and there, but if I ever wanted anything I always (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I've been wondering about this myself. As my children get older it will no longer be possible to quietly "absorb" the Legos they get into my collection. Therefore, there must be some ground rules established before they leave the house. My (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Well, I don't even have kids yet, and I've already learned this lesson, just from my nephews coming over to play... :) I rapidly realized, after the first session of sorting and storing that there would be ground rules in the future... James (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The only LEGO under our tree was provided by me...(8480, and a couple days later, my 8299 arrived. I got both for 50% off.) I did get the Ultimate LEGO Book from my brother, though, which is great! --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) up! (...) spend (...) longer (...) Therefore, (...) Legos (...) money) (...) own (...) sound (...) Yeah, I'll probably meet the same problem with my younger sis - her early lego sets got lost in my big collection (there were some rare gems (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) No Lego for me this year either. 'Course, all I really asked for were books since, for me, Christmas is all year long when it comes to buying what I want. I got a few clothing items and some cash, but by and large, what I got for my birthday (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Good book. Very interesting. (...) Never heard of that one. Sounds good (if not quite funny). (...) You really know how to pick out nice things for yourself. As for non-LEGO stuff I got...well...um...um...let's see...well...actually nothing (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Yeah, I've wanted to read it for a while and figured since I am taking a break from cert-studying now that I have my MCSE I can read some non-computer stuff. (...) Yeah, it's by the people who put out The Onion. :) (...) Yeah, I've been (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) That's pretty much my story. My NLSO said that she wasn't going to try and buy me a set, because she didn't know what I had, needed, or wanted, and to be honest I could probably get four or five for the same money in a few months anyhow. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I learned this as well, from both my stepdad's nephews and from my roommates nephews as well. They have a tendency to destroy sets, and somehow manage to hide it until they leave. I don't mind a few things, but it looks like Godzilla came (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) up! (...) spend (...) one - (...) longer (...) Therefore, (...) Legos (...) money) (...) own (...) sound (...) LOL..... Well I'm more selfish, and more small minded so there!!! I don't even want them to take the lego that we have given them! (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I'm glad my family gave in long ago. I think I've gotten Lego for Birthday and Christmas every year since I was four or five. Actually I usually get a lot of it, too. And finally, my family has realized my Anime addiction! Yaay! I got a (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hah! It's always a toss up between giving them the rare sets that I want or getting them the basic sets. My problem is my kids already have an eye for good Lego sets and/or pieces. It's going to be a real war around here in a couple of years. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| bkramer@michianatoday.com (Bret Kramer) wrote in <snip> (...) I've been wondering about this too. I've got a 1-year old who has already expressed a strong preference for Lego... no doubt because he's usually surrounded by it, if not for other (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Here's a hint for those of you who aren't getting enough Lego for holidays - give your parents, or wife, or whomever a list of "sets I want and promise not to buy". For Christmas, make that list in October or so. Put it on your web pages, or print (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) That's easy - I'm not having kids, it would complicate the Lego situtation too much ;-) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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