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Hello, Today, with nothing better to do, I copied all my set purchases from a chart of graph paper into Microsoft Pocket Excell on my HP 32O LX (WindowsCE). I did a quick column sum for parts number and cost and came up with the following: Total (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Cool. I have been working on this lately. Hope to finish today. (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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Mark Herzberg wrote in message ... (...) chart (...) I've been working on this, but I buy sets faster than I can get them into my system. What is currently entered into my system (which may be less than half of my collection, and doesn't include (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) my (...) *Gulp* Oh. My. God. I feel so.... tiny now (^: Iain (user slowly shrinks into a corner and transforms into a 1x1 tile with no stud) -- tokama (URL) UIN 5362826 AIM Linjerflyg h e n d r y j r AT o x f o r d DOT n e t (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It's not how many bricks you have, it's what you do with them. I have so many that it's getting hard to do anything with them... seems all my hobby time is spent organizing, thinking about what I have, buying and selling, etc. and not enough (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Geez! You must have a big house or a lot of storage space to display all that Lego. How do you handle that financially? I've been trying to keep my total lego value under $500 because well...this might sound silly but there ARE other things (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You're right, that does sound silly :) are you sure there's more to life than lego? do you have proof of this? You're probably one of those people who think the worlds round too aren't you :-) Just incase the smiley's didn't show it.. I am (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I hear you. Fortuanetely, I enjoy all the above in addition to building... (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) that Lego. How do you handle that financially? I've been trying to keep my total lego value under $500 because well...this might sound silly but there ARE other things than Lego. No, I have 2 rooms, one with the set up in it, and the other, my (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) One bedroom apartment (check out (URL) some pictures of my bedroom. Most of my LEGO sets are unbuilt, about 1/3 to 1/2 are broken down and sorted, at most 10% are built. How do I handle it financially? Well for starters I don't have a huge (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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I have in excess of 1700 sets totaling over 250,000 pieces. All of my lego are in storage at the moment as I will be moving to Saratoga New York some time around April. The new House (currently under construction) will have a 1300 + square foot (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) ..... Er..... Um...... under $500 total? That would put me back to 1979, back when my collection had 4 digits in the total parts count. Gary Istok (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow Frank! There appears to be room for little else! Mine is stored in my basement. Luckily I live in a ranch house and I have a 1000 sq. ft. recreation room in the basement. There is LEGO LEGO everywhere.... Gary Istok (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) WOW George, that a lot! but beside that point, what will you do in your basement? Will you be the only one to enjoy this collection? Or will you open your basment to visitors to play well with you? 1300 sqf is almost as much as my home and (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, there is room for a twin bed... I need to take a picture from the other corner of the room. You should see the living room... Actually, before I started my LEGO collection, the bedroom was even more packed. At one point, the whole area (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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My (and my 6yr old son's) set list is rather small but the parts count is not to shabby. 96 sets (between both of us) 24,400 pieces (over half are my Technic parts) and $1,945.75 (approx since some were gifts and others I can get a price on since (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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I refuse to count up my sets, pieces, and $ spent, as I know I'll have a heart attack if I do ;-) Best estimates: Total sets: 200+ Total parts: 200,000+ (5571s are 50K+, 8880s are 7500+, 8448s are 4224, 8480 are 5K+, trains are 17K+) Total $$: (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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That's about the point I've hit too - I need to Ebay off a few more 5571s, some 4565s, 8480s, and some other train sets, then it's time to sit down and sort several 14gal tubs into Keep and Ebay, and get rid of a lot of bricks I don't want. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Not if Larry has anything to say about it... You could save yourself some time, and just give me some of your sets... (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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Frank Filz wrote in message <3870B1A3.167E@minds...ng.com>... [ ... snipped ...] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Frank does have a lot of stuff - he essentially lives in a LEGO storage unit! As he and I actually only live three or four miles apart, I (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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gistok@umich. (...) Ah, yes, that's the correct solution. I have two rooms for Lego, otherwise my office would look like Frank's room. Half of it does. My wife and I were wading through the piles of Lego in the 2nd room the other day, looking for (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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George, you sure do have a lot of Lego. I have never known anyone to have over 1700 sets but I am sure that there are others with just as many. I have over 700 myself and my oldest are from 1975. If I had any rich relatives I am sure that as a child (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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C'mon Gary, fess up. How many sets do you have? I have been dying to know since I first found out about you. And how many hundreds of windows do you have again? ~~~...~~~ Kevin Salm (...) I (...) my (...) entered, (...) that (...) total (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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OK OK OK, you twisted my arm..... That would be about 2900 sets and approximately 500,000 pieces. Windows and doors - about 6000, of which 4000 are from the classic era (from before 1978). I never took a complete inventory, but I did do some (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I had my collection all neatly organized (an Excel spreadsheet) with the sets I bought (since 1974 - about 1600), how many pieces each set has (average 170 to 180 per set), how many copies of each (I average 2 each, although in my early days (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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If that is an option - just include me in the giving of parts - I would even pay the postage for you to send them to me... ;) Eugwe Coral (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow, I have more black or red macaronis than Gary! That should be a claim to fame ;-) Of course, the 10 red and 26 black in each of the [um, over 10] 5571s I have are 99% of mine, but still... ;-) I'd kill for a few of those yellow ones, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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I salute you, Gary. You have done well in acquiring Lego. Now that I am sick to my stomach, I must console myself with the ONE large classic window that I have........ ~~~...~~~ Kevin Salm ....No Yellow or Clear macaroni to leave for posterity.... (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey, I'm close to Gary in at least one of these. I have something close to 30 clear macaroni bricks (and a minimum of the same in red and white). (...) Hey I have more red than Gary, I have at least 36... I also have at least 2 blue. (...) Ooh (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ya, you might have been good off the line, but you just didn't have what it takes to win the, race and Gary blew past you well before the finish line. His E/Ts are nothing short of phenomenal. (speaking of which, when I was at Old Town in (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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Thanks Kevin, If it is any consolation: Besides the 840 classic LEGO windows I got from an accumulation of London Bus sets in Michigan in 1985, 90% of all my classic windows (& doors) were found in Germany (between 1979-93). So if anyone should be (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Of course when we bring Conan into the picture, most of us aren't even in the race... (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow! I actually come kinda close on some of these! I have 30 Blue and 19+ gray ones! Cool! 'Course, I have no Clear or Yellow ones, but I do have four Green and four Dark Gray! Dunno my totals on Red, Black or White. (...) Woohoo! I have more (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm glad I made somebody's day! Since I don't buy Castle sets, you guys got me beat in a few areas. The low sloped and steep sloped corners in blue are going to be my next acquisition in 2000. They are in Ninja and the new Castle sets. You (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yup, and then you'll probably beat me in those categories, too. Although, I do plan on getting more of the castle sets with the steep blue Corner slopes. (...) I *really* wish I'd gotten some copies of those when they we out, but my lego (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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Gary Istok wrote in message <3874B4A9.CC6192EA@u...ch.edu>... (...) Bus sets (...) Germany (...) AFOLs, (...) a better (...) series of (...) besides (...) inventory (...) also. (...) windows, now (...) (Mssrs. (...) al). (...) when (...) If they (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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Frank Filz wrote in message <3874C9DD.58E@mindsp...ng.com>... (...) It's a shame Conan doesn't participate here. I'm dying to know how he acquired so many pieces. He must be as rich as Bill Gates! :) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Especially in pink. There is a pink hotel I want to MOC. Ray (can I do that ? can I use MOC as a verb and get away with it ? :-) ) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Not if you want to run the risk of the LUGNET grammer police gettinged you. Richard (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Who is Conan? And what is his story? (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Did you ever work for IBM? If so, then yes. IBMers (and ex IBMers) can verb any noun and noun any verb. See? I just did! (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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Never mind that--although it may be very true. What worries me is the Pink house thing. Yeah, I've got a few Pink windows and such, but they are just to have so that I can say I have them. I don't really ever plan to build anything pink. I might (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Conan is an electrician. I don't think he's 30 yet but he is very good at his craft and on most jobs, he leads a crew. He's in the IBEW union, and (except for the long hair part) you wouldn't think to look twice at him, but talking to him you (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Larry, it ain't just IBM - we do it too. I don't know if it's a "large company" thing or a "technology company" thing or both... but we've got, in one of our internal discussion groups, a topic titled "a new verb is bornized" that discuses (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Work for IBM ? No. Work on IBM big-iron ? Yes. Univac as well. That be where I picked up the practice. That and spelling (and pronoucing) peoples names backwards. Yar Srednas. (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That's the shame. It'd be nice if he participated here. Hell, how baout BOTH him AND his uncle Chuck? (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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