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Re: How many sets?
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Date: 
Wed, 5 Jan 2000 07:59:59 GMT
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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







In lugnet.general, Gary R. Istok writes:
> 
> 
> D. Jezek wrote:
> 
> > In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes:
> > > 
> > > Mark Herzberg wrote in message ...
> > > > In lugnet.general, Iain Hendry writes:
> > > > > 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 Sets: 131
> > > > > Total Parts: 10 587
> > > > > Total Cost: $3 471.61 (CDN)
> > > > 
> > > > Cool. I have been working on this lately. Hope to finish today.
> > > 
> > > 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 parts lots bought off eBay, nor
> > > many of the sets bought off eBay which didn't come with boxes):
> > > 
> > >   Total Sets:     623
> > >   Total Parts:    109973
> > >   Total Minifigs: 1274
> > > 
> > > It especially doesn't include the tons of minifig lots I've bought, I've
> > > probably bought 500-1000 minifigs off eBay. I don't have price data • entered,
> > > so don't know how much I've spent.
> > 
> > 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 than Lego.
> 
> ..... 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



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  Re: How many sets?
 
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 (...) (27 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: How many sets?
 
(...) ..... 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 (27 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

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