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Re: Where do you keep your Lego?
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lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 2 Nov 2000 19:24:16 GMT
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Wow Anne,  you do have some tight quarters for you, your husband and your LEGO.

And here I thought I was running out of room for my LEGO.  I'll never complain
again..... by the way my LEGO room is (and I am embarrassed to say) 40ft x 20ft
(12m x 6m), but believe it or not, my house is not large.

Gary Istok

Anne Jorunn Midtkil wrote:

> In lugnet.loc.uk and lugnet.general, Scott Arthur writes:
> > 
> > 
> > The problem is our 2 year old - she has taken over the house with her Duplo!
> > 
> > :-(
> 
> That's one of the reasons my husband and I, both AFOLs, have decided to _not_
> bring any children into the world. We do not want a kid to mess up our system,
> and we do not want teeth marks on our LEGO.
> 
> We understood that we are serious about our LEGO-collecting when we expected
> our nephews (3 and 7 years) for a weekend visit, and the first thought was: "We
> have to hide some of the LEGO so they don't get envies in a serious way"
> 
> When it comes to storing: We live in a 1-room, 35 square meter, apartment, and
> my husband refuse to throw away any of the boxes. We have had about one year
> after our dark ages, and rounded 150 sets the other day. Wherever we do not
> have books or videos or CDs we have LEGO. We do not dear telling my mother what
> those big boxes which hardly ways anything contains, when we borrow space in
> their basement for the empty boxes.
> 
> And yes: We admit that we look forward to getting a bigger place. Before we
> started our LEGO-collection we did consider a large 2-bedroom apartment big
> enough, now we definitely need 3 bedrooms (or rather: one big playroom). So I
> guess we eventually will admit that we bought a bigger place because of the
> LEGO.
> 
> aj-ml
> --
> Anne Jorunn Midtkil
> Trondheim - Norway



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  Re: Where do you keep your Lego?
 
You what??? Your house isn't large??? 12m x 6m is our entire ground floor: living room, kitchen, toilet... You americans have too much space at your disposal. Try the west of Holland for a change! Duq "Gary Istok" <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in message (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
  Re: Where do you keep your Lego?
 
(...) Believe it or not?..:-) Is it possible believing this? We live in a house which is 100 m2 including all the utilities and balcony, and you have 72% of that area as a Lego room. My lego place is a corner in our second room (about 10 m2) in (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)

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(...) That's one of the reasons my husband and I, both AFOLs, have decided to _not_ bring any children into the world. We do not want a kid to mess up our system, and we do not want teeth marks on our LEGO. We understood that we are serious about (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)

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