General Discussion : 25109


General / 25109

How do you view your LEGO collection? —Eric Kingsley
Do you view your LEGO collection as an investment in your... A. Mental Well-being. (Its just something you have fun with). B. A financial investment that should increase in value over time. C. A tool for financial gain (you sell your creations (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general) !!

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Christopher Lindsey
	(...) I think my primary response is A, but there's a little bit of B in there too. If the bricks weren't so darned expensive I probably wouldn't worry about it that much, but since they cost me a fair chunk of change it's a lot easier to (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —James Brown
	(...) [A] all the way, baby. I sell things only for the same reason you do - to make the stuff I keep cheaper. (...) Mostly the same here. I will confess that I get a certain amount of happy from having rare parts. I'm not certain exactly where it (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

		Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Bryan Wong
		(...) I'm pretty much 100% A. Something for me to have fun with, and something to pass on to my kids in the future. :) (...) Yes! That's exactly what I feel about my rare parts - just couldn't say it as well as James has. I've been trying to express (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

			Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —A. Mark Wilburn
			(...) Heh. I hope Cathy knows of your future plans! (If she reads this, I hope she doesn't suddenly start wondering why kids is plural, etc. Also, I don't know about you, but my girlfriend held out hope for the first couple years we dated that I'd (...) (24 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Eric Joslin
	(...) F. Like a monkey on my back that demands to be fed. Constantly. Ok, that's how I feel lately, with the almost nightly stops at Toys R Us on the drive home from work, the extended drive to the boonies seeking Wal*Marts for new SW sets, but it's (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

		Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Darrell King
		(...) I feel your pain. I went to 3 Wal-Marts, 1 Target, 3 K-Marts, 2 Toys R' Us only to find it at my local wal-mart after giving up. All they had was the new SW shuttle and I didn't even have a check to bounce for it. sigh... Darrell (24 years ago, 10-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Matt Brooks
	(...) I can honestly say that A is my reason for having a Lego collection. Though sometimes it wrecks my mind why I have so many of those little bits of ABS, it is for my well being and not for profit that I have them. I haven't sold a single Lego (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Thomas Main
	I would answer this way: a: 70% c: 15% (I sell old sets to finance more brick purchases) z: 15% (z would be the nostalgia of collecting the sets of my childhood and sets from the past that were well designed) -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

		Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Selçuk Göre
		(...) I previously said 100% A, but now I can say it includes Z here. I love to have the sets from my childhood dreams. But this is also coincided by A, isn't it? Selçuk (24 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

		Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Gary Istok
		Well I have to agree with Thomas, "A" gets most of my vote, but "z" , the re-collecting the sets of my childhood is very strong in the picture, which means that "b" is having a greater effect all the time. But it is still "A" all the way. As to the (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Mike Walsh
	"Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message news:G59KK8.EsK@lugnet.com... (...) I guess I will have to answer "E" because all of them apply to me but "A" is the primary motivator for me. A: With LEGO I have a hobby that I find enjoyable (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Wayne R. Hussey
	(...) <snipped> (...) which I wish to retire and B turns into C). My current goals include the following, listed in order of time spent. 1) Gather examples of all the individual elements from past through present. Thanks to my discovery of LUGNET (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Kevin Wilson
	Eric Kingsley wrote in message ... (...) Considering how much selling I do, it may sound crazy, but the answer is mostly A. The reason is that my Lego collection is kept completely separate from the stuff I sell - the for-sale stuff I don't count (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Larry Pieniazek
	(...) A lot of A. with just enough C. to cover a little (but not nearly all) the cost, and a little bit of T. Train displaying ++Lar (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Chris Phillips
	(...) AAAAAAA!!! The only time that B even enters into the picture is when I buy a set somewhere and then find it drastically reduced somewhere else a month later. But that isn't because I view LEGO as an investment, just that I feel stupid for (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Selçuk Göre
	(...) 100% A for me. It's fun. (...) I think the same. It's just like TLC saying "you must not build set X, if you don't have it, no matter if you have sets Y and Z and these two sets have enough bricks to build it" (here X, Y and Z are official (...) (24 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Sheree Rosenkrantz
	(...) because the of trying to figure out whether it was a, b, c, d, or e, but because some how I never have called my Lego a collection in my mind. Denial. This whole Lego thing has kind of snuck up on me. A few little cute figures here and there, (...) (24 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Kyle D. Jackson
	<sigh> I couln't answer this without writing a novel... :] (...) K) I use it as a cover to smuggle contraband, with proceeds helping to prop up dictatorial regimes in small developing nations. This gives me a big kick of Vitamins A) and C). Hehe. (...) (24 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Sean Forbes
	My answer is definitely A, having been hooked by Evil Stevie and his Pirate Game. www.io.com/~sj/PirateGame.html It's typefied by a conversation I had with my very patient wife. Her: Why are you so concerned about the boxes? Me: I dunno, in case I (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

		Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Peter Vogel
		Heh! Kind of like my friend who "collects" wine and has rented 3 wine cellars around the bay area to store the wine he "collects". Him: Honey, I want to spend about $1000 on a case of <unpronouncable> Her: That's a lot of money for wine. Him: But (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Brad Hamilton
	I'm definitely an "A" person. I wouldn't sell my LEGO for any price! Eric Kingsley <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message news:G59KK8.EsK@lugnet.com... (...) being (...) other (...) into (...) me (...) I (...) my (...) or (...) if I (...) set and (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Jason Rowoldt
	(...) I'll probably start a flame war here, but I think answering B. or C., and being serious about it, is completely ridiculous. In order to make B. work, you would have to buy in such huge bulk (read . . . HUNDEREDS or THOUSANDS of a particularly (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

	Re: How do you view your LEGO collection? —Shiri Dori
	(...) Most greatly so. (...) Not really. (...) Slightly (and increasingly so). Seeing that I need the money now, I'm looking at brickbay and prepping my store there. I wouldn't do it if I could get a permanent job, but I can't, so... (...) Well, I (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)