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Subject: 
A whole year? (Was Re: What the heck is going on ?!)
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Date: 
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 04:57:04 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Erik Olson writes:
> I'm trying to see if I can go a whole year without buying any Lego.

Finally, I am wondering if you have caved in yet and bought any LEGO.  If not
and I get to wondering again in a few months, I'll check again.  But I don't
think you'll be able to do it!

Maggie C.

> The
> Pizza To Go set really tempted me. However that is the only thing going, and
> I tell myself that I've already got one.
> 
> Looks like I survived Toy Fair. Absolutely no interest in any of those
> offerings.
> 
> Today however I did receive a Tine truck. I don't know whether to reset the
> calendar or not.

Yep, it counts.  But even if it doesn't I don't think you'll make it a year!
> 
> Good sense prevailed when I put all my unopened Lego in long-term storage
> rather than on ebay last week. I get to rearrange the boxes this weekend:
> 112 cubic feet (mostly played with.)
> 
> I imagine my kids one day opening them up and saying, "How come you never
> got any of the Harry Potter Legos?" (I hope my kids will not use that S on
> the end, but it is a lost cause.) They aren't asking about the missing
> Bionicles.
> 
> Anyway, I find that I am much happier when I think of playing with the Legos
> I've already got. (Hey, that S is back.) It's like I'm 13 again and no
> additional Lego is forthcoming, except, there is an exceedingly large
> quantity of it this time.
> 
> I think Lego can get along fine in the action figure market without me.



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I'm trying to see if I can go a whole year without buying any Lego. The Pizza To Go set really tempted me. However that is the only thing going, and I tell myself that I've already got one. Looks like I survived Toy Fair. Absolutely no interest in (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)

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