• brokenlcd
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    I mean, with legos it’s not even that bad, because the pieces look different; i have a nightmare box full of screws and nuts with diffrent size and thread i ripped from old stuff, finding the screw you need is an herculean feat

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      Around my parts we call that the Box of Miracles… It’s where you go rummaging when you can’t find the screw you need anywhere else.

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      I inherited several of those from my grandfather. They’re a pain in the ass to size properly, but they can be really useful in a pinch. Especially the tiny ones.

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      “I SWEAR IT’S HERE. I REMEMBER! …unless it got out when I was taking out something else… oh god…” I then proceed to dump the bucket on the ground or in a bigger bucket so I can spread them out and search for them better"

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      Literally sell it because Lego appreciates faster than gold. I bought a huge tub of Lego for $150 CAD and if I was to buy each set contained off of Rebrickable, I’d be spending thousands of dollars.

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          Sell them to the collector and buy the kid cheap knockoff Legos from China.

          While you are at it, buy the parents a cheap bottle of wine and a “condolences for your loss” in case the ‘edible’ paint they used on the Legos turned out to be not that edible after all.

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            Cheap Legos are horrible. Nothing sticks properly so building something is futile.

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              Fair point, he should also throw in a bottle of glue just to make sure that the wine and the card aren’t going to waste.

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                I still have a bunch of the instructions, could to through and make the sets and sell those while the misc pieces get donated to like, Savers or something

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        Personally, if I had them and wanted to get rid of them, I’d rather give them to a kid who can’t afford them than make a profit. Seeing a poor kid’s face light up when you gave them a box of legos would be worth a lot more than $150 to me. (Unless I was desperate for the money, obviously.)

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    I just dumped them all on the floor to sort through. Even had the Rubbermaid tub

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    My son (5) and I built a 2,500 piece Harry Potter castle. we have a bunch of other Lego. I feel this in my soul.

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    Well, and now you need it and can’t find it. With your fist clenched you agressively search through the box for that piece, but only after 10 minutes you realize that this piece was indeed in your fist the whole time

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    Boy howdy do I know that frustration all too well. I keep a lot of my spare pieces in a big jar and whenever I go looking for one I know I have - suddenly I don’t have one like it at all. What the hell? Are aliens using my spare lego parts to build a painful new form of bumpy anal probe or something? I know I saw that piece in there just two days ago!!!

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    I have the Rebel Blockade Runner UCS, I tried building it a few times and just couldn’t find the right pieces. This set was before Lego started including numbered bags so it’s just one big pile of bricks.