Missing my lego

 Missing my lego collection!!!

I recently moved and have an injury wherein I cannot move things on my own :(.  I am excited to get my new lego room

In the meantime I've lowered my name brand Lego standard to get my fix.  Some people like a chocolate fix but I have a need for Legos so I found the below set to combine both (non lego!)

From 5 below.

The clutch power on these bricks is so tough I'm afraid of breaking the long plates.

My other fix I'm getting is through one of my favorite new lego set..

The only thing not to like is that the mini figs aren't i.e. commemorative vs small but I see why they had to do the smaller ones.

So in the meantime I'm hoping to set up a new lego room.  The only problem is that my legos won't completely fit in the space below my dining room area.

I picture getting white top tables to put small drawers on and room under the tables for bigger sterilite drawers.  Hopefully this will be ready by 2026!

Moving my collection of legos

 Day 1 Moving my legos to a new house. 

It took from 2:10 to 3:30 from a 16' uhaul with 4 people loading and unloading!

I put a picture from my camera to show the progress  unloading the uhaul (I blocked out faces for privacy)

Now to reorganize.  Some of the bricks weren't held upright in the small parts containers and I'm worried about alot of legos fell at the old house based on the transport out of the moving van.

My wife did go to the house and found this many legos on the floor 

I was pretty upset with the situation. but will keep plugging away at sorting.  This has become a salvage operation.  I have to wait to see my collection in basement til I get my stairlift!

Top 11 things to do with lego in 1975 ish

 

Top 11 things to do with lego in 1975 ish as a kid

1) use blocks to look like the logo on the box

There is no end to lego...an omen for afols

2 take large red spoke wheels put on a green baseplate as a car

3 tow the blue car around living room (and untangle the string)

4 substitute the biplane yellow struts with minifigure heads and figure out why they are thin vs. fat

 

5 use hinge bricks and wind strings up and down

6 build and use forklift to launch bricks by using spring action of the forklift

7 put every black 2x2 with wheels on to a 2x8 beam and make it a catepillar or a massive truck

8 stack the blocks as high as possible 

9 losing small pieces in shaggy carpet of 70s

10 trying to fit legos neatly back into the nifty comparments

11 perseverate on why you need and could build better with a motor

Ahh the good old days!  Actually launching bricks from the forklifts spring action never gets old.

If i could go back in time

 I wish I could go back in time and buy the following pieces

There are multiple elements but I would focus on the bigger wheels as in the mobile rocket launchers and 744 universal building sets.

Getting rid of old drawer cabinets

 Today my wife helped me to get drawer cabinets out while I sat and told her which ones I didn't need.

  Ultimately I planned a huge lego room with neatly organized cabinets.  Some of the plastic drawers have a powder/metal residue present so I cannot wash them as I had in 2020.  I'm to the point where I really need bigger containers vs hundreds of drawers and I can't stand long enough to sort or get into the highest cabinets 

So now I'm still getting sad as I had fun collecting the cabinets in the past 2008 to 2020 but now it's over...but hopefully good times//better building will happen..we'll see.

I plan to try organizing more when I can move more

Hoarding/unorganized vs. Collecting and organized

When does collecting become hoarding?  

I Have to say that I don't know...although I'm not a completely a hoarder...just collecting a lot and unable to organize due to unforseen circumstances.

This week Ì had 2 people help me start cleaning my lego room.  I pointed out what was trash and what was donate. 

In the past, I had so many plans to make a cool diorama with using slot car track for roads...Lionel train tracks for trains until I got real lego track...etc...

Now I'm unable to set this up so I pitched the track. Instead, now  I want to use pure legos for a diorama instead.  The problem is that I planned to sort the legos but now I'm stuck with containers that look like bulk lego.  I cannot get to sort the multiple containers.

Here's my dilemma in pics.  Before and below is a pic of containers on floor and random sorted legos.

Above empty sterilite and other huge unsorted lego

After 3 hours my family helped clean up this mess in pic above since I cannot help lift.

Now I can get help to get things on higher shelves easier.

Sometimes I'm happy with all my legos but at other times I'm unsure if it is hoarding...!

I'd be curious to know if anyone else has experienced the same issue of trouble getting a hold on a lot of unsorted lego and empty containers/full containers.