Lego No More

Moving my phone photos to the hard drive, I realized I probably didn't do an update on my winter Lego project. After assembling all the Space Lego kits that I could, including the more "modern" space shuttle set, I took individual pictures of them, disassembled everything down to single pieces and put them in labeled plastic ziplock bags with any instructions I had. For those without instructions, I printed off a picture of the assembled set and stuck that in the bag. Pricing out everything using online sites that listed what various sets had sold at in the last six months, I figured I had around $1700 worth of Legos. I listed them for $2000 and told myself I would accept anybody who offered me $1500 or more. 

They say online for a couple months and I renewed the listing a couple times. There was a smattering of interest but nothing really solid. Then as we began our spring break journey out west to recover Clara Kuck's things from the salvage shop and do spring break sorts of things, I got an email from somebody in Oregon asking if I would sell it for $1600. I responded that it was theirs as long as they would wait a week before I dropped them in the mail as I was only on night one of our spring break trip. They agreed.

While buying a plastic tote to haul all of Clara Kuck's things at a Home Depot in Colorado Springs, I also grabbed a cardboard box and some bubble wrap which I carried with me the rest of our spring break trip in the back of the car. Upon returning home, I lined the cardboard box with bubble wrap, carefully stacked all the bags of Legos and after carefully sealing everything up, sent it on its merry way to a toy store in Oregon. I have not heard a single word from the buyer other than receiving the $1600 minus E-bay's cut, in my PayPal account which has since been transferred to my checking account.

I'm a bit sad to see them go but like most of my childhood things, they weren't getting in any better condition sitting around in my basement and might as well go so somebody who might get the satisfaction of building them and putting them on display somewhere. I got plenty of joy out of rebuilding everything one last time so there's that as well. The $1600 also takes away a lot of the sting of their loss as well.