When to stop buying Legos?

[Anonymous]

OP here. You all are missing my point.

He used to play with Legos 2-to 3 hours at a time, building all sorts of things. Now he stopped doing that. Additionally, the last few sets he's built once and never looked back. When I say he doesn't even display them, I mean that to me it seems he is treating Legos as a throw-away thing, like a Kiwi Tinker Crate. Which he does have and enjoys it. I am sorry, but $300 for a few hours of tinkering makes no sense to me.

But I am interested in selling Legos, where would I go? They are not sorted by model, unfortunately. It's just bins and bins of plastic.

[Anonymous]

Don’t mistake missing the point for not agreeing with it. Buy the kid some legos and enjoy the fact that he still wants toys

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. You all are missing my point.

He used to play with Legos 2-to 3 hours at a time, building all sorts of things. Now he stopped doing that. Additionally, the last few sets he's built once and never looked back. When I say he doesn't even display them, I mean that to me it seems he is treating Legos as a throw-away thing, like a Kiwi Tinker Crate. Which he does have and enjoys it. I am sorry, but $300 for a few hours of tinkering makes no sense to me.

But I am interested in selling Legos, where would I go? They are not sorted by model, unfortunately. It's just bins and bins of plastic.

God you sound awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll be 54 this year and still get toys for my birthday. My partner is 40 and I just bought him a couple of Star Wars Lego sets. I also get him the wooden 3d puzzle sets like a clock or a marble machine.

I'm sad for your son that you think 11 is too old for toys.

Yep one of my sons still likes legos - he is 18. I have found out there are a whole lot of adult lego fans out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. You all are missing my point.

He used to play with Legos 2-to 3 hours at a time, building all sorts of things. Now he stopped doing that. Additionally, the last few sets he's built once and never looked back. When I say he doesn't even display them, I mean that to me it seems he is treating Legos as a throw-away thing, like a Kiwi Tinker Crate. Which he does have and enjoys it. I am sorry, but $300 for a few hours of tinkering makes no sense to me.

But I am interested in selling Legos, where would I go? They are not sorted by model, unfortunately. It's just bins and bins of plastic.

I hear you, OP. You sound like I did 2 years ago (my son is now 14). We had tubs and tubs of Legos that were never touched after the initial build. I eased him out of Lego by insisting that only the "favorites" were saved (they were all mixed together), and that half had to be thrown out. Over the next year, he asked for one or two special sets, but the rule was "one in, some out". I also guided him into "cooler" stuff that he never considered before. Don't listen to the nasty replies to your question. You're not anti-toy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. You all are missing my point.

He used to play with Legos 2-to 3 hours at a time, building all sorts of things. Now he stopped doing that. Additionally, the last few sets he's built once and never looked back. When I say he doesn't even display them, I mean that to me it seems he is treating Legos as a throw-away thing, like a Kiwi Tinker Crate. Which he does have and enjoys it. I am sorry, but $300 for a few hours of tinkering makes no sense to me.

But I am interested in selling Legos, where would I go? They are not sorted by model, unfortunately. It's just bins and bins of plastic.

I hear you, OP. You sound like I did 2 years ago (my son is now 14). We had tubs and tubs of Legos that were never touched after the initial build. I eased him out of Lego by insisting that only the "favorites" were saved (they were all mixed together), and that half had to be thrown out. Over the next year, he asked for one or two special sets, but the rule was "one in, some out". I also guided him into "cooler" stuff that he never considered before. Don't listen to the nasty replies to your question. You're not anti-toy!

Why would you throw out Legos instead of donating them? I don't understand some people. There are kids who would love to have your old legos, but you just trashed them? Gross.

Let your kid have the legos. They're fun, he's not in front of a screen, and if you must get rid of some, either donate or go to the Lego site and get a prepaid label to ship them back to Lego, who will clean them and donate them. Anything is better than just trashing them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. You all are missing my point.

He used to play with Legos 2-to 3 hours at a time, building all sorts of things. Now he stopped doing that. Additionally, the last few sets he's built once and never looked back. When I say he doesn't even display them, I mean that to me it seems he is treating Legos as a throw-away thing, like a Kiwi Tinker Crate. Which he does have and enjoys it. I am sorry, but $300 for a few hours of tinkering makes no sense to me.

But I am interested in selling Legos, where would I go? They are not sorted by model, unfortunately. It's just bins and bins of plastic.

I hear you, OP. You sound like I did 2 years ago (my son is now 14). We had tubs and tubs of Legos that were never touched after the initial build. I eased him out of Lego by insisting that only the "favorites" were saved (they were all mixed together), and that half had to be thrown out. Over the next year, he asked for one or two special sets, but the rule was "one in, some out". I also guided him into "cooler" stuff that he never considered before. Don't listen to the nasty replies to your question. You're not anti-toy!

She complained about the “few hours of tinkering” were of no value to her, naive woman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. You all are missing my point.

He used to play with Legos 2-to 3 hours at a time, building all sorts of things. Now he stopped doing that. Additionally, the last few sets he's built once and never looked back. When I say he doesn't even display them, I mean that to me it seems he is treating Legos as a throw-away thing, like a Kiwi Tinker Crate. Which he does have and enjoys it. I am sorry, but $300 for a few hours of tinkering makes no sense to me.

But I am interested in selling Legos, where would I go? They are not sorted by model, unfortunately. It's just bins and bins of plastic.

I hear you, OP. You sound like I did 2 years ago (my son is now 14). We had tubs and tubs of Legos that were never touched after the initial build. I eased him out of Lego by insisting that only the "favorites" were saved (they were all mixed together), and that half had to be thrown out. Over the next year, he asked for one or two special sets, but the rule was "one in, some out". I also guided him into "cooler" stuff that he never considered before. Don't listen to the nasty replies to your question. You're not anti-toy!

Wait! You actually TRASHED LEGOs? That’s insane!

[Anonymous]

A few years ago my daughter asked for more calico critters at a stage where I thought she was on the cusp of outgrowing them. I asked here and the responses were similar - if your child is asking for play things and wants to use them even if for a short time, but then if you are able.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 30 yo nephew still buys them. He is a successful engineer and swears Lego contributed to his smart brain

My older teen loves them, still. The only one of his friends who does...but he does.

[Anonymous]

NP here and I would like to know what to do with the jumble of legos. Where should I donate or sell? What are the options for Lego rehoming?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here and I would like to know what to do with the jumble of legos. Where should I donate or sell? What are the options for Lego rehoming?

They go fast on my local FB Marketplace

[Anonymous]

My husband is still buying and building and collecting LEGO at 40. It’s a creative hobby that he loves.

[Anonymous]

A lego story - one of my friends garbage picks. Twice now he has found large tubs/bags of legos. Like fill the back of his pickup amounts. He found a buyer who pays by the pound. Between the two loads he made about $4000.

My favorite of his finds is change. Coins. Someone could not be bothered sorting or dumping in one of those coin machines. So - put them out on the curb. $840 worth. Amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sell the other Legos, he will never notice. Then get him the new Legos with his newly-found lego fund.

Well, I probably wouldn’t practice lying to him or being deceptive.

How is culling deceptive? I suppose I could have worded it better and said " he will never miss them" but geez, some of you people really imagine the worst in people. Your response makes it look like I advised OP to get a reverse mortgage behind their spouse's back or something.

In the same vein, how is OP saying they feel like they aren't getting their money's worth from huge lego sets anymore make them wholly anti-toy? If anything, shouldn't it be read the other way around, that OP WANTS to buy DC toys but just wants to find something more worthwhile than what is being treated like a disposable kit?