In 2019 I found a vintage #LEGO bin on the sidewalk, sorted it, and I reconstituted several official LEGO sets by buying missing parts. Since my display shelves have been pretty busy as a result, I started putting some of the sets for sale on my Bricklink store.

I didn't expect much from it, but I already sold 4 sets, and I've been yearning for more sorting/set reconstitution as the initial bin ran out. In the meantime, I dabbled with digital LEGO design when I reskinned a Warhammer 40K Dreadnought and a sailing ship custom designs I bought.

But deep down I knew I wanted to come back to the original occupation of wading through a bin, sorting parts by color and guessing and reconstituting sets from it. The first bin find was lucky, so instead I went on Craigslist, looked for bulk LEGO offers, and after just three days of search, a couple of rental car trips and a few hundred dollars spent, I'm now sitting on about 49 pounds (22.2 kg) on mostly unsorted LEGOs.

It's difficult to estimate how many parts a pound of LEGO gives but some websites suggest 300-350 parts per pound, which means I can now sort/inventory about 15,000-17,000 parts. And given that these operations aren't done at the same time, at the end of it all, 30,000-34,000 parts will have gone through my hands one by one.

Now, during the past two weeks I was on vacation and I've had plenty of time to do this during the day, but now that I resumed working, the time I can devote to it is reduced, which means that it should last me quite a while. I'll you you updated as I reconstitute additional sets.

Onwards and keep on bricking!