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Oops, I did it again. I bought yet another 30 pounds (~13.5kg) bin of unsorted #LEGO parts. This is now the third to wait for me to be sorted and guessed into sets.

This bin contains brand new unopened numbered bags, a first for me. Who stops at bag 1 of 4 of a new LEGO set?
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I paid US$130 for the lot, which gives a pretty good bargain rate of US$4,33 per pound. Of course not many people can actually use this amount of unsorted LEGO which explains the cheapness.

As for the unopened bags, I found they belonged to 5 separate sets: 1 Batman set, 1 The Hobbit set, 1 Guardians of the Galaxy set, 1 Star Wars set and 1 generic City set.

I still don’t understand. Abandoning one set, I get it. But five sets spanning 3 release years (2013-2015)? I do not.
Ha, I've seen this one, and I'm both surprised and delighted that three separate people gathered the parts for it, build it and took pictures: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-26457/FreakCube/apollo-spacecraft/#photos
Well, that's the thing with unsorted LEGO bins, you can never know. I have briefly entertained the idea that it could have been someone trying to fence stolen goods since it was a Craigslist ad.
Right now it occupies a desk and some of my closet, on top of two full standing shelves for the completed models.
However, I've seen the rooms some amateur LEGO designers/sellers made for themselves, usually with a central table and the walls covered in tiny drawers full of parts.
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