Hello all,

 

I've seen a couple of posts from people from Atlanta so I know there's some of us here!  I've been a Lego fan since I received set 6054 when I was 5 years old.  I've owned quite a bit of sets over the years.  They were mostly Forestmen, Exploriens, Ice Planet 2002 (6879 is one of my favorite small sets ever), Castle sets around that time (6081 & 6082), and random others.  Once I turned 15 I stopped caring about them, at 18 I moved out of the house, and at age 20 my parents gave (GAVE, not SOLD) away every single one of my sets and parts to one of their friend's kid without me knowing it.  It was their house though, and they had purchased those for me, but it made me sad nonetheless!

 

Fast forward another ten years from that black day - I have some young'ns around the house and one is starting to get to the age of Lego.  I slowly started building his collection with some Junior Lego (straight up skipped over Duplo) as he isn't even of the age to play with those but he loves to play with the minifigures and build towers out of the blocks. 

 

I am a collector and investor (and accountant by profession).  I've invested/collected in quite a few things including rare coins, bullion, comic books, sports memorabilia and other items.  I am going to add Lego to this list as well.  Just made my first purchase thanks to someone on this board giving me the heads up on Horizon Express 10233 in stock at Target - nabbed three of them before it went poof!  They were delivered yesterday morning and it brought back all those feelings I used to have playing Lego. 

 

You all have a great community here and I look forward to contributing to the betterment of it.

 

 

Just trying to get a sneak peak at your warehouse stock raven.. 

anytime after the holidays (going on 2 weekend trips the next 2 weeks)

 

We are working on setting up 1 of the new warehouses as retail for the larger items.  Lots of great deals (all Amazon product)

Agreed the whole mountain area is very scenic.  Nice being so close to the city.  Get away from the big city and seems like you're in a whole different part of the country.

 

It was a difficult time.  At the same time my daughter was 8 and her best friend was also diagnosed with cancer and my sister was diagnosed with "pre" breast cancer so she went ahead and had the surgery then to hopefully prevent it.

 

My dad's was the worst as he went from hiking in the mountains at 70 with my family to being gone in a year.  My mom, sister and daughter's friend are all in remission so that was the good news side of it.

 

Needless to say it changes your outlook on life a lot.  

 

That's no good, sorry to hear that about your Dad.  Good news about the other three though.  Without a doubt it changes your outlook on life.

 

Thanks for the welcome everyone else!

Welcome, I enjoyed reading your background (-: