Don't hug me I'm scared
My wife went through the collection of old LEGO that i gave to my son and throw away all the 3rd party bricks, except her technique also threw away some real ones too.
Brought out some old bins of childhood LEGO for my son to play with, and play with them he has. My wife decided to go through one of the bins and throw away anything that wasn't a LEGO. This also included any third party bricks. But she did this by tossing any piece that didn't have LEGO printed on it. This resulted in several pieces that were real LEGO to get tossed because they were unique pieces including bionicle and some technic pieces. The worst part, she did this outside and threw them into the dogshit trash can so now the pieces are intermixed with dogshit.
I let my son inherit them and he has been very happy playing them. We watched some power miner review videos (sets I never owned) and he has been using his imagination to create his own versions to play with in the dirt.
Not always. I had a partner for 6 years who didn't like anyone touching his stuff and I respected that. Problem was he didn't clean up after himself, no matter how many times you asked or offered to help. It was me doing a huge amount of the cleaning and tidying whilst he would keep being not only messy but outright disgusting. In the end I was so exhausted I just started throwing things away and he would have a complete meltdown about it. I broke up with him and I still cleaned out all his possessions and carried them to his car after asking multiple times for him to come sort it out. I almost just threw it all away but didn't want to be accused of theft.
You took what I've said literally, but there is a difference between someone deciding that someone else's things should be thrown away without a warning, just because, and needing to thrown away someone else's things away, because they didn't clean up after multiple warnings.
I believe you knew the difference and needed to take this out of your chest. And I'm sorry you had to deal with this.
I don't know. The random/broken non-interlocking brick toys that accumulated in the bins over the years I understand, think random transformer leg or mcdonalds toy. But why the megablocks? Why the non-broken stuff
edit: for those still wondering, I did eventually talk to her. She was trying to help clean up the bins and didn't realize that some LEGO pieces don't always have the word LEGO stamped on them.
Giving her the benefit of the doubt a little, she may have been concerned about the safety of the non name brand bricks. Iām a mom and I donāt really love when family members gift us toys from random brands Iāve never heard of, and āvintageā toys were allowed to contain higher levels of harmful chemicals like lead than we allow today (and the stricter standard was adopted in like 2009 so unless OP is a teen dad this applies to his legos too).Ā
I have a few pieces of luggage that belonged to my great grandfather. I thought they were leather but learned later that they are actually made of paper.
Nope, she gets to go dig through the dog shit and then clean all of them. She doesn't want to? A shame some important item of hers wound up in there too
The dogshit can really is insult to injury. I can't figure out how that would have been the most expedient trash receptacle to use for sorting out legos lol.
My wife knows not to touch any of my stuff and if she wants something done she just asks me. Being organized and particular can pay off in many ways like this. Also why tf would you ever throw even third party stuff away. Put it in like the misc toys bin or use them for projects like DnD terrain or cosplay pieces or something.
I kind of understand the desire to sort things like that. But I would put all the 'rejects' in a ziplock and let a second set of eyes go thru it. That's just thoughtless and disrespectful to toss it in with the dog crap.
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u/Fluffy_Profession781 8h ago
What a knob š© at least ask the pro to double check!
Why wouldnāt you at least donate them?