My Two Writing Teachers colleagues and I are hosting the 15th Annual March Slice of Life Story Challenge, in which teachers from around the world participate by posting a story per day.
A study recently found that many discontinued Lego sets are more valuable than gold. Can you believe that?
As I write this, my eight-year-old son is building with Legos and two gigantic clear plastic storage bins of Legos sits in front of us. Both of my kids are Lego maniacs. Neither of them has really been interested in many other toys, so every birthday, every holiday, and all their allowance for the past decade has basically gone to Legos. It’s a lot.
Now I’m picturing those plastic bins filled with gold coins instead of plastic bricks — that’s a lot of gold!
“Jackson, did you know your Legos are worth more than gold?” I ask my son.
“Wow so that means that if I were to sell all of our Legos that would be fortune!” he says excitedly.
“Yeah… if you could get somebody to buy them. Do you think you could get somebody to buy them?” I ask.
“No way!”
“You don’t think anybody would want them?”
“No! Because it took years and years and years to collect them. You can’t sell them even if it’s a fortune.” He rolls his eyes as if this is so obvious it should not require any explanation.
I wonder if my kids will keep their Legos into adulthood. Will they tote these bins with them from apartment to apartment, like I did with all my mix tapes and CDs? Will they sit in our basement gathering dust? Will one of them someday have kids to pass them on to?
I guess, like with any investment, only time will tell.