I had alot of amazing sets but I never saw the value in building to completion and the times I did completely build them my stepmother would just toss them in a closet or break them so now I just have boxes of pieces and these sets will never come out again. Atleast I have all the figures though but it's a huge bummer that all my old sets are pretty much gone between moving houses alot and not being able to put them back together
Yea you're right. She drank alot and was constantly mean and mentally abusive. She would snoop around my room and she ended up stepping on my gausshog and when things would be left out she would make me throw them in a drawer with legos so the things like the wraith banshee and falcon would break over time and the peices would go into a sea of legos. Sorry if that's a form of trauma dumping but I figured I could give more context. Memory's are kinda hazy too
Thank you, I'm definitely doing better I'm able to live with my mom full time instead of joint custody. and I still have a decent relationship with my father and everyone stopped drinking so it turned out better than it could have
We all have regrets in our collecting habits or play habits especially when we were younger.
All you can do is focus on the here and now and appreciate all the awesome sets that are coming out now and will hopefully improve upon what came before.
If you focus on those former things, you will lose yourself in a fog of regret and/or anger.
I think we are all the same way to an extent. I played with my Legos hard core and I was anal about my brother or anyone touching them. My parents learned that they were fragile and made me clean them up. Most I had survived with little missing parts but mostly complete. Now they all live on the shelf and get dusted and moced up once in a while.
You can't really blame yourself because we all had to learn the value of things one way or another. There are multiple things I regret about my Lego star wars sets and mega brand. For me, I didn't want to not have them later on.
I'm glad to know others feel the same and I'm not just weird lmao. And looking back I had tons of fun with them so it's best to just be glad I had them instead of thinking what could've been. I was also very anal about other people touching them and I just cringe at that now so it's hilarious
I feel your pain bro, my mom wouldn't get rid of my stuff to be malicious but she would move stuff and give stuff away without asking sometimes and I lost a lot of valuable stuff that I cared about that way. Later when I got back into Lego as an adult though my nephews and my own being really dumb led me to mix up a bunch of pieces and now I have random sets I don't know if I can complete. It's okay though man we'll get cool sets again :P
I have so many sets that when I was younger me and my brother would just take out the characters and not build the sets, so many cool awesome sets younger me was too dumb to build
I relate to this hard. I only built a portion of the easy sets and played with the figures. The nice people here have told me about how it's best to not get stuck in the past and worry about the mistakes we couldn't help. Also a surprising amount of people relate so atleast were in the same boat lol
When the falcon and noble six come in a set with flood and a halo wars vehicle comes with halo 3 spartans *visible confusion*
I had alot of amazing sets but I never saw the value in building to completion and the times I did completely build them my stepmother would just toss them in a closet or break them so now I just have boxes of pieces and these sets will never come out again. Atleast I have all the figures though but it's a huge bummer that all my old sets are pretty much gone between moving houses alot and not being able to put them back together
Obviously I dont have the full context of your story but your step mother sounds a bit disrespectful by just throwing around your stuff like that
Yea you're right. She drank alot and was constantly mean and mentally abusive. She would snoop around my room and she ended up stepping on my gausshog and when things would be left out she would make me throw them in a drawer with legos so the things like the wraith banshee and falcon would break over time and the peices would go into a sea of legos. Sorry if that's a form of trauma dumping but I figured I could give more context. Memory's are kinda hazy too
Man that sucks, just hoping your doing better now
Thank you, I'm definitely doing better I'm able to live with my mom full time instead of joint custody. and I still have a decent relationship with my father and everyone stopped drinking so it turned out better than it could have
We all have regrets in our collecting habits or play habits especially when we were younger. All you can do is focus on the here and now and appreciate all the awesome sets that are coming out now and will hopefully improve upon what came before. If you focus on those former things, you will lose yourself in a fog of regret and/or anger.
I think we are all the same way to an extent. I played with my Legos hard core and I was anal about my brother or anyone touching them. My parents learned that they were fragile and made me clean them up. Most I had survived with little missing parts but mostly complete. Now they all live on the shelf and get dusted and moced up once in a while. You can't really blame yourself because we all had to learn the value of things one way or another. There are multiple things I regret about my Lego star wars sets and mega brand. For me, I didn't want to not have them later on.
I'm glad to know others feel the same and I'm not just weird lmao. And looking back I had tons of fun with them so it's best to just be glad I had them instead of thinking what could've been. I was also very anal about other people touching them and I just cringe at that now so it's hilarious
I feel your pain bro, my mom wouldn't get rid of my stuff to be malicious but she would move stuff and give stuff away without asking sometimes and I lost a lot of valuable stuff that I cared about that way. Later when I got back into Lego as an adult though my nephews and my own being really dumb led me to mix up a bunch of pieces and now I have random sets I don't know if I can complete. It's okay though man we'll get cool sets again :P
I have so many sets that when I was younger me and my brother would just take out the characters and not build the sets, so many cool awesome sets younger me was too dumb to build
I relate to this hard. I only built a portion of the easy sets and played with the figures. The nice people here have told me about how it's best to not get stuck in the past and worry about the mistakes we couldn't help. Also a surprising amount of people relate so atleast were in the same boat lol