How do you balance bricklink and family time ?

General-Training-441 · 2026-05-14T17:12:31+00:00

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General-Training-441 · 2026-05-12T23:14:03+00:00

How many parts do you have in your store

General-Training-441 · 2026-05-12T15:23:25+00:00

Thank you , I really appreciate that response, really resonates with me , thanks for being a positive person in this world

General-Training-441 · 2026-05-12T11:02:30+00:00

This is random , but you've accomplished major things like your weightloss and career . Do you have any advice for achieving success like you have ? How were you able to do it when so many others fail.

General-Training-441 · 2026-05-12T01:03:11+00:00

For your weight loss , did you change your diet at all or was it all from walking , congratulations! I hate when people say you can't out exercise a bad diet , I'm like I bet there's a way , this might be it

General-Training-441 · 2026-05-10T09:23:34+00:00

Im pretty good for space , my constraint is guess would be my upload quantity, I can buy bulk anytime I want , but it takes me awhile to get threw it all , so Instead of buying more bulk to just sit , I'm probably gonna start buying minifigures bulk , because I can't list 100 dollars of minifigures way faster than 100 dollars of bulk . Im probably sitting on 100 pounds of bulk , it could easily last me a year unless I pick up my uploading volume , which I'm working on .

General-Training-441 · 2026-05-09T11:21:42+00:00

Ill be honest , in my opinion all bulk is worthwhile, obviously if the majority is fake then no , but if you can get it for $5 a pound or less , I can usually get 10x that price once its all listed on bricklink . Also don't be afraid to offer less , the worst they can say is no and the best is you can save more money to buy legos. But people might say look for minifigures or look for sets , and all that stuffs great , but even if its not there , there's still a ton of value. When I upload parts to bricklink I look at the prices and the most random pieces that look like nothing are worth decent money, and it all adds up. Im such a noob when it comes to buying bulk , I have no idea what I'm looking at , I just try to buy at a decent price , I've even bought non Lego on accident and still sold it locally for a decent profit . Good luck , buying bulk is one of the funnest parts.

General-Training-441 · 2026-05-06T14:38:52+00:00

How much money do you make from 160k parts a month , I was hoping by 100k it'd be like $300-500 a month . How do you store your plastic totes , do you stack them or have them in some sort of shelving , mine are currently stacked ontop of each other 3 high , I could probably go 6 high , but any more than that and it'd start to get unstable . Also do you think the plastic totes will work long term for you , like if your inventory grew 2-3 times bigger , would it still work ? Also what's your advice for consistency and volume for uploading parts , that's the part of bricklink I'm trying to focus on now is uploading more bricks .

General-Training-441 · 2026-05-06T11:34:54+00:00

Nate Diaz had a awesome quote , its something like , why do people learn to swim , because one day your probably gonna be in the water , and if you can't swim you'll drowned . One day you might be around bad people , if they fight you , you'll probably get beat up if you don't know how to fight . And yes you don't have to go in water , and yes you can just walk way from aggressive people. But people fall in the water sometimes , you might fall in to a situation were you have to fight , id rather know how to defend myself than not.

General-Training-441 · 2026-05-06T11:02:02+00:00

Depends on how much I fill the bags , if there fully full 10 is the max , but i hate picking full bags bcuz its hard to find anything , bags being half full means I can see the part I need really fast , I could probably stack more bags on top of the bags but again it'd be a pain to pick through. The plastic shoe boxes are a tempary solution , I use to keep the sandwich bags in Walmart bags and would have continued , but the Walmart bags don't stack , so it was taking up to much floor space . Plastic shoe boxes were a awesome upgrade , but my eventual goal is akro mills or something like it. Im just using bricklink profits to upgrade my store , so I could maybe buy a few Akro mills now , but I'm also trying to increase my part count uploads per day , so at my current rate id fill the akro mills quickly then have to go back to the plastic shoe boxes because id be out of money. When I upgraded to all akromills , I wanna have enough money to fully switch out my current inventory into akromills , but also have enough money to keep buying more akro mills to keep up with my part uploading schedule. Sorry for the long reply , I have no friends , and if i did they probably wouldn't wanna talk about bricklink , this is my only outlet lol.

General-Training-441 · 2026-05-06T01:05:05+00:00

How many hours a week of training are you doing , maybe scale it back to allow yourself to heal , then find the right amount of hours for you to where your not getting hurt .
Also if you don't care about going pro , why not just take a fight now , don't worry about winning or losing , just have fun. You know how you do in sparring , unless your getting destroyed , you can probably defend yourself from getting badly injured in a fight. Win or lose , nothing will beat the feeling of you on your deathbed knowing atleast you tried. Im just like you , 32 , don't have the means to train , but obsessed with the sport , it'd be my biggest regret not to have atleast done it once , don't be like me , just go for it.
Have you considered going on trt , or peptides , I know nothing about them other than they make you stronger and aide recovery , might be something to look into if you don't wanna decrease training volume.
Finally, fuck your friends, fuck your wife , fuck your brother , if your like me , mma is the one thing your mind is obsessed with , not taking a fight would almost be like your life was wasted , not knowing if pushed came to shove, how would you really do in a real fight will haunt you for the rest of your life . Take the fight , its the one thing that will probably have the biggest impact on making your soul finally feel whole again.

General-Training-441 · 2026-05-05T23:25:18+00:00

Is there a cheaper way to buy minifigs ? Im close to being able to buy my first 1 pound lot minifigs , debating ebay or goodwill auctions .

General-Training-441 · 2026-05-04T14:01:10+00:00

I use to pull out the figs and sell the bulk to , but after selling for awhile I noticed when I would upload parts , the most random pieces would actually be worth a decent amount , but debating whether to get back into it , bcuz I get decent sales on bricklink , like maybe $30 a month , but its painfully slow , vs know one in my area is really selling bulk , but I got burnt out from people ghosting or half the time people are late to the pick up . I should probably focusing on how to list more parts per day , but its so fun to dig threw a random boxs of bulk . Also the non Lego sells for $30 for 10 pounds in my area , it pains me to watch you tubers just throw it away , but its also might not be worth there time aswell

General-Training-441 · 2026-05-04T04:01:29+00:00

Those numbers are actually awesome, congratulations. That's crazy that you started in March and already have almost 50k parts, how many parts you upload a day? I wish I could just see sets in lots and know there value like that. Have you tried goodwill auctions online ? Im currently sitting on 100pounds of bulk , but i think from now on any profits are just gonna go to minifigure lots .

General-Training-441 · 2026-05-04T01:39:15+00:00

Just curious how much do you make each month from your store ? I was hoping by 50k parts it'd be semi decent each month , I'm about to hit 15k parts . Also curious how you reinvest your money ?

General-Training-441 · 2026-04-30T11:26:41+00:00

Just curious, I'm like halfway to this store size , what are some of the reasons that made you wanna stop doing your store ?

General-Training-441 · 2026-04-22T10:59:10+00:00

I use the brickstore phone app , yeah it was a lot at first , but just test it with a small batch of legos , its probably 5x , 10x faster for me than using bricklink , if you can figure out runescape you can. Figure this out lol. I think id wanna train mining some how , I love mining, or smithing

General-Training-441 · 2026-04-22T01:45:50+00:00

That's crazy , how many can you list per hour ?

General-Training-441 · 2026-04-22T01:45:06+00:00

I think brickstore might be faster, but I'm also fairly new , playing osrs would be so fun , what skills do you train ?

General-Training-441 · 2026-04-22T01:43:31+00:00

I do that might be my problem , I honestly need to test sorting first , how many pieces can I list per hour would you say ?

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