I used to thrift, opshop, garage sale etc a lot, and I miss it. To be clear I don’t miss have piles of stuff everywhere, but I do miss the little adrenaline and endorphin rush from finding a particularly nice piece item out in the wild.

How could you not be excited seeing a box marked FULL OF LEGO? Especially if the box looks old.

Then when you open it you find the quantity of Classic Space Lego you dreamed of as a child. And amazingly its all been well cared for and sorted.

And it contains a full complement of lego astronauts ready to explore the galaxy.

But best of all it contains Set 928 was the big version of the one I had as a child, I had the 918 because we were poor. The 928 is so fondly remembered that they released a LEGO 90th anniversary version, because nostalgia.

I may have ordered one. Okay I definitely did… but something is missing compared to building an original. Seems you can’t remanufacture real nostalgia, the best you can get is a kind of “I can’t Believe it’s not nostalgia”.