you 100% have to pay sales tax even if you purchase from a foreign company that doesn't charge it. It becomes your responsibility to pay to the state and if wait to do this there may be interest and/or penalties.
@@maddiesworldofbricks You should! There's a bunch of really cool stuff out there, and with a very healthy resale market you can cash out at anytime and at the worst break even.
you mention when getting Bulk by the Pound you may need to wash them id love to see the logistics of washing huge amounts of lego so much surface area do you wash it like rice?
Large bucket, cap of bleach, detergent, warm water. Repeatedly plunge the bricks down until everything has had water penetrate. Pour out through a filter or old towel, then rinse in bucket with clean water. Leave to dry on towels for a few days.
I like the shaken bucket method; warm water + Dawn dish soap inside 2 gallon ice cream pail. Fill about 3/4 with Legos and solution, leaving 1/4 open air for motion. Close it up and shake at discrtion for about 2-3 minutes, or longer depending on the amount and quality of grime you're dealing with. I recently had to do this with a box I got from a cousin whos 5-year-old had the whole batch outside in the sandbox for a summer.
@@MetFreak42 ty. this reminds me of a modern way people emulsify salad dressing, putting it into a jar with lid and shaking it. id recommend a few minutes to soak to before shaking, as good practise for any cleaning to save labour
I think I searched something like "sealed lego bag lot" or something close to that. They aren't as common as regular bulk lots but they do exist if you're patient
A lot of states have a thing called 'use tax' that you have to pay if you aren't charged 'sales tax'.
you 100% have to pay sales tax even if you purchase from a foreign company that doesn't charge it. It becomes your responsibility to pay to the state and if wait to do this there may be interest and/or penalties.
Glad you're back! Do you enjoy any other lego themes, or non-official lego themes? Ever look into 3rd party lego?
I like lego friends quite a lot but I never look at 3rd party
@@maddiesworldofbricks You should! There's a bunch of really cool stuff out there, and with a very healthy resale market you can cash out at anytime and at the worst break even.
"Very high sales taxes, like 7%"
Laughs in Hungarian with 21% sales tax
Yikes
US uses true "sales tax" and European countries use "VAT" (value-added tax). They're not directly comparable.
When saying bulk can be 3-4 and bags around 8, does that include shipping?
you mention when getting Bulk by the Pound you may need to wash them
id love to see the logistics of washing huge amounts of lego
so much surface area
do you wash it like rice?
Large bucket, cap of bleach, detergent, warm water. Repeatedly plunge the bricks down until everything has had water penetrate. Pour out through a filter or old towel, then rinse in bucket with clean water.
Leave to dry on towels for a few days.
I like the shaken bucket method; warm water + Dawn dish soap inside 2 gallon ice cream pail. Fill about 3/4 with Legos and solution, leaving 1/4 open air for motion. Close it up and shake at discrtion for about 2-3 minutes, or longer depending on the amount and quality of grime you're dealing with. I recently had to do this with a box I got from a cousin whos 5-year-old had the whole batch outside in the sandbox for a summer.
@@MetFreak42 ty. this reminds me of a modern way people emulsify salad dressing, putting it into a jar with lid and shaking it. id recommend a few minutes to soak to before shaking, as good practise for any cleaning to save labour
when searching for the orphaned bags what do you label in the search bar ?
I think I searched something like "sealed lego bag lot" or something close to that. They aren't as common as regular bulk lots but they do exist if you're patient
@@maddiesworldofbricks thanks alot!
gotta search "orphans" and the orphans will make the bags orphaned
@@icyleaf huh lol
@@RobertSmith-tu7rl go to the orphanage, buy them a couple sets of legos and they will turn the bags into orphaned bags
Why don’t you build prototypes in studio?
I just prefer the physical build. But it's certainly an option
Does your wife have a channel for her city?
No, I've been trying to convince her though
you forgot looting a lego store 🤣🤣