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>buy gf botanical set two years ago as kind of a joke so she stops asking me to get her flowers
>she actually really enjoys building it together and suggests getting more
>see the blacksmith set and soi out over the first good castle set I've seen since I was a kid
>build that together and have a lovely time
>put it on display and never really think about lego again until I see the lion knight castle earlier this year
>soi out over another good castle set but this time I fall deep into the rabbit hole
>check to see if my old favorite place eurobricks is still around and it is indeed
>see there that PAB is a thing now and buy some extra fellas for the castle
>go to bricklink to look at all the stuff I missed since I was a kid
>end up spending several hundred bucks on misc figs I thought looked cool for future mocs
>get ninjago gardens+market for myself and disney and hogwarts castles for her
>completely run out of shelf space so gf tells me no more lego until we buy a bigger house
>realize I've gone way too far and spent over a thousand dollars chasing nostalgia
>can't shake the feeling of becoming one of those funko pop manchildren that fills their house with useless plastic shit
Seriously considering just selling everything so I don't turn into a lobotomized consoomer
