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What’s better than 4 X 50% off? 7 X 70% off!

A couple notable 25% off sets at Nordstrom, and a few others that haven't been marked down in the past. https://www.nordstrom.com/s/x-disney-the-enchanted-treehouse-43215/7460264?origin=keywordsearch-personalizedsort&breadcrumb=Home%2FAll Results&color=500 https://www.nordstrom.com/s/18-indiana-jones-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-temple-of-the-golden-idol-77015/7526631?origin=keywordsearch-personalizedsort&breadcrumb=Home%2FAll Results&color=200

Pump the brakes on the USPS hate. As a former USPS employee, it's a tough job. “Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there's never a let-up. It's relentless. Every day it piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out but the more you get it out the more it keeps coming in. And then the bar code reader breaks and it's Publishers Clearing House day.”

Headphones are a perfect way to avoid unwanted interactions after you've had to respond to the same "wow, that's a lot of LEGO" comment for the millionth time.

Roses, sunflowers and lotus all in store at Walmarts now. Along with giving them the new cherry blossoms these just lost the exclusivity. Oh well was a good run

From the Center's web site: The Northeast Alabama Entrepreneurial System, more commonly called the Entrepreneurial Center, is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. We are a business incubator that was created as a result of broad community collaboration in 1998. An EDA grant provided the funds for construction of the facility. The Center is a 40,000 square foot mixed use facility that serves service and light manufacturing companies.

Nope, its in a commercially-zoned area of town. If you are a shooter and familiar with the CMP program, their office is across the street. The odd shape is due to the number of warehouse slots available, all accessible from outside. This is a very solid building. When I get a tornado coming right at me (not uncommon here in the South) I spend time at the business instead of home. The building hosts all manor of business from maid services to home health. There's a large, well-know duck decoy business located there (not Duck Dynasty) and a photography business. Many other varied businesses. It's a great system. I actually have two offices. One is 24 x 60, which is my BrickLink store. The other office is 30 x 60 and where I have my LEGO racks. All utilities, including high-speed internet is paid. Two break rooms with refrigerators and microwaves. A large (30+) community meeting room and a smaller (about 10 people) one. Free color copier and fax. A person that is kind of the building custodian/secretary for the whole building is present 9am - 5pm which means someone to sign for packages. Cost: $600 a month. I'm happy here.

I'm lucky. I keep my LEGO/BrickLink Store/warehouse in a business incubation program. I'm in a large building with about 20 other start-up companies. I've been there for 8 years so I should be hatched by now. We have our own little mailroom with individual P.O. boxes for every business and a room behind it for FedEx/UPS/USPS packages. When I ship, I just drop bubble mailers in the mail slot and put the larger packages in the outgoing section of the package room. I don't do Amazon anymore but, when I did, it wasn't uncommon for me to have 30-40 boxes going out a day, particularly in September. Jeez, what a time saver to be able to just sit them in the room for pickup. Plus, I can work all night and sleep during the day, when deliveries and pick-ups are made. I haven't stood in a postal line in over 8 years. Chamber of Commerces generally don't do a very good job of advertising local business incubator programs. If you are looking to move your business out of your home and would love to have a small warehouse and office area for about the same cost as a good self-storage unit, then I would check my local Chambers of Commerce to see if they have a program in your area.

I don't see any appeal in that winning set that they'll end up making. When I heard that the winning creation on the show would become an official set, I thought for certain that they would make the last challenge have some sort of classic theme: build a castle, or a spaceship, or some huge modular. But this plane thing that won is just godawful as a mass-produced set. It's far too personal to the builders, and while I can understand the creativity and the reason that it could win a competition like this, I have no interest in owning it whatsoever, and I sincerely doubt that I'll be alone in that. I thought this was a great idea by Lego (the winning creation becoming a set), but it could not have gone worse for them. This thing will be on perma-sale. That said, I hope they do this again with the next season, but put a lot more thought into the parameters of the championship challenge.

SOLD - to Ravenb99. Thank you for the smooth transaction!