Finally signed up to post on this horribly amazing thread.
Let's go back to Christmas 2011. My wife and I had an ongoing joke about the Lego Millenium Falcon. She got it for me for xmas and we had a laugh....then I built it. I hadn't built a Lego set since I was a kid. I started to get the itch. That's when I found the NeoGAF Lego thread. I had no idea there were so many beautiful sets. I really had my eye on the modular building line, but with how expensive they were I couldn't see myself buying them.
About a month later I was in one of those discount stores and saw a Lego logo. It was the Grand Emporium with a damaged box, but all the pieces were still in the bags. Best part of it, the set was only $75 so I grabbed it immediately. Throughout the next year I found many other great deals there. All sets were new with damaged boxes. Ended up snagging the Tower Bridge for $99 and the UCS Imperial Shuttle for $79.
Fast forward to now and I'm up to about 68 sets and over 33,000 pieces. My wife surprised me this Christmas with the Town Hall and SSD.
Anyway, now that my addiction is in full swing, here's my Christmas haul/backlog. Some sets were purchased with xmas cash, just grabbed the Ghost Train for $50. I'm a sucker for clearance sets so grab them when I can.
