AIBU to sort mixed crate of Lego back into sets?

[BackAche21]

So my children are past the age of Lego and this big crate of the stuff was knocking about our tiny house getting in the way and gathering dust. So I decided to do something about it, and looking at the adjacent box of old instructions I embarked on the task of sorting kilos of the stuff back into their individual sets thinking maybe I could resell and claw back some of my ~£600 investment in plastic bricks. That was clearly, definitely unreasonable but I started anyway. That's not my AIBU question.

I started on Lego sorting 3 weeks ago. I just finished. But out of ... counting ... 25 ziplock bags of Batman, Friends, City, Harry Potter and Ninjago there's only one that is complete. Worse than that, I now have 24 sets, each one with a list of the missing Lego pieces and their code numbers.

(Let me say here that I left a really good job 2 years ago to become an unpaid carer, so I have a lot of time and anxiety to chew through every day).

My question: AIBU to continue with this madness and seek buyers for incomplete kits? Or should I put them into the loft for my children to deal with after I've died (hopefully some decades from now)?

Find out which sets you have, sort pieces by bricklink inventory, sell with info on missing pieces... enjoy!

If you’ve already done the huge job of sorting and then working out which bits are missing, then I’d search Bricklink for them to order and make up complete sets.

I’ve found Ebay good for selling on - I’d lay out all the bits on a white background and then make the model up and photograph the finished item. Time consuming but worth it. I flogged on older DS’s old Star Wars stuff and I reckon we pretty much doubled our money on most sets.

You need lots of photos and to be honest in the descriptions, we had original boxes and instructions which helped.

I’m now looking at younger DS’s kits, but it seems a way bigger task.

I bow to you op!!! My son is a Lego nut and any money he gets for birthdays or Christmas goes towards it. We’ve been trying to get him to organise his instructions and spare pieces. You are amazing!!

Just for entertainment, and because you've all been very supportive, here are my before and after photos - although sadly I forgot to take a picture at the very start when there was just one big crate of mixed Lego. At the end you can see two piles of sorted sets. Pile A: complete sets, Pile B: sets with pieces missing. Guess which pile is bigger?

Keep them for your future grandkids to play with Mix them all up again.The point of lego is to design a d build!