I have run a bricklink shop for a little over two years now and I want to document what it’s like running a bricklink shop alongside a full time job. 

I decided to start my own shop to see how it went as I had so many spare pieces with no idea how I accumulated so many I thought I’d rather have people that need them to have them. It’s been a long old task of sorting, figuring out storage, where that storage will go, I decided the garage as my Lego room was going to be my daughter’s room. 

I started with the towers with the small plastic drawers which didn’t work out because of my labelling system I had no idea where anything was I unless I had bricklink, which unfortunately got hacked into soon after I started, so I had to start over. With a mix of life, building LEGO and moving house it’s taken a long time to get it all in order, but now I finally feel like I’m getting somewhere. 

I now have bigger drawers, better storage, and more space to store things. I still have a lot of sorting to do but now it’s in localised bags of bricks, plates, tiles etc so once everything is sorted, it will be quicker and easier to store and upload to the shop, I already have just over 12,000 pieces in the shop but looking at what I have, I think I may be closer to 50,000 when it’s done, my goodness it’s a lot of pieces!

My dream goal would be to make this my full time job, perhaps renting a small office to work from but I’m a long ways from that right now, my last order was in May but hopefully with the more pieces added the more orders I will get, and hopefully grew the shop to a small business but we will see!

My aim is to have a monthly update on the shop, what’s been added and sales and such, just so if your thinking about starting a shop on bricklink you roughly know what it’s like and what it takes!

https://store.bricklink.com/Wizard_Bricks#/shop

Hope you enjoyed my window into owning a bricklink shop and I hope you start one soon!