Is it more than unusually strange that I asked for (and received) a bucket of Lego for my 30th birthday pressie? It’s the Gift That Keeps On Giving.
Lego has infinite uses. At the moment there’s a Lego brick acting as a spacer for the front gutter down-pipe, Lego bricks keeping the bookcases away from the wall, and my bedroom door is being held open with a Lego door wedge.
Plus they make that amusing sound when they go up the vacuum cleaner.