Lego string is priced to seem cheap, but the markup on it is tremendous. 50 cm of Lego string costs a dollar. 2 cents per centimeter. Can’t you hear a loudmouth pitchman exclaiming, ” That’s only $0.02 per centimeter! ” But you can do better. Here is how to save money by using a Lego string substitute. Because if there’s one thing better than 2 cents per centimeter, it’s getting the same thing for 5 cents per meter.
Cheap Lego string substitute
Like most things, it doesn’t make sense to make a special size. They just use a standard, off the shelf size, buy it in huge quantities, and sell it in tiny quantities at a huge markup.
It turns out the size you need is called #8.
That means you can go to a fabric store, buy yourself a big spool of #8 thread, and save a lot of money. At the time I wrote this, you could get 87 yards of number eight thread at Jo-Ann fabric for $4.
And if you want different colors, you can do that. Rope and chain and hose in the real world comes in a few different colors, after all. You can even buy different colors of thread to match whatever you need.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.