It took a really like time to complete this. I started in junior high and didn’t finish until sometime during high school. I didn’t have a particular wish I was folding them for. I just thought it would be cool to actually fold 1000 of them so I could say I’ve done it. Of course, in the process I’m sure I folded many more (even whole chains of them) that didn’t get counted, since I only counted ones that were in my own possession in my crane box. Yes, the full collection of 1000 of them fills up an entire letter/legal storage box. I’m really into miniature cranes folded from paper that is usually of size 1 to 2” square, so that probably helped keep the size of the collection physically smaller. Plus really tiny cranes just look really cool