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Re: HELP!
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Date: 
Sat, 15 Jul 2000 05:38:10 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Sam Wiley writes:
Every week I spend a good hour or two picking all of the loose
Legos up off the floor, and sorting them all back into their colors;

Only an hour or two?  Either a) you have no kids, or b) they're not interested
in Lego (what?!?), or c) they're much older than my kid (age 4 1/2).  I spend
thirty minutes a week just reloading the minifig box (soon to be two boxes).  My
son can't enough of minifigs.

it's
amazing how quickly the little odds and ends of stuff you find useful and
can't bear to stick back in the box crops up all over the place. ;-)

My first piece of advice to you would be to sort your Legos. No need to get
really fancy or complicated, but sorting by color, with a few additional
categories such as people, trees, technic, and others is really helpful if
you going to build anything, especially nifty little models of this or that.
Mostly, it's important just to sort by color.  But really, you'd find this
most helpful for building.

Don't just sort by color.  Spend a few bucks on a plastic organizer box with
dividers down at the hardware store.  Plan on putting all of your *small* parts
in it, regardless of their color.  It's never fun to have to hunt for a 1 X 1
plate or tile, or a Technic half-peg.  Buy two if needed.  Or three, or...

--
John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D.
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA 94305
Secretary, Californians for Renewable Energy <http://www.calfree.com>



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  Re: HELP!
 
Hey, Sam, welcome to the world of half-crazy Lego builders. We're all half-crazy; it comes with the territory: that of spending long hours staring at legos until finally, around 2 AM, a brilliant idea comes to you. ;-) (...) Hear, Hear. Every week I (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)

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