 | | Your Organizational Genius is Needed... —William P. (Pat) Hough
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| | | Help!! What on Earth was I thinking? A few weeks ago I looked around at all the various tubs, cans, boxes, and other containers I have lying about, filled with various LEGO elements, so I thought I would be smart (HA!) and inventory it...y'know, get (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Your Organizational Genius is Needed... —David Laswell
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| | | | | (...) Two things that I've seen pop up often enough are to pay "interested parties" (your kids, neighborhood kids, fellow AFOLs, etc.) in bricks to help you sort, and to sort by shape rather than color. It's probably faster to sort by color than (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Your Organizational Genius is Needed... —Kevin Richey
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| | | | | (...) Hi Pat, Keeping your parts in good sorted order is a never-ending chore. Personally I find sorting to be relaxing, similar to the way knitting is relaxing to some people. Or maybe I'm just weird. Don't sort by color, it's too hard. Don't sort (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Your Organizational Genius is Needed... —Stefan van Zwam
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| | | | | | "Kevin Richey" <kevinrichey@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:I0KI3o.I3A@lugnet.com... (...) Personally I (...) some (...) First sort (...) Start (...) else. (...) and (...) your (...) while (...) into (...) that (...) into a (...) until (...) dig (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Your Organizational Genius is Needed... —Christian Treczoks
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| | | | | (...) Sort what you need, leave the rest out. I have individual boxes for sorting bricks, plates and slopes in the basic colours. For some color/shape combinations I even splitted boxes, like in "Red slopes 45" and "Red Slopes other", or "Black (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Your Organizational Genius is Needed... —Duane Hess
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| | | | | (...) I think that the sorting method varies by both taste and collection size. I used to sort specifically by shape without regard to color. Once my collection reached about 50,000 pieces or so this method of sorting began to become more trouble (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Your Organizational Genius is Needed... —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | In lugnet.general, William P. (Pat) Hough wrote: Hi Pat, I recently had to unsort all my LEGO, resulting in three 16 gallon tubs of LEGO. Emotionally this was hard to do but it served its purpose well. Now I'm at the task of unsorting my modest LEGO (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Your Organizational Genius is Needed... —William P. (Pat) Hough
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| | | | Thanks to all of you who replied!! Every single reply had a snippet (or better) of useful information. I am putting all of them to good use. - Sorting by color first - Take each color, and sort out the really large pieces, then slightly smaller (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Your Organizational Genius is Needed... —Ted Michon
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| | | | Pat- I agree with most of the advice, though recommend against 2 of your conclusions: 1.We sort by color after sorting by type. 2.We do not label containers (at least not transparent ones). We've been growing a sorted collection for 14 years, and (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Your Organizational Genius is Needed... —Mathew Clayson
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| | | | (...) I have to go with Ted on this. I've purchased a fair amount of bulk from Ebay recently, and have be washing and sorting it. I'm mostly into trains, but I wanted a lage buffer of misc parts to build with. What started as 10 shoe boxes 2 months (...) (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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