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Re: Your Organizational Genius is Needed...
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 9 Jul 2004 04:35:48 GMT
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In lugnet.general, William P. (Pat) Hough wrote:
> Help!!
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> It has been a nightmare!! My hobby is turning into a ghastly chore. What I have
> started to do is sort by color first, then once I have (which I haven't) emptied
> the 30+ containers into the proper color, break down each color by element and
> store them in either hardware drawers (like for nails, screws, that kind of
> thing) or in larger bins (for the more common elements like bricks and plates).
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> - Pat Hough
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 everything completely. First sort
by size and quantity. Sorting by color should be the last step, if at all. Start
with five piles: bricks, plates, huge pieces, tiny pieces, and everything else.
Huge pieces include BURPs, Technic wheels, castle walls, etc. Buy some
organizers from your favorite home improvement warehouse to keep your tiny and
hard-to-find parts.
Fine-tune your sorting criteria based on the size of your collection and your
building habbits. Parts that you use the most should be sorted finely, while
parts you use the least can me mixed together.
When you are sorting a pile, work from bigger parts down to smaller parts.
Bigger parts are easier to see and pick up, so you can move them quickly into
their sorted piles. Eventually you will end up with a pile of small parts that
is too tedious to sort. That is a good place to stop. Dump those parts into a
bucket and don't bother sorting them anymore until you really need to.
A good hueristic is what I call the Digging Depth Rule. Sort your parts until
you have bins that are easy to dig through. When a bin becomes too full to dig
through, sort it or dump it into a larger bin.
I hope this helps and good luck!
Kevin
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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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