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Re: Sorting: Found my Rhythm
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Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:08:31 GMT
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"James J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.general, Eric Kingsley wrote:
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> I feel your pain, what you describe sounds exactly what my LEGO life is • been
> like the past year or so. Ever since my daughter became mobile my sorting • time
> was cut down to waiting till she was in bed. So after she and my son get • to bed
> I have about 2 hours to sort and of course spend "quality" time with my • wife.
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> We need a new term for AFOLs that have toddlers and can't build/sort as • desired,
> it' not really a dark age, more of a forced separation.
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> jt
I can relate, you ought to try it with four kids! It takes me forever to
sort loose bricks. I don't think I have ever been completely sorted nor do
I expect to for the next 10 years at least, if ever!
My son (age 9) was recently looking for ways to earn some money so I offered
him the opportunity to sort into colors a large Rubbermaid tub of loose
bricks. Simply breaking it down into colors has made it a much easier
problem to handle, each color fills about a blue tub or so. Doing the next
level of sort is my job but I have two more of these large unsorted tubs
that need attention and my daughter (she is 7) has expressed an interest in
doing that sort.
It never seems to end though. In the three weeks since my son completed the
sort, my kids have generarted a fair amount of "unsorted" stuff which is now
in another Rubbermaid tub. So far it is only a couple inches deep but it
doesn't take long ...
Mike
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Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring.com
http://www.ncltc.cc - North Carolina LEGO Train Club
http://www.carolinatrainbuilders.com - Carolina Train Builders
http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=mpw - CTB/Brick Depot
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Yes thats the cycle at my house, bricks get sorted, MOCs get built and broken down, then go into the "to be sorted tubs" and the cycle of life starts over. My son (7) helps me sort them the way Eric mentioned, into bricks, plates, slopes then (...) (20 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Sorting: Found my Rhythm
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| (...) Ah yes. Can't wait to enlist my kids into child labor to help sort. (...) Oh... Skip what I just said I don't think it's worth it :-) Eric (20 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Sorting: Found my Rhythm
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| (...) Eric, I feel your pain, what you describe sounds exactly what my LEGO life is been like the past year or so. Ever since my daughter became mobile my sorting time was cut down to waiting till she was in bed. So after she and my son get to bed I (...) (20 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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