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Where on Earth do you keep your Lego collections? What about you folks who take trading seriously - where do you put it all? Do you have a dedicated room, the loft, the garage, or just stick it in any nook and cranny you can find? Do have your sets (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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Cross-posting to .storage Jude (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.storage)
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Having just moved house, I now have to keep mine under the bed and on top of my bookshelves... I've just moved into a small room in a shared house (From a large room in a house with friends), so my space is limited. I don't even have room to display (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) Where ever the pieces happen to end up. ;-) (...) I have a shelving unit set aside for my Brickbay store. Other than that, I control the garage. It is my private workshop. (...) Both. Occasionally, I'll find that some Lego has made it's way to (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't trade but my collection is serious. I don't keep Packaging, so no problems there. When my brick is sorted, it is in BIG and little Rubbermaid bins, and simular containers, pluse those boxes with the little drawers for nuts and bolts (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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I have the same problem. I am clearing out quite a lot of sets right now to make more space ("we are planning to move in the Spring & and Lego sets on every flat space do not help us sell" - Mrs Arthur). By Christmas I hope only to be left with my (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) I actually trade very little but I have gone on a crazy spending spree of late and am buried in MISB sets. I can't seem to find the time to open and sort them. Currently, most of them have found a nice spot in a desk in the basement, but the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't have a particularly large amount of Lego, but I do like to put it away in the cupboard at the end of each session for reasons of tidyness, both of my flat and mind. For this reason, the "working set" of bricks cannot get too large, or (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) That's one of the reasons my husband and I, both AFOLs, have decided to _not_ bring any children into the world. We do not want a kid to mess up our system, and we do not want teeth marks on our LEGO. We understood that we are serious about (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) Sounds like you live in my place! Except instead of CDs and videos it's my wife's Disney collection getting in the way. My LEGO (she's not quite an AFOL, but she's not a NLSO either, somewhere in-between) is all in our second bedroom which is (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) I have a dedicated play-room about 75% of which is the LEGO collection (about 100,000 bricks these days). This playroom is the proper bedroom of my one-bedroom apartment - a much needed arrangement to keep the cats out of it. (For those of you (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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Wow Anne, you do have some tight quarters for you, your husband and your LEGO. And here I thought I was running out of room for my LEGO. I'll never complain again..... by the way my LEGO room is (and I am embarrassed to say) 40ft x 20ft (12m x 6m), (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) I have a dedicated 1 BR apartment... Check out my (old) pictures at: (URL) need to take some new pictures and update that page. (...) Yup, sets are on display all over the place. Almost every flat surface has something on it. I do have a (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) I think I have had some of the largest space wise cities that were set up for long periods of time. Back when I was living in a basement, I had around 250 sq. ft of lego set up, plus bins/boxes of bits. I now have a room of about 150 sq. ft (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) I have a few prized bits here and there upstairs but the bulk of my bulk is in the basement. There is a bit of the basement used for other things but over a thousand square feet are mine, all mine. :-) ++lar (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) I use the bedroom and the bedroom closet. Most things are grouped together so that I can find them. (...) Assembled sets are kept up for a little while, then taken down. (...) I just got done putting 60 or so sets in plastic bags. Then they (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) Do the cats walk over it much? --Todd (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, lawrence wilkes (<G3EFAL.L26@lugnet.com>) wrote at 13:12:29 (...) I'm trying to sell my house at the moment, and while it's not *because* of the LEGO, the new house *will* have a room dedicated to it. My spare room used to be (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) What else do you do when you run out of space. I started with a 1 bedroomed flat which once that became to full, forced me to move into a three bedroomed house. When this property got to full I was forced to move again into a five bedroomed (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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You what??? Your house isn't large??? 12m x 6m is our entire ground floor: living room, kitchen, toilet... You americans have too much space at your disposal. Try the west of Holland for a change! Duq "Gary Istok" <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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Gee, after reading all this suddenly I'm happy with my modest collection. Only 100 sets, all sorted in a variety of boxes. They're in a little pile in the attic, and I just take them down at times. I guess my style is a bit like Jennifer's, except I (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) Believe it or not?..:-) Is it possible believing this? We live in a house which is 100 m2 including all the utilities and balcony, and you have 72% of that area as a Lego room. My lego place is a corner in our second room (about 10 m2) in (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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I have Lego all over my house. I live in Bogotá, so my place is very different to all you AFOL. I think I am the only Lego fan in Colombia. I have the big part of my collection in my daughter room (3 years old) in a selfmade bookcase of real bricks (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) I have all my LEGO in my dorm room (8x10 ft / 2.5x3m, including the closet), as well as my computer, books, bed, sound system, and clothing. It's kind of difficult to get arround when I take out the boxes to build... Yet there's a whole lot of (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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lawrence wilkes wrote in message ... (...) My NON LEGO brother and I share the annex to my parents house. The annex consists of three 8'x10' rooms, a bathroom, and loftspace over half. That's an 8'x10' room each, the third being a (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) We try to keep the cats out of the basement. Don't always succeed, but the risk of one getting trapped down there and using a corner (or worse) to urinate in is very undesirable. Was that what you were asking or did I miss something? The (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) Just havin' some fun. You've said before how much your family's cats drive you nuts (I'm paraphrasing) so when you said "all mine" I just had to ask. :-) (...) If you kept a large dog in the basement, they might understand that the LEGO floor (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Um, thanks. And then I'd have to get a tiger to keep the dog in line, no doubt... ++Lar (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) "She swallowed the spider to catch the fly..." :-) I guess a tiger wouldn't work 'cause the tiger would learn bad habits from the cats. And you'd need a moby litter box for the tiger. Hmmm. How about a raccoon? --Todd (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Maybe, maybe. But you know how those racoons are, always stealing things. (and washing... mmm... that gives me an idea, I have an LOT of dirty used LEGO in need of a good scrubbing) Na... my cats beat up a raccoon last month. ++Lar (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Not a serious collector, but I love the stuff - I have taken over 80% of the loft with it and that's just my stuff with the railway etc. 3 girls aged 0-7 think they own the rest but that's about 25% of one bedroom full! (...) Yes, but only the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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(...) Talk about the cure being worse than the disease! :) Steve (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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