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My collection is sorted very detailed by color and brick size but my six year old son prefers a bucket of mixed up bricks versus the sorted ones. I he likes to just start building with no real plan of what he's making unlike myself where I go into (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.storage)
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I have a friend who is interested in sorting her son's collection. The boy is six and probably has about two thousand bricks. I know there are many threads discussing storage methods, but most of these are regarding an AFOL's perspective. Is sorting (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Sorting tray suggestion.
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(...) <> (...) <> (...) Yes, I too have yet to find the ideal arrangement. I have been using the 3-drawer Sterlite and variable clear plastic boxes. (...) Sounds like a good idea. Thanks. (...) [snip] (...) [snip] (...) Permanent bins sounds like a (...) (21 years ago, 4-May-03, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Sorting tray suggestion.
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Call me the resurrector of old threads. :D Just as a comment.. I just got a parts organizer like you use in the shop. With clear plastic trays that come out and just pull out all the trays and line them up. You can see whats in each tray through the (...) (21 years ago, 4-May-03, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Updated Lego Part Label Printer, version 1.1
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Yeah, considering I am finally getting my collection sorted and reduced in size, being able to print the parts on labels, rather than just using text, would be really nice. (...) ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (21 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Updated Lego Part Label Printer, version 1.1
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(...) Any news on this? I would love to download the latest version, if one still exists. Jake --- Jake McKee Webmaster - B.I. Portal (URL) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Pile Proponents
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(...) I constantly go over all of my part bins checking what I got and keeping a fresh mental picture of every part. It helps alot when trying to solve problems etc.. The Seed part thingie over at .space is an OnLine example of this, check it out: (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.storage)
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I bought six of a dark blue version of the same thing at my local Wal-Mart in Franklin, KY, and they quit selling them. I had to start using a smaller Akro-Mills cabinet that seems to be a little higher in manufacturing quality then the other ones (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.storage)
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Just today I saw a new small parts storage cabinet at Wal-Mart. It's one of those 39 clear-drawer ones (9 lower big drawers, 30 small upper drawers). It's a dark green, but is the same size as the light gray or black ones that you commonly see. The (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: The opposite works for me
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(...) I have begun going the same way. I have been buying up Plano boxes and sorting my sorted ziplock bags into them. So far I have about a third of my collection moved to this solution (it is not cheap but I think it is worth it) and I find it a (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.storage)
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After purchasing LOTS of Iris drawer units and sorting my collection, I can't imagine going back to the Rubbermaid tubs and ziploc bags I had before. It took almost a half an hour to haul out the tubs, open them all up and arrange them in such a way (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Should I Save the Boxes?
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(...) And you are even a native speaker... /Tobbe (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Should I Save the Boxes?
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(...) Bwah? I swear, I'm literate. "I do the same as you" is what I was trying to say. Adrian (22 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Should I Save the Boxes?
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(...) I'm do the as you. I break down all the boxes that I can and store them flat. I really don't know why I keep them, as I never intend to sell my collection either. I think it's partly sentimentality and partly my just being a packrat, unwilling (...) (22 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I had non of my pre-dark ages boxes when I finnaly emerged from my slumber. When I started bying new sets I saved all the boxes on the attic. Later I realized they take a lot of room so I decided to cut them up and store them flat. All boxes (...) (22 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Well from all the sets I got as a child, I don't have any boxes left. Right now I only save old boxes (pre-1995 for me) as well as boxes of specific themes I really collect. I am about Adventurers-complete, so I save all those boxes. Same for (...) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-03, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Hoard them like gold!
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(...) Why would anyone want to sell a used LEGO set? :) Seriously, to offer another point of view... I have many of the boxes and instructions from my childhood sets. Some of these are now more than 27 years old. However, many of those sets also (...) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-03, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Hoard them like gold!
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(...) I would tend to disagree. My perception from when I was heavily bidding on eBay was that a box has only a small effect on set value (discounting MISB sets here). The way I saw it, the primary reasons a box increased value was: 1. the set may (...) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-03, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Should I Save the Boxes?
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(...) Good evening Dan, At first I saved boxes. Then once my collection started to grow, in order to save room, I just saved the alternate models/ideas panel of the box (usually the back of the box.) Now after 300+ sets I don't even save the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-03, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Trust me on that, any used set you're trying to sell will see its value increased by a good 40% solely because of the box, even in bad shape. If you have the boxes of sets 6335, 1496 and 1497, I will buy them from you immediately! Boxes are (...) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-03, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.general)
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