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One suggestion with the zip-locked baggies is to package parts up into smaller zip-lock bags, then put those smaller bags into one of the gallon-sized freezer zip-lock bags. E.g. I take these seperate bags: 1x1 plates, 1x1 round plates, 1x1 plates (...) (21 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) 5 years of school and 4 of production work. Alabama Shakespeare Festival Utah Shakespeare Festival The Shakespeare Theatre in DC plus a bunch of smaller places no one's ever heard of. Aaron (21 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I see you weren't kidding when you said you'd worked in theatre. ;P (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I just moved a couple of months ago, and had the same problem. Lots of Stack On boxes with lots of little drawers. I took my solution from a common warehouse shipping practice. Wrap everything in plastic wrap. I bought a couple of boxes of (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Indeed... everyone who sees my LEGO room... (...) Heh. Now if only I could get my wife to think this way! Jake --- Jake McKee Webmaster - BIP (URL) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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Aaron & All, (...) Having moved from Flint, Michigan to Ann Arbor, Michigan to South Bend, Indiana to Osceola, Indiana, all within the last 5 years or so, I have a bit of experience here with this. Plano boxes - I found that if you put them in a (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Fortunately, I think my wife has quite a collection of sizes. Thanks for the warning about tape, but ever since working in theatre, I've become a tape snob. I hate duct tape now. If any of you have never tried Gaffer's tape, believe me when I (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage, FTX)
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In lugnet.storage, Jake McKee wrote: snipped good advice. Hope I never have to take it! My moves of stuff have all been short, or via airplanes. (...) 30+ K8 boxes. Some would say "wow... doesn't LEGO check your pockets every day? That's a lot of (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I recently moved a good distance, and had to move my big 'ol collection with me. Like John mentioned, I used LOTS of ziploc baggies. I just moved my parts bins to one baggie per color/size/shape like I had already sorted them. I had a few (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) What? You won't have enough bricks to play with while you're at work?? *grin* My suggestion: Zip-Lock bags. Lots of them. You can dump each container into a bag, zip it up, and put the bag back into the container. That way even if the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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HELP! I am moving from the DC/Baltimore area to the San Diego area in a month or less. I have 75% of my collection sorted. Some is in easy to move plastic shoebox sized containers. A lot is in hard to move Stack On brand organizing drawers or (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Orion, Just the other day I had a conversation with a friend about this very topic. Now he is not a LEGO builder or collector. But he is into plastic model kits, Hotwheels etc. so he has an appreciation for my hobby. I sent him a link to the (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jan-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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Someone by the name of Pat sent me these links in response to my LMSM article on storage: (URL) transferring large quantities of brick or perhaps just if you have a large collection, (or maybe to work out a special deal with PAB??) these seem like a (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Jon-- Good to hear you're getting settled in. I'm very, very envious. I've been thinking about this same question, in anticipation of getting my own "workshop" back together about 12 months from now. Yes, I'm ahead of the game, for once, but (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jun-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Mike, Here's what went on in my initial sort. Keeping in mind I decided to sort before I committed any money to a storage system, here's what I did: -- The Process -- I dumped one of my 14-gallon buckets full of brick onto a free table (freed (...) (21 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Me thinks thou doth confuseth two issves. ;) (...) Yes, watch out for spending too much money on 'storage' containers at first. But spend whatever time and thought are necessary to adopt a system of sorting that matches your buying and (...) (21 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.storage)
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In lugnet.build, Nick Kappatos wrote: (a bunch of really great stuff about sorting which I snipped) While I agree that sorting is key, realise that Here There Be Tygers... it is possible to go on a quest for the One True Sorting Scheme, get involved (...) (21 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.storage)
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(...) IIRC, nine 2 1/2 inch drywall screws, 3 each into 3 vertical studs behind the wall panneling. I assumed that I had a few hundred pounds there to be supported. The current 10 storage units are full. I am contemplating one or two more 5-high (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-03, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) What is keeping the plywood against the wall? TWS Garrison (21 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Fun! (...) Understandable. (...) Ok, so this is a real concern amoung many of us. We (those who have) worried about this with real cause and personal history know a few good things to shoot for: Aside from the custom case and ultimate packing (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.storage, FTX)
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