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(...) I decided (finally) to get rid of mine. I solved problem 1 by still having the set instructions, and #2 by realizing I never will get around to building their alternate creation. :) Besides, what can you build out of the boxes? They stick (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) I think it can really depend on type of collection when you start sorting by piece and color. I'm pretty sure I started way before I had 100k pieces sorted. According to my Excel spreadsheet, I'm up to 247k pcs in my collection, which is (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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Thanks for the ideas! I am very new to this site, it is nice to get informative responses so quickly. I have been sorting by piece, as of now they all fit in bags. I would say I have close to 3,000 legos. BUT, come christmas it will almost double!! (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I personally sort by part. I currently have well over 100,000 parts and wouldn't be able to find parts if I just through all of one color together. I keep my basic, primary color, bricks in tubs sorted by size. A few sizes are going to be (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) (as a little bit of a note, I am up to ~147K, and have only just started to sort by both piece and colour. The only pieces I have sorted by both piece and colour right now are 1x4's in primary colours (not black, because nearly all my black (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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Hi Mark, I would have to agree with Bram and recommend sorting by piece. At the beginning of awakening from my "dark Ages' I sorted by color, filled many plano boxes and then discovered finding the right part in all the "black" boxes was tedious at (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I used to sort by color. But it was really hard to find pieces, especially the very little ones. When my collection got to about 30-35K pieces, I got sick of having to dump all the pieces on the floor in order to find the part I was looking (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Until recently, I didn't. But I'm currently attempting to sort by colour. Yellow, red, blue, white, light grey and black each get their own tub, and the newer, less common colours like brown, green, and tan are probably going to stay mixed (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I've learned to be flexible. My collection is in a fast growth period, so I change sorting politics regularly. What I mostly do is to sort by type, and if I get too many of one type I sort them by color too, e.g. all the black 1X4 plates in (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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Ok, Here is my problem - Do I sort by color or by peice? I see good points and bad points for both. I can imagine how hard it will be to look for a 1x3 blue brick in a big bag ao blue bricks, AHHHH! But, it will be hard to tell how many of one color (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Or send them to me as a real gift -- if they're the smallish US$6 or US$8 size boxes. I can use them for shipping stuff. --Todd (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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I keep them and have since the mid-early days of my collection...before that I threw them out. I store them in the large space beneath my bed, though the idea of putting smaller boxes in bigger ones never occurred to me...what a moron I can be (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) I must say from my own experience that having your LEGO neatly sorted really does make building much easier. I have about 80% of my collection stored in clear plastic Akro Mils drawer units, sorted by both shape and color. (Wal-Mart recently (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) I used to chop them up! I'd keep the front cover and the back cover and that was it. Then, when I was about 16 or so I found them (they were all stacked under my bed in one complete box, one of the police boats that floated, and I tossed them (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) The only boxes I currently have intact are from "my favorites", ones I could not bear to cut down because they had been my prize finds (6090, 6973, 6982, and 6286-etc.). The rest get folded flat or cut into backs and fronts, depending on (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) I toss 'em in the recycle without a second thought. I buy Lego for the Lego. ;) YMMV James (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Up until really last year and the Star Wars sets, I never was a duplicate set collector. Generally because I could never afford it. I still have the duplicate boxes of the SW sets, though in buying duplicates of the Shell sets, I'm only (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) This one made me laugh out loud :) Actually, having taken over our apartment, we only used to nest boxes, but now we're cutting down the smaller ones and stuffing them into the larger ones, (dan has never had a closet, and mine has the dining (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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Wow. I just got online for the specific purpose of asking the question. I expect at least 5 or 10 sets, including a few big ones for X-Mas and I'm tyring to figure out where to put em. "Kevin Zwicker" <kevin1@netrover.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) The vacuum formed trays aren't styrene, they're #1 plastic (PETE). Our county has several recycling centers, so the ones I don't use for sorting (the Technic ones usually make nice sorting trays), I toss in with the soda bottles. (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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