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This was quite cool. Seems to be a pretty accurate description of the average LEGO-phile. I'm currently sorted by piece type (all 1x2s together), with pieces that I either don't have enough of and sort of seem congruous kept together ("plants", (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Wow. It's suprising how similar it's been-- granted I'm somewhere between 16.5 and 21 (I've got 'overflow' bins, but haven't yet rearranged my apt to fit it all) Actually, I almost forgot that I once tried sorting by color! And on that note-- (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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[...] (...) Dear Remy, great article! Every single word is 100% true and I'm still laughing about our shared experience. BTW: I just reached more or less step 22. Leg Godt! Ben (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I think I started doing that when I was 9 years old. May be earlier (...) Never done that since it was obviously wrong. (...) I used big plastic ice cream boxs. Those cheap plastic boxs are all broken now, while the ABS LEGO pieces are still (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Ouch. I hit this stage about a week ago. (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Since we're giving testimonials... After the dark ages, living at home with no room for sorting/playing/ making $$$ to buy lots of LEGO I have: 5 gallon Rubbermaid bucket with my stuff, now mostly built and sitting on my bookshelves in new (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Ahh, the old denim bag. I think I still have mine around soemwhere... (...) Soothing, isn't it? (...) I never actually went through this stage - when I started sorting, it went by type. I realized very early on that it was *far* easier to (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) My evolution was: 1. sorting by size, I forget what I did with the non-bricks 2. sorting bricks by size and color, same color grouped together, still not sure how other parts were sorted 3. realized it's a pain to find the bag of yellow 1x2s (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Woops, I always get the two mixed up. (...) Yea, you're probably right. Even if I keep up my rate, it would be 7-8 years, and presumably I won't keep up the rate (in theory I've dropped my rate quite a bit). (...) Yea, I'm starting to run into (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) I have it sorted mostly like that, I did a big sort between xmas and new year. I have my lego kept in my 6 roboriders canisters, a 2 litre icecream tub (for my 8448 wheels) a 2 tray tackle box for parts like my large collection of angle beams (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Heh. Very good! Mine slightly diverges, mostly because I am so full of what the SubGenius call "slack" (to the rest of you, that means I'm "lazy"). I bought many, many sets over the years. After buying a set, I would always put it together, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) begin (...) [big snip] Thanks a lot Remy for sharing this story with us. I did enjoy it, being myself currently at stage 17 now I know what to expect from the future... :-) Ciao Mario Lego web page: (URL) member page: (URL) member of ItLUG: (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) ...You begin trading in all of your other worldly possesions, lose your job, lose your wife, kids, and life...your family members disown you, you begin to drool and froth at the mouth and spend the rest of your days in a mental institution, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Here's a description of an evolution of lego collection sorting. It might be yours, at least in parts. It's certainly been mine. I might turn this into an essay some day, but for now it will have to begin life as a series of unsupported claims. If (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage) !!
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Here in Binghamton NY we have a store called Big Lots (its owned by Kay Bee). Tucked in a dark corner of the store I found about 50, 3500 - 3packs, all for $3.99. Thinking this was a good deal I got one set to use as switch outs on my 1258. When it (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.storage)
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(...) For those Americans (and possibly others) who may not have much knowledge of chemistry, Jan-Albert is talking about bleach (though my bottle of bleach is only a 5% solution, not the 30% Jan-Albert mentions - which probably explains why Cary (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Well after testing this a couple of times (and thanks to Klaas Meijaard for bringing it to my attention) here's what I found to be an excellent way to get those yellowed white parts to look as new again... A chloride solution (I used a product (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Yeah, that's a much smarter suggestion. Especially given the fact that the person looking for the instructions would essentially want to get them for free (and why not - they're not worth anything to me, other than as packing material - which (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Sorry, I've done that before - even held onto them and put them up for silly low prices like a nickel or something (plus shipping) and 99.9% of the time they just sit there. Every once in a while I will see that someone is looking for a (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Actually, what might be better is if you post a list of the instructions you're most looking for (in lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade of course). Many of us may have instructions we're willing to part with (so far, I have only thrown out (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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Shred them??? I would gladly pay the shipping for instructions for sets that I don't already own (which is still quite a few despite recent Lego binges). Send me an e-mail of which instructions you have many of and maybe we can make a deal. Fred (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) My one real new years resolution is to sort the hundreds of sets I've acquired over the last year. I haven't found time to sort anything this past year. it is true; my collection has grown to fill the volume of available space, the whole (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Ahhh... then it has begun :-) Somewhat like a computer program Lego seems to grow to fill all available space forcing you to get more storage. Sorting this Lego can be a joy or a chore or simply not done at all. Personally I enjoy sorting (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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Ooohh no there are too many to fit!! -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. the fully anal and out of space AGAIN newbie simple sorter for non Technic "Ralph Hempel" <rhempel@bmts.com> wrote in message news:NEBBIJADEJHLFJD...mts.com... (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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Sorry all but I just throw 'em away and don't give it a second thought. Now if we were talking about Transformers, that would be a different story. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. who buys Lego for building and creating not for collecting (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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"Jeremy Dullard" <jemgnu@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:G6Dsvw.D2v@lugnet.com... (...) I'm assuming that this part is meant tongue in cheek as all these would probably be worth a lot if you left them under your bed for a significant period of (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Ummm, Kenneth, once you start labelling the compartments, your status is automatically upgraded to fully-anal Technic sorter :-) I'm grinning, because you haven't hit the point yet where the compartments you labelled are too small to hold the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) The only boxes I keep are for the sets I plan on keeping completely separate from my parts bins, which is a very small percentage of my collection and a miniscule percentage of the sets I buy. I throw out the rest. I used to use them to ship (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) The problem is that when you buy as many sets as I do you don't have space for all the boxes, and besides, from what I have seen, an older set will sell for at least as much by selling it in parts lots as by selling it whole. Of course some (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) With a bit of cunning you can get the little ones FREE from banks! Well you can in Oz anyway. JEREMY: D Special Agent #20637 (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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Hang on to them! I know that this suggestion is against, what I percieve to be, the happy-go-lucky, building's-all-we-care-about attitude that flavours the LUGNET community. I'm not an evil "Collector's Edition" tyrant, I just think that a little (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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"Jude Beaudin" <shiningblade@home.com> wrote in message news:G6AMHo.LxB@lugnet.com... (...) place (...) one (...) fine (...) As most of my Technic comes from Mindstorms I store/carry them in Plano 1258 Tackle Boxes and LOTSA Plano 3500 Stow-Aways (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) How do you sort your Technic parts? (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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For my non-Technic parts I have a simple sorting method. I sort by Brick, Plate, and Mini fig. That's it. All Bricks of different sizes in one place all plates of different sizes in one place and all mini figs & stuff in one place. I don't have too (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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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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