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(...) Yep... I also have quite a pile of collections I've picked up on Ebay and in local garage sales. I actually sort those independently of my main pile, and only integrate them once I've either completed all the sets that I can from the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) [Lots of snipping. Frank and I generated some serious text in here.] Thanks for the detailed response Frank... it was very insightful for me to read it from your perspective. (...) To be completely honest, I don't remember quite what happened (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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I followed what you said almost exactly until about step 6. Right now, I'm about an 8 or 9. I sort my pieces by color (though I separated black plates and blocks as I had so many) in shoeboxes and those cardboard boxes that come in the larger sets. (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Great insight! One would have had to go through this to have been able to write it so well. Thanks. <Major Snippage> (...) I got to this step about 6 years ago ;-) I now call my basement: "My Shop". (...) Step 26 is in the wrong order. It (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Great story... I'm glad I started visiting LUGNET almost immediately after exiting my "shadow" period (I never really stopped playing with my LEGO, but for about 4 years I hardly bought anything) Because of what I read here, I started sorting (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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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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