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  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
"Wayne R Hussey" <eskimo2@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:G6v1rF.F8H@lugnet.com... (...) 10 (...) Totally agree here! Although I must admit my own story skips completely random around Remy's. I've never sorted by set or by color. A factor (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
(...) Yea, that's what my system is, though I use Hefty brand resealable bags (note that it's Ziploc without a K and that's a particular brand's trademark). (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
(...) I think this is were subcontainers, or even ziplock bags, can be very handy. I can't imagine having separate compartments for each color of 1x2 bricks, but I can imagine having a number of bags in a single container, each bag having a single (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
My friend put all the yellow 1x bricks into 12x1x10 walls in preparation for a new project.Oh, and the 2x4 into plus-sign shaped 4x4x10 pillars. The project never got built, but I love those walls. They are great for scoping out what a mountain side (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
(...) It's been a long time since I've seen any discussion about this, and I don't remember the conclusion. Do you do more damage to bricks keeping them built in walls/cubes/piles which keeps them "flexed" or keeping them loose which lets them get (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
(...) One of the parameters of my growing storage dillema is how to keep pieces sufficiently separated such that scratching and scarring is kept to an absolute minimum when I have to rummage around. My experience is that, in the long run, if one has (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
(...) I just read the lugnet.trains group and try to read the highlighs. Your posting became highlighted, so I found it at last... (never been in this corner of Lugnet before) (...) If I should reach step 26 and still be able to have time for (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
(...) As a child, I don't think we (me and my sisters) sorted the LEGO at all, or at least not into more than a few bins (I just remembered my dad built a box with drawers and dividers which might have been for the LEGO), but then we didn't have all (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
(...) I am still undecided about comingling pieces. I have mixed some smaller elements together in Akro but have kept apart larger bricks. A 20 year old yellowing white brick is in stark contrast to something from 3033. (...) I think it is for (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
(...) Glad you enjoyed it! No one replied for a while, so I figured that either no one was reading it or everyone thought I was insane... :) Let me know if you get past step 26 and solve the vision recognition problem. I could use some help on that (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
(...) [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)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
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)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
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)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
[...] (...) 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)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: the evolution of lego sorting
 
(...) Ouch. I hit this stage about a week ago. (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)


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