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I will be moving within the next couple of months and would like to dedicate all or part of a room strictly to my LEGOs. I am currently using an old antique desk for building models and holding my storage bins. I can just see my mom cringe everytime (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) You spent how much to save how much? *confused* Why didn't you just get someone to buy some sets for you and send them to you? SOme of us have our own Costco cards for other reasons. Sarah Heacock Sarah@eskimo.com (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) The situation you describe needn't be the case. You mention two problems. If empty bin-space is a problem, you are suffering from one of two difficulties. Bins too large for your collection. Or a collection too small for your bins (see my (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I hear you. My kids are really bad about building from sorted bins. For about a week after I've done major sorting, they'll come up with creations made from all 1xN plates, or only round pieces. Thought about sorting by colors vs sorting by (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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What I have done so far with the pieces I have sorted is: 1. Put all pieces which currently have a classification in my system in one pile and all unclassified parts in another. 2. Sort all of the classified pieces into three catagories a) bricks b) (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) What works best for me is to use lots of Chinese carry-out soup containers and paper plates. I set up 10-20 soup containers (depending on the size of the set). I sort by brick size and element category (windows, tools, plants, etc.). I sort on (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Yes, but I feel that using too many sorting bins is a waste of space because there's always going to be a lot of bins that are nearly empty. And if you have too many bins, you cannot stack them all in front of you when building, so you need to (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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> Ah, the canonical sorting debate has arisen. There is a camp > (myself among the adherents) that feels that sorting by color > is a total waste of time (except for green :-)). Far more > important to sort by size and type. Yes, yes, we've all (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Ah, the canonical sorting debate has arisen. There is a camp (myself among the adherents) that feels that sorting by color is a total waste of time (except for green :-)). Far more important to sort by size and type. When rooting for a part, (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) eliminating the (...) This is the key insight to sorting fast, I think. When I am trying to digest a big set (or sets) I look through the bags before opening, looking for bags that are similar (or exactly the same for multiple set copies). (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) about doing (...) For Technic sets, I work on a big table, and use a "coordinate system" of piles of same-type pieces. (When building, I value form over aesthetics, so all colors of a given part go in the same piles.) x1 x2 x3 x4 x6 x8 x10 x12 (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) doing (...) way. My current method is as follows: followed by 12 sentences of detailed instructions. I've been married to an engineer for 20 years now, and feel compelled to offer you some advice on sorting (knowing the engineer type so well). (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) When faced with that problem, i have tried several ways to speed up the sorting process. As an engineer type person, i will not be satisfied untill i find the fasted way. My current method is as follows: (note: i use hardware style bins for (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) This probably runs counter to most of y'all but for filling small numbers of short times to kill I think that a few bags of rectangular blocks and some slopes would do. I like building in two modes. One is to see what I can do with plain (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Does anyone have a method to make sorting pieces easier? I have several tubs of Legos which still need to be sorted, but am feeling a bit lazy about doing it. Duane ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) A note, the ">" are inserted by the posting software to show what was quoted. This is done by most software out there, including most newsreaders likely to be used (for example, Netscape, which I use on RTL), as well as by the web posting (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) there (...) intended in a light hearted manner. Good point, one I have used myself after many a trip to the book store. (...) Should we have moved to an off-topic page? Make it a good day. Louise ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I guess it's just a matter of obsession, but not letting it stand in the way of putting food on the table. I work hard, and my employer values that and takes good care of me. Besides, I could be blowing the money in bars or other ways, what (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Would (...) pretty well, on their side in the original tray, which also keeps the pieces together while building. But I usually take a good mystery on a business trip, I cann't remember the last time I had time to read at home. For long trips (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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QVC has them as well, if you go to qvc.com and do a search in the description field for "roly kit" they show up. They are about $16 to $40 depending on which one you get. I don't know if the 800# on the commercial has them any less expensive. We use (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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