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HELP! I am moving from the DC/Baltimore area to the San Diego area in a month or less. I have 75% of my collection sorted. Some is in easy to move plastic shoebox sized containers. A lot is in hard to move Stack On brand organizing drawers or (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) What? You won't have enough bricks to play with while you're at work?? *grin* My suggestion: Zip-Lock bags. Lots of them. You can dump each container into a bag, zip it up, and put the bag back into the container. That way even if the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I recently moved a good distance, and had to move my big 'ol collection with me. Like John mentioned, I used LOTS of ziploc baggies. I just moved my parts bins to one baggie per color/size/shape like I had already sorted them. I had a few (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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In lugnet.storage, Jake McKee wrote: snipped good advice. Hope I never have to take it! My moves of stuff have all been short, or via airplanes. (...) 30+ K8 boxes. Some would say "wow... doesn't LEGO check your pockets every day? That's a lot of (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Tape Snob (was Re: Moving your sorted brick cross-country)
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(...) Fortunately, I think my wife has quite a collection of sizes. Thanks for the warning about tape, but ever since working in theatre, I've become a tape snob. I hate duct tape now. If any of you have never tried Gaffer's tape, believe me when I (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage, FTX)
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Aaron & All, (...) Having moved from Flint, Michigan to Ann Arbor, Michigan to South Bend, Indiana to Osceola, Indiana, all within the last 5 years or so, I have a bit of experience here with this. Plano boxes - I found that if you put them in a (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Indeed... everyone who sees my LEGO room... (...) Heh. Now if only I could get my wife to think this way! Jake --- Jake McKee Webmaster - BIP (URL) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I just moved a couple of months ago, and had the same problem. Lots of Stack On boxes with lots of little drawers. I took my solution from a common warehouse shipping practice. Wrap everything in plastic wrap. I bought a couple of boxes of (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Tape Snob (was Re: Moving your sorted brick cross-country)
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(...) I see you weren't kidding when you said you'd worked in theatre. ;P (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) 5 years of school and 4 of production work. Alabama Shakespeare Festival Utah Shakespeare Festival The Shakespeare Theatre in DC plus a bunch of smaller places no one's ever heard of. Aaron (21 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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One suggestion with the zip-locked baggies is to package parts up into smaller zip-lock bags, then put those smaller bags into one of the gallon-sized freezer zip-lock bags. E.g. I take these seperate bags: 1x1 plates, 1x1 round plates, 1x1 plates (...) (21 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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I also recently moved across country. The company paid for the move so I had professional movers. (...) and (...) Yup these went fine. The professional movers pack things very well with paper (crumpled so as to provide good cusioning). I don't think (...) (21 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.storage)
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