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Re: How do you sort your legos?
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Date: 
Sun, 17 Dec 2000 08:29:41 GMT
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In lugnet.storage, Mark Papenfuss writes:
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 I have if I have all the colors mixed up in one
bag, but it would be alot eaiser to find a blue 1x3 in a bag that only has
1x3's in it - - you see my problem?  So what do you do?  And what tricks
have you learned?  I am looking foward to getting some tips on this.

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 one compartment, and all the other 1X4 plates in another (and
I'll soon need to split it up again. If it gets really unhandy, I simply
take some of them and puts them in a ziplockbag(??) and stores them until I
need them.

regards.
John



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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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