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Re: How do you sort your legos?
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Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:16:44 GMT
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Thanks for the ideas! I am very new to this site, it is nice to get
informative responses so quickly. I have been sorting by piece, as of now
they all fit in bags. I would say I have close to 3,000 legos. BUT, come
christmas it will almost double!! Still, not that many in the scope of
things. My girlfriend says I have too many legos, but when I point to
others with as many as some of you have, she lays off until I walk in the
door with another set. But back to the topic - I think it is a lot easier
to look for a blue 1x3 in a bag that only has 1x3's in it. And it looks
like most of you sort by brick - or are starting to. And I try to sort the
unique parts as best I can, still working that one out. I am looking foward
to the day when I have as many as some of you have!!
In lugnet.storage, John Morgan writes:
> Hi Mark,
> I would have to agree with Bram and recommend sorting by piece. At the
> beginning of awakening from my "dark Ages' I sorted by color, filled many plano boxes and then discovered finding the right part in all the "black" boxes was tedious at best. I am currently resorting to type of pieces and it makes it much easier to find a certain type or brick located in the "type of piece" box rather than shuffling through all my black brick boxes for a certain type of brick.
> John
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> In lugnet.storage, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> > > In lugnet.storage, Mark Papenfuss writes:
> > > > Ok, Here is my problem - Do I sort by color or by peice?
> >
> > I used to sort by color. But it was really hard to find pieces, especially
> > the very little ones. When my collection got to about 30-35K pieces, I got
> > sick of having to dump all the pieces on the floor in order to find the part
> > I was looking for, so I switched to sorting by piece. Sorting was a real
> > pain...I'd say it took at least two weeks, sorting at least a couple hours
> > every day. But it was worth it, especially now that I bought good stackable
> > containers for all my parts. My collection is now organized enough that I
> > can build in my dorm room with a 40K collection without making a huge mess.
> > If I were you, I'd sort by piece. That way, you won't have to deal with
> > switching later.
> > Dreading (or hoping for) the day when I have to sort by piece and color [1],
> > --Bram
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> > 1) Well, actually, in order to fit all my 1x>4 plates into the containers, I
> > separated gray, black, and white from the colored plates...so it has already
> > started....
> >
> >
> > Bram Lambrecht
> > bram@cwru.edu
> > http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/
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