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Re: the evolution of lego sorting
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Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:29:02 GMT
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Remy Evard wrote:
> 3. You give up on individual set boxes and toss all your Lego in a big
> storage bin or a Lego denim bag,
Ahh, the old denim bag. I think I still have mine around soemwhere...
> or a couple of your large set boxes. You
> become very familiar with the sound of someone digging through large bricks
> looking for a 1x1 transparent red plate.
Soothing, isn't it?
> 5. Ok, you realize you actually have to sort it. You decide to sort the
> obvious way: by color.
I never actually went through this stage - when I started sorting, it went by
type. I realized very early on that it was *far* easier to find a blue 2x4 in a
bin of 2x4s than it was to find a bue 2x4 in a bin of blue bricks.
(Although oddly enough, I now have my lt. grey bricks sorted out by color.)
> 9. Sorting becomes difficult enough that you decide, in some cases, not to
> break some sets down and put them in your main pile of lego... instead, you
> store them as a set, because that set is so cool just the way it is.
Usually when I do this, I leave the set assembled. At least until I want the
parts for something else. This happened to a lot of the Star Wars sets, for
example.
> 13. Your collection is now clearly housed in many different types of
> containers ranging from buckets to drawers to bins to individual tackle box
> components.
And the worst part is that when buying Rubbermaid/Sterilite/Home
Essentials/whatever bins, I can never seem to find the same kind twice. So
most of my bins don't stack with most of my other bins. *sigh*
> 15. You begin to develop strong opinions on Plano vs. Stak-On and
> Rubbermaid vs. Sterilite.
Never went through this stage...there's really that much of a difference?
> 16. The original categories you made begin to follow this life cycle:
> - They grow too large to fit into their container.
> - You divide the category into two categories in order to get them
> to fit into the containers... one for each category. (Now you
> have windshields, doors, and windows, each as a different category
> of pieces, each in their own containers.)
> - You store those subcategories together, but as parts of them become
> too numerous or too hard to find, you split them out. So your tackle
> boxes now have a different compartment for each type of door.
> You realize that at this point the endgame is that you will have a
> different compartment for every type of piece you have.
Since I just got the Destroyer Droid, I fear that my Technic collection
(formerly jammed into one little drawer of an Akro-Mils unit cos I didn't use
it much) is going to have to be...sorted. And I know that once I sort it I'll
start to expand it...maybe I better get another drawer unit while I'm out...
> 21. Finally you create an "overflow" system of buckets, where, if the bin
> of 1x3 yellow plates is full, you just any additional ones into that
> overflow bucket, along with other plates. (One of the first indicators that
> you should do this was that you didn't have a compartment big enough to hold
> all your Lego horses...)
Well, crossbows, lances & halberds in my case, but the sentiment is there. I
only really have overflow for certain specific things (like minifig stuff).
J
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| Here's a description of an evolution of lego collection sorting. It might be yours, at least in parts. It's certainly been mine. I might turn this into an essay some day, but for now it will have to begin life as a series of unsupported claims. If (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage) !!
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