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Since we're giving testimonials...
After the dark ages, living at home with no room for sorting/playing/ making
$$$ to buy lots of LEGO I have:
5 gallon Rubbermaid bucket with my stuff, now mostly built and sitting on my
bookshelves in new apartment.
About 25 lbs from a yard sale from last year of Classic Space and Town.
Some built, much of it missing pieces. Lots of doubles, missing some
manuals, using Brickshelf to build. More stuff on the bookshelves.
A recently aquired eBay lot of 25lbs. More doubles on some sets, missing
pieces, dirty, teeth (see "What's in your LEGO posting").
Another eBay lot from almost years ago. Sorted out non-LEGO stuff and put
into 11 gallon Rubbermaid container. No baseplates, auctioned in another
lot and I didn't have the funds to get them also.
Several 3033 buckets, smaller parts lots stuffed into 3033 buckets.
40 or so sets, ranging from Classic Space to Ninjas. Many not built yet.
So I have to sort:
Eight 11 gallon Rubbermaid containers
Nine 3033 buckets full of ABS
And the 40+ sets to build.
This doesn't include the closet full of Star Wars action figures and playsets.
And about 10,000 die-cast vehicles in the bedroom closet also yet to be
inventoried and sorted. And then there are the Lionel trains in the attic
back home...
junior
currently sorting by piece type in 3033 bins and AkroMils and soaking 2X4
and 1X8 bricks in the kitchen sink.
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On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, William Brumbach <willbrum1@earthlink.net> wrote:
> About 25 lbs from a yard sale from last year of Classic Space and Town.
> Some built, much of it missing pieces. Lots of doubles, missing some
> manuals, using Brickshelf to build. More stuff on the bookshelves.
>
> A recently aquired eBay lot of 25lbs. More doubles on some sets, missing
> pieces, dirty, teeth (see "What's in your LEGO posting").
>
> Another eBay lot from almost years ago. Sorted out non-LEGO stuff and put
> into 11 gallon Rubbermaid container. No baseplates, auctioned in another
> lot and I didn't have the funds to get them also.
Yep... I also have quite a pile of collections I've picked up on Ebay
and in local garage sales.
I actually sort those independently of my main pile, and only integrate
them once I've either completed all the sets that I can from the collection
or else determined there are none left to build.
So the way that I actually sort is far more complicated than the way
presented in my posting about the evolution.... (which is nuts.)
But at least I don't have this problem:
> And about 10,000 die-cast vehicles in the bedroom closet also yet to be
> inventoried and sorted. And then there are the Lionel trains in the attic
> back home...
Wow.
-r'm
Remy Evard / evard@mcs.anl.gov
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In lugnet.storage, Remy Evard writes:
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, William Brumbach <willbrum1@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > About 25 lbs from a yard sale from last year of Classic Space and Town.
> > Some built, much of it missing pieces. Lots of doubles, missing some
> > manuals, using Brickshelf to build. More stuff on the bookshelves.
> >
> > A recently aquired eBay lot of 25lbs. More doubles on some sets, missing
> > pieces, dirty, teeth (see "What's in your LEGO posting").
> >
> > Another eBay lot from almost years ago. Sorted out non-LEGO stuff and put
> > into 11 gallon Rubbermaid container. No baseplates, auctioned in another
> > lot and I didn't have the funds to get them also.
>
> Yep... I also have quite a pile of collections I've picked up on Ebay
> and in local garage sales.
>
> I actually sort those independently of my main pile, and only integrate
> them once I've either completed all the sets that I can from the collection
> or else determined there are none left to build.
I am still undecided about comingling pieces. I have mixed some smaller
elements together in Akro but have kept apart larger bricks. A 20 year old
yellowing white brick is in stark contrast to something from 3033.
>
> So the way that I actually sort is far more complicated than the way
> presented in my posting about the evolution.... (which is nuts.)
I think it is for everyone.
> But at least I don't have this problem:
>
> > And about 10,000 die-cast vehicles in the bedroom closet also yet to be
> > inventoried and sorted. And then there are the Lionel trains in the attic
> > back home...
>
> Wow.
Almost seven years of 10-20 Hot Wheels here and there buying at retail plus
some collections from ebay earlier this year. The worst part is that I have
no idea what I have because it is all in boxes. And I REALLY miss my
Lionels. They'll be back soon hopefully.
junior
> -r'm
>
> Remy Evard / evard@mcs.anl.gov
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