To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.storageOpen lugnet.storage in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Storage / 717
716  |  718
Subject: 
Re: the evolution of lego sorting
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.storage
Date: 
Mon, 8 Jan 2001 05:38:02 GMT
Viewed: 
7429 times
  
In lugnet.storage, Remy Evard writes:
4. You begin to sort your Lego by category: normal-looking bricks in one
set box, other pieces in another box.

I think I started doing that when I was 9 years old.  May be earlier

5. Ok, you realize you actually have to sort it.  You decide to sort the
obvious way: by color.

Never done that since it was obviously wrong.

7. You cave in and actually get a storage system.  Maybe it's rubbermaid
bins, or piles of blue buckets, or fishing tackle boxes, or ziplocks.  But
now you've got a system.

I used big plastic ice cream boxs.  Those cheap plastic boxs are all broken
now, while the ABS LEGO pieces are still in good conditions.

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...

I made a rule, before dark age, that all broken down sets must be sorted right
away even if it means I need to split up a full box.  I am still using that
rule, and that is why I got too many assembled set sitting around since sorting
a 600 pieces set is a pain...



Message is in Reply To:
  the evolution of lego sorting
 
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) !! 

42 Messages in This Thread:


























Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR