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(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) [Lots of snipping. Frank and I generated some serious text in here.] Thanks for the detailed response Frank... it was very insightful for me to read it from your perspective. (...) To be completely honest, I don't remember quite what happened (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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I followed what you said almost exactly until about step 6. Right now, I'm about an 8 or 9. I sort my pieces by color (though I separated black plates and blocks as I had so many) in shoeboxes and those cardboard boxes that come in the larger sets. (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Great insight! One would have had to go through this to have been able to write it so well. Thanks. <Major Snippage> (...) I got to this step about 6 years ago ;-) I now call my basement: "My Shop". (...) Step 26 is in the wrong order. It (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Great story... I'm glad I started visiting LUGNET almost immediately after exiting my "shadow" period (I never really stopped playing with my LEGO, but for about 4 years I hardly bought anything) Because of what I read here, I started sorting (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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This was quite cool. Seems to be a pretty accurate description of the average LEGO-phile. I'm currently sorted by piece type (all 1x2s together), with pieces that I either don't have enough of and sort of seem congruous kept together ("plants", (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Wow. It's suprising how similar it's been-- granted I'm somewhere between 16.5 and 21 (I've got 'overflow' bins, but haven't yet rearranged my apt to fit it all) Actually, I almost forgot that I once tried sorting by color! And on that note-- (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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[...] (...) Dear Remy, great article! Every single word is 100% true and I'm still laughing about our shared experience. BTW: I just reached more or less step 22. Leg Godt! Ben (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I think I started doing that when I was 9 years old. May be earlier (...) Never done that since it was obviously wrong. (...) I used big plastic ice cream boxs. Those cheap plastic boxs are all broken now, while the ABS LEGO pieces are still (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Ouch. I hit this stage about a week ago. (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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