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(...) One of the parameters of my growing storage dillema is how to keep pieces sufficiently separated such that scratching and scarring is kept to an absolute minimum when I have to rummage around. My experience is that, in the long run, if one has (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I just read the lugnet.trains group and try to read the highlighs. Your posting became highlighted, so I found it at last... (never been in this corner of Lugnet before) (...) If I should reach step 26 and still be able to have time for (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) As a child, I don't think we (me and my sisters) sorted the LEGO at all, or at least not into more than a few bins (I just remembered my dad built a box with drawers and dividers which might have been for the LEGO), but then we didn't have all (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) 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. (...) I think it is for (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Glad you enjoyed it! No one replied for a while, so I figured that either no one was reading it or everyone thought I was insane... :) Let me know if you get past step 26 and solve the vision recognition problem. I could use some help on that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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. (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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", (...) (25 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-- (...) (25 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 (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Ouch. I hit this stage about a week ago. (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Ahh, the old denim bag. I think I still have mine around soemwhere... (...) Soothing, isn't it? (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) My evolution was: 1. sorting by size, I forget what I did with the non-bricks 2. sorting bricks by size and color, same color grouped together, still not sure how other parts were sorted 3. realized it's a pain to find the bag of yellow 1x2s (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Woops, I always get the two mixed up. (...) Yea, you're probably right. Even if I keep up my rate, it would be 7-8 years, and presumably I won't keep up the rate (in theory I've dropped my rate quite a bit). (...) Yea, I'm starting to run into (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) I have it sorted mostly like that, I did a big sort between xmas and new year. I have my lego kept in my 6 roboriders canisters, a 2 litre icecream tub (for my 8448 wheels) a 2 tray tackle box for parts like my large collection of angle beams (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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