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Being the New Year and all, I made but one resolution that I truly want to carry out: sorting my Lego collection. Scanning through Brickshelf, I've noticed a lot of pictures with an array of sorting bins, containers, boxes, etc. My question to the (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Alex, The technique used depends on the size of your collection. After a certain point, putting all of a color in a bin becomes excessively difficult to use especially with black. Obviously the "perfect" sort would have all pieces sorted by (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Well, will you look at that. I completely missed that newsgroup. Thanks, Jude. -alex (21 years ago, 1-Jan-03, to lugnet.storage)
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When I started organizing, I just used big cupbord pull-out trays. I organized the Bricks first. I put all the red bricks in one tray, all the red slopes in another tray, and all the red inverted slopes in a third tray, as the trays were fairly (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Alex - This post by (none other than our own) Remy Evard may interest you: (URL) for how I sort, come over sometime and check out my system... -Tim (21 years ago, 1-Jan-03, to lugnet.storage)
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Hey Alex, So far I have my collection sorted this way: Rarer colors have their own drawer for everything since I don't have a lot of pieces yet. All my Castle and Pirate-specific pieces are grouped together in several large drawers. My basic bricks (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) My experience is it's all about how much Lego you've got. If you've got a collection that's less than, say, 3,000 pieces, you probably don't really even need to sort. In the end I think what it boils down to is how large of a bin/box/drawer (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Nice resolution :) Well, I have a medium small collection (around 4000 parts), so I just decided to purchase several of the drawer storage units, and divided my collection by parts type instead of color. Trust me, sorting by color will only (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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Hi Alex, The other suggestions in this thread may be better for you, but since you asked us to share, I will tell you my methods for sorting... As usual, I will share this in the form of a long babbling story. ;) When I was six (1978) I owned a Fire (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Another one of these threads is going to force me to finally do a full photographic documentation of my sorting system, I think. At 250,000 pieces, my collection is fairly large, and is sorted very rigorously. I'd say 99% of the pieces are (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Nice, picture Dave ;-) Seriously, thanks for the info and the pics. One question: what kind of containers are those?(manufacturer, model#, etc) Right now I'm having a hell of a time finding what I want in a container. Any info would help. (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) containers (very handy) and the storage center is along the lines of what I am looking for. Hopefully my local Home Depot will have some decent selections. -alex (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Babble? John, you didn't babble...no, you just delivered an Odyssey to Lugnet ;-) Actually, thank you for the great advice and wonderful story. It's nice to see that you "won" in the end against your brother :-) -alex (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Home Depot here I come ;-) Thanks for the info, John. -alex (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) handle that load again ;-) Adrian, that is one plush building area that you have. I'm surprised your wife hasn't banned you to the garage. I can understand why you were banished from the upstairs ;-) Thanks for the link and good luck sorting. (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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I think the majority of people agree that sorting pieces by type is much better than by color. After a while though, you get so many colors of the same type that you have to buy more containers and separate those same type pieces by color too. In (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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I am currently in the process of re-sorting most of my collection. I have been using a variety of storage systems. I have the containers for the bulk bricks and various size tilt bins for the more smaller parts. (URL) know some people don't like (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi Alex, Here's my little story of sorting... from early in my rebuilding of a collection to now. When I first began buying bricks again as an adult, sorting wasn't really much of an issue. As soon as it became necessary, I really just started (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) D'oh! Here's the link to the thread mentioned above. Sorry about that! (URL) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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Wow. You all have some great sorting systems. The beauty of this project, as I was telling Tim Courtney earlier today, is that I am in the process of gutting my basement and rebuilding it. I wanted to get a general idea before I started framing and (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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Hi there! When I first came out of the black cave and picked up this amazing hobby once more my collection was in the 10K size and I realized I needed sorting. I bought a few boxes used to sort screw, nuts and bolts in garages, mounted them on a (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Do you have that with the diving board and do you spend your afternoon swimming through all your bricks? :) -H. (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm not Dave, but I use the same containers (as does Tom Stangl). They're made by a company called Iris, and you can get them at Costco. (They were unavailable during the last few months, but are once more available.) The model I have is (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You're lucky to have ice cream available in plastic tubs. In the US, ice cream comes in waxed cardboard or paper containers. --Bill. (21 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks for that idea! Never thought of skipping the lids to avoid storing air. /Tore Where I live, we have to pay SEK 10 (~US$1.10) for three candy boxes :( but they're worth it! :) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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Oh, another sorting tidbit: Be careful of over sorting. I have bins with 1xN bricks sorted by exact size and color and bagged. These rarely get used during construction. Instead, my overflow storage bins are what is usually used. My overflow bins (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) If you were to come to my home (in New York state) you would find we have dozens of empty ice cream containers with lids. The sizes are 4 quart and 6 quart, are round, and will nest inside each other. But you will NOT find Lego stored in any (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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Be sure to check out this article as well. (URL) it is not an "all-purpose" sorting solution, the containers presented are pretty cool. Steven (21 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You're most welcome. (...) If you ever get the chance of going to Ludvika I'll make sure to have a stack of free boxes (and candy for that matter)! Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Tobbe, that system looks great. Lucky for you that the stores there still use plastic as oppose to the wax covered cardboard that is used here in the states :-( On a side note, is that wine you served at that Lego gathering? Because if it is, (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) The boxes work out great! I served no wine, but if that had helped the crowd comming I certainly would have :) It was hosted at my office and we took what we could find, so despite the type of glass used it's Cola... But if you ever show up (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Those containers are very similar to the ice cream containers that I use for my brick storage. I can't remember the name of the brand off the top of my head, but the ice cream comes in these square containers that stack very nicely together, (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.storage)
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