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Post by fridaycat on Jun 2, 2015 23:23:31 GMT
What works best for your kids? Thank you!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2015 23:26:26 GMT
DS likes to sort them by type, not color. It's quicker to pick out, say, a blue one from a pile of identical-except-color bricks than it is to pick a 1x4 from a pile of different-except-color bricks.
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Post by caro on Jun 2, 2015 23:27:02 GMT
I always sorted by color.
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Post by fridaycat on Jun 2, 2015 23:30:13 GMT
I started by sorting them by shape but the number of categories is getting so big as i take apart more sets. I'm having trouble picturing the unit they will all be stored in.
Color is starting to seem simpler.
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Post by monklady123 on Jun 2, 2015 23:31:24 GMT
Sorting? lol Big bin, dump, lid on. Done.  |
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Post by cyndijane on Jun 3, 2015 0:10:39 GMT
Sorting? lol Big bin, dump, lid on. Done. This is our method. Although, we have several smaller bins- not small, just not one big huge one. ETA: not that I wouldn't love to have them sorted! But that's not how my boys use them. I decided it wasn't a hill I was going to die on. Their stuff, they can put it away however makes them happy. |
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Post by Butterfly Momma on Jun 3, 2015 0:23:22 GMT
My oldest son prefers to have them sorted by color. His younger brother puts them away that way, largely to humor his older brother I think. I don't think he would care if they were sorted at all  |
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Post by kristi on Jun 3, 2015 0:30:54 GMT
We have bins & they are sorted by color.
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Post by caangel on Jun 3, 2015 0:41:49 GMT
Sorting? lol Big bin, dump, lid on. Done. This is our method. Although, we have several smaller bins- not small, just not one big huge one. ETA: not that I wouldn't love to have them sorted! But that's not how my boys use them. I decided it wasn't a hill I was going to die on. Their stuff, they can put it away however makes them happy. Ditto |
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Post by hop2 on Jun 3, 2015 0:59:19 GMT
My son still sorts them by set. Related sets are in drawer each set in a giant zip lock. He has about 15ish small drawers and 5 large drawers. ie: all lego crane sets are in their own bags and in a drawer together. Things like that. ( well the ones that aren't still together and displayed are stored this way. He has like 8 of them assembled and displayed in his room )
I would probably sort by color,because I like how that looks, but they aren't my Legos so I don't butt in.
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Post by birdy on Jun 3, 2015 1:03:25 GMT
Legos that go to sets are stored in their original boxes when they are disassembled.
Misc. legos for building are all in 1 big tub.
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Jun 3, 2015 1:04:03 GMT
College Son worked as a "Brick Specialist" at a Lego store until recently. He says most adult "builders" sort basic pieces by color. (And you might be amazed how many adult customers there are...)
When he was young, I sorted by type. As he got older, and the sheer number of types increased exponentially, he switched to color with some additional categories, like people, wheels, windows, foliage, etc. (Those bigger categories are in rolling plastic drawer units.) He also sorts tiny pieces by type in partitioned boxes with lids (weapons, hats, tiny connectors and gears, etc.).
Yes, this topic has stolen a chunk of my life I will never get back.
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Post by hop2 on Jun 3, 2015 1:11:25 GMT
Sorting? lol Big bin, dump, lid on. Done. This is how my DD stores hers. |
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Post by fridaycat on Jun 3, 2015 1:37:33 GMT
Ugh,I tried suggesting by color to DD and she said no way. Guess she and I will keep on sorting out shapes. If this system ends up not working for her we're doing the one shallow bin dump.
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Post by Peamac on Jun 3, 2015 1:51:07 GMT
Where's that dream lego room someone posted about a while back? That was organized beautifully!
We have a ton of knex and now sort by shape in several bins.
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Jun 3, 2015 1:56:38 GMT
Legos that go to sets are stored in their original boxes when they are disassembled. Misc. legos for building are all in 1 big tub. What is this "disassembled" word you all keep tossing around?  The vast majority of DS's favorite legos (Star Wars mostly) are kept & stored in their assembled form, as he wouldn't hear of doing otherwise. But the other sets (city, pirates, a few HP & others) are all in a big bin mixed together. When he was younger and spent a lot of time building, I would sometimes help him sort through the bin for specific pieces (I only worked part-time then). That led us to some fun conversations when he tried to describe what he was looking for...my all-time favorite being "Mom, can you find a bloody head?" (pirate mini-figure). |
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Post by scrapaddie on Jun 3, 2015 2:55:54 GMT
like the big bin method, myself!!
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Post by worrywart on Jun 3, 2015 3:35:23 GMT
Big bin full..ds could dig through it in a minute flat and find the one that he needed lol..
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Post by Grom Pea on Jun 3, 2015 3:49:44 GMT
My son has duplo blocks that are all mixed together. I just bought 20lbs of Lego bricks and an attempting to figure out what I have so I've been looking up ways to sort, it sounds like the method of by color and shape is popular, so all red together then broken down to shape. I'm looking at minifigure to try to figure out what sets there are and then am trying to sort by type or color, eg all clear parts and all wheels and all round parts, although where do the clear round ones go. Lol. I guess I'm lucky I like to sort things and organize them so this is kind of the fun part for me, then when I'm done I'll bag the sets and give them to my son, hopefully they won't get instantly mixed again, lol!
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Post by katiejane on Jun 3, 2015 6:52:41 GMT
We have a big old laundry bin that is full of Lego. Half the fun is digging through, seeing what you can find and making new creations.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2015 8:03:52 GMT
I visit the Lego store very frequently, it's rare to see kids in there.
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Jun 3, 2015 11:10:35 GMT
I visit the Lego store very frequently, it's rare to see kids in there. My son reports there's a whole sociology to the age thing. Some of the adult builders (there's an acronym for them I can't remember) are covert, but he can always tell which ones are truly "shopping for my nephew." The hardest nuts to crack are the teens who claim they're just there 'cause their younger siblings wanted to come. If my son mentions that he owns the set the teen is oh-so-casually looking at, they often come out of the closet. The store is near a lot of hotels and he meets a lot of men who are on business trips, both American and international. It's fascinating the (non-Lego) conversations he reports getting into with these guys. (Some women, but mostly men.) There are are still oodles of kids. All the sales training stresses selling to the mom, not the dad. Duh. |
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Post by artbabe on Jun 3, 2015 11:26:37 GMT
My nephews have an insane amount of Lego bricks. Insane. Three 10 drawer Iris towers. Some things are sorted by shape and some by color. Type drawers include: one stud pieces, plates, long thin pieces, two stud pieces, etc. Also separate drawers for minifigures, trees and flowers, doors and windows, accessories, wheels, etc. All of the miscellaneous pieces are sorted by color.
I'm one of those adults who love Legos and buy them for myself. I personally have over 100 minifigures and several tubs of bricks. I really like the Friend sets (except for the people) and all of the new colors they are making.
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Post by grinningcat on Jun 3, 2015 12:27:30 GMT
We build the sets as they come, so we generally just dump and build... no time for sorting. The closest we come to sorting is that we'll toss the smaller pieces into a glass as we're building since they are often the hardest to find.
I'm an adult LEGO builder who doesn't hide the fact that we have LEGO date nights. I see no reason to lie to the LEGO store people. They are pretty awesome to talk to. They were in love with the fact that we were going to have a mini-fig bar at the wedding. That plan has since changed, but it was fun.
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Post by whipea on Jun 3, 2015 12:43:07 GMT
I am an adult fan of lego (AFOL) with no children so I do not know if my contribution counts, but since you asked.... I sort by color, type and function. For example under red I have bricks, plates, tiles, wedges, connectors and elements in separate sterilite drawers. Depending on the amount it he can also be broken down by size. I attach the example brick to the front of the drawers with blue tack so I know at glance. Currently have about 15 sets of storage including the small the 3-5 drawer units that are almost full.
Just finished my Lego room which used to be my scrapbook room. I got rid of about 3/4 of the scrapbook stuff, painted, made nice big work tables and hung more shelving. When not at work I am in this room building, creative photographing and designing lego models. I spend way more time and probably more money on this hobby than scrapbooking. Fortunately the lego store is over an hour away or I would really be in trouble but I do go there at least once a month, like a pilgrimage.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2015 14:34:41 GMT
Me too. I've just bought and built the Double Decker couch from the movie, ghost Vitruvius swung the purchase for me  |
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Post by myshelly on Jun 3, 2015 14:47:46 GMT
We sort by set.
My kids tend to build the set and then keep the set together and play with it as what it is. So, if they get a Lego X-Wing, they build it and then play with it as an X-Wing.
We do have a bin of free build Lego from duplicate sets and the extra pieces that come in sets. Our free build collection is not big enough that we feel the need to sort it.
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Post by scraplette on Jun 3, 2015 14:50:24 GMT
Sorting? lol Big bin, dump, lid on. Done. Yes. This. LOL. Ha, I'll usually color sort anything, but... Lego Sorting = Special Kind of Hell Edit: I let my Lego lover make storage decisions, starting age 6-7. It's rarely a method I would choose, but works for him. He changed and maintained it, and I didn't have to be involved except for procuring containers. |
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Post by Grom Pea on Jun 3, 2015 18:50:49 GMT
I visit the Lego store very frequently, it's rare to see kids in there. My son reports there's a whole sociology to the age thing. Some of the adult builders (there's an acronym for them I can't remember) are covert, but he can always tell which ones are truly "shopping for my nephew." The hardest nuts to crack are the teens who claim they're just there 'cause their younger siblings wanted to come. If my son mentions that he owns the set the teen is oh-so-casually looking at, they often come out of the closet. The store is near a lot of hotels and he meets a lot of men who are on business trips, both American and international. It's fascinating the (non-Lego) conversations he reports getting into with these guys. (Some women, but mostly men.) There are are still oodles of kids. All the sales training stresses selling to the mom, not the dad. Duh. I had a chuckle at the covert adults. I went in and my son was playing with the bin of stuff so I decided to look at the key chains. There was a man subtly groping the packages of collectible minifigures, right next to where I was browsing He was trying to not call attention to himself but I know I've done that when trying to buy Disney infinity gifts for a birthday present, I forget which was better, hexagons or circles, but I found two packs after looking through 30+ packs. Anyway that guy was trying to be stealth but when I was checking out another man had just asked an employee and she was feeling all the packages for him |
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Post by melanell on Jun 3, 2015 20:00:54 GMT
Our Lego organization varies by the age of the kid(s). When DS #1 was about 6 we started sorting more by type, with only some pieces sorted by color. Then DS #2 came along and as he got into Lego, he has no clue about sorting, so for the last few years they have not been sorted at all. Around age 4, or so, DS #2 became old enough to build sets from directions on his own. That's when it dawned on him that we own the right pieces to make every set we have an instruction booklet for. That made his day.....until he couldn't find the pieces. So now we have started to resort. Because DS does not read yet, we are sorting mostly by color. We do have baseplates, wheels, minifigs & accesories, plants, and animals on their own. After that we sorted by either bricks, plates, or "special pieces", and by color. That way when you want to find a piece you don't have to sift through as much, but it's not so super sorted that it's too complicated for a pre-schooler to handle. What we did before, and what we might do again, is that once a set is made, when it is disassembled again, we put the pieces into one or more ziploc bags with the set name and number written on each bag. We do have many, many pieces that are not parts of sets, so there are plenty of pieces to use for imaginative play if they choose to sort out the sets. But, is they wish to simply sort all bricks out into the categories mentioned above, that should still make it much easier to build sets in the future. Before we had kids, when DH & I were selling old Lego sets & pieces, we had them sorted to death. Every type of piece had its own drawer. But that's more than the kids have wanted to deal with so far. ETA: We don't sort our Duplo at all. We have one of those kid toy organization shelve things that have the little bins that we use strictly for Duplo. (Like this thing: www.target.com/p/delta-children-s-products-deluxe-toy-organizer-with-bins-colorful/-/A-13723670#prodSlot=_1_5 ) My kids each liked Duplo, but they both moved on to the regular Lego pretty early, so we never amassed the same quantity of Duplo as Lego. DS #2 will still dump out the Duplo sometimes. So we hang on to them. They're great for when we have younger kids visiting as well. |
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The vast majority of DS's favorite legos (Star Wars mostly) are kept & stored in their assembled form, as he wouldn't hear of doing otherwise.
