LEGO Re-Organization Fever

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When I picked up the two boxes of LEGO bricks for Mr. Family Brick’s birthday, we realized we needed a better system to organize our collection. So at 10pm on a Sunday night, we decided to re-organize.

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Our initial collection was sorted by color. All the blues with blues, all the greens with greens, etc… However, when we tried to build the Green Grocer… and because of my carelessness, we had to recount and review all the pieces in each color family…several times. It was a real pain.

Also, when deciding to substitute colors, we found it difficult, since we couldn’t easily see how many of a particular brick, plate or tile we had at one glance. We had to search a full box of color again and again in order see how many pieces of one type of brick we had total. We quickly realized it might have been much easier had we organized our bricks by size/type instead of color.

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I did a quick search online to see how others were sorting their bricks and found an excellent article by Windell on EvilMadScientist.com with the same idea. It was nice to see the photos and read all the detail which he put into his stacking system.

We have some of our own methods since we’re not crazy about the need for a brick separator to get to our pieces, but a few we picked up from him. I particularly like the stacking method for 2×3 bricks. There’s something about off center brick lines and a hole in the middle of the tower that makes me smile.

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So here we are, 10pm on a Sunday night, stacking bricks by shape and by color, attempting to re-organize our brick collection to make it easier for us to substitute or find bricks in the future.

How about you… how do you sort your bricks?

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