I’m the envy of many children. I have more brick than most of the kids my family brings over. They know it’s in the house. They know where. They know they can’t touch. I buy it I get to play with it. I do have an assortment of brick purchased from garage sales that I let them use. Minifigs are the basic city ones that I have a bunch of. But that’s not the problem.
I’ve mentioned on The BCN, that I am out of space. And I’ve resisted purchases for a while, picking up the ocassional small set for the minifigs and vehicles. Then I went on a splurge, my addiction couldn’t be helped. Everything was on sale or I used some gift cards. I’ve resisted breaking down a lot of the sets. I can’t do it. But I have to. No room. So I’ve emptied the room where it’s stored. I’ve rearranged it and added many, many, many new storage drawers. One of the few things I buy at walmart is the storage stuff. And being that it’s back to school season, there are a lot of stuff on sale. I’m also in the process of filming a huge storyline. So it’s a disaster right now. I also have a ton of stuff in storage.
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- It’s drawers.
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- Misc Sets
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- Shelves
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- Table of stuff
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- a pirate box
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- Boxes.
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- Stuff
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- More stuff
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- more sorting
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- drawers
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- Rare parts
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- Bunch-o-stuff
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- Cool Boxes
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- presorting
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- Oops.
Well you can to ikea they have some good storage things there.
They do have some nice stuff. I went with cheap and flexible. I also had some of the drawers that were leftover from other projects that have ended.
Storage is rough, absolutely. Moving it is worse. If you’re maintaining order, that either means a tonne of baggies or a tonne of empty space in your containers – and, for me, losing some of the original boxes used for creating a little more order. I have some stuff set for order, and some still to be built – the plan’s to have a wooden banker’s desk and a trucking company’s old waybills drawer chest retrofitted to have divisions a-plenty in them so I can hide them in plain sight if/when we move to a place with fewer bedrooms. Won’t be easy….
So far it’s a successful move. The hardest part is taking apart some of the sets.