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Ah, LEGO. Most parents have a love/hate relationship with the things. On one hand, they’re undeniable awesome. On the other, keeping track of them, cleaning them up, sorting them, (often multiple times a day) can be a major source of headaches.
We call this the LEGO problem.
One of the first things you’ll notice as your child’s LEGO collection grows is that they have a way of multiplying like a wet Gremlin and before you know it your house is overrun in little plastic bricks.
This annoys me very much.
Since my boys are young (5 and under) we use a simple solution — the Box4Blox sorter. (It’s pictured above and they have it at Amazon.
But what if your kid’s collection is big? Like, really big?
Here are some clever solutions.
I love this homemade LEGO table made with IKEA organizers:
Click through to Flickr to see how rb3wreath did it. It’s a marriage of my favorite Danish and Swedish companies!
A genius way to organize your bricks is stack them together, but in a way that makes them easy to separate. Read how at Evil Mad Scientist. (They have tons of pictures!)
You can buy utility drawers that almost blend in with your decor:
by _ltwp on Flickr
I saw this video and feared for my future:
by dklimke on Flickr
I can totally see how LEGOs can take over your house and spill over to the garage.
So tell us: How do you organize your LEGO?
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Gahh, I wish I had seen this a month ago. We just went through a purge and chucked all the unconstructed Legos. We were being taken over and all my efforts to keep pieces organized failed. This post is genius.
I had to laugh at this. I tried years ago to get my son (now
organized. I gave up after moving back to the States. All his LEGOS now reside in large (as in “it will take a mover to move it”) plastic bins. This actually solves part of the problem because if the bins are too heavy to move they can be contained in his room. All pieces are mixed up, but I have all the LEGO building booklets in another smaller bin waiting for the day when he decides to rebuild the sets….still waiting:-)
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