Day 9 of cleaning

 This date was enjoyable since I started organizing legos into sterilite 

I took lego drawer cabinet bins and put them into drawers

Day 7-8 of cleaning

 I took a broom and pan down and swept the legos on the floor

Before

After

I'll keep plugging away

I did get some akro mills bins untangled/close together and plan to start using those bins more vs drawer cabinets.  Also I need to lift some huge plastic sterilte as its compressed making bottom drawers hard to open and close due to warping....like the green bottom drawers on the right

Day 6 cleaning

 Day 6 of cleaning 

I got discouraged this date as I cant lift very well due to immobility.  I moved drawer cabinets that dropped bricks everywhere...basically sat overwhelmed but did empty 2 more drawer cabinets...

Here's the discouraging part

Sometimes it feels like this is what I wanted but right now its bulk lego bc I cannot move to sort it.

Day 5 of cleaning my lego room

 

I'm a little overwhelmed with how much work will be needed to resort all I had done

Day 4 of cleaning

 

Today I brought in 4 people capable of bringing high objects i couldn't get down myself.  They also got rid of trash consisting of rusted and drawers with a non removable film from nuts and bolts.

 

After where I can reach everything:

Now I need to unwrap the sealed drawer cabinets

Day 3 of cleaning

 On this day I went through about 700 manuals because they are all online.  I got 3 containers of instructions down to 1

Before..3 containers 

Condensed to this

I didn't get very good pics of the manuals I pitched but I cant reach them on the floor.  I kept my classic space manuals and architecture manuals esp. Falling waters manual..one of my favorite sets!

Day 2 of cleaning my lego room

 Tonight I got rid of $1 target bins with too small to reach fingers into and too non functional compartments

I continues throwing rusty/dusty drawer cabinets and $1 drug mart containers to small to hold to be functional 

After pictured above

trash before removed

Day 1 of cleaning my new room

  I cleaned my new lego room.  I had to take batteries out if my train so they dont corrode 

I had to sort what had fallen out of my drawer cabinets and threw out the dirty ones after emptying the legos caught in the bottom drawers

BEST POST EVER

 I have always dreamed of having a

  professional organizer coming to help me organize my legos.  We'll its come to fruition and here's pics of my lego room room 2.0..better than I could oon my own in a wheelchair.

Here's the picture with a few more coming:

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I am so thrilled!  Now just have to practice getting down there!

Building my train part 3

 I assumed that the train I have would be easier now that I'm able to pick out parts...the only problem is that there are so many pieces missing i can't even start blue unit b or the baggage cart.  I'm loving the train but the missing parts are hard to discern if they actually came vs I just lost it.  Here's today's progress 

Above: no roof pieces are present@

Above: not ready for these roof pieces because I dont have the plates

Above hard to get rear side and back pieces together without breaking the 3 sides

I sent an email and will wait for a response..they do move quickly to fix per reviews on internet!

Building my train part 2

 I sat today up to my tolerance and worked on my blue santa fe train.  Still trying to sort to make or just search each piece while making the train.  Still working but here's what I was able to do today

Below:The pieces are so difficult to move if needed to reposition the piece...here's what shows my effort:ouch! Shredded my thumbnail! The clutch power isn't too bad in these non lego pieces.  (Too tight for a brick separating)

I finished 2 cars today only 3 cars left!

Building my train Part 1

I have wanted the Lego santa fe set but cannot afford $500 for just one car.  I was thrilled to find letbricks had a version of it.

The only problem is that there were 3 bags but the majority of the parts were in bags withoug numbered bags, just mixed pieces. 

Above is the result of 2 hours of work which caused back pain and leg spasms (first day)

I learned from all this a few things 

1) I should have spent a few hours sorting the pieces in small bowls before trying to find pieces when I was building (2777 pieces)

2) keep pieces of blue yellow and gray/dark gray separated.

3) sort pieces that are transparent or pieces that are rarely used in a separate place

4) separate plates from beams

5) keep modified bricks separate 

After 4 hours over 2 days I came to this point

Trying the last 3 cars was a challenge as several pieces were missing...ive sent a note to let bricks so we'll see what happens..more to come!

I've got 5 more cars to go!