Non lego things I needed for my lego room

looking at my pics, I've found non lego things that have been helpful in cleaning and organizing my lego room

1) shelving liner for drawers...unless you have new plastic drawers

I like finding these old steel akro mills cabinets so I don't want dirt or rust on my legos (alot of them held screws etc... that left residue after even after 3 washes (I think I'll try coke on the drawers to see if the acid would remove the residue even on plastic)

2) alternative storage containers...orange juice containers, oxiclean containers...

3 steel shelves...not cheap plastic as it will warp

Above: Pop up  shelves from qvc are light but strong and mobile.  bungee cords used for safety of cabinets with rolling

The above metal shelf was from Sam's club...as an aside we canceled our membership after being chased down while loading into suv with door person accusing us of stealing it...the shelf was awful big to be stolen!!!!

4 lysol wipes

5 something you can put on the floor to sit on

I tried 2 ways to cover the floor but I had 2 separate flooding incidents so right now I don't have anything down on the floor.

Above:the best my lego room ever looked bc had reduced covid hours 2020 and I had time to get things completed.

Above:great blue mat from toys r us

Below:carpet used but destroyed with water

6 sorting trays/something with partitions to sort - removable partitions  are good for getting fingers into

7 towels for sorting: I have a few tricks with the towels or blankets

white makes transparent elememts hard to see 

Big blankets are nice for size but too busy to see elements easier

This blanket is too busy to see individual pieces, so is the color of carpet...

You can hardly see the transparent drawers against the carpet

This pic is another example of business of the carpet

I kept finding pieces in that blanket!

Black and brown make a good background for seeing small translucent pieces easier i.e. helmet visors, small cheese wedges

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0ptional ...cats

9 paper towels

These are helpful for cleaning dust...my room is in a recycled woodshop before we lived here and dust from the fluorescent ballasts and have falls at times.  Finally I took the ballasts down a few years ago

10 duct or gorilla tape works good if a drawer in cabinets gets broken or there is a small piece of dust in a plastic drawer that I can't get off and don't want to hurt legos

11)  Alcohol for hands

12) Tubs are nice for objects, but hard to see if multipletubs  of the same colors

13) Good lighting

14) Plastic bags are helpful for sorting

15) Ziplock big bags/ regular bags great for storing regular bricks and plates or pick a brick used lego store

So hopefully this info may help someone...