More drawers that were sorted 2020

lego drawer

All sorted 2020

Final price drop i can document

 

Sterilite Above 2 pics

Winter village set x2 above

Above : Was 3.99 but 1.99 sale

Above Tag 55...rang at 25$...there were 2 but of course water dripped on them

3 millenium falcons 55$ above..I had 5 but eyes bigger than wallett

Getting rid of too many drawer cabinets

 GETTING RID OF WHAT DOESNT WORK ANYMORE

made a mistake and have life changes trying to organize lego too much and now want to get rid of some of the cabinets I bought.  I liked having them but due to. Medical issues I can't stand stand to reach move or use them.

These are the cabinets I'm getting rid of

I always wanted a turntable type storage to use but thus weighed a lot

This was plastic but just no room

The blue was just too light to be stable

This metal one was great but I can't carry it to the sink to clean it and drawers

These are great boxes but can't see in them and compartments are too small 

Again thus is light and small

More hardware storage

Drawers with the hardware come out

Love 60 drawer cabinets but heavy, narrow drawers and hard to fit/find space for

Drawers are fine for hardware but not for lego

So this should free up and make my room more accessible to roll around in

Pictures of changes 2006 to 2001 in my lego room corner

 Progression of my madness making my lego room in the far right corner...

These pics were from 2006 ish, I started to get more and more legos.  This store near us couldnt get rid of their legos so they kept putting them on clearance for about 75% off.  Things have changed but I really cleaned up on those sets.  The 2 black lid containers came from Walmart but the black lids are easily flushable.  My rug later got damaged by water getting in so the pics below show the blue mat I got on sale at toys r us

The green lid containers were on sale after Christmas at bed bath and beyond

I spent money on the white sterilite towers.  The drawers are really for scrapbooking but they are nice for bring some upstairs with a lid locked on.  There are 4 of them that were $20-29

. The bottom one did break on the bottom part where the wheel goes in the bottom

The white sterilite below were a great thrift store find. (4) 3 drawer cabinets for $3 each!

The weight of the legos started to smash the ssterilite with red lids underneath...I got a metal shelf at Sam's club (where the door person accused us of shoplifting it...we never went back there!!!) I think if I was going to shoplift I would have picked something lighter!!!

Below are just ways of arranging my legos.  

Below are just ways I kept moving things around 2014-2021

I kept getting legos to where I got another smaller metal shelf.  I feel very blessed with being able to fill up the right corner of my room.

My attempts to reuse and recycle things for my lego room

 I have found ways to try to recycle objects for my legos storage

I was really struck by a sign at a zoo having a picture of...

The amount of debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch accumulates because much of it is not biodegradable. ... For many people, the idea of a “garbage patch” conjures up images of an island of trash floating on the ocean. In reality, these patches are almost entirely made up of tiny bits of plastic, called microplastics.Jul 5, 2019

https://www.nationalgeographic.org › ...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch | National Geographic Society From google search 10/9/21

From marine litter vital graphics, cartographer maphoto/Riccardo Prevettoni 

So I've tried to help this problem.....

1) my favorite idea found the day after Christmas...plastic containers made to hold 5-10 display items

Walmart had inserts in boxes the day after Christmas to display various trinkets, ornaments....I got at least 70 for drawer partitions since they would have just been thrown out...here's a better pic of just 1

2 OJ plastic containers

These work really good for pieces that don't have odd edges that catch on other pieces i.e. dollies that on city set had, also minifigs.  The containers are easy to clean and they hold a lot of small pieces.  I tried grape juice containers but the dyes can bleed on to the legos

Great for small pieces, bad for large plates and minifigs that hook together when in the bottleneck as happened below

3) oxyclean detergent containers (more of a heavy cardboard)

These are a good size for holding objects in sterilite and the near square size helps prevent lost drawer space due to round curves wasting room...cool whip container is good but has roundness wasting drawer 

4...the obvious Pick a brick containers and lego plastic containers as per pictures 4a-4e below

I saw on the internet where there was a behind the door organizer with each slot holding a cup.  I never did that, but I kept them in a drawer

4A above (the containers on the left were not lego, the lids weren't airtight so instead of using for food, I converted the use for Lego!)

I wish the black container above on the right was more sqaure vs wider at top, makes it take more room and unstable vs box shape

4B (above) this is the best lego container...perfect for stacking and durable

4c. Pick a brick container

4d lids for pick a brick containers...good for stacking when assembled but not very stable without being braced against something on 2 sides/wedged in

4e..these containers were slippery and didn't stack well because there was no interlocking mechanism....2 studs on top would have been perfect, but even then the lids didn't stay on

5) KFC washable containers for veggies or mashed potatoes and jello cups...both are easy to clean but the roundness and low profile didn't work well in sterilite drawers

Above: KFC containers were easy to soak and wash

6) not really plastic, but thrift stores are full of these type of either cooking or shelving accessories...when put in containers with various pieces, they allow lifting bigger pieces out quicker

Hopefully these things will make a small dent in the plastic problem!