How NOT to Store Your LEGO Pieces 

Honestly, I thnk anyone with a moderately large collection goes through this. It is a process to find a system that works for you. My journey started when I was trying to rebuild Benny's Spaceship. I just had everything in a 5-gallon storage container. Which I think is where we all start. Well, after spending a week digging that wasn't going to work anymore. The sorting journey for me began with some 10x10 sterilite bins. Then decided I needed some of the small ones. Then a bit later I got more of each. Then I got some Arcobins. Then a couple of art boxes. Then a couple of the tackle boxes. And on and on it goes slowly paring it down until you find something that works. I even employed plastic baggies at one point. Now you want to talk about how not to store Lego, plastic baggies are the absolute worst solution.

I’ve got a pretty small collection, all my stored pieces fits on my desk. I have a 24 drawer hardware container, a bunch of mini sterilites connected and stacked up, and several large tackle containers. It’s not a great system because I’m a bit overloaded and most things that I want sorted separately are mixed together. Unfortunately I don’t have the space or money for new storage right now but I hope to expand one day. I did recently though start putting my books into a file system with categorical folders (animals, space, Star Wars, Technic vehicles, etc). Its so much better than throwing them all into a box.

I don’t care what anyone says Greg’s a Lego legend

2:41 where did you get these plastic dividers?

Love your vlogs and video's

I stored them in clear boxes that you can stack but it's a pain if you need the lower boxes. I don't recommend that if you have a lot of lego, but it's a lot cheaper to start with.

Thank you this is a huge help!

I would have the one central place you store the pieces, but in each drawer would have dividers to separate the pieces by colour or colour groups. Obviously depending on the amount of that piece you have.

The struggle is real.. Good advice! Great shirt!!!

There's nothing wrong with any of what your have. That is different sizes of box depending on piece size, amount of pieces, and your need to categorize. Finer cateogrisation for smaller pieces because they are more difficult to pick out. Prefer wide flat containers for easy of finding pieces and transparent for visibility. Grouping 1-wide and 2-wide bricks and plates is also the way to go. If you have to start seperating colours, start by spliting into monochrome and colour.

Well done video! I, too, have a few different storage drawer solutions. It is definitely an evolution. Love your organization videos, thanks for sharing!

We separate pieces by color .it's easier for find the piece your looking for.

Im Actually Like Your Drawers Greg😀 Awesome!

i put all my extra pieces in ziploc bags by color lol

Not sure how it works with your systems. Coming from a walmart and Ikea free zone, have you thought if going to the hardware store and getting those drawers for small screws and nuts and things?

imagine having a storage system with huge wall, and X,Y coordination thing. (not so fluent in english). with the brick type from right to left and then the color from top to bottom

hey cam you send me the flash and green latern minifigures 👮‍♂

i dont have much legos,but were do you get the tubs,how much are they,and does it take a while to sort all of my legos and rebuild all of my lego sets again?

This is good but I would put everything on one wall.

so organised! I have no storage system at all at the moment ....

I sort by colour and genre of parts like green plates green bricks green slopes etc

Large zip lock bags for me!

and i have also made all of those mistakes for my pieces.

I like the look of the white drawers so thanks for the video about it

I'm struggling to sort my massive collection and this video (although it's from a while ago) has given me some inspiration. I've been trying to figure out how to sort my collection then change it and restart every time.

I have a circular bag my self

I love my equivalent of your tackle boxes lol. We ended up using a sharpie on each one and numbering them, then keeping a record of what was in each number, then over time we just start remembering where each number is. I do agree with stuff you said in the video though, big draws or boxes work great for some elements big collections or certain people, but I don't think that 1 solution normally works for a whole collection, maybe if could. But I love having a mix of big boxes, smaller boxes and then those 'tackle' boxes. I don't have drawers just because all my stuff is in cupboards, otherwise I'd get something similar to them instead of the boxes. Overall though great video again

Thanks for answering my question. Will get for Christmas

how have you ended up with so much lego to store when you mainly buy lego sets and when you break them down you keep all the pieces together to be able to build it again in the future

When I am looking for a part I need I look through a few drawers then go to Bricklink 😅 My collection is like Jekyll & Hide - personal stuff disorganized and lost. Bricklink stuff all has a place and a count.

I have one of my tool boxes using that to store my Lego for now. I don't have a big collection yet but I am working on getting there

Wow good all

Everyone stores different. You gotta do what works for you.

Someday Lego is going to create a system of robotic AI organizing. You just dump all the legos into an input bin, and a bunch of robot arms will sort everything out for you into various containers. When you want a specific part, you go to touch screen device, choose what you want from a list of 3d images, and the robotic arms will deliver the container to you that contains that particular part. Every single piece in your inventory will be categorized, counted, and contained perfectly. You'll know exactly how many of each part and of what colors you have because the Lego sorting system will keep track of all of that.

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That has got to easily be over a million dollars worth of Lego products in one room, change my mind. I've got a local small business that sells used Lego and their storefront isn't even half of the amount of Lego you personally own.

#1: take the product labels off the bins.

funny

This made me laugh as it is everyone's struggle. So what I have decided is that I will be building MOCs etc over the winter months and using up as many pieces as possible before buying more.

I use akro mils as well with a combo of a variety of sterilite drawers and other containers

What ya guys build at 6am missed the live feed and couldn't access it in my notification have great weekend greg and son

Greg, where did you get the clear plastic tray inserts that fit the 12” drawers? Thanks!

Because of this, I am determined to organize my lego

No matter how many subscribers you have, you will always be underrated!! You will always be the lego king

I also sort by "umbrella category". Sloped in one drawer, inverted in another, rounded in one and so on. I also sort wallbuilders by color groups, red/orange/yellows in one drawer, blue/green in one, etc. The only thing I'm particular about is tiles which I sort by 1x1, 1x2 etc. They get used so much in my bjuilds that I really need it like that.

Realizing I must think similarly to Greg because I have also tried all these methods. Also I would label the parts the way he does in my brain but put the official name on the drawer. I'm thinking about just sticking an example part on the front of each drawer so I don't confuse myself.

Thanks for showing us different ways to store our Lego, unfortunately for me I have more Lego than I have space to store it organized so my one official Lego version of those big sterlite units is overflowing at the moment

Where do you find old lego minifigures