Lego Storage

Master J loves Legos. Mister C probably loves them more. The people at the Lego company are creative geniuses, always coming up with new kits to build. Each kit contains a lot of little Legos. A. Lot. Additionally, Mister C went out on to Ebay and figured out that you can buy Legos by the pound. Or by the specific part. Did you know that you can purchase a "lot" of nothing but Star Wars Jedi lasers? Or nothing but Lego hats? I do now.

So it stands to reason that with two guys in the house that really like to build with Legos, the vast number of Lego sellers on Ebay, and way too many parts in each kit, that we would end up with a Lego-extravaganza in Master J's room. And wherever else he can drag them.

His room usually looks like this...



Most of his Legos are not in this picture, most of them are either in one of several large plastic containers or on my family room floor. I got sick of seeing all this chaos so I, umm "encouraged" Mister C to get a handle on it. So he and Master J went out shopping and came home with some plastic bins and such. Keeping in mind that in the below pic, this is probably less than one third of the total number of Legos. We only sorted through one large plastic container at a time. We (mostly Mister C and I) spent many (many, many, oh my god how many?!?!) hours sorting little tiny parts into bins by color.Like this...



So that many (many, many, oh my god how many?!?!) hours later, it looked like this...



And that is something I can live with. So far, so good on keeping it cleaned up and put away. And Master J seems a lot more happy with the lack of chaos as well.