Category: Cleaning

Our Home for Lego - yes, it's organized! :)

1/23/2016

As a child I loved to play with lego. So many pictures were taken of me playing with lego.     But I hated tye searching through a bin and trying to find the little pieces that I needed.     It seemed to take forever and I just wanted to be able to build and play.

I have to admit it.. I am STILL that way.   :)

So I have a boy who likes playing with lego.   Building things and playing with them.   I like playing with him.   But since I am older now... I can choose NOT to fight with lego pieces so I decided I would organize them.

I used to have all the lego in one bin and thought I was kinda stuck with that, then one day I ran across the blog of a lady who put her lego into clear totes and had all her little stuff divided into a smaller version of these plastic shelf/bins. I said to myself...OOH!!!! I Could do that.

I promptly went out and bought three of these and then the next week got a fourth (what can I say we have a LOT of lego). Did you know I have a dream to build a lego town? It would be SO much fun to do so, and then to have a train track running around it... ah... some day! :)

So how does it work for us?

The largest bins hold the larger items... which we have divided by type. 1's, 2's, flat etc each have their own bin.

We have a bin for the odd ball pieces and a bin for mini figures and their gear.

I made a point of putting all those little, hard to find pieces all in one bin.

Our manuals all have a bin of their own as well.

We have a few meccano pieces as well. Some we got free, others I got cheap. My lad is not highly impressed with them but is reluctant to give them away, so stored they are in a smaller shelf.

Try as I might, I could not figure out how to put our K'nex into the bins as well. I used to be able to before we were gifted with a large amount, so they now have a bin of their own.

We used to have our lego set up on the main floor of the house, and have since moved it upstairs to the book room. To that end my lad had to pack up all his creations and they are currently waiting to be unpacked. Normally we have a white shelf sitting on top of the bin/shelves for his creations to sit on.

It makes it so much easier to add lego to our schooling.days, which of course makes the learning go SO much easier indeed. :) Check out our day here. :)

So tell me.... how do you organize the lego in our house??? I'm curious to know how others do it.

Lego Organization

11/19/2013

In this house, we like Lego. This weekend we decided to take apart and put lego away. We do this on a regular basis. We build things, play with them, store them and eventually dismantle them in order to play again. :)

A while back... Last year I think, I saw a lego storage idea that immediately captured my interest. I didn't organize quite the same way that gal did, but my idea was based off hers. Sorry, can't remember who the gal was .. it was a while ago you know. :)

This is one thing I know we did differently. she put all the small tiny pieces together. I HATE hunting for specialty pieces so I repurposed some sewing/fishing tackle boxes.

Different types of lego go into different sectionals.

From left to right (facing the bins)
Stuff to be taken apart, instruction manual, knex, and those warrior bugs things
Second section has our bigger building blocks
Third section has plates/flats/castle sections, and miscellaneous big stuff.
Fourth section has figurines and their stuff, angle pieces, automotive pieces and speciality building pieces.

Like me.. the lad would happily subdivide all these categories even more if we had the space...but we don't have room to divide all the blues, blacks etc up. We have to jumble them as much as it bothers us. :) We can't separate it all.

In use pieces sit on top. Spiders, castles, vehicles and more. :) If it don't fit, too bad, so sad lad, can't keep it all up.

The lad enjoying the new found pieces again. MOM! Where did you ever find this man again? In the sort bin... so THAT's where I lost him. :)

The flood

9/26/2013

Had a flood on the weekend in our basement.

Therefore we've been working hard cleaning it up.

The lad's schooling has consisted of learning what even three inches of water can do and the amount of damage it can cause.

He's learning that spiders don't swim well but they do climb well.
He's learning that cats don't much like jumping into water (at least ours don't).
He's learning how to whittle a sharp point on a stick to make a spear.
He's learning it's harder to catch bugs for his captive spiders when the weather is cold.
He's appreciating our hot weather this week and spends most of his days outside with his toads, sticks and bugs, except when I call him in to help me with something.
He started KIDS club this week.

I am so pleased that he's a willing and helpful worker. :)
I am very pleased he's able to entertain himself with actual activity and doesn't want to be glued to the TV.

I am pleased that I am gaining headway on the work of cleaning up. I'm using it as an opportunity to rearrange the basement as well. :) It's a big job but one day at a time and I'll get her done. :) When I get things done, perhaps I'll take pics to show off the finished work. :)

Cheers... I simply MUST get back to work. :)