![]() Not that I’ve been secretly getting rid of half our LEGOs or anything …” But before you recycle, consider employing one of these many expert systems and tips to rein in your home’s LEGO universe.As a Lego enthusiast, you know that organizing your Lego collection can be a daunting task. Mainland has an additional pro tip for the LEGO overwhelmed: “If you have too many LEGOs to store, you can recycle them with your household plastic or donate them via LEGO Replay. But if you’re just starting out, I promise this will be a better use of energy and space for cleaning up and having your kid be able to find the pieces they are looking for.” For those who have fewer LEGOs or who find the idea of sorting and organizing akin to swimming against the current, shoving the pieces all in one storage bin or giant bag is a perfectly valid approach. ![]() “If you have a million LEGOs and they are all mixed together, dividing by color may not be the best use of your time. “We have always had them organized by color because that’s how my brain works,” says Randi Brookman Harris, an L.A.-based prop stylist and mom to an 11-year-old LEGO lover. Do you organize by color? By set? Piece type? Shove them all in one giant bag? ![]() There are also different philosophical views on organizational systems. If you’ve ever stepped on one, you know,” says Lexi Mainland, a writer and editor and mom of two based in the Hudson Valley and Brooklyn. “LEGOs become weapons of medieval-level torture when left on the floor. Limiting the number of sharp bricks underfoot is often motivation enough to keep them organized. When you talk to parents of LEGO aficionados, storage is indeed a very hot topic. And though this approach is working for now, I started to wonder how other parents of LEGO fiends approach this storage challenge and at what point I needed to consider a more sophisticated system. All the different-size boxes are stackable, and the lids also act as large plates to build on. Then, we have several communal boxes, in which the rest of the bricks go, though those are very quickly filling up. ![]() Each child gets a large box for storing builds in progress and a smaller box for LEGOs the other sibling can’t pilfer. We use a combination of box sizes from Ikea’s Bygglek collection, which the company created in collaboration with LEGO. The quickly compounding number of bricks and my kids’ very different approaches to playing require a storage solution flexible enough to house in-progress sets, completed structures, prized bricks, and all the rest. My 5-year-old is averse to following instructions but is curious about the technical names of every LEGO brick, of which there are thousands, and partial to “extremely rare pieces.” He keeps an inventory of his favorite bricks, and we’ve printed out and laminated this free 22-page “Part List” I found online, which serves as his LEGO bible. The 7-year-old loves LEGO sets, enamored with meticulously following the instruction booklets required to assemble a 1,114-piece Friendship Tree House or the Madrigal family’s house from Encanto, then proudly displaying her creations in a place she can show them off. Photo-Illustration: The Strategist Photos: Retailersīoth my 5- and 7-year-old are deep into a phase of LEGO obsession.
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