At what point does one abandon keeping Lego sets separated?

[ElphabaTheGreen]

My DSs are Lego-mad and we’ll get them a set each for every birthday and Christmas. I’m completely obsessive a little finicky about keeping them separated into sets, since the bloody things are so expensive and I’m a little anally retentive, but the DSs tend to build the designs once then deconstruct them and freestyle thereafter, meaning the sets get slowly intermingled with the massive random pieces box we have it’s killing me...the mixing is killing me...

At what point did you go ‘Fuckit’ and chuck them all in together? I may need therapy to do that

@ElphabaTheGreen you would love my boy. He's obsessed with the sets, he builds them and plays with them as a kind of small world play. They must absolutely must be built properly and kept properly and separately. Cost me £200 for a shelving unit from IKEA specifically for them. His top models (stranger things, the simpsons house) go on the top, with a place earmarked for hogwarts castle. He keeps his books (in order of build) in his secret drawer.

Day 1.
We keep the construction booklets though.

We have a row of big Kilner jars on a shelf where keep all the lego divided by colour (there are way more colours than jars obviously but it's more like 'shades of'- one jar for shades of blue, one for greens, one for shades of brown, one for whites and creams, etc). It looks really nice on the shelf alongside a cute binder to hold the instructions. Separating them into the colour jars is almost as fun (for me) as building them.

It gets built then bit by bit ends up with all of the rest of the lego and rebuilt into various different things. Up until about a month ago it was all just dumped in any order in the trofast unit in we have for lego along with another couple of boxes.

We have recently sorted by colour, and dd's are sorting out a few sets each to go up in the loft for safe keeping. Nice little project. I may have bribed dd's by telling them the can have the Harry Potter sets owned by dp out of the loft if we sorted the lego out first.

Instruction books kept in A4 zip wallets in the sideboard.

I have just revised my lottery win plan:

1. Quit work
2. Do more exercise
3. Spend the rest of the time sorting Lego INTO KILNER JARS

The thought makes me happy...

@sherrystrull

I agree with the failing at life thing!

Does anyone store their Lego in anything other than a big box?

Large playmat thing from Wilkos with a drawstring in the outer edge. Once play is finished,pull the string and its all tidy in its own bag. Godsend!