How do you store toys like Polly Pocket/littlest pets etc

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DD has acquires loads of polly pockets/littlest pets/sylvanian family and a bit of playmobil stuff? How do you store - I have Ikea Trofast storage, do you just chuck it all in a plastic tub?!

I have a box for the playmobil and in theory 'homes' for all the other wee stuff. Dd plays with it though and it all ends up mixed up together. I have to sit on my tidy freak hands or I'd always be sorting it. About once every couple of months I attempt to sort it out. I just let her imagination run riot, hence the mess!

DS had loads of Lego / Ben 10 figures / other teeny tiny bits of crap toys, and I bought a load of those plastic food storage boxes with clicky lids - different sizes for different quantities of stuff.

You can see what's in them but they are easy to tidy away and if one lot of stuff isn't played with for a while it doesn't get dusty.

He had a storage rack with open crates in it, and I'd chuck the boxes in the crates.

on the floor, under my feet and ultimately in the bloody bin.

We just have plastic boxes. Theoretically one for Littlest Petshop, one for Barbie, one for Playmobil and Polly Pocket goes in the zip up bag thingie. It all does get mixed up together though leading to dd1 making a face when the green Barbie tortoise turns up in the LP box.

I agree with Aniyan and ProfYaffle. Plastic boxes with click on lids. Sort it all out. Find yourself resorting every now and again, particularly after friends have been round to wreck the place play.
The only way to stop it all mixing up is to put each box on a high shelf and to only take one out at a time. It does stiffle creativity a touch though. Think of the amazing games Andy has in Toy Story by mixing up his toys

Tupperware.