Lego Organization

 

I just discovered these photos so I just had to document them because, quite frankly, I'm able to laugh about it now.  At the time that I discovered the mess I wanted to cry.  It all began in early November last year.  It was an innocent enough request on my part.  I had asked Luke to go to his room and clean up his Legos so I would be able to walk through his room without causing serious damage to my feet.  Well, that night I went up to say goodnight and this is when I discovered that instead of picking up he decided to 'once and for all' organize his Legos!  The first problem was that his idea of beginning the organizational process was to dump all of his Legos out in the center of his room.  The second problem is that his thought process didn't go any further than this phase.  The third problem was that within days of this Lego Dumping incident our family was in the midst of a very-serious-extended-family-crisis, so organizing Legos was put on the lowest priority list!  This Lego pile stayed right where it was for about three weeks before we were able tackle it!   

Soooo, after a little measuring and a few small plastic tote purchases this is how Luke and I spent our four day Thanksgiving holiday!  It doesn't seem like it would take this long, but I tracked it and it took us approximately nine hours!  There's actually one more large tote that is filled with all of those miniscule pieces that I refused to divide upWe're both much happier and, after living with this color coded organizational system, I would highly recommend it! 

  

We also had two of these hardware organizers that weren't being used.  We thought they were perfect for all of the Lego body parts, weapons and accessories.

These containers happen to be two sided, so we're using that side for tires and wheels.

This one still needs to be organized, but you get the idea.