How do you store your kids LEGO sets?

[khalloc]

I am talking about regular Legos. not the Duplo ones. My kids have recently gotten into Legos and the little pieces are everywhere. I dont know what to do with the pieces when they take the sets apart? Do you store each set separately? Or put all sets together in a big bin? Help!

[nfowife]

I just got a lay-n-go and it is awesome! But we have a LOT of Legos. MIL saved all of DH's from when he was a kid, plus whatever we've bought.

[ellies mom]

We have a lego drawer organizer thing, another organizer bin and then a medium size bin that came with DD2's starter set. The girls build their sets and then eventually disassemble them and put them in the organizer bins. Originally, we were sorting them but then it became obvious that I was doing all the sorting and they really didn't care, so now I just toss them in willy-nilly. As long as they are in the bins, I don't care.

[AustenFan]

We use the lego storage brick (http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Storage-Brick-8-Blue/dp/B008KQ1XKC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365709953&sr=8-1&keywords=lego+storage+brick) bins. I suppose any bins would work, but I love that these can stack on top of each other securely, just like legos.:) DS has one for his older lego sets and one for his newer Lego City sets. We don't save the boxes. I have a binder with plastic page protectors where I slide in the instruction books. He'll pull one out occasionally to make the exact set again, but mostly, he makes the exact thing up once and then combines sets to make his own creations.

[edurnemk]

I opted to follow this idea: http://iheartorganizing.blogspot.mx/2011/10/organizing-legos-part-3-creating.html I sorted by color, we have a shoe-box sized plastic bin with lid for each color (or groups of colors), one for people and their accessories, one for special parts (wheels, etc). I also want to make a lego table with shelves under it for the bins: http://www.u-createcrafts.com/2012/11/turn-coffee-table-into-lego-table.html

So far it's worked, DS makes less of a mess now. We also have a strict no-legos-outside-his-room rule because of DD and choking hazards. If I find lego pieces outside his room, they go in the trash, no warning.

[daniele_ut]

I opted to follow this idea: http://iheartorganizing.blogspot.mx/2011/10/organizing-legos-part-3-creating.html I sorted by color, we have a shoe-box sized plastic bin with lid for each color (or groups of colors), one for people and their accessories, one for special parts (wheels, etc). I also want to make a lego table with shelves under it for the bins: http://www.u-createcrafts.com/2012/11/turn-coffee-table-into-lego-table.html

So far it's worked, DS makes less of a mess now. We also have a strict no-legos-outside-his-room rule because of DD and chocking hazards. If I find lego pieces outside his room, they go in the trash, no warning.

When I move DS1 to his new room in the basement I plan to do the Trofast sorting in the link above. Right now they are ALL mixed together in the trundle drawer under his train table. We also have the no Legos outside his room rule because of DS2.