Sorting LEGO Like a PRO

[@TiagoCatarino]

Do NOT sort by color... Buy LEGO to support the channel ❯ bit.ly/3ZCkguS

[@pamelamcguinness3911]

LOL!!!

[@Mr.Pufferfish.]

Okay thanks👍

[@andrewthecreativedesigner]

@Tiago Catarino Oh I did, but only for my extra pieces box. I don’t have any other Lego to sort. I mostly keep them built.

[@hilalfuad5421]

UnderStood i did it (not by colour) but by piece

[@andrewthecreativedesigner]

Oh except fake ones they’re just staying in the same place for years

[@lordlem]

I love having my bricks sorted but I have learned that u also want a tray of random unsorted parts that u can skim through to spark ideas. This is a MUST!!!!!

[@DEVILTAZ35]

Small Tupperware containers are ideal for the small bits :). As well as the small inner plastic bags that come with the sets nowadays not the big ones with the numbers on them lol

[@The_Mojave_Mailman]

I find that I like to start with one piece that I think looks interesting and build off it

[@MasterThimself]

All of my lego spaceship mocs (currently over 50) where build out of "the bin". Or in my case "the pile" I start off by looking through it, then ideas come and Off it goes. While skimming trough the pile searching for a piece i need i find other parts that give other ideas. I think i Like it that way

[@jjamesgames6573]

I have a bunch of bins/containers with separators and it helps a lot but I’m always out of ideas

[@danemo666]

My other half calls this the 'oooh' box 😂

[@Brick_Science]

1:42 2% of Tiago’s LEGO Collection...

[@sabihjee9944]

Big fan bro

[@TiagoCatarino]

Ahem. 0.2%

[@BetterDayz55]

@@TiagoCatarino Lmao sounds about right!

[@takemikazuchischannel]

@@TiagoCatarino no 0.00002%

[@stefany5268]

@@TiagoCatarino😂

[@danielmcbride6413]

I am glad you made this video, especially for those young lego fans reaching the point at which they might make the leap and sort their lego! I actually just resorted my lego a couple months ago by brick type. Growing up, like most kids, I did not have my lego sorted at all. When I was 14 I thought I wanted to be a lego designer for a living(I would still love this job, but my values are starkly different from those of the lego brand, so I don’t think I would be in place there) so I sorted my lego pieces the way I thought lego designers would. By this time, I had four huge bins meant for clothing simply filled with miscellaneous lego elements. I dumped out one bin at a time and sorted into eight large drawers and then used lego cups for remaining organization. I separated out my minifigures and sorted bricks by color. It worked quite well for me given that I didn’t have that many of any one color, and compared to not having my parts sorted, sorting by color was much better because I could see how many of a color I had and that would help me decide what I wanted to build. In fact, I would say it changed the way I built lego entirely! That said, I am nineteen years old now and for the last year I have wanted to resort by part type because I felt it would make it easier to build more complex mocs. Sure enough, it has been easier to build! However, I am in college and living with my parents so I have one room for my desk, my bed, my clothes, my books, my lego display shelves, and my lego building, so I don’t yet have room for your kind of set up. I currently have the same eight drawers holding part types of which I have the most(slopes and wedges in one drawer, 2x bricks in another, 2x plates in another, etc( and any additional types of parts are held in lego cups. This is not ideal, because I have to dump out the contents to access the pieces, but it has been cost effective for a long time considering the cups come free when I buy parts. I think however that I’m going to make the leap again soon and buy an organization for my other parts.

[@legobrixz]

Respect, writing such a long comment

[@danielmcbride6413]

@@legobrixz much appreciated :)

[@Eu023]

What do you mean with “my values are starkly different from those of the LEGO brand”?

[@jacksyoutubechannel4045]

Take a look at some of Art Bin's products. They design for crafters (who always have things to sort) and have, for instance, small compartment drawers like he shows at the beginning of the video _but_ theirs have dividers within each drawer so you can get more sorting use out of them. Try hot gluing a LEGO plate to the front of each drawer, then putting one of each element you have in the drawer on the plate. You can still reorganize that way, but you can better put to use the depth of some organizers if you don't have to worry you'll forget what ended up in the back.

[@danielmcbride6413]

@@Eu023 I’m not looking to share the details of my belief system here because I don’t feel those details are not relevant to this, but suffice it to say that I have a different understanding of morality and virtue compared to Lego. I don’t hate lego, but I don’t think I’d be welcome working there.

[@jacksyoutubechannel4045]

*Additional* *tip* to save time looking for the right drawer (or bin): affix a LEGO plate to the front of each drawer, then put one of each element you can find in that particular drawer on the plate. It's easy to change if the contents of the drawer change, you can use white plate to better blend with the ALEX drawers, and you can even use Command strips (though I'd recommend filling the back of the plate in with a mouldable glue like Sugru to get more surface area if you do) if you don't want to commit to using the drawers for LEGO forever!

[@RoysIdea]

Instead of using actual bricks, you can also print images on stickers. Now you can still use the bricks.

[@Mr.Engine993]

This is exactly what is done in lego designers' building spaces, if you pay close attention, you'll notice exactly what you described in the video

[@ash.mystic]

Yep at 4:44! About 10 years ago I bought 4 sets of plastic drawers from Target with slots for LEGO plates built into the front of each drawer :) They also came with removable divider trays inside.

[@chriscollins9028]

me n my dad when i was 5 used this 90's auto printer to print stickers on to the boxes with names

[@bethhubbs9937]

I live for the sorting and organizing of my Lego collection! I love buying a bulk lot from Ebay and sorting through it, identifying pieces for specific sets, figuring out what pieces are missing, ordering the pieces online and creating full sets. LOVE IT. The sorting and organizing and the pulling together a set from the pieces is so fun for me. I'm surprised Lego hasn't gotten into providing different storage ideas and marketing them. Edit to add: All of us middle-aged ladies would love that!

[@Lukusprime]

I’ve got a huge Lego collection that needs sorting and I find the process to be a real drag. Do you charge by the hour?

[@Crazytesseract]

​​@@Lukusprime 1500 US dollars per hour is my charge.

[@TheCoolFactor]

Dude. This helps so MUCH and I do not even MOC or sort LEGO... Thanks, Tiago! The professional in you is what this community needs!

[@kentslocum]

Due to severe space constraints, I use plastic bags to sort pieces by shape. Pieces of the same shape go into a small ziploc bag, then all bags of a shape type (plates, for example) go into a large ziploc bag. I don't recommend this method if you don't already have a lot of plastic ziploc bags, but this system has two distinct advantages--the transparent bags make it easy to find the right piece, and the squishy bags let you pack a lot of bricks into a compact space.

[@chris_wizzudz]

This is the approach I have currently. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than nothing.

[@hatmonkey3103]

This is similar to my approach. I have 6 drawers of legos, which each contain some broad category (e.g.: bricks, beams, gears...), and those drawers are sub-compartmentalized with bags like this. Great compromise between space and cost vs access.

[@bethhubbs9937]

Clear plastic baggies are a part of my Lego storage system as well. I also use $.99 6-Quart clear plastic shoe boxes. One of them holds all my 1x bricks and 1x1s are in one baggie, 1x2s are in the next baggie, 1x3s are in the next baggie, you get the picture. I write with a Sharpie directly on the bag. Some of my other pieces are in small-parts-organizers from Home Depot. I love the sorting process. It is even more fun than building to me! Is that wrong? ;)

[@Nina-gf1fv]

and it's cheap!

[@arioctober]

I love this idea and I considered using it myself... until I remembered we have a excess of Tupperware containers! Now I'm glad I didn't get around to decluttering them yet lol.

[@hoarder66]

I love having my bricks sorted but I have learned that u also want a tray of random unsorted parts that u can skim through to spark ideas. This is a MUST!!!!!

[@wenix4934]

yeah I also do that :D

[@jaseman]

I only use parts from the original Classic Space Sets - there are 777 different parts if you include the colour variations. I do sort them by colour and keep them in large plastic boxes, however within those large boxes there are zip-lock plastic bags - one for every type of part. So when I want to find a part, I first go to the box for the colour I need, pull out some of the bags and sift through them until I find the bag for the part I need. It works perfectly for me. I don't own any drawers to store my LEGO parts in - large or small.

[@edwardlees4585]

The Lego advent calendar trays are perfect for dots, 1x1 round plates and cheese wedges. I've been using them like that for a couple of years.

[@MarcoLucifora]

It is an incredible coincidence ... i had all mi pieces divided by colors ..... and two weeks ago i found myself thinking "what a waste of time" ... and i went to Ikea i bought several transparent boxes and i started separating all bricks by type!!!! And now you have made this video !!! Just wow

[@AcesPlace22]

I'm a noob and a pro lol. Constantly buying new bins to rearrange and sort my bricks. It's scary how similar we all are when it comes to these things. Fantastic video

[@gmsniperx3623]

Just what I needed Tiago!

[@fuzzbuns84]

that first sorting example is actually quite ideal for bionicle moccists! bionicle parts (+ccbs and some technic) are often smaller and much easier to organize compared to the decades long part library you find with system lego.

[@lswhere40]

Don't know if anyone mentioned this, but take a color photo of what's in the drawer, print it off and tape it to the front of the drawer. A handy visual clue to what's inside!

[@precascer8221]

One tip I'd like to share for others about the drawers technique (my personal favorite) is that you will probably get used to what is in which drawer. If you organize like, one line for 1x1 variations, the lower one for technic pins (sorted by color or shape) you'll get the hang of it. Aside from that there's also the idea to cut building instructions and placing a tape on each drawer, so it'll be labeled! I know it might hurt, but it's still an option, I used my older booklets, the ones that are all folded and lost lmao. But either way, hope this can help a bunch of people, just like this video! It's definitely pleasing to see a beautifully organized collection.

[@mizutxko]

I still sort by color because I make mocs based on color scheme, so I just pick up blueish dark grey, blueish light grey, and black for the base then purple and red pieces for the color scheme.

[@sagarajoey]

Tiago: Never sort by color! Also Tiago: sorts everything by color 🤨

[@Megke17]

Not entirely correct 😕 he meant not to sort ONLY BY COLOR. If you sort by color you should also sort by piece. Or you'll be left digging for days as they all are the same color.

[@Megke17]

😉

[@ttmfndng201]

he's sorting by piece, so both by colour and shape. However, if you don't have enough pieces for it to be worth sorting like that (like he shows in the video for example at 4:49) you want to sort by shape rather than by colour

[@lucahermann3040]

I've tried using the Ikea Alex with little compartments before, but I switched to using organizers like the ones at 1:38 (I highly recommend the ones from Stanley. they're transparent and the handles don't block the view, so you know exactly what's in each and every drawer even from a distance) and after a few months of having them at my building table, reaching for parts got intuitive. I can focus on what i'm building and the parts basically appear in my hands like magic. It's like grabbing the last few parts of a numbered bag when building a LEGO® set, except for the entire build. imagine having a bunch of sorted piles of individual elements, but layed out horizontally and without adjacent piles getting mixed up. With an Ikea Alex, i have to open at least three large drawers when trying to find something, since nothing is visible from the outside when they're closed. Also, when the compartments inside the drawer are taller than wide, it's really hard to get the pieces out.

[@derekl.9202]

I can understand why not to sort by color, and I might try it. I think most people sort by color because it is visually more harmonious, seeing the colors sorted out says "organized" more than seeing everything multi-colored, even when the parts are all the same, the mind just sees chaos and not order. One of my favorite courses in art school was color theory, but we never discussed organization through colors and how the brain processes that. Edit to add- if time is money, then you should be as organized as possible, but I dont mind a little searching, there is something enjoyable about it to me. By organizing into color then categories (not specific types) it still lets me hunt and search a bit but not too long.

[@bethhubbs9937]

I also like to experience a little bit of 'the thrill of the hunt' and when I find the piece I'm searching for, I feel fulfilled, delighted and accomplished. But I can also get frustrated if 'the hunt' takes too long, so I try to stay organized. :)

[@ttmfndng201]

I find it interesting that the fact that not sorting by colour and looking less organised is specifically what makes it more efficient

[@sevyswift7956]

Great video Tiago. Love it. I’ve been telling people DON’T SORT IN COLOR for years. People do it because it’s so easy for our brain. BUT THATS THE POINT. Sort by piece and then let your brain find the color while building because it’s SOOO good at it. That’s how you build quick.

[@mogreen19]

I sort by color. Personally I build faster that way because I always know where what is.

[@Sinjinator]

I always always sort by color. Even LEGO Basic Creator sets are sorted by colors.

[@Codypro134]

Sort by piece and color

[@ttmfndng201]

@@Codypro134 if you don't have a lot of every lego piece this probably isn't worth it

[@PeteQuad]

It never even occurred to me to sort by color. It doesn't make it easier to find things, it makes it harder. I sorted by type from day one. If you have the space to sort by color and type then I could understand.

[@TheLegoBoy]

Very useful video! Finally I won't have a mess of bricks on my floor xD Btw can you make a video for how to start a lego collection like getting pieces and making the collection as a beginner?

[@TheLegoStud]

You have convinced me. I’m transitioning from the hardware bins storage system to the Ikea style storage bins.

[@robertnobles8189]

Something I have done to save space is to stack the bricks together. For plates I stair step them back and forth one stud so they are easy to separate. This method cut down my bins by 1/3 to 1/2! I don’t have a large enough collection to dedicate a bunch of drawers and little dividers… yet!

[@bdilalla]

I would be concerned about the long term effect of having bricks stacked this way, though I must say it’s very difficult to prove. You may save space but question if you’re doing any harm to the parts.

[@seamarie3111]

I typically stack just like that when I'm sorting for a build. I do something similar for oddly-shaped bricks/plates, like semi-circular ones, or the kind of angled plates/bricks with the one angled edge. I don't really have an unbuilt collection yet, but would likely do the same long-term.

[@seamarie3111]

@@bdilalla Just curious, how would stacking bricks like that damage them? I mean, you connect when building, so...

[@benrowlinson]

@@seamarie3111 Older bricks sure enough suffer by that, but the more recent ABS formulations seem to make for bricks which keep their shape just fine. Key thing, if you're going to leave them out in the open, is to always keep them away from direct sunlight.

[@myeongwol]

@@benrowlinson my bricks are from 30 years ago and I stacked them together and they are still having great shape

[@BrickTechnology]

I sorted by color

[@TiagoCatarino]

Well you only use grey anyways so I guess that works :p

[@plentyofpaper]

I haven't played with legos for years, but they were a big part of my childhood. It's a little funny for me hearing the emphasis "Do not sort by color." As a kid, I arrived at the same conclusion, but for a different reason. I was what you may call "aesthetically impaired." Color? Useless. I was all about structure. I wanted to build a castle. It didn't matter how many colors it was made of. Spaceships? Robots? Even better. They're practically begging for funky colors.

[@Alex_Eicher]

I think sorting your collection depends on how many parts you have and how different your parts are. And important to overthink your sortingsystem by growing your collection.

[@BTTFF]

Indeed, it depends a lot on what percentage of your colleciton you keep built, the size of the unbuilt part and wether you do MOCs. A young kid's collections sorted by color works fine and is simple. It'd be weird ot have 2000 pieces in 200 boxes.

[@zackakai5173]

Not to mention just your own personal preferences. I don't mind digging for a specific part, so I'm fine just having mine sorted by color. Then again I'm the sort of person who just dumps all the parts out of a bag when building large sets and searches for them as I need them. Other people sit there and meticulously sort them all before they start building, so if you're someone like that you might prefer having them arranged by type.

[@nancienordwick4169]

I just even love sorting legos as an activity. My creativity is boosted when they are not so organized, too.

[@brianp6859]

Yeah I gotta agree that creativity goes up as efficiency goes down when it comes to lego 🤣

[@Deans_Animations]

“he came back when the world needed him the most”

[@florisjansen5576]

Thank you so much, this Video came just in time for my own collection! The amount of LEGO is getting out of control and I'm past the point of putting it in these black framed cabinets with little drawers... I don't have a dedicated LEGO room (yet), so it will be nice to have it stored in a better way. Off to IKEA I go!

[@amyjones25]

I don't have a huge collection so I sort them into various sized ziploc bags in a plastic bin. I categorize by color then general types like tiles, plates, round pieces, special modified pieces, etc. I have a separate plastic container with compartments for Minifigs, accessories, and transparent pieces though.

[@BloodFourBlood]

I love to see how much your channel has grown. Its amazing to see that you are still going and have more than 300 k subs. I used to watch all the time when you just started the channel.

[@LudovitVarga]

I am using tool boxes for screws, nails, etc. Any tool shop sells them and they are easily stackable and you can set internal domensions as needed.

[@fanisafan]

Im in middle school and im glad you made this video for some of the younger fans like me that are dum dum when it comes to organizations this caused me to clean up my desk and build a solution

[@DavidSimmonsDEVSart]

Yes - Do NOT sort by color! I went in a different direction - I looked at the Alex drawers but the wasted space bugged me so went with the Helmer Ikea drawer and the Glis Bins to go inside - I like to be able to pull out the whole drawer and take it with me. And the same Ikea clear bins for over stock, large parts, etc. Stacked on the Omar shelves. Still have some small drawer units kicking around for small qty parts that can sit right on my work table.

[@Xhadp]

I feel like sorting by color is awesome for people that just want to build and don't care about finding that perfect piece just want to color match their entire build even if it will looks pretty crappy. It is also much more friendly towards those that have much smaller collections that you don't mind sifting through and don't have massive collections that take up an entire room. When you get into more complex builds that have a lot more parts that aren't visible then yes sorting by something other than color is the way to go.

[@justbbricks]

I have a lot of parts, but I actually do sort by color, asides for around two dozen things I keep separate. As a MOC builder, it makes me more creative to look through rather than just for one certain piece

[@jkb2016]

Agree. Sort by type and function. Here's a suggestion if you have limited space:put pieces that are VASTLY different in function, but not size the same space. You can share, for example 1x8 tiles and 2x8 plates. 2x2 slopes and 2x2 corner bricks. You won't confuse them by searching. Also, why not go 'dynamic' regarding the strictness of your sorting? Means, whatever piece types you have a lot of, sort them strictly; few of quantity (but different functions of course) you can put together in teh same place.

[@TheWillOfJ]

I can only look at this admiringly... I help run a Lego Club at my local library, and we use the "Giant Plastic Tub" method of storage, which are then dumped onto sheets and spread out while the kids build. Our main method of finding specific pieces is them asking me to look for it...

[@pmayhoffer]

I’ve been using Sterilite drawers for a long time to organize my LEGO collection and just started to sort into the smaller hardware drawers to separate out some of the special functional pieces (clips, balls and sockets, etc.). I haven’t done much building out rod the smaller drawer system yet, but I can already see how it can be limiting and inefficient to find pieces that way. What I do like for Technic pieces in particular are the Stanley-style or Sortimo-style organizers that have varying compartment sizes that can be removed for building. That system is really nice when building functional mechanisms like ball machines and automata. What I would love to do is create an organization system like Alexandre Chappel has done with his custom drawers and inserts to provide every part with a home that is easily accessible with hardly any wasted space in each drawer.

[@greymanpl]

I use trays after take-away food. We ordered a lot during the pandemic, so now I can use them to sort pieces. At least not throwing plastic immediately but giving it another life.

[@MrKlawUK]

I finally settled on this - combination of not having a dedicated room and storage capacity. My collection not so big so I have some combined - eg 1x4 and 1x6 together, but 1x2 separate so they don’t get smothered by larger plates. It’s dynamic so if there are eg a lot of grey parts (from Star Wars sets) they are in their own section so the smaller number of coloured parts don’t get lost.

[@amyo]

I sort by type, and use freezer bags and keep the bags in a big storage box :)

[@Silacide]

I have my smaller bricks sorted by type in big organizers but also by color by putting them in small ziplock bags to make sure they don't get mixed up. I used to have small loom-strap cases to put in my smaller pieces but getting them out was pretty hard when they were at the very bottom so I only use them for pre-sorting and large quantities of the same piece now.

[@KarstenDB]

Thanks for the help, I’m more of a mini fig guy so I don’t really build a lot of huge cool free builds BUT I have a lot of bricks from over the years and I’m starting to feel overwhelmed

[@oliviercaisse9409]

Nice video! I just got my hand on my old legos collection from 25 years ago, what a mess. Your video is going to help me alot to manage the scary mess ahead of me..!

[@samuelhouston962]

Thank you so much I really needed a way to organize my Lego because guess what… I was doing it by color😅 this has really helped me and now I can organize my Lego room the perfect way

[@potatoanimates6847]

I just have my Lego in different big bins. I don’t mind searching for hours because the experience is awarding when the piece is found, in my opinion. I also don’t need those legos in the bins that often, so that is also a reason for my awful ”sorting”. :)

[@TiagoCatarino]

Tons of different solutions for tons of different LEGO needs! No way of sorting is wrong in my opinion. But there are better ones for sure

[@potatoanimates6847]

@@TiagoCatarino Yeah, much better ones! 🤣

[@fedorlykov9871]

Thanks for the video! The option with drawers and cells is definitely the best and most convenient!

[@fourstuds]

LOVE this video - would be great if you did a Tiago version of cleaning / dusting / de-yellowing bricks ! :)

[@sverrekvernevik6222]

I have 50 square transparent boxes. I sort lego by lego types and not colors at all. fex one box with circular legos, one with the normal squares, one with bending functionality, one with weels, , one with corners, etc

[@BigWillTheMill]

I've become a firm believer that no ONE method is realistic for a medium or larger collection. Essentially what you've done is close to what my final plans are, having some bins for sorting out the bigger pieces, and theme pieces, while using (art deco boxes & tackle boxes for me in drawer like fashion) shelving style storage for sorting the rest. I do NOT want Lego to completely take over the room we are moving them too, so I did not want to even entertain the nuts & bolts sorter method that I see most Lego YTers use. What was really cool though was seeing what Lego actually uses, something I've always been curious about myself.

[@verde7595]

Tackle box! What a novel idea! I might have to consider that!

[@navyman1191]

My wife and I use ziplock bags and use a combo of sort by color and sort by piece type. Works really well until our kids dump 3 bags into one pile 😅

[@buttscarlton1830]

Having each piece sorted is great and all but nothing beats the satisfaction of finally finding that one piece in a bin and finishing your moc or whatever. It feels even better when you give up and weeks later your digging through a bin and find that piece you needed so many days earlier.

[@hatmonkey3103]

I sort by color and I am proud. ...but I make an exception to this by making a separate category for "small" pieces which I find tend to drift to the bottom of the bin when they are mixed in with bigger pieces (definition based subjectively on experience). I also have my bricks, plates, and beams separated from each other, but I don't feel bad for having all my red beams mixed together and all my yellow beams mixed together.

[@Request_2_PANic]

What I'd suggest with the bins of the same color is to put together each kind of brick in a stack of each kind and plates in perpendicularly alternating stacks to make sure they're easy to separate when you need some of them. It would be similar to putting a specific kind of connector on a single rod with K'nex, like I've done.

[@TotyVale]

I struggle with Lego organizing. This is the best video with the best advice ever!

[@assassinscreed8597]

One of the best lego sorting vids I’ve seen 👍🏻

[@takemikazuchischannel]

Me who doesn't have enough lego to be sorted...

[@ethanpass1351]

😢

[@ZdinoYT2]

One day

[@Ihcihcoyf8yd85d5dt6a]

I have a decent amount of Lego, but most of it is just built sets

[@lenacoutinho4603]

Love this video. With your tour video it give me an idea of how to sort 'the bin of doom' 😅 thank you X

[@johnstancliff7328]

LOL! Oh Tiago..... this is so a frustrating subject.... I have my pieces by color right now, but Lego has SO many colors now! Uhg! they even expanded their pick a brick selection to offer more color choices.... thanks for the video! you rock!

[@thatoneidiotnathan]

Now that's some amazing organization! Mines pretty well sorted but not to that level.

[@EzBricks_]

You will love them

[@peterbreis5407]

Exactly what I was looking for. 😃 👍 I do have a large collection and agree with everything you say, especially about not sorting by colour. An interim solution and dirt cheap was to sort into large labelled Kliplok bags. They are tough, light, good sizes and transparent. I keep my instruction sets as pdf files and can print out the instructions and blocks list which I toss into a bag with the collected blocks if I want them as a set. I regularly get bags of blocks from Op shops which I negotiate so they are very cheap but always have missing pieces, which with luck I can patch from my collection or the annual local LEGO grab and buy, which last year had almost 20 tonnes of LEGO. These are good because I can hunt specifically for what's missing or for groups of blocks such as wheels, plates or Technics that I need. Thanks for the good advice, especially the Alex drawers. I'm looking at combining them with a workbench.

[@markorollo.]

I've just got all my spare pieces, and figures, in some of those 'really useful' storage boxes, I kind of like having to look through the box for what I want

[@angelosdardagiannopoulos6919]

literally about to start my lego journey, thanks for this video!!!

[@candybigwood7607]

I have a 4.5y old who has 4 clear bins of legos and it's time to sort and organize. Thank you for your perspective!

[@TiagoCatarino]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jehovasabettor9080]

You don't "open and close" small drawers. You pull them out and place them before you. Works well enough for small scale (vertical storage place is easier to come by more often than not), but as scale grows, normal sized drawers take the cake.

[@jarlfenrir]

I sort by type. I have big boxes, one for tiles, second for small bricks, another one for larger bricks, next for slopes etc... But after using it for a while I was considering sorting by size.

[@TheB3]

I use a combination of all of these methods lol. 269 different bins (we counted), and it's quite confusing if you're not used to it...

[@jolttrontitan2755]

Darn it!!! I just spent my weekend sorting by colour

[@TiagoCatarino]

RIP

[@hazzastargate2762]

Great tips, very useful and engaging video. Also karma actually sounds like a useful service I'm going to download the extension

[@TimmeyTV]

6:27 IKEA SAMLA & IVAR, great combination for lego boxes :D

[@loneclonestudios9120]

I organized my LEGO collection a few months ago. Now when I want to rebuild an old set it will only take a few hours, where as it would take a week or two by just dumping out my bin. (I sorted by part type).

[@WhoIsOmlu]

I'm always torn between sorting Lego pieces by set/genre vs sorting by color and shape.

[@TiagoCatarino]

Once you've tried the cool way of doing, you can never go back!

[@BARAAGAMER_YT]

I miss you so much, and Ramadan Kareem, and you're creative keep going✨✨✨✨✨.. Sender: your brother (Baraa) from Palestine 🇵🇸🇺🇸

[@porko882]

I still have my original bin from from when I was 3 but I always keep those separate.

[@loveminifigures]

Hi, I've just started collecting Lego minifigs. However, I got a free bag of Lego pieces and I organized them by type. Thanks for the suggestions. Cheers from Canada

[@DolgorsurenDagvadorj]

My sorting method: 1. interesting parts 2. other

[@lorskywalker414]

The piece I've been needing for a week is casually sitting on the top of a bucket in your thumbnail WHY

[@alpahetmk]

ik im late but which piece and did you find it after a year lol

[@scerifforosso]

nice advices! for curiosity, how many pieces is your collection made of, roughtly?

[@maxabdula]

I know I have to sort my lego collection at my parent house, I never though about how to do it. I love your advices, I will adapt to my collection size ! :) I admit, without your vid, i may have opted for sorting by color !

[@feeble_goblin3764]

Having a pile makes it a surprise and you lose yourself in the bricks you will never change my mind 💪💪💪

[@Twitchreazer7011]

Hey tiago can you maybe do a new revieuw of an upcoming lego set. I always enjoy those videos very much and I think it's been a while. (Nice video btw)

[@graydonhively5909]

I like the video a lot. But I respectfully disagree about one aspect of sorting out your Legos into color. The way I sorted all of my pieces was by FIRST sorting them out in color. And the only difference is that they did not stay that way, I then sorted out from colors to specific pieces just like you do. So in the end, yes don't have your Legos sorted out into colors, but I think that it is very helpful in the process of sorting out average sized totes of random lego Bricks. That's what I started out with and I found the process I took was faster than searching for the individual types of pieces through a mix of everything. Finding the different pieces when they're sorted into one color isn't hard when you're not making a build and looking for certain things. You just go through all of it anyway, and lay them into their own piles as you continue. P.S. that process is called Knolling

[@albertb.3762]

What are those top sorting trays you used? You have those dividers so perfectly place for each piece!

[@LilTuba]

Adam Savage's Lego sorting video was so frustrating when he said a Lego expert he knows told him to first sort everything by color, then go from there...

[@Lucas_S91]

But if I don't dump all of my LEGO in one box, how will I get the satisfying ASMR noises of me rummaging through all the pieces?

[@lgclaycreations7264]

What’s the names of the drawers that you use? Could you provide the link?

[@itzBrickKnight]

his ideal way of sorting just describes the opposite of the way First Order Lego sorts😂

[@DorgYetiman]

After watching your earlier lego sorting video, I went and bought my first ALEX and it's been such an immediate improvement to my collection! The con of it not opening fully is really minor compared with the rest of the usable space. For now I shove my weird shaped pieces (sorry vidiyo beatboxes) and the small overflow of other ones also in ziplock baggies. Sorting by shape has always been my prefered method of sorting as well. It's as you said in the vid, way easier to find a specific colour usually. Thank you for all your great insights into the deeper aspectes of this hobby!

[@Random_Eebs]

Hobby? It’s like a religion lol

[@julieforman1884]

Sorting by type of piece is the only thing that's worked for my daughter! She's only 7, so I have very broad categories (and probably too many, I'm gonna merge them soon). It makes it fairly easy to put away and even easier to find (without driving us all crazy)

[@TRENDSETTERAVENUE1505]

Organization is key when seeking for Lego parts

[@imigi2850]

They say don’t start by color. But I did just that because I didn’t want to make so many piles of different pieces. Kinda had to start by color

[@ezrathing]

I have organized by color in the past, but I didn't really have a hard time finding a specific piece because I stuck the same bricks together. Unless it has a flat piece, then I'd offset it to make sure I could take them apart. Lol

[@kayman1615]

Great video Tiago! Love these tips and tricks. I wish I can sort like your system, it makes the most sense but I just don’t have the space for large drawers so I am using the small drawer organizers for now, sorted by type. It works but would love to change when I eventually get more space.

[@tch204]

Somewhat related but do you have recommendations on how to build a collection of parts sufficient to make MOCS? What's the easiest and/or most cost effective way to do this?

[@AbsolutelyJason]

Thank you! Looking for a storage solution!

[@MaxPalaro]

Ótimo vídeo :)

[@davidisraelanimations9424]

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[@TiagoCatarino]

Obrigado!

[@Moki314]

I 100% agree that the method of using drawers with dividers is best for being most convenient for finding parts, but it probably also has the highest cost. What drawers do you recommend to use while not spending a fortune?