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I keep them with disassembled sets. It makes it easier to rebuild things, ya know? Most sets get taken down after a few months and put away.
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Oxyclean posted:What are y'all doing with your old instructions? It's weird to think about throwing away things that you are able to store just fine. 
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Apr 16, 2023 19:04
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I mostly use fat (2"+) three ring binders and those plastic sleeve inserts that you used for reports in grade school. Most sets can fit back to back in a single sleeve. Large ones usually go one booklet per. Store em vertically on a bookshelf.
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Apr 16, 2023 19:45
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Is that any good for the big honkin manuals you get for UCS sets and other 1k+ piece sets? These things seem a little hefty. Waltzing Along posted:I keep them with disassembled sets. It makes it easier to rebuild things, ya know? Most sets get taken down after a few months and put away. Would be nice to keep 'em together but seems less convenient for storing the way I do. 3D Megadoodoo posted:It's weird to think about throwing away things that you are able to store just fine. I'm a horrible pack rat and I'm having a bit of a compulsion to clean up and get rid of poo poo I don't need, partially because now some of my storage clutter has extended out of my closet space so it'd be nice to try to consolidate some of my storage bins so I have more room to put away lego for the new lego 
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Apr 16, 2023 19:59
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I get rid of instructions for sets under $150 or so, otherwise it’s just too much.
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It seems a bit paradoxical because if you have the space to have so many $150 and under sets then how don't you have space for the instructions for them Also can't you just flatten the boxes
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Apr 16, 2023 20:19
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I still have all my instructions going back to the sets I got as a kid because my dad took the front and back of the biggest cardboard box he could find, taped 3 edges to make a giant folder, and chucked everything flat into there slid behind a chest of drawers.
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Apr 16, 2023 20:24
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Habibi posted:I mostly use fat (2"+) three ring binders and those plastic sleeve inserts that you used for reports in grade school. I tried that last year and didn’t love it. A lot of manuals are heavy and the sleeves aren’t really meant for that. Instead I just have them in a small plastic bin.
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Butterfly Valley posted:It seems a bit paradoxical because if you have the space to have so many $150 and under sets then how don't you have space for the instructions for them Boxes flatten, but when you have like 50 large boxes it starts to take up a decent amount of space even when you try to squish them into the back of a closet. and again, is it really worth it? is there much of a market for people buying sets with their original box, but opened? If I was after some "white whale" and was willing to settle for an opened box, I'd probably prefer whatever keeps shipping costs down, which would probably forgo original box and instructions. Similar consideration for selling my sets: I feel like shipping from Canada can be pricy to begin with, so unless I can get lucky and find local buyers, I feel like it'd be real pricy to basically have to ship the box in a box, rather the smallest box I can fit a bunch of compressed ziplock bags into. Hanging onto instructions is probably a bit more useful for resale. I'm debating a criteria of "expensive sets, GWP/promo sets, and Creator 3-in-1" as sets to keep instructions for but who knows, I'll probably just see about getting a bin big enough I can toss them all in or something. It's just the varying sizes that might make them annoying to stack (or require me to pull out a ton of stuff when I need to put away a new big manual) Oxyclean fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Apr 16, 2023 |
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I recycle the boxes and put the instructions and sticker sheets (if I leave some or all of the stickers unused) into airtight document boxes. Stickers usually get stacked up into ziplocs, as do smaller manuals. I'll only save a box if it's from a vintage set that came with one, and I'll still look for a way to get rid of it. According to Brickset I have at least 1147 sets, so storing packaging is absolutely not going to happen. But all the instructions so far fit into like 3 or 4 boxes that are about 1-2 cubic feet each. Pyroclastic fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Apr 16, 2023 |
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Oxyclean posted:Boxes flatten, but when you have like 50 large boxes it starts to take up a decent amount of space even when you try to squish them into the back of a closet. Any bigger set is significantly more valuable with the box. It shows that you actually care about the set so it is more likely to be complete and in good condition. Even more so with extra pieces. If you keep them with the set it increases the value by showing you took care of the set.
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When I want to start building a set I tear up the box and toss the bags/instructions into a bin, box pieces get recycled, then when I’ve built the set, instructions get recycled too and leftover parts come into a mason jar that collects all leftovers and brick separators. I already got a ton of boxes/instructions from before I did that and I have still to sort through them. Probably gonna keep some UCS stuff but ehhh.
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Butterfly Valley posted:It seems a bit paradoxical because if you have the space to have so many $150 and under sets then how don't you have space for the instructions for them In this economy?!
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I flatten my boxes and then wrap stacks of them in seran wrap and stow them under my bed. It satisfies the completionist nerd part of my brain while being pretty out of sight, out of mind. Although I don’t break down boxes for the huge UCS sets like the falcon and the Star destroyer and those take up an annoying amount of space.
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veni veni veni posted:I flatten my boxes and then wrap stacks of them in seran wrap and stow them under my bed. It satisfies the completionist nerd part of my brain while being pretty out of sight, out of mind. I use the Titanic box to store a bunch of other boxes
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Oxyclean posted:It just feels like they take up a lot of space they maybe don't need to. Like maybe I could be using these drawers for something else? (No immediate idea what) You've been brain-washed by the THROW OUT THINGS nerds. Even Marie Kondo stopped with that poo poo.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:You've been brain-washed by the THROW OUT THINGS nerds. Even Marie Kondo stopped with that poo poo. There is no happiness with three kids around, you can not spark joy, you’re too moist from the tears.
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obi_ant posted:There is no happiness with three kids around, you can not spark joy, you’re too moist from the tears.  DO NOT THROW OUT YOUR KIDS
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3D Megadoodoo posted:You've been brain-washed by the THROW OUT THINGS nerds. Even Marie Kondo stopped with that poo poo. don't throw out those stacks of old newspapers, where else are you gonna store the cat piss??
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I keep the boxes and throw out the sets, is that wrong?
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The true solution is to rent out a storage unit in order to store the LEGO that don't fit in your home.
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Apr 17, 2023 02:34
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Like 1/3 of the shed in our backyard is Rubbermaid containers full of Lego, so….
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I simply memorize the instructions.
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the holy poopacy posted:don't throw out those stacks of old newspapers, where else are you gonna store the cat piss?? If you were just going to throw them away, why the heck did you subscribe?
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1966 buick riviera    
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Nice set. But what did you do with the instructions?
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Oxyclean posted:What are y'all doing with your old instructions? I have a bunch of stackable document bins in the back, with the instructions sorted by theme.
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It's easy enough to find instructions online, you don't need to keep them unless you intend to resell later and think things like the box and paper instructions will add value. Once my booklet pile exceeds the size of a small file box, I'll start tossing stuff I don't care to have lying around.
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Carbohydrates posted:1966 buick riviera loving gorgeous, and I'm not just saying that
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Reynold posted:It's easy enough to find instructions online Yeah but then you have to print them out to use them, so not a good solution!
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Yeah but then you have to print them out to use them, so not a good solution! Your inkjet printer needs the exercise anyway, when's the last time you checked your cartridges or even ran a test print?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Yeah but then you have to print them out to use them, so not a good solution! I look at them on an ipad and it works pretty well
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Dogen posted:I look at an ipad That sounds like a miserable life 
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Oxyclean posted:What are y'all doing with your old instructions? I used to keep a big box full of old instructions, but eventually realised they were just taking up space and I was never going to re-use them. I downloaded all the digital copies (or scans for some of the older sets that aren't on the Lego website) and threw the instructions out.
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All you digital instructions people are gonna be real upset when you’re trying to build sets after the apocalypse 
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In that situation the only instructions I need are how to build the fully functional ar-15. They're already printed and in my shelter (which is built out of burps).
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xzzy posted:In that situation the only instructions I need are how to build the fully functional ar-15. They're already printed and in my shelter (which is built out of burps). This place is not a place of honour... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
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Flyinglemur posted:loving gorgeous Flyinglemur posted:, and I'm not just saying that
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obi_ant posted:There is no happiness with three kids around, you can not spark joy, you’re too moist from the tears. Most of my sets don't last long with my two toddlers playing with them, but that's ok because the joy I get from watching for 4 y.o. boy create new things all by himself, or watch as he creates little stories with all the figures that he wants me to partake in, is worth it. He took apart a little car the other day to make a skeleton/lava monster wagon. Just a horse harness and some wheels with skeletons holding onto it. He had so much fun with that thing.
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