Category: Organization
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Those beautifully clean and spotless bedrooms. Those shelves of kids’ shoes and boots all lined up in neat rows. Those perfectly organized containers, all labeled and color-coordinated, full of LEGO bricks. It’s all a mirage. It’s too easy to compare our lived-in homes with the highly curated images we see on Pinterest—or even on our…
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I know some parents who store every LEGO set their child owns in its own resealable bag or box. Others give their child one big bin and let all those LEGO pieces mingle together. Some sort by theme. Some by part type. Some by color. And some have a system that probably only makes sense…
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And maybe it’s more than just a LEGO disaster. Maybe it’s a complete disaster. It can be easy to walk into a very messy bedroom and get upset as a parent, especially when you work so hard to keep the rest of the house reasonably tidy. What about guests? What will they think? What will…
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We all reach this point as parents. The kids have toys they don’t play with anymore. Clothes they’ve outgrown. A few games with missing pieces. Maybe even a chair that’s seen better days. But what about the LEGO collection? Unlike most toys, LEGO is different. Every brick made today still connects with bricks made decades…
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Earlier this week, we talked about two ideas. First, letting go of old LEGO creations isn’t losing memories. It’s making room for new ones. Then we talked about how LEGO building is a lot like reading a chapter book. Most children aren’t finished with their story after one afternoon. They want to pick up where…
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One of the hardest parts of LEGO building isn’t putting the pieces together. It’s deciding when to let them come apart. It usually starts with a single set. Maybe it’s your child’s very first one. They carefully follow the instructions, sometimes with a little help from you, until the picture on the box is sitting…
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Have you ever watched a building being demolished? Maybe you’ve seen a bulldozer or excavator clearing an old structure. Maybe you’ve watched a wrecking ball smash through a wall. Or perhaps you’ve seen one of those videos where carefully placed explosives bring an entire building crashing down in seconds. There are times when demolition makes…
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You’ve seen the pictures. The perfect LEGO room. There’s a tidy building table in front of a wall of perfectly labeled drawers, with every brick sorted by part type and color. Finished creations are displayed neatly on shelves. There’s plenty of room to build, plenty of room to store everything, and somehow there isn’t a…
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When parents ask me how to organize their child’s LEGO collection, one of the first questions that comes up is: Should we sort by color? At first, it sounds like the obvious choice. There are far fewer LEGO colors than there are different part types, so sorting by color feels simple and manageable. But here’s…
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You’re usually thinking winter holidays when you hear this I’m sure, but with school being out for the summer, “Christmas in July”, Amazon Prime Day deals, Target and Walmart and other big companies all following suit, and the fact that I’m sure you’ve bought the kids at least one new LEGO set this summer, lots…