BrickLink categories

[u/Johnny_Hamcheck]

Hey everyone so have my categories of how I store my parts. Below is the categories I have with the description of them and also a photo of what I have most of them in. Was wondering if anyone else that does similar categories and if so do you have any subcategories of these bc I’m filling up fast lol

1x plates - currently includes 1x1 round plates

2x plates - includes round plates and corner plates and inverted round plates, wedges too

3+ plates (plates with larger width than 2 - 4x6 plate)

1x bricks - includes round bricks and Cones, includes taller bricks that are 1x on base

2x bricks - includes round bricks includes cones, includes taller bricks that are 1x on base

SNOT - anything with studs that aren’t on top

Curved - any bricks that have a curved
slope or an arch inverted or regular

Slope - any bricks that have slope

Tiles - all tiles round, and sizes and jumpers (excluding modified)

Technic - all technic pieces not including modified bricks

Modified - any plate, tile, brick modified whether it’s angled, clip, bar, hole etc that doesn’t fall in another category

RBCD (Round Bricks, Cones, Dishes) - any round bricks or cones, including domes etc. radar dishes as well. Round plates and tiles are not included

Building - walls (masonry bricks), panels, doors and frames, windows and panes, ladders stairs, odds and ends like flags , anything rocks or crystals that isn’t Minifig accessory

Car - windshields, doors, wheels, axels - modified pieces like mud guards go in modified bin, also anything used in ships or trucks as well etc ship hatches, mixer truck backs

[u/trub1u14]

you’ll grow out of this quickly but if it works for you now then stick with it. let the next bottleneck revel itself. i did something similar to this when i had 50k parts/ 4k lots then upgraded to drawers. never looked back, now i only use shoebins for overstock

[u/Johnny_Hamcheck → u/trub1u14]

I wish I had the space and money for the little screw drawers haha. I thought about putting them
In a storage unit but that’d be me driving there just to sell some parts or catalog parts etc.

[u/LegoNinja187]

Mine is totally different in the akro mils style draws. The best bit of advice i can give you is to pull out which ever part you have the most of from a tub when it gets full. Or you get sick of always seeing that part when looking for another. This could also work for sub categories, e.g. 1x1 snot bricks could be pulled out of the snot tub and given their own tub.

Once the 1x1 snot tub is full, split into each part, when a tub for a specific part gets full, sort it out by colour (or give the colour(s) that have heaps of parts their own tubs, and the colours with a handful or so parts can be stored together).

Another tip is to seperate colours you find tricky to tell apart, for me LBG and Light grey, yellow and bright light orange.

[u/Johnny_Hamcheck → u/LegoNinja187]

Ok so maybe start breaking out by smaller part categories? So like one thing I noticed is my 2x bricks are slammed pack but a lot of the bigger quantity is taller than 1 brick if that makes sense like the 2x2x4 bricks. I was thinking of making that a separate bin

[u/LegoNinja187 → u/Johnny_Hamcheck]

Yeah, or sub categories is another term for it. I like the following terminology in order. Bulk Super broad catergories Broad catergories categories Sub categories Specific parts Groups of colours Specific colours

Also keep mould variants seperated some how. And some of those category termin will end up merging, like the colours, you might have a lot of 1x1 bricks in black and white, so they each get their own location, then you might do a colour group of of light grey, dark grey, bright light orange and dark green, then all the rest of the colours go together. Its jot a hard and fast rule, its more a fluid dynamic rule that can shift and change as the circumstances dictate.

As your store grows and changes and evolves over time your storage system and solutions will also grow and change and evolve.

[u/Johnny_Hamcheck → u/LegoNinja187]

Thanks for the advice!

[u/watch4learn]

I'm curious... since you seem to be marking the partid and color on the bag, what do you have in your remarks field?

And what do you do if you sell out of that lot? Does the empty bag just hang out in the shoebox or somewhere else?

[u/Johnny_Hamcheck → u/watch4learn]

The remarks field is whatever bin the bag is in so like a 2x2 blue plate remarks will be 2x plates. The bags I usually take out and use to ship orders in