[galaktor]

We've tried this several times - the napkin math seems sound at first but unfortunately the amount of patience and discipline required vastly exceeds what we could achieve in one afternoon. After multiple lego sorting sessions I realised we had turned what is supposed to be a creative and fun toy into a laborious chore, to the point that the kids dreaded the thought of spending another hour mindlessly sorting bricks into bags.

[someotheridiot]

The sorting can be quite relaxing for some people (ie me). Kind of like a background task you can perform while watching a movie and calm your mind of things.

[enriquto]

Yes! If the OP poured me a glass of scotch I'd very happily sort his 10.000 brick collection between sips.

For a much larger collection (as the guy who got a bag of his own weight), some sort of automatic sorting would start to be envisageable.

[Fricken]

A couple years ago I came into possession of roughly my body weight's worth of bulk unsorted lego. The sort job took about 200 hours. I have never in my life put so much (unpaid) effort into something so mundane.

[Fricken]

A couple years ago I came into possession of roughly my body weight's worth of bulk unsorted lego. The sort job took about 300 hours. I have never in my life put so much (unpaid) effort into something so mundane.

[ehou]

Some people don’t exaggerate. They just remember things bigger