I've been going through the huge pile of LEGO bricks that contain all my childhood LEGOs and all my kids sers as well. A million pieces might be a bit exaggeration, but comparing the amount to that of the new Rivendell set I got it must be at least ten times that. And it's not a small set, one of the ten biggest sets LEGO has ever released at over 6000 pieces. That puts the total estimate somewhere north of 60 000 pieces. So sorting all that is not a small task.
At the start it felt like there was good progress. Picking up the bigger, more common pieces quickly reduced the pile. But soon I had to move on smaller pieces. There were still many of them, but being small their volume did not reduce the remaining amount that much.
While there are those basic bricks that go everywhere there is also a lot of special pieces. It's not only that the progress seems to slow down noticeably when I get to do those, but it also poses a new challenge for storing them. Should every different brick go to it's own locker, or could I combine some of them. And if so which ones? The storage size has at least tripled from the original when it was all just one mixed pile and I thing the remaining ones will take at least a third more.