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Single inventory

When I got back into LEGO I sorted my old bricks by type to make it easier to find the pieces and put the sets back together. There are many sets I'm not that interested in, so there are still a lot of bricks in that inventory.

When I started buying mixed lots of used LEGO I started sorting them into a separate inventory. I wanted to keep my own (and my kids) bricks separate from these "new" ones. But when I started putting those sets together there were always some missing pieces. Bricks I knew I had in my personal inventory. So I started going through those as well if there were any missing pieces after I had gone through all the new pieces.

Eventually I came to a conclusion that there was bo point in keeping these two inventories separate. I still have the list of the original sets, so if I want to, I can always build those sets still from the combined inventory. With single inventory it's much easier to find the correct pieces as I don't have to look through two places. It's also easier to find all the pieces for the set when the pool of available bricks is bigger. And beyond all, this way they take much less space.