So you have a Lego collection of bulk pieces in a massive bin in front of you, waiting to be sold. Great! This week long series will take you through the ins and outs of making the most from your recent acquisition.
Day One, you are going to need to get the supplies that you'll use throughout the rest of the week. There's no point needing to interrupt yourself later getting supplies, and this will help you get organized. Three things need to be purchased to ensure a smooth packing and shipping operation: boxes, bags, and tape. Once we have these essentials down, we can move on to more interesting things.
Boxes
Pro Tip: No need to pay for boxes. Assuming you live in the United States, you can get all the free boxes you'll need and have them show up to your door the next morning. Load up on some Flat rate boxes as well as some normal priority mail boxes. Depending on your collection, you might need more of a certain size. Lots of completed sets? Make sure you have plenty of medium boxes. Lots of minifigs and accessories? Get lots of the small boxes. Luckily, these boxes ship fast so you can always get more quickly when you need them. Keep in mind that the Post Office is stringent about how things ship. Once you pack something in these boxes, they have to ship Priority Mail. I'd also get some smaller bubble mailers via Amazon for smaller things, like individual minifigs, which can then be shipped more cheaply. Another important note: start stockpiling newspaper, which can be used as packing materials. There's no point paying for bubble wrap when newspaper works just as well.
Bags
You'll need ziploc bags for organization of pieces and figures. In my experience, I used three sizes of bags: minifig sized, sandwich sized, 1 gallon sized. 1 and 2 gallon will be used for broken down larger sets and bulk pieces, while sandwich bags will be used for groups of figures as well as smaller sets. To give you a rough estimate of how many you'll need, 1 gallon holds roughly 2.5 pounds (1.1 kilo), and the 2 gallon bags hold just over 5 pounds (2.2 kilo). These can be purchased online, although I was eager to start and just went down to my local grocery store.
Tape
Almost done. You just need the tape to close the boxes. Get some packing tape and some regular invisible tape, if you don't already have some lying around. The invisible tape is great for sticking on prepaid labels, rather than wasting the larger and more expensive packing tape.
Finally! Time to move onto the exciting things.
Day One, you are going to need to get the supplies that you'll use throughout the rest of the week. There's no point needing to interrupt yourself later getting supplies, and this will help you get organized. Three things need to be purchased to ensure a smooth packing and shipping operation: boxes, bags, and tape. Once we have these essentials down, we can move on to more interesting things.
Boxes
Pro Tip: No need to pay for boxes. Assuming you live in the United States, you can get all the free boxes you'll need and have them show up to your door the next morning. Load up on some Flat rate boxes as well as some normal priority mail boxes. Depending on your collection, you might need more of a certain size. Lots of completed sets? Make sure you have plenty of medium boxes. Lots of minifigs and accessories? Get lots of the small boxes. Luckily, these boxes ship fast so you can always get more quickly when you need them. Keep in mind that the Post Office is stringent about how things ship. Once you pack something in these boxes, they have to ship Priority Mail. I'd also get some smaller bubble mailers via Amazon for smaller things, like individual minifigs, which can then be shipped more cheaply. Another important note: start stockpiling newspaper, which can be used as packing materials. There's no point paying for bubble wrap when newspaper works just as well.
Bags
You'll need ziploc bags for organization of pieces and figures. In my experience, I used three sizes of bags: minifig sized, sandwich sized, 1 gallon sized. 1 and 2 gallon will be used for broken down larger sets and bulk pieces, while sandwich bags will be used for groups of figures as well as smaller sets. To give you a rough estimate of how many you'll need, 1 gallon holds roughly 2.5 pounds (1.1 kilo), and the 2 gallon bags hold just over 5 pounds (2.2 kilo). These can be purchased online, although I was eager to start and just went down to my local grocery store.
Tape
Almost done. You just need the tape to close the boxes. Get some packing tape and some regular invisible tape, if you don't already have some lying around. The invisible tape is great for sticking on prepaid labels, rather than wasting the larger and more expensive packing tape.
Finally! Time to move onto the exciting things.
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