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Thanks for the info! Out of curiosity... how do you get the 20% off coupons? My catalog has never even come with a 10!

Doh, yeah, good point. You got me. Anyways, these suggestions are all very helpful! I think I am going to skip the bagging, and try the boxes. I actually see some decent deals from staples.com on similar size boxes to the uline ones. They have free store pickup. The boxes are like 1.50 compared to uline's 1.30, but without shipping that is very nice. I'll just have to go figure out what boxes I need. I think I'll use the above suggestion to use acid free paper in between boxes (some smaller boxes I might pack together for storage). I have a scrapbooking hobby that hasn't taken off too much... lots of acid free paper there (my legos will be very well dressed in their storage boxes in fancy paper!). I'm not too worried about rats, as someone else said, I have lots of stuff in my garage I suspect they would rather eat than legos. Bugs may be an issue though. I don't think it'd be a good idea to full tape up the boxes, because I'll want to check on them before I ship them. In fact, I think setting a calendar reminder to check on them in boxes every month or two would probably be smart (more often when the weather is extreme). I may try to keep the pricier sets inside as well. Maybe I'll start out with some of the smaller sets in the garage... see how they do through June/July which is probably as hot as it'll get, and then move more if they seem to do ok. Great ideas here!

Hmm well at the moment we aren't selling (a few polybags soon, but that's mostly to help bring our ebay score up). So, we haven't dealt with any business/tax stuff yet. We just started... so none of these will be making any money until at least this christmas, more likely the christmas after that. I'll see about collectible insurance for now.

Also when you say you've insured your collections, is this through your home insurance? Or something special?

Hi everyone! Thanks for your suggestions! I'm really concerned about this, and I'm not sure what to do. Inside the house really isn't an option at this point. We don't have room to begin with... we're storing them in our kid's room because he's just a baby, but that isn't going to work much longer since he's walking soon. There's also no more room. Our closet space is minimal to begin with and full of all our normal closet junk. I'm also afraid that in a year or so when the little guy starts to be more aware, he'll start wanting to play with the lego even though he won't be old enough (plus if he knows how many we have, the ones we get for him seem like they won't be as special). We have two cats and two dogs also, so I don't want one of the cats messing up the boxes or something. Anyway - point is, they need a new location. We have lots of garage space, and can conceal them pretty well behind our boxes of regular storage stuff (as above mentioned, to keep them hidden from anyone who may want to steal them). We're in nor cal too so it can get hot, but at least it's not the south? A climate controlled storage space is 90$/mo for 5x5 which doesn't seem like it would fit much if we put in shelving to keep them from stacking on eachother and collapsing the boxes. The 7x10 is 200$ (which actually doesn't even make sense... why not get 2 5x5.... LOL). Does anyone have their stuff in a storage unit that's not climate controlled? Is that any better? It seems like probably not to me... How many of you have climate controlled storage? How much is it?

Hi everyone! Sorry if this has been posted before. I looked through previous threads but didn't find one specifically about this. I've read through the storage wars article on the main site and it was very helpful! However, I have some questions about storing in my garage. I've jumped into this lego investing stuff recently and we've got quite a bit of space taken up by legos now. My husband is getting a little concerned the legos will take over soon, so I need to find a solution. ;P We want to follow the storage wars article and purchase some home depot storage shelves, and possibly also store the legos in boxes (either 1:1 shipping boxes, or perhaps in larger boxes with a few sets each). We'd like to store all this in our garage. We're in california so the temp isn't too extreme in either direction, but we ARE headed into summer. We're concerned we'll store them out there and then when it comes time to sell them, realize we've made a huge mistake! Is there any major concern in the garage? Will heat damage the bricks? Will being in the shipping boxes help? Would putting it in a bag and THEN a box help? I am concerned for the boxes as well, but REALLY concerned about the bricks/stickers/etc, since that would totally destroy the value. Any tips? Does anyone else store in their garage? We were also thinking of renting storage, but the climate controlled ones are pretty expensive, and since we're still relatively small time investors, it would cut into the bottom line in a big way (like 80$/mo!). So i'm not sure if a non climate controlled storage would be any better than the garage anyways? We have decent garage space (with a little clean up!). Thanks for any advice you may have!