Where do you store your instructions?

[illspace]

Does everyone even keep all their duplicate instructions for impulse sets? I bought 20 crossbow attacks and only have 1, maybe 2 instruction manuals for it. I also throw away all the boxes for all my sets.

[AgentRick]

I just have a pile of them in a corner of my bookshelf :-$ .

[legotrainfan]

When I was a teenager and all the years before being a teenager, I punchholed them and put them in a folder. :-( Since the end of my dark ages I've been more careful with the instructions. :-) First, I put them in those transparent sheet protectors and then in the usual folder. Just recently I have had to start a second folder. So my collection is not yet as big as many of yours and I have no problems with putting two folders somewhere. I also have multiple copies of instructions which I got by buying the Santa Fe waggons 10022 and 10025 twice. I've been thinking about throwing those redundant copies away, but have not yet done so.

[Joebot]

I have an old filing cabinet in the laundry room that my wife graciously donated to the cause of storing Lego instructions. I've got three of the four drawers full. They're all sorted by theme into hanging file folders.

Unfortunately, I tend to throw new instructions on top of the filing cabinet, where they accumulate for months, until I get motivated enough to sort and file them into their appropriate drawer / folder.

[EyesOnly]

I store all my instructions in a drawer of my desktop. That drawer is getting really heavy by now. 8-

Edited January 28, 2008 by EyesOnly

[Jipay]

In the trash can. Then I'm usually putting the trash bag into a big container in front of the house and a truck comes and takes them away from me.

[SirNadroj]

I've got a couple of thick, thick portfolios, but they are literally bursting at the seam! I can't even close them! X-D

@Jipay: you should keep them and sell them! I sold a little stack on eBay and sold it for $40! ;-) Don't know why people would want them anyway... ;-)

Edited January 28, 2008 by SirNadroj

[Norro]

I store mine in numerical order in sheet protectors in several three ring binders.

Hey! :-P So do I! X-D I'm up to my sixth...

Same here, except divided into the main themes first... Though I have to admit on the rare occasion I want to reference one I normally go to Lugnet/Peeron first.

God Bless,

Nathan

[Wout]

All sets before my dark ages and some after that are in big plastic things for 23 holes maps (don't know the good english words, but probably the same as Simon Willems). For newer sets they are in the same plastic things and then in some drawers special for this use.

[Mirandir]

All instructions for my childhood sets are long gone. The instructions for my post dark age sets i keep in a box for the set #4955 Big Rig. But it's getting full so I'll have to get some better storage for them.

[Lord Of Pies]

well their is an interesting story behind where I keep my Lego instructions.......

In the Lego boxes he sets come in! :-P

My old instruction pre 1997-ish have all been thrown out, par one or two...|-/

[Axle]

I store them under my Hornbys(Model trains). The oldest one I have is the BSB instructions, then Adventurers ones and Harry Potter ones.

[Freddie]

I use what seems to be the most popular method of storing the instructions: Binders with plastic photo-sleeves. I do the same with catalogs as well.

The bigger, fatter instructions for the technic

[simonwillems]

There's no way they will fit inside those photo-sleeves.

That is so true!

I own set 8479 (180 pages), set 8421 (two big books) what to do with those..... X-O

[The Daphne Blue Strat]

Mine are just piled in a tote box. I don't have that many instructions anymore...I'm going to try to sell off the ones I have, since I can get all of them on Peeron anyways.

[Cardinal Brick]

I use to store them using the FAS system, also known as the first available surface system. At the moment more recent ones reside in the bottom draw of my filing cabinet (in a heap and mixed with journal articles) the old ones are stored in binders in boxes, I just never get round to filing the new ones.

[J.P. Manalo]

This might sound really, really pedantic to some... :-P But... I use a 3-drawer filing cabinet to store my instructions.

Each instruction booklet goes in a plastic sleeve, then it goes into a suspension folder within the filing cabinet. Larger instructions, like the Death Star II instructions, and the ISD instructions don't go in plastic sleeves because of their size! lol They do fit in the suspension folders though...

The instructions are sorted by set number, of course... :D I keep catalogues in a seperate drawer to the instructions, and those are sorted by date-of-publication (if known...)

[simonwillems]

This might sound really, really pedantic to some... :-P But... I use a 3-drawer filing cabinet to store my instructions.

Each instruction booklet goes in a plastic sleeve, then it goes into a suspension folder within the filing cabinet. Larger instructions, like the Death Star II instructions, and the ISD instructions don't go in plastic sleeves because of their size! lol They do fit in the suspension folders though...

The instructions are sorted by set number, of course... :D I keep catalogues in a seperate drawer to the instructions, and those are sorted by date-of-publication (if known...)

Welcome to Eurobricks! Maybe you would like to introduce yourself in the Hello! My name is..... thread?

That seems like an adequate system for the instructions which will also look nice from the outside. Aren't you afraid of growing out of your system while expanding your collection?

:-)