Do any of you do this?

[CardinalBricks]

Do any of you like to separate your newer duplicate minifigures/accessories from your older ones? Not too much older, maybe a month or so. Obviously it's different if it's sets that are taken apart. For example, I got the same phase 1 clone from a Star Wars set I got a month ago, and I got another in a set that I just bought. When storing all my clones in the AT-TE, I feel the need to separate and organize them so I know which clone came with what set, and which one is the older one. I'm sure you all do this when there is an element that is x amount of years older than your new one, and doesn't stick on a minifigure's hand as well anymore. But it seems weird that you would do this with such a short timespan between the time you got the 2 things. So I've come to the people of Eurobricks, who share my tendency to avoid contact with Lego while I'm eating, to tell me whether they do this or if this is just my OCD.

[Paul B Technic]

No I can't say I do that. All my pieces and sets are sorted by type not age.

[II5hyena]

I do this! For me it's not really about age as it's about which figure belongs to which set. I I got two of the exact same clones I would need to make sure that the clone that came in the box gets stored with the rest of the set.

[aiori]

I print small labels like 2x20mm with a unique code that contains set number, theme, release year and a continueing number. Then I fold this label and place it in the body before attaching the legs.

I did this with all LOTR and Hobbit figures since some orcs, Frodos and Aragorns are the same.

[RaincloudDustbin]

I do it a lot. I complete a new trade most weeks and feel the need to separate each trade even if I got the parts for a specific collection :p

[kermit]

I dont because I have just too many minifigures to separate out. The just go in the zip loc bag with their respective sets.

[Vindicare]

That's a bit too OCD for me. If the figs are carbon copies of each other, there really is no reason, or way of telling who came with which set. I would, however, with the CW clones vs. Episode(s) clones, because the heads are different. But, I store all my clones together anyways since I'm a clone army builder.

[TheLegoDr]

I can't say I've ever done this. I typically throw duplicates into a box unless I need the posts to customize a new figure. It I give them to my daughter to have.

I tend to sort my pieces by type and age. Age is only determined pre/post dark ages.

[WaysofSorting]

My collection is totally haphazard. You would probably hate it. I have a master collection, broken up into bins with no organization whatsoever. Each Bin is a sub collection with different figures, bricks, sets, etc. There's lots of cross pollination, and pieces and figures move back and forth as I build, put the bins away, etc.

I like to think of them as the floating kingdoms like in the old Flash Gordon Series (where there's a tree kingdom and ice kingdom and they all just are floating out there in space).

Part of that is I'm less concerned with keeping any integrity of sets and more with building stories and relationships between the collections themselves. So yeah - everybody gets mixed up. Sometimes I don't even put the figures together... I never even know what the fig is supposed to look like in the first build. They are just dumped in or mashed up with the existing pieces immediately.

Like I said - anyone with OCD would hate it.

[Hrw-Amen]

No i do not do that. All my parts are sorted by color and part type each with its own little bin or box. It does not matter how old or young a part is.

[DOOM!]

Minifigs are all tossed into a giant bin and mixed and matched depending on what I need or what mood I'm in, I would have a heck of a time trying to figure out who came with what if I ever needed to.