I have purchased all types of containers but still as yet to finish with sorting all like items. Have many ziploc bags also. I love the time when sitting down at a table and sorting the lego bricks. Anyway the best way that I sort is using a dish container for the lego bricks when I get them from all different sources and then I sort them in the glass jars that Nestea had come in. Over the past 3 years that I have started getting into Lego's especially for my grandson, anyways the jar's are handy in holding them till full and then put in the ziploc bags. I have approx. over 100 jars now, may even use them to store the bricks and then I could put them on shelves till needed. It's a solution at the moment.