How To Store Lego®

On an internet group of homeschooling parents, one of the topics of discussion is how to store massive collections of Lego®. There are lots of neat answers.

Here's what my mother did:

When my brother and I were kids, my brother had a gazillion (slight exaggeration) Lego® pieces. He played w/ them a lot. My mother purchased a cardboard cutting board from a fabric store - it was a huge piece of cardboard that looked like giant graph paper with squares and numbers all over it. It was flat enough to scoot under a couch or bed and my brother was able to leave his towns and villages and roads in place and simply slide the board under the bed when Mom asked him to clean up. It was big enough for play and loose pieces in piles, too.