Brickalm

/ˈbrɪk-ɑːm/ · noun

The quiet that lands when the LEGO® room is done: when every piece has a home, and the next build can just start, no need for endless digging through messy bins.

Where it comes from

My wife and I had a word for it before there was a company. In Norwegian: Brikkero, from brikke, brick, and ro, calm. Brick-calm. It is not a word you will find in a dictionary; it is a word two people started using about their own living room and never stopped.

Brickalm is that word in English.

Why it deserves a name

Sorting is the work. Brickalm is the reason for the work. The point was never the tidy drawers: it is opening one, finding the piece, and staying in the build instead of losing forty minutes to a bin.

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