I have a collection of axial resistors from long ago; I think it was a grab bag purchase. I had organised them into 12 containers for the E12 series (non-E12 values like 50k went into the closest bin). I realised I had been organising it the wrong way. When I want a value like 50k, I went looking in the 47 or 56 container, but I might be happy to accept anything from 39k to 68k.

So I reorganised them into half-decades, splitting a decade at sqrt(10) or roughly 3.12. Thus 1 to 3.3 in one bin and 3.3 to 10 in the next bin.

Curious as to how many I have in the bins, I weighed the containers, taring with an empty container. The results are in the chart where the vertical axis is grams, and the horizontal axis is the value in ohms. As expected my projects have depleted the middle bins. But I don't think I'll get to use up the 2.2M resistors before I move over to surface mount resistors.