What's your rock stash look like?

When it stops raining I'll get pics of my shed, the front porch, the breezeway, the living room, the garage and the basement. Somewhere over a ton of rocks.

Don

Yikes snuffy!! Lol, okay, I scrolled the first and thought, 'Oh, that's not bad, he's really organized!' then I scrolled down and saw more, and more, and more! I'm totally selfish on starting this thread, 'cause I just ordered another box of goodies from Jamie and was feeling guilty.

Can't wait to see yours, Don!

Snuffy's got me beat, I think. Definitely on neatness, although those flat rate box look real familiar. I've got them all over the garage, probably about a ton and a third. The drawers have slabs, except for the one that has preforms, the underneath shelves have flat rate boxes full of fill in the blank. Against the other wall is the "must slab when weather gets better boxes, then the metal shelf has stuff to be tumbled, as do the cabinets around the sink. On top of the cabinets are slabettes sent by friends, and small "must be slabbed" for the 6" saw. I need new batteries before I take photos. Most of us probably look like we stole boxes from the post office.

Feeling less guilty, Dee? Think you might need a few more?

Last winter I decided that enough was enough and that I needed to discard those I would never use. I was very brave and ruthless narrowing the stash down--I actually had a discard pile with five rocks in it, but I brought one back in. These are not just rocks, you understand, they are mementos of trips, gifts from friends, purchases on this board (we won't talk about the Ebay stuff).

Lol, Susan, that's too funny!

Um, Helen, how is YOUR stash growing?

I've really been good about giving rock away. I have 3 bowlfuls as well, ready to give away during a chicken coop tour that I'm in at the end of May.

'Come look at our chickens, take home a rock!'

Ok,I don't have much of a stash...So little room to have huge amounts...



A little of everything and alot of nothing...LOL



My bigger stuff goes here....(Clyde,you haven't seen this stash yet-LOL)...I keep the crappy boxes and give my son in laws new boxes I build)..Go figure!LOL






A few buckets of rocks,here and there...

White getting some snow right now..It was nice yesterday should have took a pic then.. but had 4 of my grandchildren over.

Yuppers,just like mine!!! I was hooked on that stuff as a kid in the early "60's"....The stuff(Mountain Dew) now days can't hold a candle stick to the older drink!

My stash is all over the place too but I have been working on organization in some of my free time.

Here's some of my slab storage in the shop:



Here's some of my type specimen storage:



Here;s just one drawer of several where I have my slab type collection I use for ID purposes and photography:



Tumbles for the kiddies and the shoe boxes contain my rarer rough and nodules both cut and uncut.



Rough storage. Just finished totally reorganizing all of this:



And finally, my piles of local flintknapping flint along the fence:

Helen, I want to come too!!!! Which I can't, but wow, what fun that would have been! Is there a show in Vegas? I am incredibly random, so for you, sequential knowing where everything is, except your ROCKS, yikes, that must be alot! lol.

Fossilman, nice stash! Are those red containers old coffee containers?

Sabre, now neat!! And labels too! I think you have the most polished side yard of anyone too.

Susan, I do that all the time. Go through a container, and go 'oooh, this is cool!' as if I've never seen it before. I find better stuff in my stash than the local rock shop, and with my short memory, it's a nice way to spend the afternoon.