Is there such a thing as too many rocks? 😆

Mineral Matters #357

I am fortunate that we have a three bedroom house, and there are only two of us since the “kids” left many years ago.

Bedroom 1 is where we sleep. Bedroom 2 is Di’s “Rock Room” (quilts and related stuff, and doubling up as a guest bedroom when we have visitors stay over), and Bedroom 3, my Rock Room (also office, library, and art studio).

All bedrooms have double width built-in robes. Mine is mostly filled with flats of minerals. But they don’t all fit! You can see *some* of them in the photo below. Beneath the shelf, there are four columns of 27 flats. Plus some on the shelf, outside the wardrobe, and a few other places around the room.

I counted them today. There are more than 220. There are also some (maybe a couple of dozen) outside in the garage. And there are also two display cases and a number of drawers for micros through to miniatures. I think I have a problem! 😆

Fortunately, I have the contents of the flats (and drawers) in an Excel spreadsheet. There are codes on the flats that are also recorded. So, generally, I can find a particular specimen fairly quickly.

But today, it took me a bit longer. The specimen that I wanted to photograph was in a flat that turned out to be inside the wardrobe, third stack from the right, four flats up from the bottom. I had to move a lot of flats to get to that one specimen! But I made it.

If I couldn’t find it, it would have been part of my Hidden Collection, but in a different way!

Who else has a problem like this? Should we start up a help group? RHA. Rock Hoarders Anonymous? 😆