Roger
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since January 2013
Posts: 1,487
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Post by Roger on May 25, 2015 12:37:39 GMT -5
die? and leave my preciouses behind? For you doom & gloomers with no heirs interested in your rock collections, I am available for adoption. Ditto! I have no plans to die. Ever. Too many rocks to play with to even consider dying lol
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Post by captbob on May 25, 2015 12:50:31 GMT -5
Eventually, I suppose I'll have to part with my type collection, specimen slabs etc but that I'm not quite ready for yet.
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Post by orrum on May 25, 2015 12:54:00 GMT -5
X2 Catnbob!!!#!!
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Post by jakesrocks on May 25, 2015 14:19:02 GMT -5
die? and leave my preciouses behind? For you doom & gloomers with no heirs interested in your rock collections, I am available for adoption. So, what am I missing here ? What do our rocks have to do with wanting to adopt you ?
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Post by captbob on May 25, 2015 14:35:19 GMT -5
So, what am I missing here ? What do our rocks have to do with wanting to adopt you ? uh... you would then have an heir interested in rocks that you could pass your collection on to. The up side is I would send you a Christmas AND Birthday card each year. Well, at least Christmas. Probably. Depending on the collection, I might even leave flowers. Maybe.
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Post by jakesrocks on May 25, 2015 14:50:39 GMT -5
So, what am I missing here ? What do our rocks have to do with wanting to adopt you ? uh... you would then have an heir interested in rocks that you could pass your collection on to. The up side is I would send you a Christmas AND Birthday card each year. Well, at least Christmas. Probably. Depending on the collection, I might even leave flowers. Maybe. Sorry Bob, my stuff is already promised to my best rockin buddy. Besides, when I retired out of the navy, I told them I was gonna live to 110, so I could make them pay my retirement til then. Got 36-1/2 years to go.
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Post by catmandewe on May 25, 2015 18:11:14 GMT -5
There are several options for your uninterested relatives. The two that are most used are
1. having an auction, they will get more money but they will also have to prepare the items to be sold and you will have a crowd of people wandering around the place. Many people do not like this option just for the fact that there will be people wandering around checking everything else out. If there are lots of rough it is best to fill buckets or boxes and sell them individually, but that takes lots of buckets, boxes and time.
2. find someone who will come in and clean out all the rock related items and haul them off for you. Make sure they understand they get it all, no matter how much of it is junk. They will get less money but someone else will do all the work and there will only be a small group of people wandering around your beloved's place. There really are quite a few people who do this around the country.
Tony
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Post by paulshiroma on May 25, 2015 19:49:51 GMT -5
HA. Let me know how that goes. I hear tell that it's hard to get the UHaul hooked up to the hearse. LOL
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Post by paulshiroma on May 25, 2015 19:51:30 GMT -5
My boys will probably split them up between them ... I hope. Otherwise, it's going into the yard as landscaping rock.
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flrocks
starting to shine!
Member since December 2013
Posts: 40
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Post by flrocks on May 25, 2015 20:51:51 GMT -5
The rock shortage really has me worried. I guess I should cash in my IRA and go buy lots and lots of rocks.
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Post by orrum on May 25, 2015 20:55:02 GMT -5
I sorta like the pile em up as a monument idea over me.
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Post by gingerkid on May 26, 2015 7:19:47 GMT -5
die? and leave my preciouses behind? "my preciouses" For you doom & gloomers with no heirs interested in your rock collections, I am available for adoption.
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Post by catmandewe on May 26, 2015 9:41:08 GMT -5
The rock shortage really has me worried. I guess I should cash in my IRA and go buy lots and lots of rocks. I actually did that! Tony
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Fossilman
Cave Dweller
Member since January 2009
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Post by Fossilman on May 26, 2015 9:58:48 GMT -5
Tony-Clyde has told me about your collection!!! WOWZERS!!!!
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chassroc
Cave Dweller
Rocks are abundant when you have rocktumblinghobby pals
Member since January 2005
Posts: 3,586
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Post by chassroc on May 26, 2015 13:20:11 GMT -5
My wife wont go collecting with me anymore. Except for carving soapstone she is allergic to working with rock.
My boys have other interests, maybe when they approach 50 they will change their minds about rockhounding and cabbing, etc..
I don't have tons of rock, just a few hundred pounds. Most of my rock is nothing exceptional except the opal and turquoise and that takes up little to no room.
I just gave away a couple of hundred pounds to RTH members in need as I am about to move south and I figure that most of it can be replaced about as cheaply as it can be moved. Only the memories are lost and that seems to fade with age anyway.
Most of my better cabs are given away but I am starting to accumulate more of my own and will try my luck at a few shows this Summer.
I made a dry wash and lined it with lots of nice rocks; the nicest were rounded ocean stones which are granite up here in New England. Fun to collect these rocks, especially in the winter when the beaches are empty.
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Post by parfive on May 26, 2015 16:43:19 GMT -5
How south is south, Charlie? : )
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kenefick
starting to shine!
Member since August 2014
Posts: 44
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Post by kenefick on May 26, 2015 17:57:41 GMT -5
Well, I just created the dilemma. Bought over a ton of rock from a lady whose husband had passed (solved her problem). My son, who helped me move all that, did comment that "Mom will have the prettiest driveway in the neighborhood".
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Post by mohs on May 26, 2015 19:44:46 GMT -5
we all do have a dilemma what to do
but think of what's worse
dying w/
No Rocks !
what a shame a dirty shame
mostly™
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