Took me 6 years to finally finish sorting my rock collection properly

I started collecting rocks from hikes back in 2018, just tossing them in an old shoebox. Last month I finally decided to organize them by type and location, thinking it'd be a weekend project. Ended up spending 3 full evenings researching what each one actually was, plus another 2 hours labeling them with those tiny sticky tags. Has anyone else had a collection project spiral way longer than you planned?

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the_tessa8h ago

Oh, the "weekend project" that turns into a full blown research assignment. I really feel you on that one. It's funny how something that seems so simple just pulls you in deeper once you start.

christopher9434h ago

That's not 6 years, you just procrastinated for 5 and a half of them.

lopez.quinn8h ago

My Idaho agate collection took me four years to finish labeling because I kept trying to match every little variant. @the_tessa hit it exactly - you start sorting and suddenly you're neck deep in a geology textbook.