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You Might Be An Arrowhead Collector If…

Posted on 23. Mar, 2009 by Shannon Graham in Miscellaneous

A recent post in the Arrowheadology forums discussed receiving wooden replicas of Indian artifacts as a kid for a present. This post started a flurry of ‘you might be an arrowhead collector if…‘ responses. Here is just a sampling of some of the creative ones received from the membership. Several of these are just too specific to be fabrications. Take a look.

• You get ‘toy’ arrowheads for your birthday as a kid.
• The Maytag repairman finds flint chips clogging your dryer vent.
• You seed snow drifts with flint chips every February just for practice.
• All your flower pots have no flowers because the broken points choked them out.
• At every family outing you have to purchase a new igloo ice chest because you filled up the last one with broken points.
• People come to your driveway to pick up discarded arrowheads.
• Building your new display case precedes that new bathroom remodeling
• You don’t ever have to repaint your walls cause they’re covered in frames
• Your kitchen sink always has more arrowheads in it than dishes.
• Your wife buys you vinegar in bulk from Costco to remove calcium deposits from your finds.
• The garden tools hanging in your garage have been modified to resemble something similar to a medieval arsenal (stinger pics, modified rakes, hoes, pick axes)
• You have a ‘rock’ closet
• Your rock garden contains a nice assemblage of 6000 year old stone tools
• You need to add the cost of flowers or jewelry to every eBay purchase.
• You routinely clean the house so you know she won’t say no.
• Your kids are named Clovis and Etley.
• The first word your toddler says is ‘rocks’.
• Your mailbox starts to sag and your mailman develops a hernia from delivering metates.
• Your Sunday dress clothes involve rubber boots.
• You attempt to pass a shovel through the airport metal detector on a flight to Boulder, Colorado.
• You watch the radar for red cells.
• You dream about ‘the ultimate find ‘.
• Your wife phones you starting labor, and you tell her “Just one more hilltop, Honey”.
• Everyone in your family tree is, or was, a rock hunter.
• Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison” reminds you of fluted points.
• You can tell what type of point it was that little Bruce Wayne picked up in “Batman Begins”.
• You’ve paid to have your car’s dashboard removed to retrieve a point that fell down it.
• You like your lakes low and your rivers overflowing!
• You wear out several pairs of quality gloves in one year of digging.
• You go to the same field ,creek ,lake ,river , day after day with renewed hope and promise that an arrow head will be found.
• You’re an expert at reading topo maps for finding potential sites.
• You have a map recording all of the locally known ancient sites.
• You’ve ever converted a folding lawn chair into a sifter.
• You have more than 4 sifters spread all over the county.
• You’re not a jeweler but you have a loupe.
• You’re not a scientist but you have a high powered microscope.

And the number one way to tell you’re an arrowhead collector…

You spend all your time on the internet browsing Arrowheadology.com!

Let’s hear yours!

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