My family (wife and 2nd grade daughter) have taken to coming home with numerous rocks from every vacation we have taken in the past few years. I purchased a double barrel tumbler and we have a nice little ritual each weekend of being able to move two batches of rocks at different stages along their polishing journey, admiring the changes and characteristics of the batches as they move along the process and then their ultimate result.

We now have quite the collection of wonderfully polished rocks of all kinds from the places we have been. I do the cleaning and preparing each weekend but have it down to a quick 10-15 minutes in total time. It’s simple yet magical and I’m slowly seeing how my house is going to look come retirement