FortMental wrote:HA! I used to tell my (ex) wife that new gear was just "borrowed from a buddy"....and we had forgotten that I had it.

I keep half my music gear at my friend Big Gay Al's house.

True, it's where we jam, so all the mics/P.A./drums/etc. are always set up there, but it has the added benefit of not being right under the wife's nose...

FortMental wrote:HA! I used to tell my (ex) wife that new gear was just "borrowed from a buddy"....and we had forgotten that I had it.

I once told my wife that I "found" a perfectly new ice axe once on Mt. St. Helen. I even made up a story about asking everyone I saw if they lost it, but "no one claimed it, so I guess it's mine now" story.

Alpinisto wrote:

robertjgunn wrote:I have one problem when I organized my gear. I always just threw my backpacks on the floor of the closet and then had to pick through them to find the one I wanted, which was a pain. So one day I hung them on hangers and hung them up like clothes. The problem was now my WIFE saw exactly how many I had and she could not understand why I needed that many packs. When the gear is stored in a jumble it is hard to ascertain exactly how much gear there is. Since I got in trouble for that chaos rules and I spread it out throughout the house.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, posted about it on another board.

Keeping the stuff out-of-sight in gear tubs also helps, until the stack o' tubs gets to be too big...

you guys are cracking me up. IM NOT ALONE!

This is a really great thread. My gear isn't even all in one city. We're moving to a bigger place next month though, where we'll have our first ever GEAR ROOM! I'm gonna copy some of the inspired work shown here.

Funny story, at the open house it had a crib in it and the (keeper) girl says, "get this baby junk out of here and we can use this room properly."

squishy wrote:"WHY DON"T YOU PAY YOUR BILLS?!?!" shut up woman, get on my horse...

Holy crap! I laughed so hard I cried.

mconnell wrote:

Petro wrote:Is it just me or does most of the gear shown in this thread look like it's never used?

Who's got time to climb with all that display building and gear sorting?

Haha! That's worse than not climbing becuase you have to train, or are too worn out from training.


Also funny - people who cough up the money on good gear and then leave it at home because it's too nice/pretty/expensive to actually use.

Hur it is.




And the climbing gear laid out:


The green totes are full of sleeping bags. There's a row of sleeping pads along the back wall. Ski gear (little brothers' stuff) and snowboard gear (mine and older brother's) is in the workshop right now. My snow gear is in storage right now, otherwise it'd be on the left on top of the blue totes.

FortMental wrote:...wait. Is that tag still on your MSR tent? What....you think we wouldn't notice something like that? Jeez.....

Not my tent. Mine is the Sierra Designs.

EDIT: The MSR is my dad's. Not all of the stuff is mine (just 2 sleeping bags, 3 backpacks, all the climbing gear).

A good friend of mine lived alone in a 5-bedroom house. He had an ice-climbing room, a rock-climbing room, a backpacking room, a caving room and a skiing room.

Okay, here's my base camp. It's in the basement, everything is on rolling carts for ease of movement and cleaning. There's a lot of cross-over. A lot of climbing hardware is stored with the caving gear. A lot of my climbing clothes are stored with the skiing gear. Behind all of the carts are a bunch of messy shelves stacked with sleeping pads, sleeping bags, etc. The rolling carts really hide the mess. I found that dehumidifier in the basement really keeps everything dry and free of mildew.. I have two more rolling carts in the garage, when I come back from trips I just hang everything to dry in the garage. When the season for that sport is over, everything gets moved to the basement.

Autoxfil wrote:Also funny - people who cough up the money on good gear and then leave it at home because it's too nice/pretty/expensive to actually use.

Kind of have that problem. Some of my nicer, more expensive gear only gets out when I really need it. Some stuff I refuse to use in summer months, as snow is much easier on the materials than rock. I don't ever take my best backpack of when I can't put it down on snow. I know

I'm suprised Scott hasent posted yet. He has gear for every temp on the planet haha

Most of my climbing stuff is in the room downstairs, and my backpacking stuff I keep in my room so it doesn't get lost/ trampled on. The first pic os of my stuff, then the rest is of out gear closet downstairs.




Now the familys stuff/ climbing stuff

Packs/ harnesses (crashpads are right below these):



Our shelves with all of the little junk:



Rack/ roe/ sling goodness:



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I use my gear too much to waste my time trying to store it

FortMental wrote:What I like about these photos is seeing just how much useless crap climbers hold on to....like that orange Joe Brown. I've got a blue Joe Brown I bought new in 1979. I had to put stickers all over it 10 years later because I was too embarrassed by there being no scratches or dings on it. Have you no similar shame?

That Joe Brown is brand new, I converted my old Joe Brown to caving duty (see the old scratched up helmet with the headlamp?). I bought a new Joe Brown helmet for climbing. It's the only helmet that doesn't give me headaches. It has scratches on it, you just don't see them because I've only been climbing with it three times.

And it's not a Joe Brown, they went out of business a long time ago. It's a different company, similar helmet. It's got the modern buckle quick-release chin strap instead of the old dangerous slider chin strap.

Aren't those plastic tubs great - I saw an advertisement for a shelving unit built specifically for storing plastic tubs in the Sky Mall magazine and I got really excited until I looked at the price tag.