[What do you use for making a medium sized cache?]

Be careful with the thermos jugs. We've had the little flap at the top leak before in regular water storage use. Have you run into any leaking problems?

[What do you use for making a medium sized cache?]

I tried building a smallish medium (or mebbe largish small) today out of PVC pipe with a screw on lid and round end cap. I've seen several of these in central KY made from larger bore pipe. Unfortunately, my 2 in x 8 in container made my roommate think I had a pipe bomb. Obviously not something I can safely put in an urban setting, but what about rural with the landowner having seen and ok'd? I plan on camo painting it and getting one of those "Hey it a geocache" stickers. Safe enough?

[What do you leave?]

I haven't come up with anything consistent for trade items, but I try to leave a little something and a token item. I made a bunch of sculpey clay disks and stamped each with a little hedgehog (I dunno why, I just like hedgehogs and had this stamp). I write the date and the number of the cache on the back when I find a log a new one. Other than that I've left marbles, pins, pens, small toys, etc.

 

EDIT: Having just read the welfare cache thread, I think I'll be upgrading my trades in the future.