When we first started cashing we thought they items where cheap and kid toys too, but what we have found it that we buy and trade better items to make it more interesting for those cashe behind us...so the same. We also learned that the toys are what the kids "endure" the hiking for. Cashing is what motivated our daughter to become a hiker, and now she doesn't even care about trading items, and she thinks up stuff for putting in cashes. Some people are cheap and others are not. What really "gets our goat" is those that leave behind religious or political stuff or business cards....hey folks this is a hobby, not a platform.