Our family just returned to geocaching after a few years out of it. The first thing I noticed was the difference in items left in the caches... when we started in 2003, everyone was leaving neat stuff.. small toys, coins, various hiking goodies, batteries etc. People really thought about what was going in and made an effort to leave quality swag. Now, we have noticed alot of junk.. and I mean junk... candy wrappers/garbage.. stacks of business cards (thought advertising was against the rules here!), half way disintegrated trading cards (it rains peeps!!), broken toys...etc. Now, we have decided that our best swag will go in the members-only caches because there seems to be a bit more care in them. We've left kinder-toys, Starbucks cards, compasses, hot wheels etc. and are about to have some coins made... we think it's alot more fun to find something cool.. especially if there's little ones caching with you, and isn't life about having fun?