We are relatively new to Geochaching. When first gathering items to place in caches we were to look for, we chose things like: collectable coins, gemstones, things we would be happy finding. Our initial thought was that we would trade out said items in caches that contained interesting things we wanted to find. Of course most of the items we wanted to find were gone and had been replaced with "junk" items. I'm not talking about things like used CD's or movies, I don't consider those types of things "junk," I'm talking about trading something like a used hairband for a nice hat pin. I say if someone is intent on leaving a used hairband that's fine but at least put something else in there too (as long as it's not another used hairband ). Needless to say I have been disappointed by such acts of inconsideration, after all someone cared enough to put nice things in their cache, so why not return the favor when trading. I think if a person cannot trade something of equal or greater value in a cache, just simply log it and maybe come back some other time with something nice to trade. Even though we have been disappointed by some of the traded items we have found, we are still thrilled about the whole thing.
Don't expect great things and you won't be disappointed?
