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    Anyone use this coin notebook?

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    Maybe I'm cheap, but I just got a binder at Wal-Mart. I tried the 9-pocket trading card size pages, too big. Coins fall out, even when in their own flip sleeves. I tried the 20-pocket. Too tight, lots of coins wouldn't fit, even without the individual flip sleeves. Got the 12-pocket pages from The Caching Place, and they're perfect. Leave the coins in the individual sleeves, and all coins fit in the pockets, and the flip sleeves keep them from sliding out! Both of the kids have these binders for their collections, and they love them (while my small collection of coins still sits in a shoebox :D )

    why do people lie about their numbers

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    For some it's a numbers game. For me? I prefer the long hikes in the woods, or challenging caches. Hubby and I were FTF on this cache recently (actually, still the only finders). It took four outings over 2 separate weekends to complete this multi puzzle cache. I think there were 10 stages in all, each with a puzzle, half with some rather difficult terrain. In the end, we got 1 smiley. It was the most darn fun smiley I've earned to date! Wouldn't trade it for 100 urban micro smileys!

    CreepyCrawlyCachers Mystery Geocoin

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    On your hand... thats nothing! Try one DOWN THE BED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     

    Our cats (one in particular) use to catch some of the smaller species of these and bring them into the house to show us... They wanted to show us what great hunters they were. We had a lot of weta living around the property. One night just after we settled down for the night my wife thought she felt something sharp over on her side of the bed (don't be rude!), but then couldn't find it again.

     

    Some hours later I was awoken from my sleep by something crawling OVER MY HAND - which was on the complete opposite side of the bed and on the out side edge!!!!!!! ARHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! I literally FLEW out of bed, sheets flung back and had the light turned on all in an fraction of a second!

     

    There was a weta, about half of the size of this one... sitting on the sheets. It had crossed the entire bed and managed to get over me too!! Talk about a CREEPY experience!!!!!! Man it freaked me out!!!

     

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    We figure that the cat had bought it in earlier in the evening and taken it down the bed.... AND LEFT IT THERE!!!

     

    Now if anything deserves a CCC geocoin - this does! :santa:

     

    I still shudder when I think about it... and it was at least 7 years ago!!! Brrrrrrr.

     

    Eeeeeeewwwww! That definitely deserves a CCC coin! :laughing:

    Trick or Treat Geocoin

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    I don't think folks are catching that this is for TWO geocoins, not one for the $12.97.

     

    Definitely not, I just read right past that part. Saw the price, and immediately turned away. Maybe that part needs to be in bold print or maybe red!

    4000 B.C. Bronze Age or geocoins ~ Past History COINTEST!

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    Okay, I will try this, doubt I will win, but here is to hoping!!

     

    1930's Wilkes Barre, PA, The Great Depression

     

    My great grandmother was born in 1900 in Wilkes Barre. She was married in 1917. The 1930's brought along the great depression and my great grandmother had 4 small children. My great grandfather lost his job, they owed a small sum of money on their house (I believe it was in the neighboorhood of $6) and had no way to pay that note, much less feed their children. My great grandmother was a woman who refused to back down. One evening, wondering how she would feed her children the next day she came upon an idea. Since winter was coming and the children needed gloves and clothes, she would take what she had around the house and make her own geocoins. The first week was tough trying to trade items for these coins, but soon the entire neighboorhood had caught on and started making different coins also. Within a month, everyone was making geocoins and trading each other for other geocoins and swag. I have one of my great grandmothers creations that I cherish to this day. (This is a true story, with the exception being that she knitted and crocheted gloves and scarves and sold them to a local store for money. Her neighbors caught on and other women got involved. They did not make enough, but at least they could feed their family somehow).

     

    Hope this is what you are looking for. If not, at least you got a story out of me. :D

     

    Wow, I love this story! My grandmother was also born in Wilkes Barre, PA in 1900. Small world!

     

    Hmmm. Small World. Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida in 1971. Maybe I should do something with that! :D

    My first cointest too.

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    thanks for he contest secretchief!!

     

    congrats to moozer

     

    now back to writing my college application essay, ugg

    Thanks and congrats! Ok, now I'm REALLY going to get back to work (unless someone else wants to do another cointest!) :mad:

    My first cointest - Great Autumn Day!

    in Trackables

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    I asked my son (4) what his guess would be as he thought the coin was neat. I explained that it should be in a particular range of numbers, but he insists that it is 2. (That isn't *my* guess, he said I *had* to post it!)

    That is soooo cute! Send me your snail mail address - I have a coin he will love!

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