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Along the lines of this question, I've done the pocket query and have about 5 pages of results. My problems is that I can't figure out how to download them all at once. I can only get one page at a time to download and this puts them in seperate documents that I can't get to merge together. Does this make sense? Thanks for any help! Team RoKKK'M

My son has always collected key chains, so geocaching was a great thing for him. My daughter tended to trade little toys, but was often disapointed with what was in most caches. She decided to started collecting pins/buttons and put them on a vest. Expense is always an issue when trading as it can add up fast! We often try to leave some nice toys (that we think other kids will like) as well as some more "adult" items. Our WallyWorld has a rack that gets some really good clearance items. Recently we cleaned it out of "mesquito bottons" - something that is very usefull when caching, comic books and those cool metal book marks (with the little charms hanging on them) for only .10 each (the button where normaly $1, comic books +$3, and bookmarks $2) - my reciept was almst 2 feet long and the total was under $10. I've often go to the camping section for outdoor related items. I'm trying to come up with a signature item that is "Wyoming" related. I like the first aid kit idea. In scouts my son made one out of a pill bottle - it had a few bandaides, alcohol swabs, safety pins, needle/thread and they wrapped duct tape around the bottle. Can't tell you how many times we were glad this little bottle was in the glove compartment - might just have to make a whole bunch now that I think of it!

I cache with my kids as well as just with my husband or parents. I agree that there is a lot of trash in caches and if anything, we will leave more than what we take. With three kids, they often each want to trade something, so I've gotten them to choose a "theme" - my son collects key chains and my daughter collects buttons/pins - things that are plentiful in most caches - my four year old will take the trash and is happy with it! I do like finding nicer things when I'm out caching with my husband or parents though. The only problem I have with this is it gets expensive. My mom and I found 12 caches in one day while I was on a business trip recently and if we were trading items costing even $3-5, that would add up fast. Being from Wyoming, I have seen some caches along the interstate to trade book's/dvd's/cd' etc. - so there are some out there. I think having a cache with nicer things would start out good, but even if there are only adults trading, I think you'd end up with cheap items fairly quickly as most people (including adults) don't trade quality items to begin with and don't trade equally (they think of it as one-item-for-one-item not value-for-value). I also don't think that the guidelines were put in place to "protect kids" as much as to protect all of us from stupid people! I recently found a cache in a fairly well visited scenic view spot that was in a large glass jar and there was a live rifle bullet in it. Of course all I could think of was someone dropping the jar and a piece of glass firing off the bullet and killing someone (like me (both the dropping and dieing - since I can be a little clumsy!). Not always a lot of "common sense" out there! Or as I like to say, un-common sense because if it was so common, more people would have it! Not a terrible idea though - I guess the question is - are you caching for swag of for the "journey"? OK, didn't mean to sound to idealistic there - I like getting the "cool" swag too!!! The "R" of Team RoKKK'M