Sissy-n-CR

quote:Excuse me, but I only speak English as a hobby. I would never have guessed it. You write better than a lot of Americans! (I'm American, BTW) Now, I'd probably be able to tell if you were speaking. But then again most Americans can tell apart differing regions of the US just by dialect--there are even many different "Southern Drawls." CR

You're at the mercy of the hunters. You have to live with it. I'm really new to the sport, as is my wife, but already we've noticed people picking nice items and leaving junk. One cache over the weekend had a toothbrush and a comb in it! After finding a live roach in the cache, who the heck would want that? At least the brush could be used to clean something outside your mouth, but the comb? Too many times we've come across junking caches. No wonder you see so many "TN-LN" Some here have given up on TBs, but that's the thing we will pick up faster than anything. If there isn't a note on it stating what the goal is, we'll take it to the house and look it up. We'll also see where it's been and put it somewhere else. We try not to keep it more than a week. Looking forward to starting my own TBs, most of which will have no particular goal, but hwy I'm gonna give it a try. CR

I was thinking about buying a TB and then cutting it down to fit in a microcache--a "micro bug" if you will. However, a tagless TB would be better as I think we all are on a tight budget. I can create a small metal tag that can be used. The problem, like another poster said, would be for most people creating a durable, official-looking tag. If running out of numbers are a concern, a 6 digit alpha-numeric (A-Z and 3,4,6,7,8,9 - the rest are deleted to reduce errors, i.e. 2 and Z look similar unless very clearly written out) yields a billion numbers, while 8 digits yields about a trillion. Also, I would be more inclined to buy a TB number at maybe a $1 a piece, especially if I get the number instantly. If the TBs were free it would be a huge problem as there would be the tons of TBs floating around. People could make all of their items TBs and we'd be deluged with them. But overall, I think a tagless TB, or DIY TBs are a good idea. CR