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The company on the package is amscan. I purchased them from our local Party City store- don't know if you have them in your area or not. Here's a link to kits similar to the ones I purchased. I also got kits to make friendship bracelets and bead pet keychains. Cute stuff! http://www.partycity.com/product/neon+doodle+lanyard+kits+12ct.do?from=Search&navSet=lanyard

We are noobs- only found 10 so far, and have already had a few DNF's. Already, we hate the feeling of a DNF, so I feel like we look for a pretty long time, but it has really depended on several factors. We are not fans of microcaches, but have tried to find a couple. It seems like we've spent more time on those because we know they are generally going to be tougher. Our first DNF was an urban microcache behind a pizza place. We spent waaaay longer on this one than we should have considering it was a microcache in a location without much relevance. However, we had others with us and it just became one of those times when we were determined to find it for the principle of the thing! It had been found the day before, yet there were five adults, all with their GPS honed in ground zero and we couldn't find it. We looked an hour. Other times, we've spent less time before logging a DNF. Again, usually because the place just wasn't that interesting or relevant and we had other caches on our list we wanted to try to get to. We've logged a DNF after only 15 or 20 minutes of looking if we really felt like it wasn't there or the clue was not that great or whatever. We usually try to be pretty clear in our log if we do leave a DNF, so that the CO doesn't worry that it's missing (unless we are pretty sure that it really is missing)!

CO just responded and changed the coordinates. He didn't sound too happy about it, but they've been changed. He mentioned he could only move them .1 mile, but it put the coordinates across the street from my friend's private drive instead of near her home, so hopefully this will help! Thanks all for your thoughts and advice on this.

Hadn't though about contacting a reviewer. I'll wait another week or so and if I don't hear anything back, I'll try that! Thanks! Just out of curiosity though- why don't mystery coordinates have to follow the same rules as a normal cache? I'm assuming the final location does, why not the starting location?

I know it's not the CO's fault- they just 'grabbed' the coordinates. But it pretty much stinks that the landowner has to put up with ding-dongs who don't read the cache description. Methinks it would make more sense for a CO to avoid just 'grabbing' coordinates, and instead choose coordinates that follow the same rules as a normal cache. Hopefully the CO will respond soon and change the location of the bogus coordinates and this will be a non-issue for my dear fiend! I would just hope that future mystery cache owners might take more care in choosing their beginning coordinates so as not to give geocachers a bad name. It certainly has left a bad taste in this landowner's mouth.

Hadn't though about contacting a reviewer. I'll wait another week or so and if I don't hear anything back, I'll try that! Thanks!

I did contact CO- first via email through this site about a month ago, then I contacted CO by leaving a note on the cache's log about a week ago. Haven't heard anything.

Noob here- Wondering what best practice is when a mystery cache with bogus coords is created. A family friend of ours discovered that the beginning coords to a mystery cache happen to be located nearly at her front door, which is at the end of a private drive on private property. The CO does state at the top of the cache description the following: "There is no cache at the coordinates above. Those are totally bogus, fake, make believe, untrue! Read below on how to find the correct coordinates." The description then goes on the give directions for finding the REAL cache. Problem is, a few people have apparently not read the cache description and have shown up on this private property looking for a cache. The landowner is a family friend and knew that we geocache so I told her I'd look into it. I don't like the idea of random people wandering around on her property as she is a widow who lives alone. So, what is best practice or good etiquette here? Can someone use bogus coords that are on private property without the landowners permission? It seems to me that maybe the CO should use coords that are on their own front porch instead of someone else's! lol!

LOVE the idea of leaving lures- hadn't thought of that!

We are new cachers as well. We cache as a family with a 6-year-old, so we tend to leave items for kids, since that is what we are usually hoping to find for dd's sake. The few caches we've found so far have been full of junk, but luckily, our little one still enjoys the hunt and seems to enjoy leaving nicer things to make the cache enjoyable for the next person. Last week we went to party city and went down the favor aisle and purchased some fun items to fill caches with the next time we are out. It was inexpensive and dd is excited about 'sprucing up' some caches. They are just little party favors like keychains, tattoos, mini kaleidoscopes, etc. I was going to post a pic of some of the items we purchased but it won't let me, I guess because I'm not a premium member- again: geared toward the kiddos. I also purchased some OFF wipes to put in caches, as we have been caught out caching without bug spray and figure fellow cachers might appreciate them. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151758770350941&set=o.170580729762177&type=1&theater