crunchberry

Rckhnd - sounds like a really cool idea - specially if you could put a note in there explaining that somehow. The hamster and dogs - ROTF over here. Great ideas - LOLOLOL

Well I just picked up a coin that has been travelling for 2 yrs, plus two others that were released early this year - with no defacement or even notes attached! So it obvoiusly works for some. Of course I dropped one of them off, came home and realized I had never even logged it!! So now emailing the owner and letting him know its not in the cache that it states - jeez - my first coin move and I screw it up!!! Hopefully my next will be better.....

If anyone would be interested: My husband is flying to Paris around November 18 for a week. I could find out what hotels he is staying at. I would love to send over a travel bug that is on its way to Holland (a grandmother dropped them off in Arizona and would like them to return to Holland - this is the best I can come up with right now!) and a coin or two to get put in caches over there. I figure he could leave the items at hte front desk (he is not into geocaching) if I had a name. Let me know if anyone is interested or if this is feasible. I can find out more details and post them. Crunchberry

I put in reservation for 2 - also reminder for myself!

OMG - I want to do this game!! sounds like a blast. Would love two sets then - one for playing - one for me.... Thanks! Will you email invoices or how do you want to get paid? paypal? Crunch

I thought once you activated a coin and you owned it - that basically it becomes worthless to anyone other than you. you cant sell it on ebay as a trackable coin - the buyer would know it was taken. So why even take them? Prob for your own collection or to show off and hope nobody realizes your stealing them??

The Christmas holidays are my favorite - and I am dying to give these out as gifts - they look too cool. Plus maybe putting a set around the local area at xmas - that would be a blast to see... I would like 2 sets at least (gold)- would love 3 but I dont want to take a set away from anyone. Hate it when people order a bunch just to sell later. So if you can - 3 but def 2. Thanks! Crunchberry

I like the dog tags! Super cool!

This is a WONDERFUL thread! Just made two of them my revolving desktop image!

GOOD idea on the cutting down of them - like it! And cheap is nice too considering the amount of money we all spend on this hobby!

Phew - I am not that BAD yet.... Yet......

Blushing over here - thanks. My daughter is the artist in the family - and I am trying to get her to do some. Those I am sure will be awesome - IF I can get her to do them.... LOL.

Those are beautiful - guess I have to start caching in Idaho! Lucky Idahonians......

Thank to Eagle - I might be able to put my picture up. Great arrowheads btw! ok - here goes - our first batch of shoes.... And I put one in my first cache today - yipeee..... Sorry image is so big - haven't figured that part out yet - but I got the picture up - even though its not the greatest pic.... No laughing at my craftwork either - lol..... Lots of love went into them at least..

I needed this tonight! Thought I was going nuts and I just started! Already got signature items, been perusing the forums, bought the garmin csx, bought some coins on ebay - got some caches put together, put a swag box in my trunk.... And my family just sits there saying - make dinner mom, clean the house mom, go to work mom. We don't WANNA go geocaching!!! Does geocaching cause divorce??

I am also a newbie but love the ideas on this page. Specially love the frogs and bookmarks! Everyone has great items. My husband and his family are from Holland - so we have a lot of mini wooden shoes. so we have been painting them and decorating them and then coating them with outdoor polyurathane for durability. They all are individually numbered and we hope to have different ones for different holidays - halloween and christmas should be fairly easy ones. Well - i am having trouble figuring out how to load the picture to this. If anyone can help?? Crunchberry

It only violates the rules - but he can put one up - just that geocaching.com wont publish it. Also - since your obviously new at this - please don't use all upper case when typing in ANY forum - it is considered YELLING. Just FYI. Read the rules for caches - pretty straight forward. Welcome to the game! Its a ton of fun!

Throw me on the list - sounds like a blast!

Has anyone hid a cache on the Queen Mary in Los Angeles? That would answer our question!

interesting note on the St. Petersburg port that we stopped for two days - got an email from the guy that was geocaching since now I want to know how many he found. He told me he almost lost his gps unit in Russia - they wanted to confiscate it. He had it out at the Peterhoffs palace garden and he got stopped by the security people! Since he was on a tour in russia - the only time he could check if there were caches hidden around was outside - and when they saw him with his GPS - guess they had a FIT! He told me he tried explaining what it was - they didnt care. He had to give it to the tour guide and promise not to use it on Russian soil or they would take it from him! He had no problems at any other port though and got about 32 caches.

OOoh - good ideas! I love the playdoh ones - know exactly which ones your talking about too. I love the micro caches too - just finding them is joy enough I am sure. My daughter loved the small medallion she found in her first cache - didnt take it - just oohed and aahed over it for a bit. CB

OH - and finding a GPS up in Russia would of been fairly difficult - I vant to use yur russian sattelites to find your treasures!! ya ha ha ..... crunchberry being carted off to the Gulag......

LOL, that's awesome! Too bad you didn't find out about it before you got back -- you could have had some sweet international finds! I am so totally bummed about that! Wish my pride wasn't in the way and I could of just asked - what in the heck is geocaching? BUT I have seen in his blog that he didn't know how to handle the "muggles" on the ship that asked him what he was doing - guess I was a muggle....... ROTF - now.....

I don't think it has anything to do with keeping up with the Jonses. It is more that junk is exactly that - junk. Broken crap, rocks, garbage, something totally worthless - read it in a dictionary. small medallions, pins, something useful - I dont consider that junk. If you cant replace something with equal or better value - then dont take it. Simple as that. That was the first rule on the geocaching site - pretty straight forward I thought. Just my opinion Crunchberry

I am getting worried about the geocoins tho - spending 12 - 15$ per coin and plan on activating them. Do people just take them and not let them travel? Luckily all the coins I saw on ebay were unactivated ones - so figure they were for collecting or activating them and placing them in caches. BUT I have seen some posts in this forum about geocoins just taken?? Any thoughts? I dont mind spending 20$ on an entire cache full of toys - figure the kids will love em - but if I am goign to drop 15$ on a coin and then find out the next person just takes it and keeps it for themselves - that kind of bums me out...... What are your experiences with this? Do most coins travel? Crunchberry