+teamjack&birdie Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Let's get a positive thread going about the best stuff you have ever found in a cache, be it FTF prize or just something that you have always remembered or kept. Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 The best thing I ever took out of a cache was a tide 'kick' detergent dispenser. It's still doing its job. Quote Link to comment
+Yamahammer Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 A $5 bill in a FTF in AR; a $10 bill in a cache in Henderson, TX; a couple of dollar bills here and there in caches. I can be bought. There was a DU goose band in one cache. That was a nice change of pace. Quote Link to comment
+teamjack&birdie Posted June 23, 2005 Author Share Posted June 23, 2005 "There was a DU goose band in one cache." Sounds great! What is that? Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 ... and did you sell it? Quote Link to comment
+Yamahammer Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 "There was a DU goose band in one cache." Sounds great! What is that? DU - Ducks Unlimited. Goose Band - The feds often will band waterfowl for research. The band has a number on it, kinda like a TB number. When a bird is taken, the band number is called in by the hunter and information is recorded. DU has their own bands that they send with memberships and given away at banquets. I found one in a cache. Quote Link to comment
+Team Tired Boy Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Someone in my area leaves handmade wooden bowls and plates. They're very nice, and we were happy to find one and bring it home. Quote Link to comment
+Yamahammer Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 ... and did you sell it? sbell, nope. It is considered a prize in the waterfowl hunting community. Kinda like a TB but you keep these. It's on my keyring. It's my second DU goose band. ... I could do one of those Visa commercials on the amount of money it takes to hunt waterfowl, but the list would be awlful embarrassing when it was tallied. Quote Link to comment
+Big Dawgg & Cardinal Girl Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 "There was a DU goose band in one cache." Sounds great! What is that? DU - Ducks Unlimited. Goose Band - The feds often will band waterfowl for research. The band has a number on it, kinda like a TB number. When a bird is taken, the band number is called in by the hunter and information is recorded. DU has their own bands that they send with memberships and given away at banquets. I found one in a cache. We have a local cacher around this area, 74GPD that leaves 2 pheasant bands in the caches he visits. Its a different sig item. Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 sbell, nope. It is considered a prize in the waterfowl hunting community. Kinda like a TB but you keep these. It's on my keyring. It's my second DU goose band. ... I could do one of those Visa commercials on the amount of money it takes to hunt waterfowl, but the list would be awlful embarrassing when it was tallied. I was just kidding because of your $ comment above. Your post reminded me of all the money that I've spent on this seemingly 'free' hobby. Quote Link to comment
+Yamahammer Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Your post reminded me of all the money that I've spent on this seemingly 'free' hobby. Yeah, to date we've found $17. That doesn't touch the amount of money we've put into it!!! Gas alone: EMBARRASSING!!! Fast food, bug repellent, a new GPS'r for Yamamomma, = I don't want to think about it. But this is nothing to hunting. Guns, knives, clothes, waders, 4 wheelers, boats, decoys, gas, more fast food, less sleep, etc etc. ... Quote Link to comment
+Robespierre Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 a nice magnifying glass. and at my age...... Quote Link to comment
+Shifty Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 I leave a Fresh cup of Coffee, a Burger from McDonalds, or a Piping hot pizza.. All in coupon form of course. Coolest things found. 1. One of the limited edition Silver Geocoins from 2004. 2. A high blood pressure testing kit...Armband, pump ball and everything.....(at the top of a mountain) 3. A mini handheld fan. Quote Link to comment
+VegasCacheHounds Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 A YJTB, a toy Bobcat backhoe, a miniature china tea set (from our first day caching, my wife just had to have it ) patches from various groups, a p38 can opener, etc... Quote Link to comment
+fishingfools Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 WWII US army air corps patch. Left everything I had on me for a trade. Still have the patch. Quote Link to comment
ShadaNCo Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 trading isnt really a big concern for me, i just like to find them. I'd be willing to leave something(if i could find any that is Im in kind of a rut). I just like to leave my team name and the names of those with me. Its the thrill of finding the cache and comming to the end of the 'quest' that drives me. I like adventures, always have. Quote Link to comment
+halffast Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 the coolest thing i've found was a wooden nickel that wasnt one that I left in another cache.Ive collected wooden nickels since I was 12.I used some duplicates for trade items but found the one some one else had left.It was a great find for me. Quote Link to comment
+Natureboy44 Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 An 1886 Morgan silver dollar (value $35-45) Quote Link to comment
+Natureboy44 Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 I made a difficult series of caches (Cipher Caches Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie) with a "Where's Ulysses" as the FTF prize. The finder ended up treating me for dinner at a local pub after he found it. Quote Link to comment
+Blind Avocado Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 (edited) 2 Tickets to a play by the Los Angeles Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Seating was in the center orchestra (value approximately $80.00 per ticket), and the date just happened to be on my wife’s (the Tigger Lady) birthday! Edited June 24, 2005 by Blind Avocado Quote Link to comment
+EScout Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 A Mapsend Streets CD for Magellans. A bronze bottle opener with relief of horses and chariots on each side. Quote Link to comment
outrigger3 Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 someone on left a powerball ticket for the next drawing won 3 dollars as the powerball# was the winning #15 thankyou Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 I was second to find a tribute cache to an old cowboy who died. I traded about 9 bucks worth of stuff (emptied my swag bag) for a bolo tie that had a large conglomerate stone on it. I recognized Hematite & tiger's eye in the mix and assumed that it could be worth 8 to as high as 20 bucks. Welllll, It was worth a wholllllle lot more. A rock and gem dealer I know, in Bullhead City offered me $100 for it the second he laid eyes on it. When he saw that I wouldn't part with it, he told me it was worth quite a bit more to collectors, because it was a rare jasper that had only one source and that source had played out over 20 years back. Every time I pass that cache in Arizona, I put more swag in it. I put a $30 hunk of real citrine in there and someone said they picked up a pretty rock in a later log. I've put about 70 bucks worth of stuff (mostly semi-prescious stones) in there over the past couple of years. I'm planning to stop by on this year's trip too. Quote Link to comment
+Fergus Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 The coolest thing I have found as a FTF prize was a coupon for two round trip tickets on flyi.com . The coolest thing I have found that was not a FTF prize was a leatherman tool. The coolest thing I have left as a FTF prize was a chainmail candle holder I left in my Ye Olde Fishing Hole cache. Quote Link to comment
+Simulatmore Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 All I have to say about that candle holder is WOW The coolest thing I've ever found was one of your Chainmail Balls. I still have it sitting on my desk at work. Quote Link to comment
+AtlantaGal Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 The coolest thing I've ever found in a cache is Rickie B Cacheman's siggy item... it's a little handmade iron hiker figurine. I like it so much that it sits on a shelf in the livingroom rather than in a rubbermaid box with the rest of the siggy items I have collected. Also, a Garmin 76 GPS case. I took it as a trade a few months before I ended up buying a 76C. Use it all the time Quote Link to comment
+Fergus Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 All I have to say about that candle holder is WOW The coolest thing I've ever found was one of your Chainmail Balls. I still have it sitting on my desk at work. I though people would like to see a picture of the chainmail balls I leave in caches. Quote Link to comment
+jeff35080 Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 The best thing I have ever found at a cache is my girlfriend ;) Quote Link to comment
+tabulator32 Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 The best thing I have ever found at a cache is my girlfriend Now that's some amazing swag! (Or was she a TB!?) Quote Link to comment
+Big Dawgg & Cardinal Girl Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 The best thing I have ever found at a cache is my girlfriend Now that's some amazing swag! (Or was she a TB!?) Hope she wasn't in that container to long. Quote Link to comment
+jeff35080 Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 Now that's some amazing swag! (Or was she a TB!?) Nope she's not a TB, but she does travel with me Quote Link to comment
+nfa Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 The best thing I have ever found at a cache is my girlfriend Now that's some amazing swag! (Or was she a TB!?) Hope she wasn't in that container to long. Did you trade up/even/down? Quote Link to comment
+jeff35080 Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 (edited) Did you trade up/even/down? Yes Edited June 24, 2005 by jeff35080 Quote Link to comment
+teamjack&birdie Posted June 24, 2005 Author Share Posted June 24, 2005 Thanks everyone, these are great! The candleholder? WOW! The Girlfriend? WOW and please spill! More info please My favorite thing so far is a rubber lizard..... I also just picked up a TB that is a rubic cube puzzle with Princess Leia and Luke heads, I love this thing! But sadly I will have to part with her/him this weekend. Quote Link to comment
+Markwell Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 Morgan Dollar I don't think I'll ever part with it. It was a very special cache hunt for me. Quote Link to comment
Teammoosie Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 (edited) So far the best thing we have found was a good case of poison ivy.......lol But we keep trying. Edited June 24, 2005 by Teammoosie Quote Link to comment
+Coach Steve Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 My best--a brand new Orvis Flyrod with case worth about $250. Quote Link to comment
+geo50chevy Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 (edited) We found a small glass bottle with coordinates in it and nothing else. We entered them into our GPS and it led us to a small park in another town, miles away where we found a gray painted leggs egg with sterling limited edition coin sealed in protective plastic. It is great and quite a surprise, we have never found out who placed it. At another cache, when we opened it there was a brand new crisp $20. we looked around for someone hiding in the woods, but no one appeared. When we logged it we sent an email to the last finder and he said to have lunch on him and return the favor, it was a fun surpirse. Edited June 25, 2005 by geo50chevy Quote Link to comment
+Cache us Clay Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 We've left a few "Cheap Trick" guitar picks around. If you're familiar with the band, you know they throw dozens of picks out during a show. We've been able to get some from a friend who does sound/stage/lighting. I think they are very cool. Nice and small too. Quote Link to comment
+webscouter. Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 A climber in Indiana leaves Tibetian prayer flags that he has put up for him when he goes to climb mountians in Nepal, I found one and really treasure it. Quote Link to comment
+joefrog Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 Did you trade up/even/down? Yes Yeah... but did SHE? "Took skinny geek, left broken McToy!" Quote Link to comment
+fishfam Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 someone who doesn't get geocaching wouldn't get this but yesterday I found a wouldn't nickel which I believe is a signature item from snowman. The kids didn't understand that I was excited to get my first sig item. LOL Quote Link to comment
+arcticcatmatt Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 All I have to say about that candle holder is WOW The coolest thing I've ever found was one of your Chainmail Balls. I still have it sitting on my desk at work. I though people would like to see a picture of the chainmail balls I leave in caches. that would be awesome to find in one of the new york caches! Quote Link to comment
benji55545 Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 someone from michigan leaves miniture leather sandles made in some forgeign land in the caches he visits. i've seen them in a couple of local ohio caches, and i was almost tempted to take more than one. hah. ben Quote Link to comment
+magking1971 Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 I found a cuban cigar today. Best. find. ever. Quote Link to comment
+denali7 Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 books, i always love books!! (p.s. i wanna cache with coachsteve!!) Quote Link to comment
+Cait&aly&unc Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 My personal faves are signature items. The only dupes we have are devil duckies in various colors. We leave a wooden nickel. Happy to trade with out of area cachers. Drop a line. Best find was a rubber ladybug. Squeeze it and goo comes out of the eyes. Caity likes it. I want to do a book TB. We'll see. Quote Link to comment
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