Great Cache Swops Of Our Time!

[+Simply Paul]

Read in a log today:

 

Took Compact Flash Card

Left peg

 

And not a hint of shame! Have you seen anyone own up to a worse swop?

 

SP

[lakeuk]

What size was the Compact Flash Card?

[The Royles]

Left peg

 

Did you not know that Peg is his wife

[+Birdman-of-liskatraz]

Wife swapping caches - Cool.....

[+Bill D (wwh)]

The Royles wrote:

Did you not know that Peg is his wife

 

If she's his wife, then maybe it was trading up. Then again, I haven't met his wife...

 

Some trade reports can be misleading, though. I was FTF on one of the first caches I did, and I took a rather nice and probably fairly pricey multitool and left a mercury maze. I thought later that my log may have read as if I'd left one of those little round plastic out-of-a-Christmas-cracker things in place of a multitool. I didn't. It was about six inches by six, well made, in its original box, and probably more pricey than the multitool.

[+Moote]

Dont know if this would count as a bad trade but been thinking of this one since my 4WD broke

 

Took car left AmmoBox

 

Milton (aka Moote)

 

P.S. Just in case you can't work it out the cache is a VW Polo

Edited October 16, 2005 by Moote

[+The Golem]

I liked this one...good on ya!!

 

look at the log entry under mine...

 

yay - go Cathrene...!!

Edited October 16, 2005 by The Golem

[+Learned Gerbil]

I thought PEG was Sony's way of spelling PDA.

[+Chris n Maria]

We often fill our large ammo box caches with paper back books (brand new, read once).

 

We were chuffed to see Took book, Left pebble in the log book. Fare warms the cockles of my heart it does.

[+Simply Paul]

yay - go Cathrene...!!

Sorry Golem, no prize. "Left nothing, took Simply Red CD" sounds like a fair swap to me.

 

Actually, if I saw a log like that on one of my own caches, especially from an inexperienced cacher, I'd be sure to drop them a polite email to ask them not to do it again. The more experienced the cacher, the less polite the email would be

 

SP

[+third-degree-witch]

Surely ANYONE taking a Simply Red cd of any description should be commended ? or is that commited ?????

[+mongoose39uk]

Surely ANYONE taking a Simply Red cd of any description should be commended ? or is that commited ?????

Clearly they would need treatment

[+third-degree-witch]

HAHAHAHA

[+mongoose39uk]

Mongoose grabs coat and exits quickly (white coat)

[+Bekandian]

Surely taking a Simply Red CD out of a cache should be encouraged and would count as CITO

[markandlynn]

We have occasionally left a toolkit keyring, its a really nice swap item a lot of people seem to like. However the logs go "took keyring left toy dinosaur". Or as we saw on a cache we left a brand new watch in took watch left nothing that did annoy us they even wrot it in the online log.

The non logging finders are just as bad.

[+The Hokesters]

I saw this one on a mate's cache the other week;

 

Took hand warmer and floppy discs

Left scoobie and sunflower badge

 

So a bit of tatty lastic string and a cute 'badge' are of the same value as a hand warmer and some CD's? (They were Blank CD-Rs not floppy's).

[Da Rubber Chicken]

Saw this one a second ago by the JGG

T : swedish chef (to make the cache easier to shut)

L : marble

No wonder the box didn't shut

It wasn't a Dan & Pid cache

Da Rubber Chicken

[+Moote]

Dear All

 

I read with disgrace the way you have offended Simply Red fans; just because these unfortunate people were not blessed with the ability to hear does not mean we should take the P*** out of them. After all they have to live with this unfortunate affliction and that is bad enough.

 

Milton

[+Woody's Wanderers]

I Like Simply Red...especially when they haven't had any songs out for a loooong while!

[Browser]

No names - No pack drill...... but :

 

"Took Ball game, left nothing (sorry)."

 

seems a tad stingy to me.

 

Browser

[+The Hokesters]

I had one -

 

Brought the kids with me but no swaps. Sorry but each of the kids wanted to take something so we took: Ball, Marbles, Ballons, Crayons and whistle.

 

I wouldn't even own up to that one!

[+Skippy and Pingu]

We had one once, went along the lines of:

 

Grandson was pestering so took Football man, Bouncy Ball, Puzzle and glitter pens.

Since Grandson had nothing on him, left nothing

 

How bad is that??!!! He shouldn't have been allowed to take anything if there were no swaps to put back in!

[+dino-irl]

Saw a similar one recently

 

out: the emergency wistle

in: nothing, sorry

 

It's obvious the cacher knew they were doing the wrong thing and I can't see what attraction the whistle held. I'm sure most people carry cash on them. It's a bit of a lame swap (unless they're either substantial or unusual) but better than a sorry!

 

Feel sorry for folks with demanding kids but why go out caching unprepared for swaps. That's not fair either on the kids or the cache owner.

[+The Hokesters]

...or the next visitor

[+The Blorenges]

Grandson was pestering so took Football man, Bouncy Ball, Puzzle and glitter pens.

Since Grandson had nothing on him, ...

 

...they should have completed the swap, thus

 

".....left him "

 

(Cruel, aren't I ) Mrs B

[markandlynn]

To me everyone either has money or batteries in thier pocket i had to leave some 2300 nimh batteries once because i forgot my swaps and the kids found something really nice in a cache.

Now own up how many adults have taken the water pistols we keep leaving in caches

Fair trading is one of the ways we educate our kids, we also have a taking turns to go first system at caches.

Themed caches are a major bind especially for the younger two children who really dont understand this concept especially Aaron who suffers from semantic pragmatic learning difficulties.

[+Stuey]

From a spanish cache log...

 

In: 10 pence

Out: 1 Euro

 

Cheeky!

[+The Hancock Clan]

This is from a log of a cache that we find hard to forget!

 

Took Rubber & Toy Whale.

Left Toy Lorry, Pink Brush, Broken Glass, Bits of Number Plate, Flakes of Paint, Fragments of Bumper and a large dent in the boot!

 

Reversing into trees is not something we'd like to make a habit of, it was very expensive!

[+The Blorenges]

I know where there's a cache with a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost as a swop

Mrs B

[+kbootb]

One of my caches had a Rolexe watch.... and the spelling was correct.

 

I pulled it out and was going to turn it into a travel bug but I just haven't got round to it yet. I wonder how long it would live in the wild, seeing as even cheap stuff I have got out of Christmas crackers and turned into TBs have gone missing.

[+adambro]

The log for the cache I rescued a few weeks ago could have read:

 

Took Soaking Wet Logbook and disgusting container.

Left New Logbook and new container.

[SlytherinAlex]

Took car left AmmoBox

I'd rather have the ammo box.

[Shep, Seren & Tess Dog]

If we find something we really like in a cache, but dont have anything suitable to swop, we will always leave 50p or a £1 instead...you can guarantee that the money will be the next thing to be taken by the next finders!

Back last year, we found Stonefisk's cache by the first Severn Bridge. He'd taken a lot of time & effort into placing some really good things in the cache. We took the cordless mouse (which we still use!) but all we had to leave was a fish pendant on a string. We wrote in the log that we would return (we only live a few miles away) & leave something elce to make up for it, but only a few days after, the cache went missing...I still feel bad about that

S.xx

[+The Hokesters]

If we find something we really like in a cache, but dont have anything suitable to swop, we will always leave 50p or a £1 instead...you can guarantee that the money will be the next thing to be taken by the next finders!

Back last year, we found Stonefisk's cache by the first Severn Bridge. He'd taken a lot of time & effort into placing some really good things in the cache. We took the cordless mouse (which we still use!) but all we had to leave was a fish pendant on a string. We wrote in the log that we would return (we only live a few miles away) & leave something elce to make up for it, but only a few days after, the cache went missing...I still feel bad about that

S.xx

If you feel particularly guilty why not create a cache in honour of the one that went missing?

[+Bill D (wwh)]

Shep, Seren & Tess Dog wrote:

We took the cordless mouse (which we still use!) but all we had to leave was a fish pendant on a string. We wrote in the log that we would return (we only live a few miles away) & leave something elce to make up for it, but only a few days after, the cache went missing...I still feel bad about that

Don't feel bad about it, feel good. If someone stole the cache then they gained less than they might have done.