+Ladycacher Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 (edited) My signature items are in the link in my Signature line below. Edited February 20, 2006 by Ladycacher Quote Link to comment
+onionpond Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 We had Ink Pens made up with our Names, Alias, and home town on them. At $0.64 each they were very economical. Quote Link to comment
[RR]Macavity Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Myself, I'm planning to leave CDs of Creative Commons material (such as RantMedia programs and the like), tagged with "[RR]Macavity woz 'ere". However, as I'm running low on blank discs, that's on hold right now. Quote Link to comment
+TetrAmigos Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Becuase our geocaching nickname is a play on the spanish phrase "Tres Amigos" (Three Friends), replacing tres with "trace" (as in we are "tracing" the route to a geocache). We chose the name for it's meaning and as a nod to California's rich Spanish heritage, so when we thought about signature items we tried looking for spanish-related swag. I stumbled upon a bag of literally thousands of the old mexican pesos and purchased them for a small fee. Boy was it heavy. It's total (now) value in USD is less than a single penny--the perfect signature token! Here's a picture of our signature item "old peso": (worth 1/1000 of a single US penny) Our logo used on cache pages and print media is: Quote Link to comment
Gopher0001 Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 I just started.... in fact without a GPS unit yet. Just seeing how lucky I can get with what is on the site. I have left little magnets that show who I am. You'll figure it out I'm sure **DD** Quote Link to comment
+4leafclover Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 I leave these: and oftentimes these: in addition to regular swag. Quote Link to comment
+ByrnedFish Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 I made these wooden nickles my self, they are not hard and fairly inexpensive. I bought the wooden discs at a local craft stor. Designed a rubber stamp for ehac side and had those made. Then you just stamp each side of the coin. Quote Link to comment
+clatmandu Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 I started leaving Tibetan Prayer Flags as my sig item in caches in the fall of 2001. Then I had a CD made of some of my photos from Nepal that show while a Sherpa folk tune plays. I also leave sig cards in the caches that are photos from Nepal that I print on transparency film, then laminate. There are ten different cards. Some cachers try to collect all 10 cards and 5 flag colors. You can see a lot of other sig items here in the MIGO Sig Item Database http://sigitemdb.mi-geocaching.org/ Quote Link to comment
+EBBJr Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Speaking of signature items... Someone said "who said signature items aren't tradeable" and here's my question: is it kosher to pick up a signature item (by trading for it), hang onto it for a while, then put it in another cache? It seems that a signature item is supposed to signify that a certain person visited a certain cache. So if their item gets put into a cache without their having visited, that doesn't seem quite right. Or am I misunderstanding signature items? Is the purpose only to trade your own signature item for one you think is neat, then keep it forever? thanks, Team EBBJr. Quote Link to comment
wiccasmom Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Hello I am new to geo-caching and have noticed some of the caches around me are just for sig cards or sig items. I made up a card that I think is cute but need to know if there is certain things that need to go on the card be sides the geo-caching web site??? Is there more that must be added like an e-mail or not. Please advise as I am a new member.March 21,2006 and do not know as yet what all the rules or requirements are. Thank you for any help that anyone can give. I made my first 3 finds today and am hooked. Quote Link to comment
+maggieszoo Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Hello I am new to geo-caching and have noticed some of the caches around me are just for sig cards or sig items. I made up a card that I think is cute but need to know if there is certain things that need to go on the card be sides the geo-caching web site??? Is there more that must be added like an e-mail or not. Please advise as I am a new member.March 21,2006 and do not know as yet what all the rules or requirements are. Thank you for any help that anyone can give. I made my first 3 finds today and am hooked. You can leave whatever you want as a sig item (well, anything family friendly). You can put as much or as little as you'd like on it. A few local cachers' sig items are a lizard, a quartz crystal point, a polished stone, a plastic fireman, a happy face ping pong ball, and our wooden nickel. Most of these don't even have the cacher's name on them, we just know that Mr Bloodhound leaves firemen, Crystal Sound leaves quartz, Harry Meister leaves stones, and ASB (also known as Salamander) leaves lizards. There is nothing wrong with leaving someone else's sig piece as a trade item. I have found my wooden nickels in caches I've not visited before and thought "Wow! That's kinda neat!" BTW, my wooden nickels are wooden blanks I bought on a wooden nickel website with a picture printed on heavy cardstock, cut out with a hole punch (1" round), glued onto the nickel blank, then sealed with polyurethane spray. I usually paint the blanks first with spray paint. Last year's were blue with a photo of our deceased Belgian mare, Sis. This year's will be green with photo of Sis' daughter Belgian Waffle for my husband, Wafflesdad, or blue with a picture of my Clydesdale mare Bonnie the Clyde for me. Quote Link to comment
Ghengis Jon Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 My signature item is an ancient Roman coin. Hopefully it thrills both young and old as a trade item. I package it with coin detail, a notation that its a sig item, and my geo-caching handle. I get to combine two obsess...er, hobbies in one! But I've yet to come across a non-business card sig item. Quote Link to comment
+lostndazed Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 (edited) I've just started to make my own sig item. I hope I'm not embarrassing myself.... Unfortunately I can't seem to master the art of posting them here. Edited March 24, 2006 by lostndazed Quote Link to comment
the butterfly effect Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 (edited) I make our signature item i brade copperwire and place colored glass beads in the brades and we call them geocaching good luck charms you can hang them off of you gps, lanyard or whatever you want they have a zipper pull clip on them so it is easy to attach to stuff!! Alot of times I put czech beads in them so there not just the same old beads there NICE ones!! alot of people pick them up. We also leave business cards that we hole punch and attach them too. Edited March 25, 2006 by the butterfly effect Quote Link to comment
wiccasmom Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 thank you maggie I see I am on the right track so hope to have them done to add to the next one will enjoy do different things with sig card tc have a good one wiccasmom Hello I am new to geo-caching and have noticed some of the caches around me are just for sig cards or sig items. I made up a card that I think is cute but need to know if there is certain things that need to go on the card be sides the geo-caching web site??? Is there more that must be added like an e-mail or not. Please advise as I am a new member.March 21,2006 and do not know as yet what all the rules or requirements are. Thank you for any help that anyone can give. I made my first 3 finds today and am hooked. You can leave whatever you want as a sig item (well, anything family friendly). You can put as much or as little as you'd like on it. A few local cachers' sig items are a lizard, a quartz crystal point, a polished stone, a plastic fireman, a happy face ping pong ball, and our wooden nickel. Most of these don't even have the cacher's name on them, we just know that Mr Bloodhound leaves firemen, Crystal Sound leaves quartz, Harry Meister leaves stones, and ASB (also known as Salamander) leaves lizards. There is nothing wrong with leaving someone else's sig piece as a trade item. I have found my wooden nickels in caches I've not visited before and thought "Wow! That's kinda neat!" BTW, my wooden nickels are wooden blanks I bought on a wooden nickel website with a picture printed on heavy cardstock, cut out with a hole punch (1" round), glued onto the nickel blank, then sealed with polyurethane spray. I usually paint the blanks first with spray paint. Last year's were blue with a photo of our deceased Belgian mare, Sis. This year's will be green with photo of Sis' daughter Belgian Waffle for my husband, Wafflesdad, or blue with a picture of my Clydesdale mare Bonnie the Clyde for me. Quote Link to comment
+qattales Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 i paint my wooden nickels. all my nickels have my little avatar on them a large Q made into a cat. and i put the year on them i left them out. Quote Link to comment
+denete Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 I leave packs of reusable foam earplugs. Yeah, I'm not really flashy or creative, but your hearing is far too valuable of a thing to lose. - David Quote Link to comment
+Kacky Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 (edited) I make mine, but the most popular sig item around here is a small rubber chicken that's not handmade. It's popular because everyone likes the guy who leaves them, and because it fits his personality. Edited June 18, 2006 by Kacky Quote Link to comment
BeeGoddess Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 My sig item is a Geocaching bindrune. Basically it's a good luck charm created with runes. I used Ansuz, the signal rune; Raido, the journey rune; and Wunjo, the joy rune. These are for good satellite reception, a pleasant trip, and a happy ending. It's made from sculpey and hemp chord. I'm also working on some wooden nickels. One side has my new Monkey logo. I'm not sure what's going on the reverse yet. Maybe, "Good for one beer from MonkeyToes" or something. Hello ... That rune is very cool! I love runes and I thought a handmade rune would be a good item but I never would've thought to combine them! & the cord is a nice touch ... would make a kewl keychain!! Quote Link to comment
+Ducks4friends Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 This was a great thread! I started reading with some skepticism and ended by seeing real value in all the sig items...Understanding them and what people put into thinking them up makes them seem pretty cool and worth collecting. Thanks for educating me and helping me appreciate this new cultural art form ..it will make my finds even more fun as i begin to look for sig items Quote Link to comment
+Dread_Pirate_Bruce Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 I'm new to this, so I didn't realize there was such a thing as a sig item. Without realizing it, I've been leaving them anyway. My wife makes handmade artistic buttons from bottlecaps. I've been leaving these about if the cache is more than a micro. Quote Link to comment
+JanniCash Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 Not exactly a signature item. We don't maintain or have set up any caches, so in order to contribute something to the game we decided to seldom or never take anything, but leave cachergloves. Jan Quote Link to comment
+team_red Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Those gloves are nice. What a nice idea. Quote Link to comment
+Team JSAM Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 we leave our geonickels in the good caches: And all the rest get a snake, frog and lizard which have our name on the bottom: Quote Link to comment
+Twister15 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 OK... I'm new here too, like several people that I see have posted here. But I have a question. Is is ok to leave an actual business card? Company name, realname, phonenumber, email kind of card with my screenname on the back? I have only searched for one cache, and found it. It was a microcache, so there was no room to leave anything there and of course, nothing to take. Most of the caches that I would be doing would be local, and I wouldn't mind hearing from another cacher via email, or phone. But I'm afraid to do so. I wouldn't want to offend. I love how creative some of you are with your sig items. Unfortunately, I don't have the funds to buy any coins right now, and I'm not exactly the crafty type. Quote Link to comment
WIGeoPirates Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 This is what we put in the caches we find... http://webpages.charter.net/ssmith6178/WIGeoPirates.jpg Regards, WIGeoPirates Quote Link to comment
+Team Maccabee Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 OK... I'm new here too, like several people that I see have posted here. But I have a question. Is is ok to leave an actual business card? Company name, realname, phonenumber, email kind of card with my screenname on the back? I have only searched for one cache, and found it. It was a microcache, so there was no room to leave anything there and of course, nothing to take. Most of the caches that I would be doing would be local, and I wouldn't mind hearing from another cacher via email, or phone. But I'm afraid to do so. I wouldn't want to offend. I love how creative some of you are with your sig items. Unfortunately, I don't have the funds to buy any coins right now, and I'm not exactly the crafty type. Welcome to the game/sport/obsession, Twister15! Sig items can be almost anything. The geo-nickels that Team JSAM uses cost very little money to make. I know people that buy little figures or the devil ducks and put them in caches. I know someone who cuts out paper chickens and then laminates them. Anything will work, as long as people can assiciate it with you. Put something in a cache with a sticker on it that includes your caching name, and you've got a sig item! I would advise against a business card, though, with real names and information. First, you never know who will find the cache, accidentally or intentionally, or what their state of mind is. Second, it can seem to the finder to be commercial solicitation, which is very much frowned upon. Instead of a real business card, buy business card paper from a stationary store (or Office Depot/Staples/etc.) and use your home printer (color or B&W) to make your own geocaching cards. See above for various ideas, but including your name and avatar, and a "This cache found by Twister15!" or "Twister15 really liked this cache!" would work fine! You can even buy a pocket laminator at for under $20, and make it last longer. There are a lot of inexpensive options out there. Fiddle with some ideas and you too will soon have your sig item! Also, other cachers can always email you through the gc.com site in an internet-privacy-safe way. Hope this is helpful... Team Maccabee Quote Link to comment
+Twister15 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 OK, sounds good to me. I think I actually have some of that paper laying around here somewhere.. : I'll make up some cards and see what I can do as far as items go! Thanks so much for the advice. Quote Link to comment
+DconBlueZ Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I've been leaving decks of miniature playing cards. No special significance, I just like 'em and hope others do too. Quote Link to comment
+Lee-2 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 We leave our poker chip and our Eagle head. The backs are number and signed. I’m working on a new Eagle design. I’ll add it real soon. Quote Link to comment
1francie Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I've seen a few cool signature items in caches. I was just wondering what kinds of signature items everyone has? Does your sig item correspond with your user name? Or does it have some other meaning? I leave a wooden nickel from the RMS convention and a book of my personalized matches. My #1 hobby is matchbook collecting. http://home.sc.rr.com/scmatches/HTML/Index.htm I also leave a flashlight on a key chain. Quote Link to comment
Rynamite Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I'm just getting into Geocaching. I've only found 2 caches so far but I'm hooked. I'm going to be placing my own cache in the next few days pretty close to home. I just ordered some customized golf tees with "Rynamite" on them as a signature item. I love to golf so it suits me well. A lot of you guys have some great ideas. Quote Link to comment
+Twister15 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 (edited) The matches are a nice idea, and hubby loves the poker chips, He goes by Gambler everywhere.. but he's not on here... yet.. Been thinking about maybe a geocoin.. but I made up some geocards for now. Front: Back: Edited June 20, 2006 by Twister15 Quote Link to comment
+susis Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 I always leave a travel sized or regular sized toothbrush. Everyone needs one, especially if you're out camping. Don't know if anyone ever takes them, but I leave them. Quote Link to comment
+Team JSAM Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 The matches are a nice idea, and hubby loves the poker chips, He goes by Gambler everywhere.. but he's not on here... yet.. Been thinking about maybe a geocoin.. but I made up some geocards for now. Front: Back: Those are great I would go with laminating them almost all the cards I find in caches look like trash and mess up the cache. Quote Link to comment
+Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 (edited) We make our own sig items. Painted a variety of colors, and stamped all sorts of different ways. Here is front and back of one of them (sorry, this is a grey one). We are starting a new series of sig items, to be announced later on. In addition, this winter, we will put out some tiny crocheted snowflakes, hand crocheted and delicate. I know those are not for everyone, but hopefully some cachers will like them. Edited June 21, 2006 by Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking Quote Link to comment
+5winters Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 We just started leaving a sig card as a easy get started with item. Id like to upgrade to a wooden nickel eventually. Quote Link to comment
+Twister15 Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Thanks, prolly a good idea to laminate them... but how? Laminating machines are expensive... arent they? Quote Link to comment
Twister65 Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 The matches are a nice idea, and hubby loves the poker chips, He goes by Gambler everywhere.. but he's not on here... yet.. Been thinking about maybe a geocoin.. but I made up some geocards for now. Front: Back: Nice card. Nice avatar. Nice name. Twister65 (aka Scott) Quote Link to comment
+Drgnsrealm Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 The matches are a nice idea, and hubby loves the poker chips, He goes by Gambler everywhere.. but he's not on here... yet.. Been thinking about maybe a geocoin.. but I made up some geocards for now. Front: Back: Great card, but the only thing I see missing is a cow. You can buy lamanated sheets and do it yourself. Almost any Wal-mart, Staples, etc carries them, in business card sizes too. Yeah, the twister needs a cow to make it pefect in my book. *Been watching to many "Twister" movies.* I still think Wizard of Oz needed a cow in its twister scene. The witch should have been hit by a bovine, not a house. Quote Link to comment
+TheCacheFather Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 (edited) Thanks, prolly a good idea to laminate them... but how? Laminating machines are expensive... arent they? I believe at the local Wally Mart they're about $26.00 plus the cost of the laminating sheets (I want to say a buck something for 50). For the self laminating sheets they're about 4.75 for a 10 pack. Depending on how many you would use and make it might be worth getting the laminating machine. I'll show off my signature card when I get home and have access to it Edited June 21, 2006 by HunterGC Quote Link to comment
+Twister15 Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 The matches are a nice idea, and hubby loves the poker chips, He goes by Gambler everywhere.. but he's not on here... yet.. Been thinking about maybe a geocoin.. but I made up some geocards for now. Front: Back: Nice card. Nice avatar. Nice name. Twister65 (aka Scott) Hehehe... Thanks... I like your avatar too.. and of course the name... talk about ironic... hubby's name.. is Scott.. Quote Link to comment
+Twister15 Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Great card, but the only thing I see missing is a cow. You can buy lamanated sheets and do it yourself. Almost any Wal-mart, Staples, etc carries them, in business card sizes too. Yeah, the twister needs a cow to make it pefect in my book. *Been watching to many "Twister" movies.* I still think Wizard of Oz needed a cow in its twister scene. The witch should have been hit by a bovine, not a house. lol.. I'll see what I can do about adding a cow. I do have to agree about the wizard of oz films though... definately be funnier.. Quote Link to comment
+Twister15 Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 I believe at the local Wally Mart they're about $26.00 plus the cost of the laminating sheets (I want to say a buck something for 50). For the self laminating sheets they're about 4.75 for a 10 pack. Depending on how many you would use and make it might be worth getting the laminating machine. I'll show off my signature card when I get home and have access to it Ok.. this is the last post for a few minutes in this board... three in a row is pushing it.. But I do have a question.. I like the idea of laminating them... and using the self lamination sheets are economical... BUT... if they are laminated they won't fit into a micro.. will they? Quote Link to comment
57chevy Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 I leave some of my personal wooden nickels or home made tokens. Sometimes I'll even make my tokens into necklaces. (They're rare!) Quote Link to comment
+Corp Of Discovery Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 This is what I trade with or leave in certain caches: @.75 times normal size. I leave these in all caches (1 for a micro, 2 for a small, etc.): @4 times normal size. Quote Link to comment
+TheCacheFather Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 But I do have a question.. I like the idea of laminating them... and using the self lamination sheets are economical... BUT... if they are laminated they won't fit into a micro.. will they? To answer your question, I'm not entirely sure, I haven't found a Micro as of yet Here's what I'll be leaving in the Cache's I find... if they fit that is. If by some chance they don't fit, I'll probably make up some handcrafted poker chips. Quote Link to comment
+VO2WW Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 I leave all sorts of coins, regular coins, silver coins, foreign coins, trade dollars, commerative dollars, silver bars, medallions etc as long as I can stamp them with my Ham Radio Call Sign which I use as my name on here. I use a 3/16 inch high stamp, five taps of a small hammer and I have a sig item. Of course the real coins can be spent but the other ones are just sig items. Quote Link to comment
+norsehawk Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 I don't as of yet have a sig item, but once I visit japan later this year, I may start leaving 1 yen coins (value around a penny) in caches in america, of course, I might have to try and find a bunch of state quarters and use those when I'm over there. Quote Link to comment
+Twister15 Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 This is what I trade with or leave in certain caches: @.75 times normal size. I leave these in all caches (1 for a micro, 2 for a small, etc.): @4 times normal size. I love the micro cache.. in a cache... COOOOOOOOOOOL idea!! Quote Link to comment
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