Monkey Toes Brings Cito To Letterboxing

[+Monkey Toes]

I've always thought that CITO was a great concept and wanted to bring it into my other hobby, Letterboxing. It would have been easy to just through in a CITO canister and call it a day, but I wanted something with a little more impact. This is what I came up with...

 

For those of you not familiar with letterboxing, they have what is called a hitchhiker. It's like a smaller traveling letterbox, going from standard letterbox to standard letterbox (like a non-trackable tracking bug). There are no clues to it's location, you just find one as a bonus from time to time. It contains a very small stamp and logbook. It also counts as a find (F-count). Using the trashbag-in-a-filmcanister idea I made a trash collecting hitchhiker. It's basically two film containers attached end to end with a trashbag in one end and the hitchhiker in the other. Find the Hitchhiker, take it with you using the bag to collect refuse, add a new bag, and place in the next letterbox you find.

 

So not only are you cleaning up the environment, you're getting credit for a find! See pictures below.

 

Edited February 12, 2006 by Monkey Toes

[+Eartha]

Very clever, I like it!!! A Letterbox/CITO hybrid!

[+MissJenn]

It's basically two film containers attached end to end with a trashbag in one end and the hitchhiker in the other.

So you just connected the 2 with see-thru tape? Or something fancier?

 

Cool idea.

[+Monkey Toes]

I used GOOP brand silicone glues to put them together, and then used the packing tape on the outside. I don't think they'd come apart too easily.