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While on a business trip I managed to bend the pins on my laptop's power connector. I was going to drive around and try to find a hardware store, but decided to take advantage of the remaining daylight and do the Little Park Cache first. Found a mini tool kit in the cache, and the tiny screwdriver was exactly what I needed to lever the pins back into position. :P

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We found a battery pack. It had expired a year before, so I remove it from the cache, but they feed my discman for an entire week :-p

 

In other cache we found a band-aid kit. Just in time, because my girlfriend had some ugly cuts while looking for that cache.

 

In another cache we found a foreigh tissue box. Just in time, because a team member had an "urgency" };-). Of course he did "his thing" far away from the cache :laughing:

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I found a cache that had some bandaids inside of it in one of those neat small dispensers that holds about five bandaids. I didn't need them, so I left them in the container.

 

Then, while trying to restack the rocks to make the cache hide less-obvious, one of the rocks slipped and scraped my shin. :laughing:

 

I had to unhide the container, open it, and use one of the bandaids. I left the other ones in the cache.

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At least something I left in one of my caches came in handy as you can read from this log for my The REAL Problem With Baseball cache.

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I'm not sure who left the facial tissue in the cache but it came in handy. I had the urge to go number 2 all day and finally got the chance. I didn't want to leave and come back so I just 'held it' for a good while.

After finding Quicksand cache I figured I could pass the creek somewhere sooner than having to walk all the way back.

Finally making it to this one I was soo happy to find the tissue that I left everything out in the open, strung everywhere and starting running, taking the tissue with me.

I don't think anyone will find 'other treasure'.

But if for some reason anyone needs to go number 2 out here make sure you only bury it no more than six inches deep as it will decompose quicker.

This was also my 1400th find.

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i was getting eaten alive by mosquitos and on my third attempt at a cache, i started the hunt and happend on a almost used up can of bug spray lying on the ground. i used all of it and the cache was about 2ft away. the spray was better than the smiley that day. this gave me an idea, i made a TB out of a can of bug spray called "get off of me" TB# TBPGPZ.

Tim

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I've left water bottles in some of my caches that have hikes involved and they seem to be greatly appreciated this time of year.

 

I traded for a pair of batteries in a plastic case. I "knew" I had spares with me and it turned out I didn't so that extra set came in real handy.

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I think a plurality of us have found bug spray in a cache when it was needed. I last happened to me a couple weeks ago.

 

On a road trip, I didn't notice that a clothespin had fallen out until I repacked and rehid the cache. Rather than reopen the cache, I took it. That night, I needed an object to seal a gap in the motel curtains and the clothespin came in handy.

 

On a hot day (or even a cold day), finding a Wheres George bill to convert into a beverage is almost as good as finding a beverage.

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A pack of kleenex when my nose wouldn't stop running. A bandaid just after cutting my finger on a rock. And my favorite find - a hat. It was a cold, windy spring day and I had a painful earache by the time I got to the top of the hill where the cache was. When I saw that old, worn, possibly dirty knitted hat I couldn't get it on fast enough. I wore it all weekend. I like it even more now that it's washed :unsure: .

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i brought a ping-pong table at a yard sale on a friday, for our kids rec room in the basement, came with everything but the pingpong balls, as we set out to cache on sat, i mentioned to hubby that we needed to stop on the way home and grab a pack of ping-pong balls, we did 5 caches that day and every one of them had a pingpong ball in it :)

 

our smallest bunny was complaining the sun was giving her a headache, low and behold 5 mins later when we opened a cache there were sunglasses.

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I suppose this one counts. I once grabbed a travelbug which had its own logbook with it. After closing up the cache, I began walking back to the car. I started the usual mental search for my keys...."Are they in my pocket, or my backpack..." and I started to realize that I didn't remember pulling them out of the ignition. When I get back to the car, sure enough, my doors are locked, the keys in the igniton, and my cell phone is sitting on the passenger seat. I couldn't really do much, so I resigned myself to sitting on the trunk and waiting for a park ranger to happen by. I started to read the logs in the TB logbook, where upon I was struck with the idea to remove the wire binding from the book, and use it to McGuyver my door open.

 

Oddly, when I got home, and was logging the TB I realized that prior to my finding it, it had been missing for nearly a year. Someone found it while cleaning out their garage and placed it in the cache about 2 months before I found it. Naturally I replaced the book and sent the TB back on its way later.

 

Travel Pup TB

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