Anything Found, Useful At That Time?

[+vortexecho]

anyone ever found anything useful at the time you found a cashe like batteries, flashlight,first aid kit

,bug spray,rain coat, or even another GPS unit i just thought it would be cool to hear those stories

[+Munin]

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.

[+jcea]

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

[+briansnat]

Batteries and bug spray.

[+Miragee]

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.

 

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

Edited July 13, 2006 by Miragee

[+sbell111]

I found a Tide 'kick' detergent dispenser that still lives in our laundrey room after several years.

[midge08]

we've found sunscreen, but i have a little bottle of it in my caching bag. we need to find some bug spray though. we have also found a carwash key, but we don't know what it's for.

[+R.O.B]

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.

[+srt4guy]

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

Edited July 25, 2006 by srt4guy

[+Wadcutter]

A Billy Bass plaque. The one with the fish that sings "Take Me To The River" and "Don't Worry, Be Happy".

[+Rick618]

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.

[MapheadMike]

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.

[+Belfrypotters]

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 .

[+sayter liften]

i found a stolen and striped car right next to a cache outside of las vegas

[cubeyJr.]

I found some bandades, but took a pin instead.

[+NatureGuy360]

I found a large stick next to the geocache to protect myself against any poisonous snakes. Does that count?

[+Colorado Cacher]

I found a Tide 'kick' detergent dispenser that still lives in our laundrey room after several years.

 

Yes, it is absolutely amazing what you can put into a container via fatwallet.com freebie forum.

[+emurock]

anyone ever found anything useful at the time you found a cashe like batteries, flashlight,first aid kit

,bug spray,rain coat, or even another GPS unit i just thought it would be cool to hear those stories

Batteries and some sunglass's.

[+vortexecho]

GrEAT stories keep em coming, just ''set'' my first cache this weekend check it out if your close. cw

[+Tall Rice]

3 stage cache had me WAY out there. Right as I open the cache my batteries in my GPSr die. Fortunately I found batteries in the cache that allowed me to find my way back to my car!

[+the hermit crabs]

anyone ever found anything useful at the time you found a cashe like batteries, flashlight,first aid kit

,bug spray,rain coat, or even another GPS unit i just thought it would be cool to hear those stories

 

Yep -- just yesterday! My log ( a bit on the wordy side)

[+Two Geeks and a GPS]

Had broken my side mirror on a tree driving to a cache. Among other things, it exposed a wire for the electronic movement of the mirror. Found a roll of electrical tape and a roll of duct tape in the cache. The electrical tape was an obvious grab, the duct tape was used to secure the mirror......for use!

[+Metaphor]

A pack of facial tissues in a desolate cache in Wales... I didn't use them anywhere near my face though...

[+Dgwphotos]

It wasn't used at the cache that I retived them from, but I got a small set of small screwdrivers that I used later to open a different cache.

[+hiikaash]

While coming back from a cache, I passed something, and I slammed on the brakes, and found ROAD TREASURE. It was a hammer in pretty good condition. I used it to make my new caches.

[rebel bunny's]

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.

[+Mr. 0]

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

[+griffinox]

Found some Shout! Wipes when I REALLY had to use the bathroom at the top of a small rocky 'mountain.' They worked, if not satisfactorally.

[k_statealan]

I placed a cache near a wetland in late spring/early summer. One of the swag items I was putting in was bug spray. When I kicked the bush that I put the cache in I scared up about 10000 skeeters and used some of the swag.

[+Sioneva]

Needle-nose pliers. Found at one cache site, outside the ammo can, and used at the next cache site, to try to pull the container out. It was a tank cache.

[+GeoSonar]

I had found a cache that had some hand warmers inside them. Didn't need them that day, but they really came in handy the next week.

[+Mule Ears]

Just today, had a busted window in my Jeep. Traded a geocaching patch for a plastic poncho from a cache. Cut the poncho to make a serviceable temporary window and secured it with duct tape.

[+krisandmel]

Not a find of mine, but I've left those chemical handwarmers in a cache or two.

 

Y'know, you rip open the bag or squish a little thing inside the packet and in moments the thing is toasty.

 

Up here in MN I figure they'd be well received this time of year!

~K