+vortexecho Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment
+Munin Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment
+jcea Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Batteries and bug spray. Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 I found a Tide 'kick' detergent dispenser that still lives in our laundrey room after several years. Quote Link to comment
midge08 Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment
+R.O.B Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 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. . 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. Quote Link to comment
+srt4guy Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment
+Wadcutter Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 A Billy Bass plaque. The one with the fish that sings "Take Me To The River" and "Don't Worry, Be Happy". Quote Link to comment
+Rick618 Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment
MapheadMike Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment
+Belfrypotters Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 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 . Quote Link to comment
+sayter liften Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 i found a stolen and striped car right next to a cache outside of las vegas Quote Link to comment
cubeyJr. Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I found some bandades, but took a pin instead. Quote Link to comment
+NatureGuy360 Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 I found a large stick next to the geocache to protect myself against any poisonous snakes. Does that count? Quote Link to comment
+Colorado Cacher Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment
+emurock Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment
+vortexecho Posted October 5, 2006 Author Share Posted October 5, 2006 GrEAT stories keep em coming, just ''set'' my first cache this weekend check it out if your close. cw Quote Link to comment
+Tall Rice Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 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! Quote Link to comment
+the hermit crabs Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 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) Quote Link to comment
+Two Geeks and a GPS Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 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! Quote Link to comment
+Metaphor Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 A pack of facial tissues in a desolate cache in Wales... I didn't use them anywhere near my face though... Quote Link to comment
+Dgwphotos Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment
+hiikaash Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment
rebel bunny's Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment
+Mr. 0 Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment
+griffinox Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment
k_statealan Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment
+Sioneva Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment
+GeoSonar Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment
+Mule Ears Posted December 9, 2006 Share Posted December 9, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment
+krisandmel Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment
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