Useful swag

[+hairball45]

My most used find is a key chain bottle opener. It will open regular capped bottles, twist off bottles and even has a slot to lift up stubborn pull tabs. Since it's attached to the car keys it's nearly always near by. Very handy indeed.

[+private bones]

I know they shouldn't be there but....

 

A genuine swiss army knife - I've been keeping it my car since I found it 3 years ago - been very helpful.

 

Yeah, I also know they shouldn't be there but I found a nice one in a cache last week and I'm not complaining

[+Snifferhound]

After I had found a few useful things in caches, I decided I would "upgrade" some of the swag I left. A couple of things I leave have been well received, like bug repellent wipes and small first aid kits. I found a wholesaler that will sell them to me in quantity very reasonably.

[+fairyhoney]

Good ol' hand wipes

[+fairyhoney]

We've had that "now all I need is..." happen to us several times. Our GPSr was in danger of being lost in the woods because it's black, and I said we should take the next bright-coloured lanyard we find in a cache, and in the very next cache there was a bright orange lanyard. This weekend I said we should trade for the next tape measure we find in a cache, and there it was in the next cache, right on cue. Last year we hiked to a cache at the top of a windy hill, and I had a bad earache from the cold wind. I was wishing I'd worn a hat, and when we opened the cache, there was a warm knitted hat. Destiny!

 

You've been indeed very fortunate

[+TheAlabamaRambler]

The Rosary found in her first cache that gave my wife Teresa her geocaching name - GeoRose

 

The silver cross I wear on a chain since finding it in my second cache.

 

The SD memory card reader I found in a cache in LA three years ago that I and my kids still use almost daily.

 

I have found quite a lot of useful things... maybe the corallary question is "What have you LEFT of useful value?"

 

Whenever I replace my GPS (six times) or PDA (four times) I leave the old one in a cache.

 

With the proliferation of micros lately I leave caching-related buttons or foreign coins, but when I find a real cache I try to leave something nice and useful.

[+figtreesky]

I just set a cache out that has books, pins, foriegn coins, a compass, and a belt in it. No one has found it yet

[+ssbn598]

I received a set of very small screwdrivers as a first to find prize in a geocache this fall that have been quite useful to use.

 

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