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We love quality swag!!! Our favorite things to find are those that are interesting and different! We love finding those things that make us say "wow!, what is that??? I have to have that!" Personally we love interesting figurines. My girlfriend and I have developed a sort of geoswag jungle around some of our plants with the little animals that we find. I love a little treasure I can drop in my pocket!!! It's really not the price, just the thought that the previous cacher put into the item he or she or they left.

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I found this little pill or snuff tin... I think it's sterling silver with mother-of-pearl inlaid petals. The engraving on the inside says __paca Mexico. I love it!!! I'm sure it was grandma's knick knack that someone got tired of dusting. I also have a little porcelain turtle from Japan, I believe, that's on my monitor at work.

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My favorite swag is pictures of Ben Franklin. Haven't found one yet. Found a few pictures of George Washington.

 

Jim

I found Ben once.

Wasn't IN the cache, in fact that particular cache has never been found and is archived though probably still there (so says the owner). It was a little faded and looked at first like just a piece of folded paper lying on the ground. It spent though! :(

 

I would say, that HAS been my favourite find. :)

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I love the rediculous and absurd stuff! I've only had 7 finds so far, but some of the stuff I've found has just cracked me up! I try to leave creative (read dumb) stuff myself, as well as useful things. Or a combination of both... the last cache I visited, I left a DVD of several Captain Nemo (remember the dumb cartoon on Captain Kangaroo?) episodes. I do have an American Flag pin on my jacket I got out of Bizzi's Box, though. :(

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Handcrafted geocache-related stuff made by geocachers.

 

I've found a bead bracelet where the bead letters spelled out geocaching, laminated geocaching 'official' permit tag, geocache bookmark with a geocache related saying on it e.g. "Using billion dollar hardware to find tupperware in the woods", a large personalized geocaching button magnet. I like them because they are one-of-a-kind and personal.

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Signature swag, like golf tees, pencils and stuff with people's names on it. Especially good if I know the name. Absolutely a treasure if it's something made of metal.

 

I agree! I love the signature swag and metal objects!!

 

While looking around for something cool as a custom signature swag item, I ran across this, PERFECT for geocachers! I added the personalization in Paint Shop Pro... A little too pricey for me right now, but very cool!

I think I'll start tucking a few dollars away every month, maybe by summer I'll order some!

 

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I like ANY sig item, but handmade stuff is top of the heap.

 

I especially like trading for foreign money since coin collecting is a kind of hobby for me anyway. I also like finding geocaching related items.

 

I like to trade for foreign coins so I can SMASH 'em into my own sig item.

 

This is a coin from Hong Kong that I got from a cache:

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#1: golf balls

#2 Spice Girls Stickers

#3: Something green and wet

 

You really like finding used, dinged, dirty golf balls? I always wondered who on earth would ever want them.

I usually trade something new, clean for them and throw them out.

 

I used to get excited over carabineers until I discovered I can just buy them in a store. I still like compasses and mini flash lights and maybe key chains with fuzzy animals or something. The very first swag I ever found (5 years ago) was a stuffed four-inch Grinch and he still hangs from my caching backpack.

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