mehxxmay Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 (edited) I have a couple of ideas but im not sure if they're that GREAT. !. Put a heart container on the back of a stop sign and name it "stop in the name of love" 2.Put a container on my trashcan lid-tell people to only come on trashday,or is that to informing of where i live?-of course i would put the trash day 3.Put one behind a bush in a hole>leave a shovel 4.Make a cache with dog treats in it and have people bring their dogs to find it,or could that get a bit pricey? 5.A time capsule,ask people to bring something,put it in the large cache,about a month later or a lot of people have found it bury it and call it the geocachers timecapsule. 6.What about putting one in walmart or something-like on a tredmil and call it a quick run to walmart,with their permission of course. 7.Buy a duck decoy put n a log book,tie a string onto it and put the string on the outskirts of a pond. Thanks Edited January 21, 2008 by mehxxmay Quote Link to comment
Mushtang Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I have a couple of ideas but im not sure if they're that GREAT. !. Put a heart container on the back of a stop sign and name it "stop in the name of love" 2.Put a container on my trashcan lid-tell people to only come on trashday,or is that to informing of where i live? 3.Put one behind a bush in a hole>leave a shovel 4.Make a cache with dog treats in it and have people bring their dogs to find it,or could that get a bit pricey? Thanks Since you asked.... 1. Not a good idea. 2. Not a good idea. 3. A very BAD idea. 4. Not a good idea. Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Please read the Guidelines, thoroughly. Then, read them again. Then, think of where you would like to find a cache. Quote Link to comment
+JohnnyVegas Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 #1 Corny but there is nothing wrong with it #2 We do not need any more caches in the world that take people to find garbage #3 A very bad idea you cannot dig a hole to find or hide a cache #4 You should not put any kind of food in a cache, human or otherwise Reg. #4 and 3 You need to read the guidlines on hiding a cache Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 ... Since you asked.... 1. Not a good idea. 2. Not a good idea. 3. A very BAD idea. 4. Not a good idea. yep and I'll echo - might take some time to back and really read those guidelines. Quote Link to comment
+cache_test_dummies Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 !. Put a heart container on the back of a stop sign and name it "stop in the name of love" Not great: Body parts do not generally make good geocache containers, regardless of their cutesy name. 2.Put a container on my trashcan lid-tell people to only come on trashday,or is that to informing of where i live? Not great: My trash day is Monday, and if your trash day is some other day, I'd never be able to find your cache. Plus, the trash isn't picked up on holidays. 3.Put one behind a bush in a hole>leave a shovel Not great: Buried caches are not allowed. But if you require everyone to leave a shovel, make sure you note that on the cache page, and list the cache as puzzle (since that would make it an ALR). 4.Make a cache with dog treats in it and have people bring their dogs to find it,or could that get a bit pricey? Not great: You are correct: dogs are very pricey. At least some dogs. 5.A time capsule,ask people to bring something,put it in the large cache,about a month later or a lot of people have found it bury it and call it the geocachers timecapsule. Not great: Time capsule? Caches that require manipulation of time in any form must be approved in advance by Vinny, and I don't think he likes dogs. Quote Link to comment
+Team Crime Scene Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I have a couple of ideas but im not sure if they're that GREAT. !. Put a heart container on the back of a stop sign and name it "stop in the name of love" 2.Put a container on my trashcan lid-tell people to only come on trashday,or is that to informing of where i live? 3.Put one behind a bush in a hole>leave a shovel 4.Make a cache with dog treats in it and have people bring their dogs to find it,or could that get a bit pricey? 5.A time capsule,ask people to bring something,put it in the large cache,about a month later or a lot of people have found it bury it and call it the geocachers timecapsule. Thanks Thanks for the giggles. They were jokes weren't they? Quote Link to comment
+Cpt.Blackbeard Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Telling folks where you live is totally up to you, no guidelines about it. Look at my caches in Google and you'll see my house and farm, other folks prefer to remain hidden, it's all up to you. As for the rest it's already been answered, except for the confirmation from Vinny on the dog matter. Quote Link to comment
+Team Cotati Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 (edited) Those are really wonderful ideas for geocaches, except of course, for the ones that violate the guidelines. I say go for it with the rest. You normally need only read the guidelines once. Unless of course you don't understand them. In that case you need to read them as many times as it takes. Above all else, make sure that you are having a ton of fun. Actually I think that it would be ok to dig a hole. Just remember that after you place the container in the hole, do not re-fill the hole so as to cover the container. Instead of edible dog treats, you could just use doggie chew toys. So I think that that just about has you covered. Please do let us know when you have these in place and approved. You might want to check in advance of actually placing these though and get a preliminary review by your local volunteer reviewer. He might have a couple of minor suggestions for you. Edited January 21, 2008 by Team Cotati Quote Link to comment
+Vinny & Sue Team Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 (edited) I have a couple of ideas but im not sure if they're that GREAT. !. Put a heart container on the back of a stop sign and name it "stop in the name of love" 2.Put a container on my trashcan lid-tell people to only come on trashday,or is that to informing of where i live? 3.Put one behind a bush in a hole>leave a shovel 4.Make a cache with dog treats in it and have people bring their dogs to find it,or could that get a bit pricey? 5.A time capsule,ask people to bring something,put it in the large cache,about a month later or a lot of people have found it bury it and call it the geocachers timecapsule. Thanks Good gosh! Golly gee! I love each of these ideas, and, hey, while we're at it, why not also create a public service prescription drug trade cache. It would work as follows: People could leave bottles of their unused or expired prescription drugs, and they could then pick and chose from among the prescription drug swag items left by other cachers to get prescription drugs that they cannot afford or that they just wish to try out for a while. Of course, to keep it all fully legal, all the prescription drug bottles would need to bear their original prescription labels and only legal prescription drugs could be left in the cache. Such a cache would be a real public service and would help out many people. And, hey, if you are also into illegal entertainment drugs or street drugs, such as the anabolic steroids which have recently been in the news headlines, well you could also create a separate cache dedicated tor trading street drugs, but just make sure that it is at least 528 feet from the prescription drug cache to keep it all legal with respect to Groundspeak! You may also wish to check out my recent thread about the soul ALR cache, where in order to log a find, a finder must leave their soul -- the general Groundspeak membership on the forums loved the idea, but some silly stick-in-the-mud reviewers nixed the cache listing repeatedly, and it is still not published. You may, however, have better luck in your region, since you have a different reviewer. Wow! Caching is sure fun! Edited January 21, 2008 by Vinny & Sue Team Quote Link to comment
+Confucius' Cat Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 The only one that meets guidelines would be the stop sign cache. The "heart" would have to be really small or otherwise really well hidden if you don't want it muggled. IMO, although a lot of caches on signs are out there, they are not anything particularly cool and as a technicality are probably at least a little bit shy of the law. I don't think the municipalities that own and maintain the signs really appreciate people fooling around with them. Cachers looking for caches on highway signs do run a high risk of LEO encounters and explaining how they are NOT trying to steal the sign for a scavenger hunt or dorm decoration. Caches at one's own house are also a bad idea for the reason you alluded to in the OP. Not to mention no one wants to look in someone's garbage can. The garbage can cache likely would not be listed because it is not generally available. Exceptions are made for things like library caches which can only be accessed during business hours, but generally a cache has to be reasonably available. A few hours a week is not reasonable. Municipal garbage can caches ARE common in public places however. The municipal cans are generally anchored to the ground and designed such that a cache can be hidden that will not interfere with garbage collection and where the seeker does not have to encounter the actual garbage. I owned one such cache that lasted several years in a very heavily trafficked small town public circle. That in itself was remarkable. Still many people shun such caches. Quote Link to comment
+JohnnyVegas Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I have a couple of ideas but im not sure if they're that GREAT. !. Put a heart container on the back of a stop sign and name it "stop in the name of love" 2.Put a container on my trashcan lid-tell people to only come on trashday,or is that to informing of where i live? 3.Put one behind a bush in a hole>leave a shovel 4.Make a cache with dog treats in it and have people bring their dogs to find it,or could that get a bit pricey? 5.A time capsule,ask people to bring something,put it in the large cache,about a month later or a lot of people have found it bury it and call it the geocachers timecapsule. Thanks Read these before you hide a cache Quote Link to comment
+cache_test_dummies Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 (edited) 5.A time capsule,ask people to bring something,put it in the large cache,about a month later or a lot of people have found it bury it and call it the geocachers timecapsule. Not great: Time capsule? Caches that require manipulation of time in any form must be approved in advance by Vinny, and I don't think he likes dogs. Wow! Caching is sure fun! Ok, so you would pre-approve the OP's Time Capsule cache. But what about the dog issue? Edited January 21, 2008 by cache_test_dummies Quote Link to comment
+JohnnyVegas Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 5.A time capsule,ask people to bring something,put it in the large cache,about a month later or a lot of people have found it bury it and call it the geocachers timecapsule. Not great: Time capsule? Caches that require manipulation of time in any form must be approved in advance by Vinny, and I don't think he likes dogs. Wow! Caching is sure fun! Ok, so you would pre-approve the OP's Time Capsule cache. But what about the dog issue? Is the dog going to be in a time capsule? Quote Link to comment
+Confucius' Cat Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I have an approved time capsule cache. It was placed 12-24-2010. It didn't get approved until 2011 though. Quote Link to comment
+FireRef Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I liked the first one - the rest sounded kinda iffy, based on the guidelines. Quote Link to comment
+Vinny & Sue Team Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 !. Put a heart container on the back of a stop sign and name it "stop in the name of love" Not great: Body parts do not generally make good geocache containers, regardless of their cutesy name. 2.Put a container on my trashcan lid-tell people to only come on trashday,or is that to informing of where i live? Not great: My trash day is Monday, and if your trash day is some other day, I'd never be able to find your cache. Plus, the trash isn't picked up on holidays. 3.Put one behind a bush in a hole>leave a shovel Not great: Buried caches are not allowed. But if you require everyone to leave a shovel, make sure you note that on the cache page, and list the cache as puzzle (since that would make it an ALR). 4.Make a cache with dog treats in it and have people bring their dogs to find it,or could that get a bit pricey? Not great: You are correct: dogs are very pricey. At least some dogs. 5.A time capsule,ask people to bring something,put it in the large cache,about a month later or a lot of people have found it bury it and call it the geocachers timecapsule. Not great: Time capsule? Caches that require manipulation of time in any form must be approved in advance by Vinny, and I don't think he likes dogs. It is true that any caches that involve travel through time or through any type of time-space portals must also receive pre-publication pass by me. However, I have no problem with dogs being involved with such caches, and in fact, I have an elderly beagle/Basset hound mix named Toby. Quote Link to comment
+joranda Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I like the duck idea. Quote Link to comment
Chumpo Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 How about one under a freeway overpass called "Pay the Troll"? Quote Link to comment
+joranda Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 That's a good one too. Quote Link to comment
WeRLegend Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Does anyone know where a guy could get a Proton Gun w/ a Particel Accelerator and one of those neat foot switch activated ghost traps?...i was thinking of hiding a cache where you can bring those irritating ghosts you have trapped,dropped them off and take home a better one. but then i would have to leave a Particle Accelerator in case one got away you could catch it again....hmmmmm..im still working it all out... Quote Link to comment
Rostropovich Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 (edited) I have an iffy idea too. I would like to make a fake grave out in the middle of the woods and have the grave marker as the cache, this would be described as a fake grave on the cache page and since no actual digging would be necessary to hide it so it would not scar the land, what are your thoughts? Edited January 26, 2008 by Rostropovich Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 (edited) I'm going to put this one to the "Will the OP respond/clarify or is this just Trolling?" Test. Since it is just past the full moon, I thinking no response is likely. Hope I'm wrong. Edited January 26, 2008 by BlueDeuce Quote Link to comment
+Confucius' Cat Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 I have an iffy idea too. I would like to make a fake grave out in the middle of the woods and have the grave marker as the cache, this would be described as a fake grave on the cache page and since no actual digging would be necessary to hide it so it would not scar the land, what are your thoughts? I don't think this would be a problem provided placing the marker itself did not require any digging. My follow up question would be "do you intend to do any sort of landscape modification to improve the illusion of a fake grave?" I have often thought of going to a grave stone store and asking for something off their "uh-oh" pile. I would modify it to hold the cache and place it appropriately- no doubt NOT in an active cemetery. Or perhaps place it with written permission in a real cemetery. But putting a fake stone in a real cemetery would encourage seekers to examine REAL stones for caches and thus is not a really good idea. Quote Link to comment
Rostropovich Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 I don't think this would be a problem provided placing the marker itself did not require any digging. My follow up question would be "do you intend to do any sort of landscape modification to improve the illusion of a fake grave?" Just move the rocks away from it and place them around the "Grave" There is not much shrubbery up there so it would not be a problem as far as vegetation is concerned Quote Link to comment
+Confucius' Cat Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 I don't think this would be a problem provided placing the marker itself did not require any digging. My follow up question would be "do you intend to do any sort of landscape modification to improve the illusion of a fake grave?" Just move the rocks away from it and place them around the "Grave" There is not much shrubbery up there so it would not be a problem as far as vegetation is concerned I personally would think it is OK, but an email to your local reviewer would be a good idea before putting too much (potentially wasted) effort into it. Permission is the trump card... get it and the cache is good to go (usually). Don't get it and ANY cache is "iffy." Quote Link to comment
mehxxmay Posted August 21, 2008 Author Share Posted August 21, 2008 I have a couple of ideas but im not sure if they're that GREAT. !. Put a heart container on the back of a stop sign and name it "stop in the name of love" 2.Put a container on my trashcan lid-tell people to only come on trashday,or is that to informing of where i live? 3.Put one behind a bush in a hole>leave a shovel 4.Make a cache with dog treats in it and have people bring their dogs to find it,or could that get a bit pricey? 5.A time capsule,ask people to bring something,put it in the large cache,about a month later or a lot of people have found it bury it and call it the geocachers timecapsule. Thanks Good gosh! Golly gee! I love each of these ideas, and, hey, while we're at it, why not also create a public service prescription drug trade cache. It would work as follows: People could leave bottles of their unused or expired prescription drugs, and they could then pick and chose from among the prescription drug swag items left by other cachers to get prescription drugs that they cannot afford or that they just wish to try out for a while. Of course, to keep it all fully legal, all the prescription drug bottles would need to bear their original prescription labels and only legal prescription drugs could be left in the cache. Such a cache would be a real public service and would help out many people. And, hey, if you are also into illegal entertainment drugs or street drugs, such as the anabolic steroids which have recently been in the news headlines, well you could also create a separate cache dedicated tor trading street drugs, but just make sure that it is at least 528 feet from the prescription drug cache to keep it all legal with respect to Groundspeak! You may also wish to check out my recent thread about the soul ALR cache, where in order to log a find, a finder must leave their soul -- the general Groundspeak membership on the forums loved the idea, but some silly stick-in-the-mud reviewers nixed the cache listing repeatedly, and it is still not published. You may, however, have better luck in your region, since you have a different reviewer. Wow! Caching is sure fun! Your sarcastically mean Quote Link to comment
+Proud Soccer Mom Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 7.Buy a duck decoy put n a log book,tie a string onto it and put the string on the outskirts of a pond. Thanks I like this one but it's good for a house cache only... You know, the caches that people put on their own property...? Otherwise, it'll get messed with within the first week. - Elle Quote Link to comment
Luckless Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 I have a couple of ideas but im not sure if they're that GREAT. !. Put a heart container on the back of a stop sign and name it "stop in the name of love" 2.Put a container on my trashcan lid-tell people to only come on trashday,or is that to informing of where i live?-of course i would put the trash day 3.Put one behind a bush in a hole>leave a shovel 4.Make a cache with dog treats in it and have people bring their dogs to find it,or could that get a bit pricey? 5.A time capsule,ask people to bring something,put it in the large cache,about a month later or a lot of people have found it bury it and call it the geocachers timecapsule. 6.What about putting one in walmart or something-like on a tredmil and call it a quick run to walmart,with their permission of course. 7.Buy a duck decoy put n a log book,tie a string onto it and put the string on the outskirts of a pond. Thanks 1. Cute idea. Seems many people frown on caches ON traffic signs- might even be illegal. 2. The smell- nope not good. 3. NO 4. There are dog themed caches that ask for dog related items- don't know about the dog treats. 5. No burying allowed, but maybe a theme cache asking for swag that says something about this day and time. - or some other day and time- example- ten years ago. 6. You'd never get permission. 7. I think it's been done- always a fun idea. Quote Link to comment
+ChasWolf7 Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 4.Make a cache with dog treats in it and have people bring their dogs to find it,or could that get a bit pricey? I found one of these near my home. It is in a park, and does in fact have doggy treats in it. I didn't mind, once my wife explained that doggy treats are not - to the best of her knowledge - made of actual doggies. I relaxed and went hunting. Uh, for the cache, that is. GC18T7Y But I will warn you - the CO had to add a little addendum to the cache page: "Please don't let your dog MARK the cache." Well now, that's one you don't see just every day. Here they want you to bring your pooch, then they stock the thing with doggy treats made of some non-doggy strangeness, but then they don't want you to let your dog do exactly what dogs do! The nerve. I could barely keep myself from peeing on the thing myself. But somehow, I managed to control myself. OK, truth be told, I was wearing gloves just in case some cacher had brought their hound but had NOT noted the plea in the hint. I didn't want to be handling a container which some canine thought was 'theirs.' Even if the dog's name was Mark. And with the gloves on I had a little trouble with my zipper. Either way, the cache was dry when I left, I promise. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 7.Buy a duck decoy put n a log book,tie a string onto it and put the string on the outskirts of a pond. Thanks Nobody commented on this one but I actually kinda like it. The tricky parts will be to put a sufficiently waterproof container in the decoy and somehow manage to keep it from being taken by muggles, or blasted to wood chips by a hunter. Quote Link to comment
+Star*Hopper Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 I have an approved time capsule cache. It was placed 12-24-2010. It didn't get approved until 2011 though. Yes, I know -- I found that one. You won't be getting the log until sometime next year, tho. Around Christmas eve, 2012. Early. Claimed the 'TFT'* *Temporal Find; Transient (As they'll be known, then) ~* Quote Link to comment
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