Stickers?

[Waroku]

Stickers?

 

I'm very new to the sport in fact I haven't even started yet. I'll have my new GPS at X-mass and hope to start the following weekend.

 

So, here is my question. (and a story I guess)

 

I used to work for a guy who was really in to eBay. He sold anything he could get his hands on. One particularly strange item that he sold often were these rolls of fuzzy Domino's pizza "Avoid the Noid" stickers. I asked him why people kept buying the things and he would always say that he didn't know but it was just one guy that bought roll after roll after roll. So finally one day the guy e-mailed my boss to ask if he could buy ten rolls. My boss said OK but ask that he tell him what he used all those stickers for. The man agreed and said that he was a Geocacher. He said that he would leave a sticker at each cache as his trade mark. That was the first I had ever heard of the sport.

 

This conjured up images of landmarks covered in stickers from hundreds of cachers.I now know that this isn't the case but I was wondering if people leave stickers on caches or log books to mark where they have been? Or was the sticker guy simply leaving the the stickers as "Swag". If so would someone leave just a sticker and take something or would they leave the sticker as a trademark and then leave a more valuable piece of swag? I understand the equal or greater than rule but I guess I'm just confused by the trademark part I for one think that it would be cool to leave something that you would become known by but at the same time I want to abide by all of the rules of geocacheing.

 

Also, I'm a little unclear on what you write in a log book and how you prove that you have been to different caches? I suppose that it isn't really necessary to prove anything it's the hunt that counts, but I'm just trying to learn how you play the game.

 

Thank you for help.

 

Waroku

[+StarBrand]

Signiture items are generally not left in trade of anything - just as a marker that you were there. I am sure he wasn't sticking them to anything. (I also seem to vaguely recall findg such a stick [with the backing] in one of my hides). Any trading is usually after leaving any "trademark" items. Frankly not many cachers are known for any such thing. I leave a small golf pencil for my finds.

 

Many others leave some kind of custom business card with thier Geo-name on it.

 

 

I write in the log book a little about my experience in finding the cache where I can or just my Geo-name sometimes. Mention the weather and where I am from sometimes. Up to you.

[Waroku]

Thank you I have a few small signature items in mind. I can't wait to get started.

[+BlueDeuce]

Also, I'm a little unclear on what you write in a log book and how you prove that you have been to different caches?

 

Your user name, maybe the date - From there it's up to you.

 

My handwriting isn't the best and trying to write freehand while holding a logbook makes it even worse. Sometimes I'll use a sticker with my user name but I won't if the log sheet is small. Makes it too hard to roll back up.

 

Edit: Oh, right now my sig item is a blue devil duckie pencil topper.

Edited December 21, 2008 by BlueDeuce