Safe Can Cache

[+Tavisman]

Some Texaco petrol stations are selling a ‘safe can’. It is a Heinz baked beans can with a tight plastic screw on-off end for hiding your valuables in you larder. It would make a good cache container except for the obvious issues: clearing it away with a CITO or similar event; encouraging geokids to hunt through litter (trash); and, if you are reading this thread then I guess the spoiler is out and it won’t be a surprise!

 

 

I have bought one (about £3), and I’ll think I’ll black out the end and leave it in the garden for a few nights to ‘weather’ it.

[+Bear and Ragged]

... and when the ring-pull end gets pulled off to get to the log book?

[+careygang]

No need to leave it out if you get permission for an inside cache, like in a major supermarket

 

it could be placed like one of those random items when someone changes their mind. You know the sort of thing, the Baked Bean Can in the Cereal isle.

 

Mind you, speaking of 'Trash Caches', I recently heard tale of a Cacher in the US who places Nanos which are inside soft drink bottle caps, and fixed to the ground in Alleyways!!

Edited February 12, 2009 by careygang

[+Pieman]

There's a cache in North Wales that uses one of these.

[+jerryo]

There are three in the Northeast too. They aren't waterproof and should be hidden in a sheltered place - although not inside a bag!

[+Alibags]

I found a micro inside what appeared to be a discarded water bottle and another one in a bubble gum container. I am sorry, but I think trash caches as SO wrong on so many levels. I don't like to see rubbish when I am out caching and I surely don't want to be rummaging through it to see if it is possibly a cache.

[+Fuchsiamagic]

I found a micro inside what appeared to be a discarded water bottle and another one in a bubble gum container. I am sorry, but I think trash caches as SO wrong on so many levels. I don't like to see rubbish when I am out caching and I surely don't want to be rummaging through it to see if it is possibly a cache.

Agree - it would be a rubbish cache!

[+careygang]

I found a micro inside what appeared to be a discarded water bottle and another one in a bubble gum container. I am sorry, but I think trash caches as SO wrong on so many levels. I don't like to see rubbish when I am out caching and I surely don't want to be rummaging through it to see if it is possibly a cache.

 

How about the discarded Gum Nano...

 

Comercially available via one of the approved listed suppliers... at $5 each.

[+Amberel]

I don't like to see rubbish when I am out caching and I surely don't want to be rummaging through it to see if it is possibly a cache.

Agreed. If there's a lot of rubbish around I just walk on past the cache - not interested in looking in that sort of area. I do sometimes pick up an individual piece of rubbish to dispose of, but as I usually cache solo I don't have enough hands free to carry a large sack for CITO.

 

So I admit I don't like the idea of this sort of container being used for a cache.

 

Rgds, Andy

[+adsandco]

Can think of one in London, though the container looks to have changed slightly, out of sight and the owner is clear to its nature. It was fun with the novelty but we wouldnt really want to make a habit of 'checking rubbish'

Edited February 18, 2009 by adsandco