what is the coolest swag you've ever found?

[+fendermallot]

I'm still pretty new, and I assume that really cool swag is few and far between. But what is the coolest thing you've found to date? Maybe not the "most expensive" but your favorite.

[+metalgearjay]

I am also very new to caching. The coolest I have ever found would have to be the first geocoin my brother and I found. It was pretty exciting for us.

[+Opalblade]

Wow that's tough; I have a little bag full of swag I've collected.

 

Hmm, what to pick. I'm very fond of the little Batwoman and Spiderwoman I found (in two separate caches)

[+DragonsWest]

I am also very new to caching. The coolest I have ever found would have to be the first geocoin my brother and I found. It was pretty exciting for us.

 

I hope if it is a trackable you moved it along and are not keeping it.

 

The coolest thing I found was between a genuine carabiner and a set of mini spread knives (the blunt kind used for spreading cheese or such.)

[+GeoGeeBee]

Coolest thing I ever found:

 

 

New Orleans Saints mini jersey and helmet from a Burger King kids meal. With Drew Brees' number on it. It was in the unopened, original package but I couldn't resist opening it up and displaying it on the shelf over my computer.

 

(The one in the picture isn't mine.)

[+Renegade Knight]

Roman coins and challenge coins.

[+Kacher The Dog]

I love collecting the 'personalised' badges of other cachers; I have my own cacher name done as a batch for caches too.

[+cycler48]

A witch! It reminded me of my first wife.

[+slowdownracer]

A local geocacher works at the nearby Martin Guitar factory and placed a geocache on company property. He took some of the round pieces of wood cut from the front of the guitar and laser etched them with the name of the cache and other information regarding the company and geocaching. Took one.

 

That's probably my favorite. Not expensive, just very cool.

 

Long time ago, in a cache related to the planet Mars, I found and took a new dark red golfball. Thought it was appropriate to the name. That's the funniest thing I've ever found.

 

Most valuable thing ever found was a coupon for 1/2 off at a local car wash. Worth about 4 bucks.

 

Oh yeah, about two weeks ago I found an unactivated geocoin in a cache left specifically for whoever found the cache next. I e-mailed my thanks to the cacher who left it, but got no reply.

 

[+Printess Caroline]

A little pen on a carabiner. Very handy! My husband likes to find coins.

[+Gitchee-Gummee]

Although geocoins are not usually intended to be swag, we have picked up three unactivated geocoins (so far) that have been left as swag. Do note however, that if such is the case it will most probably be so noted in a previous cachers' log.

 

Outside of that noted above and the rare FTF prize of an unactivated geocoin, one should not assume that geocoins are left as swag. If there is nothing that says so, it most probably is a traveler intended for you to move it along.

 

EDIT: We did "hear" of a set of car keys left, and info to contact the owner for the vehicle transfer. That story may very well be rumor. Ya just never know! Have also heard of retired GPSr units left as swag. Not doubting that because was told by the person leaving one of them.

Edited February 12, 2010 by Gitchee-Gummee

[+Titus1919]

I found a new mouth for my sons Mr potato head

[+narcissa]

One time, I found a golf ball in a cache! I was pretty excited. I mean, who wouldn't be excited to find a free golf ball!

[+Rattlehead]

A small jar containing sand from Omaha Beach.

[+michiganman3]

It was listed as a "3 Piece Chicken Dinner" A small wooden container with 3 pieces of dried corn.

[+Titus1919]

I found a bug!!!

[Bolivar Bill]

Not terribly exciting but- I recently found an old cel phone belt case that fit my GPSr perfectly in an ammo can 3/4 mile back in the woods. I didn't have a case so it made for a nice swap.

[+ras_oscar]

Eagle eyes got excited when he found a game boy color.

Scout got excited when he found a pen knife

I like the sig items, although they seem to be few and far between.

[+WOLVERINEtheRonin]

I found a ladies esquire watch. My wife loves it.

[+ZeLonewolf]

I was once greeted by the most adorable puppy while finding a cache.

[+tber1981]

There is a series around Rochester, NY called "Quacked Up Holiday Series". Each of the 12 caches has a bunch of small rubber ducks decorated appropriately for the theme of the cache. I only have 7 out of the 12, though, as some of the caches ran out of ducks before I found them.

[+42at42]

Maybe not the coolest but definitely the coldest. I found a cache that all the swag was frozen in a big block of ice. I chipped all the swag out of the block and signed the log.

 

In all seriousness. I collect patches and lapel pins. I have found some pretty cool ones.

Edited February 15, 2010 by 42at42

[oakenwood]

A glow-in-the-dark wristband that says "Breastfeeding Makes a Difference". I don't know if that's true, and to avoid embarrassment, I tell people it says "Fibromyalgia Awareness". I just like it because it glows in the dark.

[+Jackalgirl]

A toy magnifying glass (well, it's a plastic lens). Gave it to my daughter and she loves it!

[+Border Caz]

I found a very nice necklace of wooden beads in one of my first caches. I've started to colllect sig items now, since finding one dropped by a Swedish couple while on their holidays in the UK, and some of those are really good.

[+fishingfools]

1940's US Army Air Corps shoulder patch

[+NYPaddleCacher]

A small jar containing sand from Omaha Beach.

 

There is a theme based cache on the North Carolina coast that asks people to drop in baggies of sand from their favorite beach.

 

I have two favorite swag items.

 

The first was a lanyard from an Italian Forestry Service that I found in a cache in Rome. I still use it to keep my GPS around my neck.

 

A couple of years ago I was talking to my next door neighbor as he was cleaning up a bicycle he'd just bought at a garage sale. It was a nice old Schwinn 3 speed. He said, now all I need is a bicycle bell for it. The next day I was out geocaching and found a cache about 3/4 mile up a fairly steep hill. There was a bicycle bell in it.

[+Odie442]

Coolest thing I found was a container with ash from the Mount Saint Helens eruption. 2nd coolest thing is the ammo can that had a couple uncut geodes in them for the kids to take.

 

Odie