The SWAG Game

[+chrisandjanet]

In pretty much every thread about SWAG degredation, someone trots out the line "one man's trash is another man's treasure." Lets prove that here by giving some examples.

 

I propose that posters name one SWAG item they think is trash (for example, a rock). The next poster suggests under what circumstances that "trash" would be considered "cool SWAG" to them (for example, a piece of volcanic glass on a card indicating where it's from and how it was formed). Then, post an item they consider "trash", and the game goes on

 

This is all very subjective, I know. But it might give some folks some good ideas for sig items or something.

 

Please, no angsty OT posts about how you don't like to trade anyway so the SWAG doesn't matter, or how rocks don't belong in a cache anyway because some two year old caching without his parents could choke on it or such.

 

First item: Speng bullet casing found on the trail

[+lachupa]

I shot someone on the trail and stayed off death row because I found the spent bullet casing in a cache.

 

one child's sock

[+Da Beast]

I shot someone on the trail and stayed off death row because I found the spent bullet casing in a cache.

 

one child's sock

if you have te matching sock at home

 

a broken rubber band

[MisterEFQ]

Sock puppet anybody? (not refering to any poster!)

 

edit: I got ninja'd, somebody respond to the broken rubber band.

Edited September 10, 2010 by EhFhQ

[+chrisandjanet]

A wooden rubber band gun and a bag of ammo.

 

Expired coupon for an out of town fast food joint

[SlayerOfBunnies]

A wooden rubber band gun and a bag of ammo.

 

Expired coupon for an out of town fast food joint

 

One could use the expired coupon for an out of town fast food joint for interesting oragami paper.

 

How about a used toothbrush?

[+geobrian-]

Used toothbrush? Ideal for cleaning that small archaeological find that you spotted close to the cache hide.

 

Used and out of date rail ticket, complete with punched hole to indicate it had been checked during travel.

Edited September 10, 2010 by geobrian_w

[+briansnat]

Used toothbrush? Ideal for cleaning that small archaeological find that you spotted close to the cache hide.

 

Used and out of date rail ticket, complete with punched hole to indicate it had been checked during travel.

 

I guess you can use it to pick poppy seeds from your teeth after eating a bagel.

 

 

A pair of filthy, damp cloth work gloves, with holes in most of the fingers (yes, I found these in a cache once).

[+lachupa]

Used toothbrush? Ideal for cleaning that small archaeological find that you spotted close to the cache hide.

 

Used and out of date rail ticket, complete with punched hole to indicate it had been checked during travel.

 

I guess you can use it to pick poppy seeds from your teeth after eating a bagel.

 

 

A pair of filthy, damp cloth work gloves, with holes in most of the fingers (yes, I found these in a cache once).

 

damp work gloves work wonderfully as a kidnap victim gag - what isn't it voilent fantasy Friday?

 

ok how about checking the oil in the geocruiser

 

handful of rusty nuts and bolts

[sdarken]

handful of rusty nuts and bolts

 

Rusty bolts:- just the right size to keep my bike wheel from falling off again on the ride home.

 

How about a very old looking prophylactic. Fortunately this one is still in it's packet.

[+GeoGeeBee]

 

How about a very old looking prophylactic. Fortunately this one is still in it's packet.

 

Why, that's just the thing I needed to keep the rain that's just started falling from getting the barrel of my rifle all rusty. (What, you don't carry a rifle when you are geocaching?)

 

And in return, I'm going to leave this nice religious tract.

[+niraD]

With all the rain, I was getting cold, and the nice religious tract allowed me to start a fire to stay warm!

 

A bottle of bubble solution that has leaked all over everything else in the cache?

[+Scooter Rider]

ABC gum (already been chewed)

[+thecaswellfamily]

I needed something to plug the hole in the bottom of my shoe (chewed gum) and my hands are FILTHY, so that bubble-solution-slime really came in handy!

 

But that broken birthday candle?

[+Da Beast]

I needed something to plug the hole in the bottom of my shoe (chewed gum) and my hands are FILTHY, so that bubble-solution-slime really came in handy!

 

But that broken birthday candle?

good for a half year B-Day party

 

a burnt paper match stick

[+THT5]

Forgot my pen again so I can use that burnt paper match stick to sign the log, but what to do with that open pack of dental floss?

[+BlueMoth]

Forgot my pen again so I can use that burnt paper match stick to sign the log, but what to do with that open pack of dental floss?

 

Just the thing I needed to fix my broken shoe lace. Now what to do with the pieces of melted Jolly Rancher?

[+niraD]

but what to do with that open pack of dental floss?

Use it to tie flies for fly fishing.

 

How about the broken acorn cap?

[+BlueMoth]

double

Edited September 10, 2010 by BlueMoth

[+BuckeyeClan]

I'll use the melted Jolly Rancher to lure away the ants, and the acorn cap will make an adorable beret for my daughter's Barbie.

 

A drinking straw

[+azothtengu]

I'll use the melted Jolly Rancher to lure away the ants, and the acorn cap will make an adorable beret for my daughter's Barbie.

 

A drinking straw

 

Dart gun to stop that person about to grab your FTF.

 

Dead Batteries

[+Da Beast]

Dead Batteries

just what i need to put in that one sock i found to fend off the muggles

 

chewed up piece of beef jerky ( yes i did find that once

[Claudis192]

That beef jerky still looks ok. Its been wrapped back up. Gives it to the dog and leaves a ltd edition unused Geocoin worth £20. I am a generous mood.

Edited September 10, 2010 by Claudis192

[+power69]

In pretty much every thread about SWAG degredation, someone trots out the line "one man's trash is another man's treasure." Lets prove that here by giving some examples.

 

I propose that posters name one SWAG item they think is trash (for example, a rock). The next poster suggests under what circumstances that "trash" would be considered "cool SWAG" to them (for example, a piece of volcanic glass on a card indicating where it's from and how it was formed). Then, post an item they consider "trash", and the game goes on

 

This is all very subjective, I know. But it might give some folks some good ideas for sig items or something.

 

Please, no angsty OT posts about how you don't like to trade anyway so the SWAG doesn't matter, or how rocks don't belong in a cache anyway because some two year old caching without his parents could choke on it or such.

 

First item: Speng bullet casing found on the trail

this was left in one of my caches and finder even logged he/she put it in there. "busted part from nail clippers".

every day i have strangers coming up to me asking if i have any broken nail clippers. i have to tell them no.

[+power69]

 

A bottle of bubble solution that has leaked all over everything else in the cache?

I see that A LOT! its always the same cheap dollar store soap bubbles too.

the worse swag i saw was a ziplock bag that had "snow from utah" written on it. YES! the bag popped open and drenched EVERYTHING! who in their right mind puts snow in a metal ammo can and doesn't think its going to melt!

[+michigansnorkelers]

"busted part from nail clippers"

 

Use as a mini-scraper to remove thousands of tiny burrs from my socks.

 

How about a wet, stinky, dirty stuffed animal? (Don' t tell me you've never seen one in a cache!)

[+t4e]

take it home, wash it and make it into a TB

 

golf balls

[+BuckeyeClan]

I'm a lousy golfer. I won't care when I hit this one into the lake.

 

A penny

[+charliewhiskey]

golf balls

Wash them and give them to my friend who golfs. (... badly, thereby needing many golf balls.)

 

Fast food toy figurine with arms broken off. (Found this recently...)

[+THT5]

I'm a lousy golfer. I won't care when I hit this one into the lake.

 

A penny

 

I can use that penny to scratch my scratch off lotto tickets I got for my FTF prize, how about that small pack of hot sauce from Taco Bell?

[+niraD]

Fast food toy figurine with arms broken off. (Found this recently...)

how about that small pack of hot sauce from Taco Bell?

Pour the hot sauce on the wounded toy figurine to make its injuries more realistic, and let the battle to stop Evil Dr Porkchop continue!

 

How about a transit day pass from three months ago?

[+roziecakes]

Used the old transit day pass to write down the coords to a really awesome cache spot I found on the way.

 

Left: a used popsicle stick (yes I saw this in a cache once).

[l2embrandt]

Fast food toy figurine with arms broken off. (Found this recently...)

how about that small pack of hot sauce from Taco Bell?

Pour the hot sauce on the wounded toy figurine to make its injuries more realistic, and let the battle to stop Evil Dr Porkchop continue!

 

How about a transit day pass from three months ago?

 

the transit pass can alternate as a stretcher for said wounded toy when the injuries get the best of it.

 

a sheet of stickers, with out stickers.... only the shapes of where they were on the sticky sheet?

[+ADTCacheur]

Used the old transit day pass to write down the coords to a really awesome cache spot I found on the way.

 

Left: a used popsicle stick (yes I saw this in a cache once).

 

The action figure needs a splint now that it's leg is broken

 

Fast food toy figurine with arms broken off. (Found this recently...)

how about that small pack of hot sauce from Taco Bell?

Pour the hot sauce on the wounded toy figurine to make its injuries more realistic, and let the battle to stop Evil Dr Porkchop continue!

 

How about a transit day pass from three months ago?

 

the transit pass can alternate as a stretcher for said wounded toy when the injuries get the best of it.

 

a sheet of stickers, with out stickers.... only the shapes of where they were on the sticky sheet?

 

A very interesting tic-tac-toe board, and the outline is usually a sticker, so you can shred that up into cool shaped stickers

 

pee (many forum topics about this, unfortunately)

[+THT5]

 

A very interesting tic-tac-toe board, and the outline is usually a sticker, so you can shred that up into cool shaped stickers

 

pee (many forum topics about this, unfortunately)

 

The cache is very visible so I can use the pee to fertilize the plants around it so they can grow faster to hide the cache. ( Yes, urine can indeed be used as a fertilizer. Just google "urine fertilzer" )

 

What to do with this bouncy ball with a chunk taking out if it?

[Luckless]

 

A very interesting tic-tac-toe board, and the outline is usually a sticker, so you can shred that up into cool shaped stickers

 

pee (many forum topics about this, unfortunately)

 

The cache is very visible so I can use the pee to fertilize the plants around it so they can grow faster to hide the cache. ( Yes, urine can indeed be used as a fertilizer. Just google "urine fertilzer" )

 

What to do with this bouncy ball with a chunk taking out if it?

 

Draw a happy face on it and put it on your car radio antenna.

Sea shell which I hope went into the cache container intact, but always end up broken-See these all the time.

[+Merchant Adventurers]

 

Draw a happy face on it and put it on your car radio antenna.

Sea shell which I hope went into the cache container intact, but always end up broken-See these all the time.

 

Collect a bunch, and make a textured mural.

 

Half of an electrical pencil sharpener, minus the electrical part/battery compartment.

[AZcachemeister]

 

Draw a happy face on it and put it on your car radio antenna.

Sea shell which I hope went into the cache container intact, but always end up broken-See these all the time.

 

Collect a bunch, and make a textured mural.

 

Half of an electrical pencil sharpener, minus the electrical part/battery compartment.

 

Which can still sharpen the dull pencil in the cache, if I insert and twirl the pencil properly.

 

I'll leave a very rusty bottle cap in exchange.

 

EDIT: to describe how to use the broken sharpener

 

Say that twenty times really fast:

 

Twirl the pencil properly!

Edited September 12, 2010 by AZcachemeister

[GOF's Sock Puppet]

 

Draw a happy face on it and put it on your car radio antenna.

Sea shell which I hope went into the cache container intact, but always end up broken-See these all the time.

 

Collect a bunch, and make a textured mural.

 

Half of an electrical pencil sharpener, minus the electrical part/battery compartment.

 

Which can still sharpen the dull pencil in the cache, if I insert and twirl the pencil properly.

 

I'll leave a very rusty bottle cap in exchange.

 

EDIT: to describe how to use the broken sharpener

 

Say that twenty times really fast:

 

Twirl the pencil properly!

 

I'll take that bottle cap and add it to the others I have to make one of these.

I'll call him Rusty.

 

But what about that sticky hard candy covered with lint?

[+LukeTrocity]

Take the bottle cap and turn it into the top of an EVIL container.

 

Leave some poison ivy I found stuck on my boot.

[GOF's Sock Puppet]

Take the bottle cap and turn it into the top of an EVIL container.

 

Leave some poison ivy I found stuck on my boot.

 

What evil? That would be too easy to find when I picked it up to cito it.

[+power69]

 

Draw a happy face on it and put it on your car radio antenna.

Sea shell which I hope went into the cache container intact, but always end up broken-See these all the time.

 

Collect a bunch, and make a textured mural.

 

Half of an electrical pencil sharpener, minus the electrical part/battery compartment.

 

Which can still sharpen the dull pencil in the cache, if I insert and twirl the pencil properly.

 

I'll leave a very rusty bottle cap in exchange.

 

EDIT: to describe how to use the broken sharpener

 

Say that twenty times really fast:

 

Twirl the pencil properly!

oh so YOU ARE THE GUY leaving the rusted bottle caps!

[+LizzyHoops]

Poisin Ivy: Press and dry it, laminate it and carry it in my wallet as a reminder of what not to touch.

 

I'll leave in the cache a broken off fake fingernail!

[SlayerOfBunnies]

Poisin Ivy: Press and dry it, laminate it and carry it in my wallet as a reminder of what not to touch.

 

I'll leave in the cache a broken off fake fingernail!

 

Perfect! I'll affix that to the end of a stick (perhaps with some ABC gum) and it will make a combination back scratcher / hollow tree probe. Thanks!

 

To trade up, I'll leave a formerly adhesive googly eye with all the sticky stuff worn off.

[fruit of the nile]

I could re-adhesify it and put it on my unfinished sock puppet that covienantly is missing a googly Eye!

 

A moldy, cinnamon flavored toothpick.

[+M 5]

i'll take the moldy mint flavored toothpick and put in this cache GC1XA5P

 

I'll put in a broken Barbara Steisand 8 track (I hate to part with it, but you have to trade)

[+ipodguy]

T: Barbara Streisand 8 track for the great new cache idea I just had - "They're coming to get you, Barbara" (Night of the Living Dead quote)

 

L: A cigarette butt with lipstick on the filter.

Edited September 21, 2010 by ipodguy

[GOF and Bacall]

Took the cigarette but.

Left a used nicotine patch.

[+Max and 99]

I definitely need that nicotine patch to cover up the blister I got bushwacking to the cache in the woods.

 

In exchange I will leave used, wadded-up duct tape (it was new until I used it on my bleeding blister, but the nicotine patch will work much better!)

[+geekslady]

I use your used duct tape to play fetch with geodog while leaving my toilet paper tube in its place.