+Fianccetto Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 I've spent many hours today rearranging the furniture in our house and the contents to make room for some new desks that Mr F.'s office were throwing out. So I now have a pile of stuff I don't want and was wondering if some of it would make good swag or not. As the subject comes up quite often, and others might want a quick answer on whether the object they are thinking of putting in a cache is good swag (for someone, not necessarily for you). I'll start off with an item and you say if it's good or bad swag, then suggest something else and someone carries it on. First up: Some glitter glue sticks in their own little lock & lock (put into an ammo can or larger lock & lock). Quote
+Darick Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 In reference to: Some glitter glue sticks in their own little lock & lock (put into an ammo can or larger lock & lock). Sounds ok to me... would they melt if it got hot? At least you are putting them in a separate container so they wouldn't leak all over if they did melt. Quote
+AmphibianTrackers Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 Where I live, the glue sticks would get melted and mess up the cache, but if in another climate, sure. Quote
+Mom-n-Andy Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 Looks like Darick isn't playing. How about ... Yugioh cards? Quote
+John in Valley Forge Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 They have to get really really hot to melt. How about glow sticks? Maybe the kind that connect to themselves to make necklaces. Quote
+AmphibianTrackers Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 Oh, sorry, didn't understand. Glow sticks...if it is a cache that people get too often so they are still good when the person picks it up. Lampwork beads. Quote
+Fianccetto Posted August 12, 2011 Author Posted August 12, 2011 (edited) Excellent - Darrick, you suggest the next item. :-) Ok, kids, do we need to pass the pineapple to get the game going in an orderly fashion! Edited August 12, 2011 by Fianccetto Quote
+Fianccetto Posted August 12, 2011 Author Posted August 12, 2011 Lampwork beads are great if they are in a cache where they won't be knocked about too much and break, and if they are wrapped up (so you can see them, but there's some protection. Maybe attached to some card behind them in a zip lock? Yugioh cards (Not sure what they are, but they got missed out) Quote
Winxx Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 Yugioh cards (Not sure what they are, but they got missed out) They are like pokemon cards, but they are unique to their game. You could use them if you'd like, but personaly I would not take them ( I still have half of my old collection from when I was younger) I was thinking about putting in some old matchbox/hotweel cars. Quote
+Fianccetto Posted August 12, 2011 Author Posted August 12, 2011 Matchbox/Hotwheels cars - fantastic. If metal, nice put in a zip lock bag to ward off the damp (in our climate!) How about....a zip lock bag of small craft items - pipe cleaners, pompoms, googly eyes, foam shapes, sequins, fimo(sculpey) buttons. Quote
I! Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 Craft items ... yes! Good! My kids would go for that. Dumped some Harry Potter PC games in one of my caches yesterday (like you, Mrs F, we were having a clear-out). Quote
+Mom-n-Andy Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 Craft items ... yes! Good! My kids would go for that. Dumped some Harry Potter PC games in one of my caches yesterday (like you, Mrs F, we were having a clear-out). We're Mac people so PC games would be bad swag. How about baggies full of assorted Legos? Quote
+Fianccetto Posted August 12, 2011 Author Posted August 12, 2011 How about baggies full of assorted Legos? Lego! That's something that hasn't changed since I was a kid and is still expensive to buy new - so I'd love to find that. I'm hanging onto ours in case we/for when get grandchildren! So next on my pile of stuff to sort out...another craft project: a pottery night light holder (I'd remove the candle from it) with things to stick onto it (little gems, sequins, etc.) Too fragile? Quote
GOF and Bacall Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 So next on my pile of stuff to sort out...another craft project: a pottery night light holder (I'd remove the candle from it) with things to stick onto it (little gems, sequins, etc.) Too fragile? If carefully packaged it might be nice. How about an easy one. Those little bottles of bubble soap they give out at weddings. Quote
+AmphibianTrackers Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 Little bottles of bubbles make huge messes...that is a no go. (Love the lego idea! We would collect those.) How about smashed pennies. Quote
+captnemo Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 Little bottles of bubbles make huge messes...that is a no go. (Love the lego idea! We would collect those.) How about smashed pennies. Smashed pennies are OK, not great so TPLgolfball. Quote
+Fianccetto Posted August 12, 2011 Author Posted August 12, 2011 Little bottles of bubbles make huge messes...that is a no go. (Love the lego idea! We would collect those.) How about smashed pennies. Smashed pennies are OK, not great so TPLgolfball. A good quality, clean, newish golfball is good swag for someone if it's in a big enough cache, and there are none in there already! (Wouldn't interest us, but they're ok, some people like them.) How about some marbles? Quote
GOF and Bacall Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 As long as it is in ok shape sure. But please, not one of those cut up things the range tossed in the trash. How about a quarter in its place? Quote
+AmphibianTrackers Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 As long as it is in ok shape sure. But please, not one of those cut up things the range tossed in the trash. How about a quarter in its place? I guess quarters are OK but we never pick them up. How about hiking guides? Quote
GOF and Bacall Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 Hiking guides are good if it is a clean, dry cache. Perhaps we could trade Fianccetto's marbles for one. Quote
Winxx Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 Hiking guides are good if it is a clean, dry cache. Perhaps we could trade Fianccetto's marbles for one. I'd take the marbles since I seem to have lost mine. I've got some little trinkets sitting around, made of both wood and stone. Different animal shapes. 1 Quote
+AmphibianTrackers Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 My daughter would like the animal shapes. She has a shelf for them. Hand sanitizing wipes. Quote
+Team Pixos Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 No to the wipes I take nothing that could be tampered with Legos - yes Craft items - yes Hotwheels - yes Any trading card - yes My son LOVES golf balls Marbled -yes Glow sticks can be deadly to four legged cache crashers How about polished stones? Quote
+terrkan78 Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 Hand sanitizing wipes are nice and practical. The parents will appreciate them. My favorite thing to find (and leave) in a cache are foreign coins. Quote
+Fianccetto Posted August 13, 2011 Author Posted August 13, 2011 Polished stones...If they are semi precious stones (tiger's eye, amethyst, fluorite) we love those, and collect them. One year my kids got (named) stones in their advent calendars instead of chocolate! (They loved it, really they did! ) We love the foreign coins as well. What about a set of water-based felt tipped pens? Quote
+Nymns Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 Hand sanitizing wipes are nice and practical. The parents will appreciate them. My favorite thing to find (and leave) in a cache are foreign coins. I love finding foreign coins and polished stones. How about individually packaged bug repellant wipes? Quote
+AmphibianTrackers Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 If they are in good condition with no obvious tampering, we would appreciate them. What about a small sewing kit protected by a baggy? Quote
+adriftatsea Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 How about some old Garbage Pail Kids cards? Quote
TheCacheSeeker Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 Sewing kit: sounds good. Make sure its protected. Be careful with the needle. You don't want a little kid to get poked. Quote
+Alkhalikoi Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 Hand sanitizing wipes are nice and practical. The parents will appreciate them. My favorite thing to find (and leave) in a cache are foreign coins. My favorite thing to leave are foreign coins! I was in Costa Rica on business in May and kept asking folks to give me change in Colones, rather than US (the country operates at 500:1 without any sort of hesitation about taking one or the other -- but the tendency is to give you change in US if you give them US). The looks I got were amusing -- Why on Earth would you want a 5 colones coin? The answer, of course, was to have about 4 pounds in loose Costa Rica money to leave as swag! I did the same thing in South Korea -- at the hotel, they had a couple of rolls of W10 coins -- worth about 1 cent each -- so I bought them and I had cool trade stuff for weeks! Quote
+Nature Kids Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 Hand sanitizing wipes are nice and practical. The parents will appreciate them. I thought the same & put a sealed wipe in a cache of mine, a year later did some manintaince, because of logs saying wet/damp log....wipe was tattered & still in the bottom of cache, opened it & it was almost dried out, Log book was damp & falling apart. Cache container was a metal, wide mouth thermos... Quote
+The Flying Ks Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 Old Garbage Pail Kids Cards: We wouldn't take them but I'm sure LOTS of people would Leaving: Obsidian Arrow Heads for the polished stones Quote
+AmphibianTrackers Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 Love Obsidian Arrow heads will trade for load of shark teeth. 8) Quote
+Fianccetto Posted August 13, 2011 Author Posted August 13, 2011 Ooh, shark teeth, never found those, or arrow heads. Nice items to see. What about a pair of small cupboard doorknobs (about 0.75 inches across) made of wood, in original box? Would there be any takers? Quote
+AmphibianTrackers Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 Might be. On the other hand it might be a hard sell. Depends on the finders I would think. Bouncy balls. Quote
+Fianccetto Posted August 13, 2011 Author Posted August 13, 2011 Bouncy balls are great (even if they do make me look like unfit & ungainly, but they're great swag!) I have a bag of plastic bits - they are samples from a company that makes/made extruded plastic. All different colours. Useful art/craft finds, or rubbish? Quote
+AmphibianTrackers Posted August 14, 2011 Posted August 14, 2011 What sorts of plastic bits? Are they shapes? Is it clear that they can be used for something Reusable shopping bags. Quote
+Hot Pepper Crew Posted August 14, 2011 Posted August 14, 2011 Reusable shopping bag as long as the cache is big enough and dry enough. That's all we use when we shop and they're nice to have. Deck of casino playing cards (used by the casino, but still have the "Official Casino Playing Cards" seal on them that the casino puts on before distributing to players. Obviously in a dry cache or in a small ziploc baggy that is just big enough for the cards. Quote
flavored Posted August 14, 2011 Posted August 14, 2011 (edited) Don't think I would take the reusable shopping bags - unless it is some sort of canvas tote bag? Then maybe -edit- Someone posted at the same time as me! Hehe - The cards, hmmm I am not sure! As you stated, would definitely need to be in a dry cache... If they are real nifty, then probably!! Little Army Men!! Edited August 14, 2011 by flavored Quote
+Cliff's Notes Posted August 14, 2011 Posted August 14, 2011 (edited) I would grab an obsidian arrowhead and drop off acrylic dice *Both items do not need to be bagged as they stand up well to moisture Edited August 14, 2011 by Cliff's Notes Quote
+Fianccetto Posted August 14, 2011 Author Posted August 14, 2011 The casino cards and the little army men are both excellent. We would leave them for someone else, probably, but a lot of people would swap for them. (I just bought a pack of little lego army men to leave as swag! ) How about gummed craft paper, all different colours? Is there a way to package it so it won't all stick together in one lump? Quote
+Fianccetto Posted August 14, 2011 Author Posted August 14, 2011 (edited) Hey cliff notes, I got the arrow heads! What is left in the box is the cupboard knobs, the plastic shapes (useless unless you are plastics sculptor or junk modeler) and some gummed paper! I think this game might be demonstrating how swag gets worse. Maybe I didn't trade up. Ok then, I will throw in a macdonald's toy and a rosette with '1st' written on it. Edited August 14, 2011 by Fianccetto Quote
+AmphibianTrackers Posted August 14, 2011 Posted August 14, 2011 Hhhhmmmm, not sure on the gummed paper...never heard of it but it sounds as if it gets gummy. McDonald's toy? Depends. Don't need any rosettes. How about a new pair of the inexpensive garden gloves? Quote
+Cliff's Notes Posted August 14, 2011 Posted August 14, 2011 Gummed paper??? Are we talking ZigZags cause "Dave's not here" Fine I grab the "Gummed Paper" to make room for my dayglow orange acrylic dice Quote
+Fianccetto Posted August 14, 2011 Author Posted August 14, 2011 Gummed paper??? Are we talking ZigZags cause "Dave's not here" Fine I grab the "Gummed Paper" to make room for my dayglow orange acrylic dice Have fun with the gummed paper. There is a very thin layer of glue on the back of each sheet (like the glue on envelopes you need to lick to close) it's similar to the type of craft paper Matisse made his Snail from (but not quite!) I don't think I'll be putting them in a cache...maybe my kids can use them for a paper mache project. And stick the bits of plastic on too.. Quote
+AmphibianTrackers Posted August 14, 2011 Posted August 14, 2011 We always like dice. How could one every have enough? Scrabble letter tiles. Quote
WanderingWoodsman Posted August 14, 2011 Posted August 14, 2011 Scrabble tiles might be a hard sell. However, someone might be interested. How about a complete alphabet of fridge letter magnets (all different colors). Obviously this has to go into a larger cache. Quote
+Fianccetto Posted August 14, 2011 Author Posted August 14, 2011 I would love the scrabble letters. I want to collect those up for mosaic projects. I have some new, cheap (kid's) gardening gloves to add. Quote
+Yetiatlarge Posted August 14, 2011 Posted August 14, 2011 How about those key chain thingies with the strap that goes around your neck. I get them from Nascar races and bike nights at the local watering hole. They usually have beer brand names on the straps. Quote
+The Flying Ks Posted August 14, 2011 Posted August 14, 2011 Would not take McDonalds toy, Lanyard, cards, or scrabble tiles... Would take a shark tooth in a heartbeat. Maybe kids garden gloves as long as the cache was dry. Would leave a 1/2 (cut) small geode for the tooth or gloves. Quote
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