Good things to use as travel bugs?

[CACAHUETES]

Hi guys, 'Huetes here.

 

I was thinking that a toy car would be good if I punched out some of the windows and threaded the dog tag through, but has anyone else got any good ideas?

 

Thanks

 

'Huetes

[+mpilchfamily]

Just about any small toy you can attach to a TB has be attached to one and sent on its way. I'll be sending a tag/coin out soon that will have a signature item attached to it.

 

There are TBs attached to hub caps, large stuffed animals, tools and all sorts of crazy things. Try looking up variations of the TB# on your tags and see what comes up. You know change a letter or number in there. Most travelers have pictures on there page so you can see what they look like.

[+dfx]

A can of SPAM...

[+NanCycle]

Lots of ideas on what to use and what not to use here:

 

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=64691

[hoosier guy]

I have done the toy car TB. Anything that is sturdy sould work really. Don't keep the bead chain too long though, they get wrapped around stuff and break.

[+the hermit crabs]

I've recently started going through all of our dead travel bugs, and releasing new ones on the COPY tags. We've probably re-used about 30 so far, but we still have a bunch of others that haven't been heard from in years. Sometimes, if I have a similar item to attach, I will keep the same name and mission as before; sometimes I change it completely (but never delete the old logs).

 

Here is a picture of the most recent dozen re-used bugs in the process of getting ready for re-release:

 

What they all have in common:

• They're small -- caches tend to be smaller these days than they used to be, and it can be hard to find ones big enough to hold regular-sized bugs.
  
• They are all made of plastic or metal: nothing cloth or paper or wood or anything that will be damaged in a wet cache.
  
• They are all things that we have found in caches, and thought were interesting enough to trade for, but hopefully not interesting enough to steal. (Although I can imagine a certain type of person being unable to resist "Howdy Kitty".)
  

Edited September 21, 2011 by the hermit crabs