Time capsule cache?

[beetsprouts]

Has anyone done this idea yet? A time capsule whereby finders add items that they think represent the present era, but they don't take anything. When full, the cache becomes dormant for a specified amount of time ("Don't open until the year 2020" for example), and the owner (or whomever the owner wants to bequest it to) retrieves it at that time.

[+Jayman11]

Cool idea....but the problem is, you're always gonna have someone that won't play by the rules and will see something cool in there and just take it.

[AZcachemeister]

The main problem I see is the assumption that Geocaching (as we know it) will still exist in 2020.

[Clan Riffster]

The main problem I see is the assumption that Geocaching (as we know it) will still exist in 2020.

As long as there are film cans and uninspiring stretches of roadway, Geocaching will continue...

[AZcachemeister]

...film cans...

 

Or perhaps their equivalent...

[+bflentje]

The main problem I see is the assumption that Geocaching (as we know it) will still exist in 2020.

 

We will have destroyed ourselves before then.

[+Walts Hunting]

The only way to make it dormant would be to archive it and you would not be able to unarchive it in 2020. The only way would be to put it out for collection for a year. Archive it. Pick up the container (which would probably only contain trashy McCrap anyhow) and the put it back out in 2020.