Where do you get your bits?

[spog]

Where does everyone get the bits & pieces to make up a cache? I mean the trinkets & the container etc

 

I've found cheap disposable cameras (QD stores are doing them at £2.75), but where's the best place to get a container?

 

Spog

[dawnrazor]

I got my camera from a sports shop, but I suppose its much over muchness really and depends on how good your container is.

 

Tupperware is pretty standard but for my 1st cache I used a BDH plastic screwcap chemical bottle container - so far its proved perfect if not a little small.

 

I'm tempted to try an army surplus container for the next cache I do - seems like a reasonable thing to try and use.

 

Eddie.

[+naffita]

Asda do a range of tupperware type boxes at 97p.

 

As for bits, Poundland, souvenier shops and closing down sales. If you get expensive stuff and it gets nicked you loose a lot. Anyway, its finding the cache and not the value that makes it worthwhile.

 

naffita

[chuffer]

I've just got lots of bits for the Great Yorkshire Cache Hunt at Baker Ross

[+Nia]

Poundstretcher have 7 boxes for £2.99 ranging from 5.6 LTR down to 0.2 LTR and cameras for £2.50 and spiral notebooks for 67pence

Tesco ect. have zip-up food bags.

Army surplus have ammo boxes but they are about £5.00

 

[This message was edited by Nia on March 20, 2002 at 06:59 AM.]

[JasonW]

Woolworths have some "high-security" boxes - with fold down clip flaps (for want of a better way to describe them) to hold the lid on tight with a rubber seal too..... not expensive either about £1.50 for a 2 litre box (I think)

[The Quilted Camel]

...and those boxes JasonW mentions are 100% waterproof & 100% airtight (it says so on the bottom of the boxes so it must be true!)

[JasonW]

In trying to get some more at a different (ie. smaller) branch of Woolies they didn't have any - so it looks like only larger branches stock these super duper boxes.

 

Prices range from 70p (350 ml) to £2.00 (2.0 litre)

 

There's one planted out there now, but not yet active.... so we'll see how it holds up in "battlefield" conditions

[JasonW]

In trying to get some more at a different (ie. smaller) branch of Woolies they didn't have any - so it looks like only larger branches stock these super duper boxes.

 

Prices range from 70p (350 ml) to £2.00 (2.0 litre)

 

There's one planted out there now, but not yet active.... so we'll see how it holds up in "battlefield" conditions

[spog]

I especially got out of bed on saturday to go to Woolies & they didn't seem to sell them (I hate saturday shopping crowds)

 

What section would I find them in - are they household, tools, cars or wot?

 

Spog

[spog]

I especially got out of bed on saturday to go to Woolies & they didn't seem to sell them (I hate saturday shopping crowds)

 

What section would I find them in - are they household, tools, cars or wot?

 

Spog

[JasonW]

In the MetroCentre branch (if you hate Saturday shopping crowds, I guarantee I hate the MetroCentre more) they were in the kitchenware.

 

[spog]

Best deal so far has to be Poundstretcher. £2.99 buys you 7 tupperware containers. Biggest is a whopping 5.6l, with the rest incrementally smaller. That's 3/4 caches for £3, with something to keep your sandwiches in as well!

 

Poundstretcher - the official shop of Geocaching!