Where do you find items to place in your caches?

[Guest Dave P]

When I started putting together my first few caches, I looked through stuff I already had around the house. Items from my many collections: coins, key chains, small toys, etc. Recently however, when my wife and I are out shopping or on vacation, we will look for things that we think would be interesting to find in a cache. We look, of course, at the dollar stores, but we have found nice things in nature stores and tourist shops. You can find really nice items, cheap, at stores having sales or going out of business. We have as much fun looking for things to include in our caches and hiding them, as we do searching for other caches.