Guest Anton Posted March 17, 2001 Share Posted March 17, 2001 Let's create a forum for the definitive: "Top 20-Under $20 List Cache Prize List" If we offer suggestions and vote on them, we will eventually create a definitive list. Of course, we wouldn't want every cache to have the same prizes, but this will be an interesting and useful list for the Geocaching FAQ file. It will also help to define the sport of geocaching. Below are my suggestions, along with some that appeared in other posts about best cache prizes. Yes, there are more than 20 items here, just to get you thinking. IMHO, list items should NOT require sizing, and should be purchased new, with the exception of burned CD-Rs and 3.5 Floppy disks. Tissue Pack: $1 Toilet Paper: $1 Unique Pin-On Button: $1 Packet of Handwashers: $1 Bottle of Spring Water: $1 CD-R or 3.5 Floppy: $1 Box of Bandaids: $2 Rubber "Pinky" Ball: $2 Bandana Hankerchief: $2 Military Web Belt: $3 Can of Nuts: $4 Yo-Yo: $5 Jumprope: $5 Corkscrew: $5 35mm Film: $5 Magnifier: $5 AA Batteries: $5 Wristband Compass: $5 Carabiner: $5-10 Hiker's Thermometer: $5-10 Survival-Coach-Bird Whistle: $5-10 Opinel Pocket Knife: $8-10 Field Guide or Outdoors Book: $5-20 Harmonica: $10-15 Mini-Maglite: $10-15 NASA Space Pen: $10-20 Photon Micro-Light: $15-20 Swiss Army Keychain Knife: $15-20 NOAA Weather Radio: $20 Leatherman Micra Mini-Tool: $20 ---- Here are some reference sites for details. Fisher NASA Space Pen - the original Non-Fisher pens sell for less than $20 http://www.spacepen.com/usa/index2.htm Photon & Photon II Micro-Lights http://www.photonlight.com/index2.html Leatherman Micra Mini-Tool http://www.knifecenter.com/knifecenter/leatherman/micra.html NOAA Weather Radio - sold at Radio Shack http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/ Let's see your items/votes. This is fun! Anton ------------------ Anton Ninno, N2RUD Syracuse, NY 13210 [This message has been edited by Anton (edited 03-17-2001).] [This message has been edited by Anton (edited 03-18-2001).] Quote Link to comment
Guest Quinnow Posted March 17, 2001 Share Posted March 17, 2001 Anton...Not sure about syracuse, but here in Rochester we have what is called the "dollar store", everything in it is just a buck. You can make an excellant cache for about 12.00 and a great one for 20.00. by the way...GO ORANGEMEN! you need to drive west and check out some of the caches in this area. The one up in naples,NY I found (was first to find) and it was a great cache and a beautiful spot. feel free to contact me, would love to go over some upstate caching with you! ------------------ Quinn Stone Rochester, NY. Navicache.com Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 Just thought I'd bring this one back from the dead. "Men don't stop playing because they get old, they get old because they stop playing" Oliver Wendell Holmes Quote Link to comment
+lostinjersey Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 I can;t find it now but someone commented that your avatar is downright scary. Not only is that true but I ran into your brother last night at the Weird NJ Issue 19 party. Dude, do you have any sexy british superheroes from the 60's in your family? Sheesh! Y'all remind of that episode of the Simpsons where they the dentist tries to convince Ralph Wiggum to brush by showing him "The Big Book of British Smiles" www.gpswnj.com Quote Link to comment
+Centaur Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat:Just thought I'd bring this one back from the dead. After Gwho's picture, maybe this one should have stayed dead. Quote Link to comment
+kevin917z Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 i put lots of great items in my cache 5-15 dollar items i had laying around, only to have them taken by people who dont know how to trade fairly the cache is being lowered in quality everytime someone visits it Quote Link to comment
+Kouros Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 Near to me there's a fantastic store called Hawkin's Bazaar (it's not advertising - I'm farly confident they haven't dominated the world... yet). There they sell a huge variety of games and toys, and all for fantastic prices. Magnetic games (which are fast becoming my signature item) of Chess, Backgammon, Nine Men's Morris etc are all 99p each. Other items, like slinkys, truth tellers, even up to proper board games all cost less than about a tenner. Only the big games and gadgets (that wouldn't fit in a cache anyway) cost more. And now that I'm starting to trade less, and just putting these items in caches for the hell of it. I don't worry about others trading "down", since these games were so cheap to begin with. ------ O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. Hamlet, II.2 252-253 Quote Link to comment
mtnsteve Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 Around here the higher level caches (3.5/5) seem to have the "best" stuff...no problem with folks trading down (yet)...most actually seem to trade up. We have a fellow around here that was putting altimeters in his caches...needless to say there was a rush to be the first. Another cacher's signature item is a first aid kit....been told I need to include one of those in a couple of my caches. How about some poison oak soap for those areas infested with the stuff. Cheap compass's, I've seen a couple that work quite well and only cost around $5.00 Hey Brian...which one's your brother, the one on the left or the one on the right???? ____________________________________________________________ It's not about the mistakes we make, it's about what we learn from them.... Quote Link to comment
+GoldKey Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 I would take the following things off the list: Spring Water/Can of Nuts (I would not eat or drink anything found in a cache) Chris "We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile. We are the Borg." Quote Link to comment
+lostinjersey Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 quote:Originally posted by GoldKey:I would take the following things off the list: Spring Water/Can of Nuts (I would not eat or drink anything found in a cache) I dunno, the water should be okay, seen that left a bunch of times. it's sealed with that rip-off ring thing. Nuts I agree even if its sealed its a bad idea because of animals www.gpswnj.com Quote Link to comment
+leatherman Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 quote:Originally posted by GoldKey:I would take the following things off the list: Spring Water/Can of Nuts (I would not eat or drink anything found in a cache) No form of food should be placed in any cache. I take out anything I find that has a scent. Food, soap, candles. Preparation, the first law to survival. Mokita! Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 Sorry for bringing this thread back from the dead (heck it's over a year old) But my some of the items in my top 20 faves of items to add to a cache are: Rolls of 35mm film. Emergency ponchos. Jump Ropes. Water Color kits. Space blankets. Bags of Bungee Cords. Eyeglass repair kits. Boxes of crayons. New Matchbox cars (or Hot Wheels). Packs of AA batteries. Carabiners. Everyready squeeze lights. Wheresgeorge bills. Old coins. CD's. New calculators and cheap electronic puzzles. Find-a-key tabs. Hardware, including mini screwdriver kits. Nice gifts received that I have no use for. Clams. [This message was edited by BrianSnat on October 27, 2002 at 05:03 PM.] Quote Link to comment
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