At least he was honest...

October 23, 2003

Actually saw this in a cache log:

"Left 63 cents and took wheres george bill."

I don't know that I'd have the guts to post that I traded 63 cents for a dollar. Or maybe he thought that "trading up" means take more than you leave.

8.4k · October 23, 2003

Ummmm, who cares? Both are poor excuses for trade items.

I found 7 cents posted in a cache for trade once.

Sngans

If you are not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. - Woody Allen

1.5k · October 23, 2003

Where's George dollars aren't a poor excuse for a trade item. They're a trackable item from anouther game. Imho, they're better than used chewing gum and McToys...

38.2k · October 23, 2003

quote:
Both are poor excuses for trade items

A lot of people like WG$'s. They're very popular in my area. Personlly, I'd rather find a WG$ in a cache than a plastic soldier, chewn by the family dog.

"You can't make a man by standing a sheep on his hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position, you can make a crowd of men" - Max Beerbohm

3.9k · October 23, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Mr. Snazz:
Where's George dollars aren't a poor excuse for a trade item. They're a trackable item from anouther game. Imho, they're better than used chewing gum and McToys...

I've missed that avatar!

El Diablo

Everything you do in life...will impact someone,for better or for worse.

http://www.geo-hikingstick.com

8.4k · October 23, 2003

I've got 2 WG's in my wallet right now. I got them in change, at a restaurant, during of all things, an event cache. I keep meaning to log 'em, so I carry them around. I will probably place them in a cache that I place, or if I want to even out a trade while running low. I just don't think caches are the right spot to leave loose change. I can understand foriegn money in caches because it is interesting. I have no real dislike for wg's. I just think money defeats the whole barter system.

Sngans

If you are not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. - Woody Allen

8.4k · October 23, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by BrianSnat:

quote:
Both are poor excuses for trade items

A lot of people like WG$'s. They're very popular in my area. Personlly, I'd rather find a WG$ in a cache than a plastic soldier, chewn by the family dog.

_"You can't make a man by standing a sheep on his hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position, you can make a crowd of men" - Max Beerbohm_

I would rather see the chewed up soldier. I find it interesting to see what people think is a good trade. Money takes no thought. How many times have you looked into a cache and thought, "What WERE they thinking???" I find that more interesting/entertaining than sad.

Sngans

If you are not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. - Woody Allen

October 23, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Snoogans:
I just don't think caches are the right spot to leave loose change.

Exactly. Who really wants to root around in the bottom of an ammo can for two quarters, a dime, and three pennies.

October 23, 2003

You used to be able to buy a Canadian dollar for 63 cents - but not anymore ! (its now trading at about .76 US)

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

9.4k · October 23, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Wulfster:
Exactly. Who really wants to root around in the bottom of an ammo can for two quarters, a dime, and three pennies.

Actually, I think it was 5 dimes, 2 nickels, and 3 pennies

Took sun from sky, left world in eternal darkness

3k · October 23, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by El Diablo:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr. Snazz:
Where's George dollars aren't a poor excuse for a trade item. They're a trackable item from anouther game. Imho, they're better than used chewing gum and McToys...

I've missed that avatar!

LOL, me too, thats why I asked him to start using it again in chat tonight.

63 cents is an effort. It drives me nuts though to watch my caches and see someone log that they took all this really cool stuff and left some really lame stuff and have no problem with it.

MiGO

__________________________

Caching with a clue....

3.8k · October 23, 2003

This is a log in one of my caches:

quote:
Left quarter,
Took $5 (needed gas to get home)

quote:
Money takes no thought...

You're right; I only leave it if I am unprepared.

And I only take it if it is a silver certificate, or a gold dollar, or a silver dollar, or an old dollar, or a foriegn currency, or a two-dollar bill, or any other denomination bigger than that.

Occassionaly I will take a quater or a dime if I need to make a call or get a cup of coffee.

Oh, and sometimes I'll take a where's george bill (if there's nothing collectable or electronic in the cache).

But the most uninteresting instances of cash in a cache, are when some bozo leaves a big bill as a FTF prize. I would never event attempt something like that.

BTW, it really p1ssed me off when that guy took the $5 dollar bill and left a quarter.

But, anyway, it's just a game, and the important thing is the search!

quote:
I've missed that avatar!

Me, too...

==============="If it feels good...do it"================

**(the other 9 out of 10 voices in my head say: "Don't do it.")**

.

October 23, 2003

This was the other one that I saw:

quote:
Took Geocache sticker and left a quarter.

It just boggles the mind...

8.4k · October 23, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Wulfster:
This was the other one that I saw:

quote:
Took Geocache sticker and left a quarter.

It just boggles the mind...

Why let it? It's wasted energy. When I place a cache, I EXPECT it to be a junk box in just over a dozen trades. I consider my caches to be gifts. I care not about the items. I only want the log book when it's full.

Sngans

If you are not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. - Woody Allen

October 23, 2003

I just take all the money and leave a trinket in return. I'm broke, but have plenty of trinkets.

--Tree

(o< -!!

// Never laugh at live

V_/_ penguins.

1k · October 23, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Snoogans:
I've got 2 WG's in my wallet right now. I got them in change, at a restaurant, during of all things, an event cache. I keep meaning to log 'em, so I carry them around. I will probably place them in a cache that I place, or if I want to even out a trade while running low. I just don't think caches are the right spot to leave loose change. I can understand foriegn money in caches because it is interesting. I have no real dislike for wg's. I just think money defeats the whole barter system.

I guess it must depend upon your point of view. I can see your point of view and I hope you can see mine. I like to trade Where's George dollars. They're fun to track.

If I find a Sacagewea dollar, I'll trade it for a Where's George dollar. I don't usually leave a Where's George dollar in a cache unless there's a dollar to trade even. Yeah, I know trade up, but at least I'm not trading down.

Webfoot

Veni...Vidi...Vicachi.

I came...I saw...I geocached.

Southern California Geocaching

2.1k · October 23, 2003

I used to think cash in a cache was a cheap trade item. Hated myself in the morning when I did it. Now I collect all the coins and bills not intended to be travelers and send it to my favorite geocaching association when the stack reaches $10.00.

8.4k · October 23, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Team Sagefox:
I used to think cash in a cache was a cheap trade item. Hated myself in the morning when I did it. Now I collect all the coins and bills not intended to be travelers and send it to my favorite geocaching association when the stack reaches $10.00.

Hey now, I'm gonna post that on texasgeocaching.com. Great idea!

Sngans

If you are not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. - Woody Allen

October 24, 2003

Direct quote: Since we had friends with us, we took both the toy and the Where's George bill. We left two beadlings: a girl and an ant.

What are beadlings one may ask??

Little glass beads hooked together with wire. I just hope children are the ones making these things.

October 24, 2003

I left $1 once (or maybe twice) on one (or maybe two) of the first caches I ever visited. I had two kids with me and was a bit unprepared trade-item wise. Since each kid wanted something from the cache, and my trade items were pretty lame, I ended up leaving $1 out of desperation.

Now I know better. I've seen more caches, and seen what kind of trade items people leave. My signature item is a zipper pull with a handmade GPSr bead on it. (so far all I've made are eTrex beads... modelled after my Yellow. )

"You'll curse when the need comes. Make it loud, make it complicated, make it long, and make it up if you have to, but it'll work all right." -Granny Weatherwax

October 24, 2003

I don't mind Where's George dollars -- if that's what some people want to place as trade items that's fine.

But I do find them same ol' same ol' boring so I always pass them by.

There's just a "sameness" about them. Like Finding a travel bug tag without an interest item or backstory attached to it -- just something with some numbers on it.

Of course that's just me.

Jolly R. Blackburn

http://kenzerco.com

"I'd like to buy the world a coke, but I only have fifty cents"

October 24, 2003

I don't care much for cash in a Cache, but the kids love it. They don't care about the WG part of it, but if there's a dollar in the cache, it will be gone before anything else.

There is no spoon

1.1k · October 24, 2003

This might have made sense if it was US$0.63 for CAN$1.00. But I guess you couldn't turn a Canadian Loonie into a WG$.

4.8k · October 24, 2003

quote:
What are beadlings one may ask??

Little glass beads hooked together with wire. I just hope children are the ones making these things.

The beadlings are the ceiligirls signature items. Yes, they are made by the children (aprox. ages 6 and 8). They make various shapes and sizes (e.g. insects, animals etc). I think that is a fair trade. In fact, I keep meaning to go find a cache with them in it so I can collect a couple. The Ceiligirl's mother also recently wrote a very good article on caching for the Lincoln Paper.

pika waving

4.8k · October 24, 2003

quote:
Now I collect all the coins and bills not intended to be travelers and send it to my favorite geocaching association when the stack reaches $10.00.

I was thinking of doing something similar. I think I'll start. I might also see how much I accumulate over a year.

pika waving

5.7k · October 24, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Wulfster:
Actually saw this in a cache log:

"Left 63 cents and took wheres george bill."

I don't know that I'd have the guts to post that I traded 63 cents for a dollar. Or maybe he thought that "trading up" means take more than you leave.

Your problem is that you consider a Where's George Bill the same as $1. Some people treat them more like a travel bug, since they are a trackable item. If you were to look at future logs of that cacher, you might even see a log entry of something like "Took nothing, left a where's george bill."

--Marky

...Be nice to your fellow geocachers, they might be Hemlock...

1.4k · October 24, 2003

Unless they intend to place it in another cache, they traded down. They'll spend it otherwise or give it away.

In any event, the cache was way better off with just the WG bill than with a handful of change that will sit at the bottom of the cache for all eternity.

If you want to make it right, fork up the extra $.37 and go log "Took $63, left WG dollar"

--------

trippy1976 - Team KKF2A

Assimilating golf balls - one geocache at a time.

Michigan Geocaching Organization Homepage

October 24, 2003

Why are people leaving Where's George bills in caches anyway? The whole point of Where's George is to track where the bills NATURALLY circulate! I log 'em immediately and spend them.

October 24, 2003

Wulfster,

I plan on doing one of your caches this weekend, but I've got to gather up a bunch of my loose change first. I've got some Canadian change that is rare around these parts. I bet people will really like that. Thanks for the great suggestions!

--RuffRidr

1.6k · October 24, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Snoogans:
Ummmm, who cares? Both are poor excuses for trade items.

A Where's George dollar will still buy a 20 oz bottle of diet coke. And spending it will further it along to the federal reserve to be destroyed...

They spend just like any other until they hit a bank or somewhere where they get dumped. As long as you aren't the one holding the bag, they make a great trade item, much more useful than a broken mctoy.

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8.4k · October 24, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by bigredmed:

quote:
Originally posted by Snoogans:
Ummmm, who cares? Both are poor excuses for trade items.

A Where's George dollar will still buy a 20 oz bottle of diet coke. And spending it will further it along to the federal reserve to be destroyed...

They spend just like any other until they hit a bank or somewhere where they get dumped. As long as you aren't the one holding the bag, they make a great trade item, much more useful than a broken mctoy.

IMO, A broken McToy is still more interesting to look at than a WG. Money takes absolutely no thought. SOMEONE had to actually THINK that broken McToy was a good trade. I find THAT more interesting than loose change. In many cases that broken toy was much loved by the child who left it. The child is learning about real life give and take. I never complain about finding these things. This IS just a game.

Sngans

If you are not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. - Woody Allen

October 24, 2003

quote:
Where's George dollars aren't a poor excuse for a trade item. They're a trackable item from anouther game. Imho, they're better than used chewing gum and McToys...

What flavor gum are we talking about here?

Bender

Searching, for the lost Xanadu

October 25, 2003

I finally came across a 'beadling', brought it home to the wife to see.

She thought it was ever so cute. I guess now I am on a mission to get these things for her!

LOL

Ya never know!

6.4k · October 25, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Wulfster:
Actually saw this in a cache log:

"Left 63 cents and took wheres george bill."

I don't know that I'd have the guts to post that I traded 63 cents for a dollar. Or maybe he thought that "trading up" means take more than you leave.

Had one just the other day (funny, I was about to quote the log, and when I checked the cacher edited out this part):

quote:
"Found it this afternoon. Took the George, left nothing, sorry. I needed a candy fix though and this $$ will be very helpful."

Mind you, this was in an affluent section of an affluent state. If you are too poor to be able to afford a candy bar, perhaps it's time to pawn the GPS for food?

"This is gc.com, love it or leave it "

October 25, 2003

What is considered "good" trade items for a cache? I have just started in caching and I am just using what I have seen in the caches as a example of what I should leave. So far what I have seen are small toys, bells, pens and such. Just curious??

Seek and you will find....for he who seeks, finds.....

1.7k · October 25, 2003

Mostly, dollar store stuff.

Sometimes toys my daughter no longer plays with, but are not broken, dirty, etc.

Sometimes I just pass along something I got from a different cache.

But, I had a coin dealer friend I know sell me a roll of silver dollars (i.e. Morgans and Peace dollars) and Liberty Walking silver half-dollars. I put those pricier items in caches that are more of a challenge and not likely to be pilfered. I am trying to put a little special coin collecting sparkle in some people's lives.

I certainly wouldn't recommend leaving items that expensive often, if at all. As someone told me after I started leaving these coins: if geo-muggles found out caches had items that were actually worth money, they would go onto GC.COM and start pilfering caches.

DustyJacket

Not all those that wander are lost. But in my case...

October 25, 2003

I have to admit I trade down sometimes, taking a dollar store item and leaving my signature item, a 20CZK coin = $0.732 according to the current rate. But it is quite a nice coin, it has a Czech Lion on the rear and Saint Wenceslas as a horseman on the front side, usually the next cacher takes it. And the official rate is just unreal, you can buy 1-2 beers (half liter pitchers) with it, try it with a dollar :-)

Czech caching in US.

24.7k · October 25, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Haggaeus:
I have to admit I trade down sometimes, taking a dollar store item and leaving my signature item, a 20CZK coin = $0.732 according to the current rate. But it is quite a nice coin, it has a Czech Lion on the rear and Saint Wenceslas as a horseman on the front side, usually the next cacher takes it. And the official rate is just unreal, you can buy 1-2 beers (half liter pitchers) with it, try it with a dollar :-)

Czech caching in US.

That's ok. I'd trade a buck for that coin.

October 26, 2003

Um, err, what's a 'Where's George' Dollar? It must be an American thing. Where can I see a picture of one?

1.7k · October 26, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Panic!:
Um, err, what's a 'Where's George' Dollar? It must be an American thing. Where can I see a picture of one?

It is a normal dollar bill, usually stamped with www.wheresgeorge.com so people know where to go and log in the serial number, and where they got it. It allows you to track a paper dollar as it circulates from city to city.

There are also versions for Euros, Japan, and German and Netherlands sites as well.

DustyJacket

Not all those that wander are lost. But in my case...

[This message was edited by DustyJacket on October 26, 2003 at 06:32 AM.]

38.2k · October 26, 2003

quote:
What is considered "good" trade items for a cache?

Often good items are in the eyes of the finder, but there are some generalities. Don't leave dirty, worn, or broken toys, food, or anything that you would have ordnarily have thrown away.

Do leave items that you would like to find, or ones that you think may be of interest to others.

Having found a few caches, I'm sure you can tell that some people think it's OK to dump out their junk drawer and use geocaches as their personal garbage can. This practice is one that bothers many of us.

"You can't make a man by standing a sheep on his hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position, you can make a crowd of men" - Max Beerbohm

October 26, 2003

quote:
I finally came across a 'beadling', brought it home to the wife to see.

I too discovered a 'beadling' today for the 1st

time and brought it home for the wife & daughter to see. It was a well done seahorse.

I'm impressed that someone, whether adult or child, actually makes a homemade trade item!

October 26, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by DustyJacket:
It is a normal dollar bill, usually stamped with http://www.wheresgeorge.com so people know where to go and log in the serial number, and where they got it. It allows you to track a paper dollar as it circulates from city to city.

Just a side note on this. On the where's george site, there is an area for explaining tracking where's george's (their rules) that are traveling in geocaches like the bugs. Check out this url:

http://www.wheresgeorge.com/wrapper.php3?page=top10bills_dgc

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Sandy - bite me

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At least he was honest...

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