Rubbertoe Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 This can either be in a cache you've hidden, or one that you have just visited. If I had the cash, I'd be putting all sorts of nice stuff into my caches - but that isn't my reality. So far, the best thing I've put into a cache has either been the Garmin eTrex leather (like?) case that I put in one of my own caches, or perhaps the 4-in-1 PCMCIA(?) adapter card thing for CF, SmartMedia, MMC, and Memory Stick flash memory cards that I put in my latest cache - which hasn't yet had its first finder. Granted, the pc card will probably be borked by the cold weather by time someone finds it, but hey... (I hope I don't get markwelled.) The Toe Pages Quote Link to comment
+Mopar Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 I have an old radar detector that is destined for my next cache hide. Tae-Kwon-Leap is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon. Quote Link to comment
+leatherman Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 I made a pair of Jason Binoculars into a travel bug. I didn't use them anymore. They were about $80. BTW Someone has stolen Jason. If you do not extend your expectations unto others, you will not be disappointed by the stupid things they do. Mokita! Quote Link to comment
+Chazman007 Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Like Mopar, I have an old Radar detector ready to go in my next cache, along with an outdated pair of Varnet Sunglasses. Quote Link to comment
+st_richardson Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 ...a stud finder ($10 value) and a collectors Monopoly watch. Quote Link to comment
+a182pilot Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 In one of my caches I put a pair of Nikon Binoculars, they were traded for by the first finder for Playdoh. A182pilot He who angers you, controls you. Quote Link to comment
Rubbertoe Posted December 3, 2002 Author Share Posted December 3, 2002 Leatherman: That's impressive... it actually made a few hops before it was taken, which is amazing in itself. Now everyone gets to look at Martikay with a suspicious eye. (j/k - but it sucks to be him, imho) A182: *laugh* That sounds about right... hehe The Toe Pages Quote Link to comment
umc Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Traded for Playdoh?!?! thats hard to believe I've put a USB network card in a cache before after that I would have to say a $10.00 Mini Mag light. I was first finder to Novi Tree Treasure and there was a $20.00 gift card to REI in there for the first finder that I thought was pretty nice. I left over that amount in goods so it was nice to have the gift cert to help replace some of that. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Not so sure, Somewhat new Owner Of a Garmin GPS V Received on 10-03-02 Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 I loaded up the one cache that I've hidden with about $45 worth of new items. The most expensive where a couple of $10 nature books (Regularly $18, but I got them off a sale table) along with some $6 books (also on sale). Several visitors commented on how the cache was a nice reference library. So far only one of the books has been taken. Quote Link to comment
+manuelcasi Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 evil grin...'ONE MILLION DOLLARS.... what oh really ok then.....ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS'... evil grin... www.ManuelCasillas.com Quote Link to comment
+Team Finn Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 The nicest thing I have put in a cache was (like umc) a mini-mag flashlight. Did a $10 bill once too. Unlike the Playdoh trader, I try to trade up whenever I can. Me ambivalent? Well..... yes and no. Quote Link to comment
+Logscaler and Red Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 In this cache : http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=27274 We started out with six $5 gift certficates as well as a flock of other items. I also left a nice pair of older optics in a cache and they where one of the first things to go, also in a cheap trade -"Took the binoculars and left a teddy-bear frame. THANKS YOU FOR THE HUNT!!" - but hey, I am not trying to get rich at this. I also like to trade up even if I have to empty out my pockets. But then again, sometimes all ya have is all ya have and ya gotta have IT. Quote Link to comment
+SteveL Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Still there, as far as I can tell. It was part of the inital contents, placed on 9/30/02. Vista Squared Cache SteveL Wherever you go, there you are. Quote Link to comment
Cache Canucks Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 The most valuable thing I left in a cache was some PlayDoh (...traded it for a really cool pair of Nikon binoculars). Quote Link to comment
+Planet Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 The second cache, Cathedral In The Pines, that I hid, I tried to put in some things that were more appealing to cache seekers. One item I put in there I liked, so I bought 2, was a wrist wallet from Sports Authority. It Velcros around your wrist and you can carry your cache, I mean cash, and keys in it. I just stocked up on more goodies today, ie: mini leatherman type tools, more blaze orange vests to keep my fellow cachers safe in the woods, some compass/whistle/thermometer combo key rings, a compass, blaze orange knitted caps for kids, the ever popular firsts aid kits, and a mini mag flashlight, but that's for me now, after I discovered you can take the lens end off and stick the battery end in the lens end and stand it up like a candle and light the whole tent up. Cool item. And my egg ornaments are absolutely priceless of course, because I put my heart and soul into them . Cache you later, Planet Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right, But Three Lefts Do. Quote Link to comment
umc Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 *umc waits for the cachers who leave thousands of dollars in caches to show up in this thread* ______________________________________________________________________________________ Not so sure, Somewhat new Owner Of a Garmin GPS V Received on 10-03-02 Quote Link to comment
+Alan2 Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Here's a question I've kinda wondered about. How do you trade up from an $80 pair of binoculars? I mean, if you leave an expensive item, what do you expect the cacher who is coming to leave? - his wallet? It seems to mean that expensive items really leave little choice but to leave something cheaper. No? Discussion. Alan Quote Link to comment
+Mr. 0 Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 On the first, and so far only, cache we've hidden, "Where Eagles Soar" we had about $100 worth of inital contents. The single most "expensive" item is a $20 Meijer gift card....it's still there, as are most of the inital contents. I've also added a few things on subsequent maintence trips, so the ammo box is pretty much stuffed full, literally. Quote Link to comment
+Centaur Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 I have put little $6-7 tool kits in a cache and trade item once in a while. I stock up on "interesting" stuff at American Science and Surplus... Everything from rubber frogs to Blinkies... Why can't some of these $1000 cache hiders live closer to Chicago? Quote Link to comment
+Stunod Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 I think Alan is right...but I also assume that it is the good feeling from "giving" an expensive item that people enjoy. You will have to expect someone to "trade down" on most of them. "Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand." Quote Link to comment
+manuelcasi Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 quote:Originally Posted by UMC*umc waits for the cachers who leave thousands of dollars in caches to show up in this thread* My One Hundred Billion Dollars wasn't good enough? www.ManuelCasillas.com Quote Link to comment
Captain Leno Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Is alway's a silver coin or two... Usually Merc Dimes. I am an avid metal detectorist and have hords of Old Silver... So, when you visit a cache that I placed, be sure to look for the Silver. I usually, put in more as I do Maintenance also. One cache I placed, I actually buried several silver dimes around for anyone who desired to take along a detector. That was kinda neat. Quote Link to comment
targetdrone Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 I left a PS2 game in a cache I hid. The one I hid yesterday had music and books only. It has instructions to stay that way. Time will tell. "I can't find the longitude for the North Pole" Quote Link to comment
mortonfox Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Alan2:Here's a question I've kinda wondered about. How do you trade up from an $80 pair of binoculars? I I wouldn't take the binoculars since I already have binoculars but let's say there's something expensive and highly desirable that I want to trade out. Provided I can remember the way back to parking, I could leave my Etrex. It's *ahem* gently used and comes preloaded with hundreds of waypoints. I could leave my digital camera. I could leave thousands of (Where's George) dollars. I could go back to the car for a better trade item. How about a spare tire or The Club ® or a Garmin Etrex cigarette lighter adapter? Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Probably a new automobile, I/O thermometer and road ice alarm. I received it as a gift and subsequently saw it in the Hammacker-Schlemmer (sp?) catalog for around $40. I didn't want to deal with installing it, so I put it in a cache. Think of Stayfloopy, who found over 1,200 caches and puts a few wheresgeorge.com bills in each one. Now that's a bundle! "You can't make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs, but by standing a flock of sheep in that position, you can make a crowd of men" -Max Beerbohm Quote Link to comment
Rubbertoe Posted December 3, 2002 Author Share Posted December 3, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Alan2:Here's a question I've kinda wondered about. How do you trade up from an $80 pair of binoculars? I mean, if you leave an expensive item, what do you expect the cacher who is coming to leave? - his wallet? You are right... leaving something expensive shouldn't mean that you expect someone to trade equally for it. I guess I never made that clear any time that I've broughten it up... but yes, when I left those better things in a cache, it was more like a nice prize for the first finder - with the rest of the stuff being left for the next people that came along. Hmm... next time I do that, I'm going to make it a little clearer on the description page that I'm not trying to pressure someone into trading even for the good item. Tnx for bringing that up. Deform My Head! Quote Link to comment
Team Bohica Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Most expensive thing I've left was a Palm Pilot I no longer needed. I think I traded for a stress ball or something along those lines. I was first finder to the cache in the middle of the night in some of the worst flooding Central Texas has had in a while. I had to cross a flooding creek at midnight by searching around for rocks to make stepping stones. Not my smartest hunt, but since it was so memorable I decided to leave something really nice. -- Welcome to nowhere.nu. Now go home! Quote Link to comment
+GatoRx Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 In the first cache I hid (the only one at the moment, but another should be coming soon), I put a t-shirt featuring one of the animated members of the band Gorillaz. I won a prize pack of stuff from the band after answering a Simpsons' trivia contest in the local paper; the shirt was too small for me, and it seemed like a nice item for a fellow cacher and fan of the band. It was taken by the first finder, who managed to beat another couple who really wanted it. ---- When in doubt, poke it with a stick. Quote Link to comment
+ZachMJ2345 Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 In the first cache we hid, we put quite a few nice things in it. There were 2 digital cameras, one of the webcam variety, the other a broken (but fixable for about 20 bucks) Kodak DC215. 300 dollar camera at the time. The individual(s) who took those did not log their find (or what they really took) however. I was a little peeved. Also in that cache was a collectors Monopoly lunchbox, which was taken and used for another cache in our area by a nice team of cachers. There were a couple cds, a computer game, and some software in that cache also. Needless to say it was a pretty large sized cache, and we put a lot of other "typical" cache objects in it too. The difficulty on that cache was pretty high though, lots of hills (and lots of complaints from cachers that they were tired afterwards). So I think the nice loot inside was well deserved. -Zach -Team TSA- Quote Link to comment
Rubbertoe Posted December 3, 2002 Author Share Posted December 3, 2002 You know how I said I wish I could leave nicer stuff? Well, that is probably half because I want to be a nice guy and just put some nice stuff out there for the folks that would bother to seek my cache... but the other half of me would be doing it to watch the cache and see who lies, sneaks, and fights there way there to take one or all of the items. Kind of like a little experiment on human greed and honesty. I mean, think about it - if you hide five different caches around your home state, each with ten $10 bills in them... you think any of them would actually have to have 10 different finders before all the cash would be gone? That'd be a miracle. Deform My Head! Quote Link to comment
DisQuoi Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 I work for a large consulting company ("delivering results that endure"). Ocassionally they throw you a nice plaque for a job well done ... it usually comes with a gift certificate worth about $50 redeemable at the company store. I've used three of these such occasions to "purchase" a fossil watch, a cool cross pen, and a pull-over jacket. I've placed them in three different caches of mine with specific instruction that the finder need not trade for them ... that they are finder's prizes. In most cases, people have left nicer than normal trade items but nothing you don't occasionally see in caches anyway. I wouldn't expect people to trade up for such items, especially because they have my employer's name on them and I didn't pay for them myself. Quote Link to comment
+PI Joe Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 I am working on placing a new multi-cache in Austin, Tx and the final stage is one of those bright orange Home Depot 5-gallon pails. I filled it with t-shirts, AM/FM radios, mouse pads, pens, and mechanical pencils plus my old GPS, a Magellan GPS2000. They are currently going for about $50 on eBay. Lou Catozzi AKA TxHiPowr Quote Link to comment
mortonfox Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat: Think of Stayfloopy, who found over 1,200 caches and puts a few wheresgeorge.com bills in each one. Now that's a bundle! And therefore, I'm showing up in this thread as umc asked. Quote Link to comment
+Salvelinus Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 In my "Serenity" Cache I had a $20 bill for the first finder and a $10 bill for the second finder. I just felt this would be a tough one to find and the first couple of finders should be rewarded. I'll get some of it back since Enfanta was the first finder and she still owes me a beer This has been my favorite cache hidden so far. The logs are great! Check it out if you can. The experience is worth it...although the items are now severly reduced in value. Salvelinus "The trail will be long and full of frustrations. Life is a whole and good and evil must be accepted together" Ralph Abele Quote Link to comment
Dinoprophet Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Rubbertoe:Kind of like a little experiment on human greed and honesty. Integrity Cache A happy tale. But geocaching is more popular now; I wonder if the result would be the same today. I hope so. Now cache away, cache away, cache away all! Quote Link to comment
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