Do you remeber the first item you took from a cache?

March 6, 2002

Tracy and I get into the truck daily and see the first item we took from our first find- A gold dollar. We've since passed most other items on, but we still have that dollar- it has been with us on every trip since April 2001.

What was your first item?

Richard

6.4k · March 6, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by tecmage:

What was your first item?

Richard

A keychain from Seattle, WA.

Been on the zipper of my daypack ever since.

Illegitimus non carborundum!

6.4k · March 6, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by tecmage:

What was your first item?

Richard

A keychain from Seattle, WA.

Been on the zipper of my daypack ever since.

Illegitimus non carborundum!

March 6, 2002

Oh indeed I do remember. It was a little plastic Fantasia Mickey Mouse figurine. It now sits proudly atop my monitor.

9.4k · March 6, 2002

Strangely enough, nothing. Why? It was a yellow 3x5 card box, with a Sunny Delight drink, camera and logbook in it. That cache hasn't actually ever been logged since I visited it either.

Jeremy

8.9k · March 6, 2002

A flourescent day-glow yellow golf ball and an I (heart) golf keychain.

I hate golf.

But it was one of the best items in the cache.

Left a 50¢ coupon, Mardi Gras beads and a tiny stuffed Mickey Mouse. March 17, 2001 (I had actually already found it on March 13, but didn't tell my wife).

Going on my caching anniversary next Wednesday, if the weather holds.

Markwell

Non omnes vagi perditi sunt

8.9k · March 6, 2002

A flourescent day-glow yellow golf ball and an I (heart) golf keychain.

I hate golf.

But it was one of the best items in the cache.

Left a 50¢ coupon, Mardi Gras beads and a tiny stuffed Mickey Mouse. March 17, 2001 (I had actually already found it on March 13, but didn't tell my wife).

Going on my caching anniversary next Wednesday, if the weather holds.

Markwell

Non omnes vagi perditi sunt

March 6, 2002

Oh yah. I remember my first cache. Boston Run, now archive due to being in a National Parks. I left a musical candy box and some old games on CD and took a spirograph. I still have it.

mcb

March 6, 2002

Yes like a first love you never forget your first cache and the treasure found there. A set of bungee cords that I still have and use. They were taken from the continental divide cache here in montana. Although the most treasured item taken from a cache is the moun10bike geocoin.

sidewinder

Lost and Found dept.

March 6, 2002

Kind of embarassing actually. In typical newbie style we took the 3 Where's George bills, I happened to have 3 kids with me at the time and it seemed perfect to keep them all happy....and of course we never logged these bills. In exchange we left a handful of rubber witch type fingertips and some other little Mc-type-toys. It took us 5-10 finds to bring up the quality of our stashables but we've been trying to make up for those since then.

March 6, 2002

Kind of embarassing actually. In typical newbie style we took the 3 Where's George bills, I happened to have 3 kids with me at the time and it seemed perfect to keep them all happy....and of course we never logged these bills. In exchange we left a handful of rubber witch type fingertips and some other little Mc-type-toys. It took us 5-10 finds to bring up the quality of our stashables but we've been trying to make up for those since then.

March 6, 2002

It was a little 10 piece puzzle on a keychain - formed an IBM ad. It occupies the top left corner of the curio cabinet with all my caching trinkets.

Stamp out and eradicate superfluous redundancy

March 6, 2002

I was so happy that I found it that I didnt even care to take anything....the feeling of accomplishment was all I needed. That is still the same for the tougher caches I do today. I find that the hardest ones are typically the ones I take nothing and leave nothing. The memory is typically I want.

March 6, 2002

I was so happy that I found it that I didnt even care to take anything....the feeling of accomplishment was all I needed. That is still the same for the tougher caches I do today. I find that the hardest ones are typically the ones I take nothing and leave nothing. The memory is typically I want.

7.4k · March 6, 2002

Unfortunately, I don't remember! That was back in September of 2000.

I know that it was Jeremy's SAVI Stash, but I can't remember what I put in or took out. Jeremy, do you by chance remember what you had in that cache?

I know what I put in and took out of my second cache, though: a $1 million bill and a 'Bug's Life' figurine, respectively (thankfully, I put that information in my log, otherwise I doubt that I would remember it, either!).

7.4k · March 6, 2002

Unfortunately, I don't remember! That was back in September of 2000.

I know that it was Jeremy's SAVI Stash, but I can't remember what I put in or took out. Jeremy, do you by chance remember what you had in that cache?

I know what I put in and took out of my second cache, though: a $1 million bill and a 'Bug's Life' figurine, respectively (thankfully, I put that information in my log, otherwise I doubt that I would remember it, either!).

March 6, 2002

A rusty cigarette rolling device which I promptly threw away (don't smoke). I discovered geocaching, bought my Etrex, and found my first 2 caches all in the same day. I remember feeling so pleased with my new hobby that taking something good out of my first cache felt like too much of a good thing. The first thing I found that's still with me is this wonderful handmade papier mache' "Smoky the Bear" complete with ranger hat, bandanna and knapsack. He rides on the dashboard of my bus every time I go caching.

March 6, 2002

A red-pepper candle. Still have it. Never parting with it. It's lame, but it's mine.

March 6, 2002

A red-pepper candle. Still have it. Never parting with it. It's lame, but it's mine.

March 6, 2002

What? Remember just the first one? We have kept every single one we have taken and have them on display! Over 100 and we have had to hire a carpenter to build shelves for them.

Member Wisconsin Geocaching Association

March 6, 2002

Our first cache we found we took a block of 4 stamps from EXPO 67 . The stamps are in mint condition..

March 6, 2002

The first cache I ever found was also the world's first geocache (Original). It was plundered, but the bucket was still there full of water - it's only content was the can of Black Eyed Peas. I didn't take them, but I'll always remember them as the first item I found.

1.4k · March 6, 2002

I took a die-cast Texas Rangers PT Cruiser with a Pudge Rodriguez baseball card inside. It sits on my desk at the house.

Web-ling

www.web-ling.com

March 6, 2002

a cloth nautical bag and a great adventure that got me hooked on Geocaching

March 6, 2002

Well, we've only been on one geo-cache so this is a pretty easy question to answer. I took my trade item and made sure all the kids had something to trade but my dear-hubby didn't think this geocaching stuff was terribly exciting. We love to hike though so he went along for the sake of being outdoors. We had 3 families with us with a total of 7 kids and they were all excited to be on a *treasure hunt*. Found the cache fairly easily and everyone was falling over each other looking though the stash. DH (dear hubby) finds a coffee cup that he just *has* to have. But he doesn't have a trade item... Being the great wife that I am, I let him trade my item for the coffee cup. What did I get out of the deal? A husband that is now looking forward to the next geocache hunt. I couldn't have asked for a better trade!

March 6, 2002

Well, we've only been on one geo-cache so this is a pretty easy question to answer. I took my trade item and made sure all the kids had something to trade but my dear-hubby didn't think this geocaching stuff was terribly exciting. We love to hike though so he went along for the sake of being outdoors. We had 3 families with us with a total of 7 kids and they were all excited to be on a *treasure hunt*. Found the cache fairly easily and everyone was falling over each other looking though the stash. DH (dear hubby) finds a coffee cup that he just *has* to have. But he doesn't have a trade item... Being the great wife that I am, I let him trade my item for the coffee cup. What did I get out of the deal? A husband that is now looking forward to the next geocache hunt. I couldn't have asked for a better trade!

1.1k · March 6, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by Moun10Bike:
I know that it was Jeremy's http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=93, but I can't remember what I put in or took out. Jeremy, do you by chance remember what you had in that cache?

A pile of SAVI pens, SAVI stickers and temporary tattoos, and a logbook. I honestly can't remember the rest... Sorry! It was a while ago

Jeremy

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1.1k · March 6, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by Moun10Bike:
I know that it was Jeremy's http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=93, but I can't remember what I put in or took out. Jeremy, do you by chance remember what you had in that cache?

A pile of SAVI pens, SAVI stickers and temporary tattoos, and a logbook. I honestly can't remember the rest... Sorry! It was a while ago

Jeremy

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March 6, 2002

It was the Canal Cache in AZ. My friend Az Baja told me about the site and what is was about. I really didn't like it until I found the cache. I took some Arizona Diamondback baseball cards. I still have them. Maybe someday I will get them signed. Since then this has been a great hobby!

March 6, 2002

On my first cache I didn't take anything, but my kids traded for a rain poncho and first aid kit.

They still remain in my Camelbak to be used when necessary on future cache hunts...

-exConn

What is Project Virginia?

March 6, 2002

Well, I don't still have them, I don't think, but from my first cache I took a military-type pin and several used golf balls. I left a dollar and a stress ball that looked like a globe. I thought that was appropriate for geocaching.

bunkerdave

March 6, 2002

I didn't take anything from my first cache, it was pretty empty, so I left goodies. The second cache I took a GeoBall- a paper mache globe hand made by a local geocacher(Buddavista). It occupies a place of honor in my office above the computer. My son found another in his first cache, and it rides around in the minivan to remind him of how much fun we have geocaching.

JoeyBob

March 6, 2002

Some cheesy New Age cassette tape.

My friend and I went out before work, to try this "cool" game I had read about in Newsweek. We both laughed when we saw the tape, and wondered what was on it. I remember leaving a heart shaped wrist watch. Interestingly enough, someone emailed me months later asking about the watch. They had just visited the same cache, for their first time trip, and had taken the watch. They wanted to know if it just needed a battery, or it it was really dead (I didn't know, as it was an unclaimed lost and found item that had sat in a drawer at work for months).

March 7, 2002

How can I forget? It was Cache at First Site! I took a mini-Godzilla/dinosaur pencil top from "The Box" which has since been archived.

March 7, 2002

took a little mini pocket knife and left a CD.

March 7, 2002

July 10, 2001 - Took 2 rubber balls, left 2 D batteries. How exciting

-fractal

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N 45° 30.ish

W 122° 58.ish

March 7, 2002

July 10, 2001 - Took 2 rubber balls, left 2 D batteries. How exciting

-fractal

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N 45° 30.ish

W 122° 58.ish

3k · March 7, 2002

We took a game CD someone burnt at home. It's one of the few items we've kept, but six months after finding it, we haven't tried the games yet. We mostly trade Where's George bills, and the idea is not to keep them . . .

3k · March 7, 2002

We took a game CD someone burnt at home. It's one of the few items we've kept, but six months after finding it, we haven't tried the games yet. We mostly trade Where's George bills, and the idea is not to keep them . . .

March 7, 2002

A miniture deck of playing cards.

1.2k · March 7, 2002

We took a Tigger pen on our first find. My girlfriend snatched it so fast and has been hooked ever since. I cant go without her, learned that the hard way. We left some handwarmers and some batteries.

1k · March 7, 2002

Yeah, a little plasic flashlight ... one of those kind that were better than using a match ... but not by much!

Placed it in my second cache (Hawk 2) in Bolivia.

But my all time favorite item was a proof set of 1972 coins from a cache in a NC State Park ... that is now defunked ...

1k · March 7, 2002

Yeah, a little plasic flashlight ... one of those kind that were better than using a match ... but not by much!

Placed it in my second cache (Hawk 2) in Bolivia.

But my all time favorite item was a proof set of 1972 coins from a cache in a NC State Park ... that is now defunked ...

March 7, 2002

It was only two days ago! But what an incredible find!

If i could figure out how to insert an image from my hard drive, I'd show you the picture of the Geocaching.com button.

MajBach

You can't have everything.

where would you put it?

March 7, 2002

Took a civil war bullet and left some sharks teeth from Hawaii.

2.9k · March 7, 2002

I signed up for Geocaching on July 1st 2001, and took a CD Recordable disk and put in a Book of Mormon in it.

The cache was:

Rotary Tree Geocache. Check my post on July 1st 2001.

By the way, I was Geoffrey in these forums.

March 7, 2002

I remember that I took a CD-ROM of clip-art. I think I left a Cheer-Wine soda (non-alcoholic for you non-North Caroliners). So it was a bad trade. Hey - it was my first time.

Venture Forth, out to the wild, wet forest...

March 7, 2002

I remember that I took a CD-ROM of clip-art. I think I left a Cheer-Wine soda (non-alcoholic for you non-North Caroliners). So it was a bad trade. Hey - it was my first time.

Venture Forth, out to the wild, wet forest...

6.4k · March 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by Geoffr524:
By the way, I was Geoffrey in these forums.

There is a place in your profile settings for setting your forum display name to something different then your geocaching login name. Don't know if it actually works, but did you try it?

I'm assuming (bad to do, I know) you would like to continue to use the name we know you as here?

Illegitimus non carborundum!

March 7, 2002

Well, It took me a while to research the question, but the first item I took from a cache was a Vassar lanyard from a cache hidden by tecmnage, the originator of this topic. And in an interesting twist, the gold dollar taken by tecmage was left in a central Iowa cache by myself in my first find ever. Kinda lets you know that there weren't many of us in the game in central Iowa back them. The situation has certainly changed.

It's nice to know that while I probably won't log 127 finds for a while, the gold dollar I left in my first find has visited, in a way, all those caches

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