Your Trademark Item?

January 5, 2003

Just wondering what fellow geocachers use as their "trademark" item to leave in a cache?

You know those big stickers you get from machines? 50 cents each about? I leave those with "Shadowraven was here, date" on the back (so if somebody wanted to still use the sticker they could). (Though I recently ran out and am using small stickers until I buy more

My husband leaves Flair X-Men cards in nice protective covering.

You?

January 5, 2003

I like to leave new Cat 5 computer patch cables. I don't think they would be popular everywhere, but people seem to like them here in Silicon Valley.

Other people have mentioned their trademark items in this thread

1.2k · January 5, 2003

We usually clean the gift shop out of the dog tags with chains, but they sometimes don't get them in so we go to other items, like the key chains, etc.

"Trade up, trade even, or don't trade!!!" My philosophy of life.

January 5, 2003

Signature Desiccant Packs -

See this Thread here.

January 5, 2003

our signiture item can be found here

www.sranddboggny.us

SR and dboggny.

January 5, 2003

I leave behind little Lego geocachers, with a number on the front indicating which number geocache found that cache is.

Cache well, and see ya round the bend...

January 5, 2003

BOBCAT keychain. I work at a Dealership so I get a good price.

January 5, 2003

Of course

Byron

1k · January 6, 2003

And I have one of those stump pins! Very cool! Thanks again Byron & Anne!

My signature item is my Maine Sights CD, better explained on my geocaching web pages.

Some people are like Slinkies . . . not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.

January 6, 2003

Marwagsalot has a signature keychain whistle that folks around here seem to have really taken a desire for. I guess I was lucky to nab one under a bridge one night!

We like to leave a copy of a Zydeco CD because it's so cool for people with kids. Sometimes the caches aren't big enough, though. I'd really like to get a signature wooden coin for our family, though.

Grandmaster Cache

January 6, 2003

Centaur... like the desicants...first time I've seen a picture... nice.

I guess my sig item is totem stones. I paint these and a variety of other pouches with the geocaching logo and each pouch contains a totem stone with a description of each animals spirit. The painting takes time though so lately I've also gotten a stock of totem stone necklaces to place when I'm behind in my pouch painting duties.

January 6, 2003

It's just a magnet we print up on the printer on business cards and buy the business card sized magnets at Walmart......I think they're 10 magnets for $2.50?

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

January 6, 2003

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Originally posted by Ttepee:
Centaur... like the desicants...first time I've seen a picture... nice.

I guess my sig item is totem stones....

Thank you! But the packs dont even come close to your wonderful signature items. Absolutly beautyful and meaningful! I see someday I will have to hunt one up! I bet they are the first thing to trade out of a cache.

-Centaur

3k · January 6, 2003

click here to view and funny thing, this photo was taken at Ttepee's cache in NY, and I have one of Ttepee's totem pouches hanging from my rear view mirror! I found a second one but didn't feel right to take it so I left that one at Squantz Rock cache. It has been picked up since.

No two of the eggs are alike and not all are with the geologo.

Cache you later,

Planet

"To err is human, to forgive....$5.00"

January 6, 2003

a Norwegian 1 Kronen coin.

Hiemdahl

3k · January 6, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by 0x284C:
I like to leave new Cat 5 computer patch cables. I don't think they would be popular everywhere, but people seem to like them here in Silicon Valley.

Other people have mentioned their trademark items in this http://opentopic.Groundspeak.com/0/OpenTopic?q=Y&a=tpc&s=1750973553&f=3000917383&m=8950971483&p=1

I thought about leaving some patch cables at caches or at least putting a few in one of my own caches but since nobody has taken the PCI NIC out of my first cache I doubt they would go over too well here. I like the idea though.

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So far so good, somewhat new owner of a second/new Garmin GPS V 20 plus finds so far with little to no problem. We'll see what happens when there are leaves on the trees again.

January 6, 2003

I have about a thousand pins I've accumulated during trips to Russia. Every town has its own pin with the coat of arms. There are also pins from museums, landmarks, depicting composers and writers, and so on. Kind of like trading pins from the Olympics. In the dozen or so caches I've done so far I've left at least one pin and usually at least one other random item

January 6, 2003

I still have a box full of miscelaneous items that I need to leave behind, but my trademark item is a Matchbox bus of some sort.

Now if I could just find enough caches to put all of these AOL cd's in.....

January 6, 2003

Thanks for posting! If I ever want to change my trademark you guys have given me some great ideas! I love the idea of making something but not sure if I could make enough of the same item to sustain me during vacations when I increase my hunting

38.2k · January 6, 2003

A fresh clam. Doesn't work so well in July and August though.

"Paternalism is the greatist despotism" - Emmanual Kant

January 7, 2003

UMC

I thought you would have tiny pails of DOOT.

3.1k · January 7, 2003

We bought 250 of these buttons. They are almost gone so we're shopping around for a different item. I think we found a good one. Soon in a cache near you.

I hear voices.....and they don't like you!

[This message was edited by Lazyboy & Mitey Mite on January 07, 2003 at 06:56 AM.]

January 7, 2003

Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl paraphernalia -- erasers, keychains, pens, pencils, etc. Not just logo items, it has to be something useful in real life.

However, I was with a guy who had $21 in his wallet so he wanted to put one dollar in the cache. When we stopped at a minimart later had had one dollar in his wallet and not the twenty that should have been there. So exactly which bill did he put in the cache?

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Friends don't let Friends geocache drunk.

January 7, 2003

My signature items change on occasion - I actually have a whole range, and try to leave one of each in each cache I visit.

The first is the most obvious - a calling card, with my email address on it. These tend to stay in the cache, and so are nice as a permanent reminder (in addition to my log) that I was there.

Second is my "trade" item (I use quote marks, as I don't often take things out) - this is usually a magnetic boardgame, along the lines of TicTacToe, or Ludo. These tend to get traded out quickly, which is cool.

Finally, (when I remember to take them) are my Cache-In, Trash-Out containers. They're basically old film cannisters with refuse bags in them, so that later visiters to the cache site can help keep it litter free. If it needs it, I'll do my own bit too, of course.

So, there you go!

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An it harm none, do what ye will

January 7, 2003

Hi Dave, tried to send you and email, but your user name is not being found.

I love the idea of the Smokey Bear/ Woodsy Owl items. Since you're out in CA., I figured the East coast caches could use some of these.

I found the Smokey Bear/Woodsy Owl website, but only "authorized" individuals and groups can purchase the items, and need a password to do this.

Does this seem odd? Why wouldn't they give everyone the opportunity to buy these? The way I look at it, the more education regarding fires and litter the better.

Do you have another source? If you are an "authorized" buyer, how did you become one?

Thanks,

Al (of Ct Trampers)

1.3k · January 8, 2003

I like to leave cassette tapes of vintage radio shows - Burns & Allen, The Shadow, Lone Ranger, Suspense, etc. Collecting and appreciating these historic and entertaining gems of Old Time Radio, most of which went off the air long before I was born, has been a passion of mine for decades.

1.4k · January 8, 2003

Either the infamous "Web-ling found this cache" pencil, or the "Web-ling was here" golf pencil. I could only put up to 20 characters on the golf pencils.

January 9, 2003

I've made up little bags of dress up jewelry for little girls. I own a children's theme party company, so I have lots of dress up stuff for favors, so I have a good supply. There aren't always things for little girls and having girly type things makes it easy for my little guy to give up stuff to trade. I think they are pretty nice and usually get traded out quickly. I also have little glass stars filled with fairy dust for small caches. Yeah, girly stuff.

The Make Believers

January 9, 2003

These are my buttons

January 9, 2003

We recently started leaving a Video CD we have made in caches. The CD has three slideshows of pictures we have taken while geocaching (about 150 total), many of which are from our log entries. The cool thing about the CD is that it will play in most home DVD players. I figure that each costs less than 25 cents, but is very personal. Unfortunately, we haven’t been getting out caching enough the past month or so to get them into circulation.

http://home.earthlink.net/~whidbeywalk/

January 9, 2003

I have left ink pens / pencils to replace wet or broken pens. I get ink pens with my companies' logo on them.

I also have 8.5 x 5.5 laminated cache notice cards that I leave in caches that need a new notice or the notice is missing. Office depot makes them really cheap $1.50 to laminate four of them.

Fair winds, Capn Skully

1.4k · January 9, 2003

I always try to leave a item that is useful to people that like doing outdoor sports i.e. hiking, camping. My typical item is a small compass of some sort. I figure that it's something that may actually prove to be useful to someone and something that I may like to find in a cache.

Jeff

http://www.StarsFellOnAlabama.com

http://www.NotAChance.com

January 10, 2003

Unofficially, my sig. item has been teany beanie babies- mainly 'cause I have a bunch collecting dust, and I figured someone else may enjoy them more.

Officially, (and once UPS brings my bulk supplies ) my signature item's going to be the micro-first aid kits I brought up in the poll... I'm thinking of getting a nurse's hat with a little red cross for my avatar, and put that picture on the insert in the baggie....

I walk the Maze of Moments, but everywhere I turn to, begins a new beginning, but never finds a finish... -Enya, Anywhere Is

January 10, 2003

We started leaving these. The picture was included as part of a post by SpiderCubs who found one in a travel bug that had its own log.

It is a dollar bill folded as a T-shirt. It is enclosed in a 2 x3 inch zip-lock with a picture of us (currently from our 100th find - we used our first find until then.)

I wanted something I could personalize and leave in caches large or small.

George

January 10, 2003

Found the perfect thing....

http://www.bearwood.com/shop/SearchResults.asp?ProdStock=PL%2D100&inexid=85SEH57MA2

Paint it white, print our 'bucket o' doots' label, and volia! You have your sig item!

I walk the Maze of Moments, but everywhere I turn to, begins a new beginning, but never finds a finish... -Enya, Anywhere Is

3.1k · January 10, 2003

I just inherited my parents' old Badge-a-Minit kit from the 80s (not literally inherited; they're alive and well, just finishing their basement and clearing out the junk). The company still sells the supplies, so I'll be making buttons soon.

I was considering custom shot glasses, but I couldn't find a cost-effective way of making them.

Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann, und ich hab' auch im Blut

January 10, 2003

hmmm... I'd think a party supply store/GFS type place somewhere would have plastic shot glasses.... just print off your own label & stick it on... not much for practical, but as a sig item I'd definately trade for one!

I walk the Maze of Moments, but everywhere I turn to, begins a new beginning, but never finds a finish... -Enya, Anywhere Is

January 10, 2003

I leave packets of GeoCaching Logo* temporary tattoos.

geospotter

*GeoCaching logo used with permission of Groundspeak, Inc.

January 10, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by geospotter:
I leave packets of GeoCaching Logo* temporary tattoos.

_*GeoCaching logo used with permission of Groundspeak, Inc._

Too cool. You selling them?

January 10, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Lupes:

Too cool. You selling them?

Nope. Geocaching.com was supposed to start selling them, but I don't know what happened.

geospotter

January 10, 2003

Does anyone have any links to where I can get some buttons or stickers made?

See you in the woods!

Natureboy1376

January 10, 2003

We leave a rubber chicken!

January 10, 2003

We just got started in this........and didn't know anyone had a signature item until I read this thread......lol....we were just talking about starting one of our own a few nights ago.... We have just about decieded to start using fishing lures...(still in the box of course) for a guys thing and my wife likes collector spoons and candles......thought she might start getting extra's as we travel around.

January 11, 2003

Wooden coin

"Everything's Eventual"-Stephen King

"Maybe isn't a answer,only yes or no"-R.W.Blackburn

January 11, 2003

I've always loved coins. My grandfathers both died before I was born and I have some of their old coins and it alwys made me feel good. In my adult life I found old "world" coins. I normally leave the old (100 years or so), large British pre-decimal coins. You can get them for 15 cents or so and kids (like me I guess) love 'em!

January 11, 2003

Bowed-Up leaves spitting frogs. I leave Rocky River Brewery coaster. Not quite sure what that says about us....

January 11, 2003

Shoulda been 'coasters'. Dang keyboard.

January 12, 2003

Our Trade mark item is of Course, Caching flowers by Moose n Squirrel...

January 12, 2003

My signature item is a $2.00 Canadian coin. Imagine a U.S. Siver Dollar with a penny pressed into its middle and you'll have a good idea of what it looks like.

Cheers!

Yanke

January 13, 2003

I'm going to start leaving saw teeth. From a large circular saw (~48"-60") used in sawmills. My great-grand father owned a sawmill, and I have lots of these teeth!

Patrick

Team Italian Greyhound

N9PRY

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