+Shadowraven Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted 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? Quote Link to comment
0x284C Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted 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 Quote Link to comment
+Breaktrack Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted 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. Quote Link to comment
+Centaur Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 Signature Desiccant Packs - See this Thread here. Quote Link to comment
dboggny Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 our signiture item can be found here www.sranddboggny.us SR and dboggny. Quote Link to comment
+SherwoodForest Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted 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... Quote Link to comment
+sledgehampster Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 BOBCAT keychain. I work at a Dealership so I get a good price. Quote Link to comment
+Byron & Anne Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 Of course Byron Quote Link to comment
+brdad Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted 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. Quote Link to comment
GRANDMASTER CACHE Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted 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 Quote Link to comment
+Ttepee Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted 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. Quote Link to comment
+Geo-Johnson's Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted 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. Quote Link to comment
+Centaur Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 quote: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 Quote Link to comment
+Planet Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted 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" Quote Link to comment
+Hiemdahl Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 a Norwegian 1 Kronen coin. Hiemdahl Quote Link to comment
umc Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted 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. ______________________________________________________________________________________ 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. Quote Link to comment
+Chichikov Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted 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 Quote Link to comment
+BusBoy Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted 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..... Quote Link to comment
+Shadowraven Posted January 6, 2003 Author Share Posted 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 Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 A fresh clam. Doesn't work so well in July and August though. "Paternalism is the greatist despotism" - Emmanual Kant Quote Link to comment
+Rusty O Junk Posted January 7, 2003 Share Posted January 7, 2003 UMC I thought you would have tiny pails of DOOT. Quote Link to comment
+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite Posted January 7, 2003 Share Posted 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.] Quote Link to comment
dsandbro Posted January 7, 2003 Share Posted 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? ======================================== Friends don't let Friends geocache drunk. Quote Link to comment
+Kouros Posted January 7, 2003 Share Posted 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! ------ An it harm none, do what ye will Quote Link to comment
+CT Trampers Posted January 7, 2003 Share Posted 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) Quote Link to comment
ArtMan Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted 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. Quote Link to comment
+Web-ling Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted 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. Quote Link to comment
The Make Believers Posted January 9, 2003 Share Posted 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 Quote Link to comment
+Pharmadude Posted January 9, 2003 Share Posted January 9, 2003 These are my buttons Quote Link to comment
+Whidbey Walk Posted January 9, 2003 Share Posted 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/ Quote Link to comment
South_Cache Posted January 9, 2003 Share Posted 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 Quote Link to comment
+jeff35080 Posted January 9, 2003 Share Posted 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 Quote Link to comment
+Squirrel Nut & Beersnob Posted January 10, 2003 Share Posted 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 Quote Link to comment
+Dad and the Dynamic Duo Posted January 10, 2003 Share Posted 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 Quote Link to comment
+Squirrel Nut & Beersnob Posted January 10, 2003 Share Posted 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 Quote Link to comment
Dinoprophet Posted January 10, 2003 Share Posted 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 Quote Link to comment
+Squirrel Nut & Beersnob Posted January 10, 2003 Share Posted 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 Quote Link to comment
+geospotter Posted January 10, 2003 Share Posted January 10, 2003 I leave packets of GeoCaching Logo* temporary tattoos. geospotter *GeoCaching logo used with permission of Groundspeak, Inc. Quote Link to comment
+Lupes Posted January 10, 2003 Share Posted 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? Quote Link to comment
+geospotter Posted January 10, 2003 Share Posted 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 Quote Link to comment
+Newenglandah Posted January 10, 2003 Share Posted January 10, 2003 Does anyone have any links to where I can get some buttons or stickers made? See you in the woods! Natureboy1376 Quote Link to comment
krismike&kids Posted January 10, 2003 Share Posted January 10, 2003 We leave a rubber chicken! Quote Link to comment
Northern-Lights Posted January 10, 2003 Share Posted 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. Quote Link to comment
+GeoVamp Posted January 11, 2003 Share Posted January 11, 2003 Wooden coin "Everything's Eventual"-Stephen King "Maybe isn't a answer,only yes or no"-R.W.Blackburn Quote Link to comment
+CHART Posted January 11, 2003 Share Posted 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! Quote Link to comment
+p-herm Posted January 11, 2003 Share Posted January 11, 2003 Bowed-Up leaves spitting frogs. I leave Rocky River Brewery coaster. Not quite sure what that says about us.... Quote Link to comment
+p-herm Posted January 11, 2003 Share Posted January 11, 2003 Shoulda been 'coasters'. Dang keyboard. Quote Link to comment
+Moose n Squirrel Posted January 12, 2003 Share Posted January 12, 2003 Our Trade mark item is of Course, Caching flowers by Moose n Squirrel... Quote Link to comment
+Yanke Posted January 12, 2003 Share Posted 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 Quote Link to comment
Team Italian Greyhound Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted 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 Patrick Team Italian Greyhound N9PRY Quote Link to comment
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