You Know You're Addicted To Geocaching When...

[+Pasha88]

You are addicted when everything seems to be an annoyance that gets in the way of Geo caching.

you are also addicted when you leave extra early for meetings and family visits just so you have time to stop and Geo cache.

You are also addicted when you go with 50 band students to Florida and can't wait to check out the caches instead of the amusement parks rides.

 

I did this!! I was one of the 50 students... had to take my GPS... logged three that week. Great fun!

 

You know you're addicted when:

 

-even your horse knows when you're going geocaching because you have a GPS mount for your saddle!

-you name your GPS (mine are Lola and Martha)

-everyone you know saves old tupperware/margaine/PB/pill containers for you.

-you have so many unplaced caches your housekeeper refuses to clean your "caching room"

-you have a "caching room"

[+Moose Mob]

...

-you name your GPS (mine are Lola and Martha)

...

 

My GPS is named Rhonda.

 

as in..

Help me Rhonda,

Help help me Rhonda.

Help me find that cache,

get my name on that log"

[+Darren V]

When you see someone searching around suspiciously you think that they must be searching for a geocache

 

you see a good geocache hiding spot in everything

[+Darren V]

When you see someone searching around suspiciously you think that they must be searching for a geocache

 

you see a good geocache hiding spot in everything

[Andronicus]

Hey! Why is Bob microwaving food in that geocache?

[greenworldfeather]

Hey! Why is Bob microwaving food in that geocache?

 

You walk around looking at every cache placement spot and wish that the caches could be placed a little bit closer together so that you might have room for that one(out of 50) really good hiding places and use that certain container that would go soooo good there.

 

True story.

 

When you wish that if they were hidden by you in your neighborhood, they could be just a little closer together.

 

True story for that one also. Thank goodness that last one isn't allowed though.

[+medford123]

.....you of course can't go on a trip without first finding out where the geocaches are!

Edited April 8, 2010 by medford123

[+medford123]

More often than not, you have brambles and bits of branches in your hair and on your coat without realizing it. You walk into your local store and people say "where have they been?!!!"

AND you see other people walking a certain way in the park and just know that they are fellow geocachers! - medford123

[DannyCaffeine]

 

-you name your GPS (mine are Lola and Martha)

 

 

Mine's name is Bumblebee after the transformers character since its a yellow and black garmin

[+aces4ace]

You know your addicted when your mailbox has a log and is full of trade items.

 

You know the coords. of your mailbox.

 

When you need a pen you ask for a scibble stick.

[+Trucker Lee]

..... you slip out before the wife gets up on your 25th anniversary to "run errands" and get home to do 3 "owner maintenance" logs and 4 finds.

[+Eshel]

You are addicted when everything seems to be an annoyance that gets in the way of Geo caching.

you are also addicted when you leave extra early for meetings and family visits just so you have time to stop and Geo cache.

You are also addicted when you go with 50 band students to Florida and can't wait to check out the caches instead of the amusement parks rides.

 

I did this!! I was one of the 50 students... had to take my GPS... logged three that week. Great fun!

 

You know you're addicted when:

 

-even your horse knows when you're going geocaching because you have a GPS mount for your saddle!

-you name your GPS (mine are Lola and Martha)

-everyone you know saves old tupperware/margaine/PB/pill containers for you.

-you have so many unplaced caches your housekeeper refuses to clean your "caching room"

-you have a "caching room"

 

I named my GPS The Beagle. Ala Charles Darwin's ship. Hehe. My girlfriend just calls it Cachy.

[+Crafty Turtle]

You always carry a pencil, just in case you happen to be near one of the 100 caches you have memorised, but not yet retrieved.

 

You carry a mechanical pencil, cos it always works and it writes in the rain.

 

Rain is no excuse for not caching. In fact, there will be less muggles around, so it's probably a great time for caching.

 

After 10 caches, you ordered a personalised stamp with your caching name and avatar.

 

You carry this wherever you go, just in case.

 

People know you by your caching name, and wonder who "Wendy" is.

 

At a local event, you have a name tag with your caching name.

 

Your name tag is your personalised stamp, laminated and pin-mounted.

 

You carry zip lock bags in case a cache needs re-packing.

 

You carry a pencil / personalised stamp in a zip-lock bag.

 

You know plastic zip-lock bags are meant for keeping swag dry. Apparently some people use them for food. Apparently. As I understand it.

 

You know your dollar store employees by name.

 

Your dollar store employees know you by your caching name.

 

Your dollar store employees now know your real name cos they've read it on your credit card.

 

You have bought enough swag in a dollar store in one visit to actually warrant using a credit card.

 

When signing the credit card slip, you had to ask for a pen, cos you only carry a pencil, and they won't accept your personalised stamp as a signature.

[+bittsen]

You know you're addicted when you will actually ignore the used condoms at a cache area cuz you can see the cache.

[+Scaber]

When your wife and kids become jealous of your GPSr.

[+BulldogBlitz]

You skip breakfast to run out at 0-dark-thirty to get a new cache before work.

 

You come home late because you had to stop off for that new cache after work.

 

You come back to work dirty and smelly, because you went after that new cach instead of eating lunch.

 

While driving to work, or church, or the store, you are looking for the next spot to place a cache.

 

i'm guilty of all of these... some caches that i've left early for, came home late for, left work for.... are just new to me.

 

my son and i are constantly looking at spots in contemplation of putting our first cache out.

[ad5smith]

I can't believe this hasn't been said.

 

you know your addicted if... you've read this entire thread

 

[+Chrysalides]

When signing the credit card slip, you had to ask for a pen, cos you only carry a pencil, and they won't accept your personalised stamp as a signature.

When signing the credit card slip, you sign your geocaching ID.

[Coastie41]

You give up the BMW for a Toyota Tacoma so you have plenty of ground clearance to park on the side of the road. It's true!

 

Dang! And I really liked that car.

[+OHail]

.....you check the map on the GPSr to see which gas station may have a cache when you are traveling so you can "multitask".

Edited April 28, 2011 by OHail

[+Scubasonic]

* You swim 1.06 miles one way in a Lake for a FTF on an Island in January in the Pacific Northwest.

 

* You Rent a Waverunner evertime a cache comes out on an island just to get the FTF (5 Times)

 

* You get 1271 Caches in a Day

 

* You have a caching streak that is over 1020+ days

 

* You have 1380+ FTFs, and over 10,900 finds in less then 3 years of Caching.

 

Ok that's about it.

 

SS

[+The_Coyote]

You carry around a bottle of Technu and you work mainly indoors

[knowschad]

You post to this thread. Which I finally did.

[+A & J Tooling]

...you get annoyed when you find a really easy cache and there is an excellent higher difficulty spot within 100 feet of this one....

[+DragonsWest]

The cause of your depression is lack of fresh caches.

 

You find your GPSr before you find your keys when heading out the door.

 

You do everything you can do to encourage others to join the game then grumble when they beat you to all the FTFs.

 

You don't mind a two hour layover at ORD because you can seek out the virtual there.

[+GeoReapers]

 

You don't mind a two hour layover at ORD because you can seek out the virtual there.

 

I did that one!

 

When while having dinner at a really nice place, you are checking the caching app on your phone and thinking about how to convince your partner to go for it.

[+softballmom19]

you have a foot injury but don't think its bad enough to keep you from finding caches even though it hurts to walk on it some.