+qhtxvckfkfl Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 I am new to geocaching....expecting my new GPS unit to arrive within the hour. I have not yet found or hid any geocaches. (So for those of you who think that I am "Q", this is IMPOSSIBLE). What can I REALLY expect to find in a geocache??? Quote Link to comment
+Halden Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Toys, Keychains, Coins, various trinkets and bobbles. Quote Link to comment
+qhtxvckfkfl Posted January 13, 2004 Author Share Posted January 13, 2004 Hey, Doc....that's cute!!! Quote Link to comment
+The Weasel Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Mctoys, golfballs, army men, playing cards. Unfortunatly nothing you can retire from finding. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Everything from candy wrapper to a GPS. Mostly useless trinkets though. Toy soldiers, McToys, and other figurines. Some people try to stock their caches with nice stuff, but the contents of those degrade over time. Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Marbles, hot wheels cars, business cards, dirty golfballs, broken toys, mold, mildew, and fungus. Quote Link to comment
+qhtxvckfkfl Posted January 13, 2004 Author Share Posted January 13, 2004 A GPS??? Wouldn't that get EXPENSIVE???? Quote Link to comment
Cachengrab Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Oh no not expensive at all. Every cache is suppose to have at least one GPS. j/k Welcome to the addiction and have fun. Good trade items are easy to come up with really nice if you can make it a sig. item. Quote Link to comment
+woodsters Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Marbles, hot wheels cars, business cards, dirty golfballs, broken toys, mold, mildew, and fungus. Sparky I thought you upgraded your cache? Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Marbles, hot wheels cars, business cards, dirty golfballs, broken toys, mold, mildew, and fungus. Sparky I thought you upgraded your cache? Naw, that's the list for my next one.....I just wanted to save time and start it lousy so other cachers wouldn't have to lug all those crappy trade items and worry about leaving the lid off so it would get wet. Quote Link to comment
the 5 little bears Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 I seem to find alot of mctoys around here and pocket change. Quote Link to comment
+Metaphor Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 I once found an unscratched lottery ticket, scratched it an won $20,000,000, but lost the ticket when I dropped my purse in the parking lot.... Really, you'll find a range of stuff, from good to bad. I like to place foreign coins, interesting knick-knacks, odd bits of interesting stuff- mousepads, interactive CD's, postcards, penlights, geodes, etc. I have never left a MacToy. It's all in the eyes of the beholder. I took a 'fridge magnet listing a hotel in Maine from a Maryland cache once, found a chain-mail hackey sack on an Appalachian Trail cache in Maryland, brought a pair of minature ceramic dutch shoes home from Europe, have a cool wiggly giraffe toy from a cache in Pennsylvania on my desk at work, and captured a great picture of my wife with the best view of Chicago's skyline as the backdrop. The real important things I have found in geocaching are time to walk and think by myself, beautiful foggy mornings, heart-pumping power-hikes, eyeball to eyeball encounters with wildlife, and more. More often than not, I've come home tired and with empty pockets, but with a soothed soul and a satisfied sense of curiosity... Quote Link to comment
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