Personalized Cache Prizes

[+Natureboy44]

Do any of you place items in your caches for finders to keep as a kind of memento for finding the cache? By this I don't mean trade items, but something a finder can keep whether or not they trade another item. I've been making up buttons for my more interesting caches (see picture below). I got the idea from another local cacher Team Ekitt10 (his is the button in the middle).

 

[+woo2]

I've seen NatureBoy's buttons, they're pretty good. (His caches are good too!) My son loves the MORIA pin. Where do you get them/make them? My quick search produced some button makers that were far too professional (i.e. expensive) for my needs.

[+Natureboy44]

I've seen NatureBoy's buttons, they're pretty good. (His caches are good too!) My son loves the MORIA pin. Where do you get them/make them? My quick search produced some button makers that were far too professional (i.e. expensive) for my needs.

I make them froma kit I bought from a company named Mr. Button. After buying the press, they cost me about 20 cents each to make, plus my time to design the buttons. If you don't want to spend the money on a press, you can buy plastic snap-togehter buttons from a craft store like Michael's, although these are about $1.25 each.

[uperdooper]

i love finding signature items. i found a cache today that had a sig item i have been wanting ever since i started caching. the only downfall was i missed the delivery of my new dell computer. oh well!! i should get it tomorrow.

[+rusty_tlc]

I've seen NatureBoy's buttons, they're pretty good.  (His caches are good too!)  My son loves the MORIA pin.  Where do you get them/make them?  My quick search produced some button makers that were far too professional (i.e. expensive) for my needs.

I make them froma kit I bought from a company named Mr. Button. After buying the press, they cost me about 20 cents each to make, plus my time to design the buttons. If you don't want to spend the money on a press, you can buy plastic snap-togehter buttons from a craft store like Michael's, although these are about $1.25 each.

Do you mind sharing how much the press cost and/or maybe a link? They look pretty nice. Of course, the designing the button part would be my problem.

[+Natureboy44]

Here's a link to "Mr. Button" and the hand press kit that I bought. All other supplies can be purchased from them.

 

Mr. Button

[+workerofwood]

I've had my button machine for about 15 years. It's from Badge-A-Minit ( http://www.badgeaminit.com/benchpresskits.html ) and the starter kits begin at $40. They're pretty easy to use, and the button parts can be purchased in bulk.

[+SBPhishy]

Here's my new sig item. Made from shrinky dinks.

 

[+honeychile]

The button in the middle (with the hiker in silhouette) on the first post was one I made. You can see others at BumbleButtons. I have a license agreement with geocaching.com so any button I make with the geocaching logo helps promote the sport. I use pigment inks and heavy waterproof paper with all my buttons so they won't smear or run, even if the cache gets a bit damp (actually, I kept a button immersed in a cup of water on my desk for over two weeks and it never ran or smeared). I also offer 1" tiny buttons, perfect for micros or small caches.

Edited February 16, 2004 by honeychile

[Radman Forever]

I have a big red dice I got from a cache in Saginaw, Mich and I use it for all sorts of games. I also have my cat play with it. I've had it for over a year and have grown quite atached to the dammed thing!

[+CCrew]

The button in the middle (with the hiker in silhouette) on the first post was one I made. You can see others at BumbleButtons.

I'll vouch for Honeychile's buttons.. They're great! I've just abot gone through the last batch I ordered, and they seem to be very well liked. Just ordered a bunch more!!

 

-Roger

[+Quoddy]

I've now ordered 300 of Honeychile's buttons. Batches of the 3 Quoddy button versions, "Button of the Month Club buttons", and various geocaching buttons. I, too, plan to incorporate a button (similar to Natureboys great buttons) in an upcoming late spring cache. The price is within almost any budget; and Vicki (Honeychile) will help or even fully design one to your specifications.

http://bumblebuttons.com/

[+NightPilot]

A variation on the original question is here. This is a very nice cache, by a very nice cacher.

[+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite]

[+Jamie Z]

I misunderstood. I thought you meant cache prizes places specifically for a particular finder. Dang, cuz here's my example:

 

 

Jamie

[+thestosh]

Here is a link to an earlier thread on custom buttons:

Click Here

[OuttaHand]

In my own cache that I hid, I put in a bunch of these erasers. On the cache page I wrote that the finder is welcome to take one for each person in their party without trading. That way, the kids get to grab something just for the heck of it. There have beenmany takers.

I've also thrown a handful of them into some caches that I've found if I felt like the cache was a little understocked.

Very cheap. Very small. Weatherproof. Kids love 'em.

[+El Diablo]

I've had several people order certicficates for one of my hiking staffs to put in a cache as a FTF. I may be a little biased, but I think that would be a cool FTF prize! I sell them at half price for this use.

 

El Diablo

[+msdrag0n]

I make small beaded bracelets using multicolored beads and alphabet beads. The beads spell out things like " I FOUND IT", " I LOVE CACHING", " GEOCACHER" etc. I also add a smiley face beadon them.They are just right to fit in a micro and I just fill it up when they run low. I state in my cache description that there is no room for a trade but please take a bracelet.

[+Team GPSaxophone]

The first finder's prize on my newest cache, The Cache at the End of the Universe, was a saxophone-playing smurf.

Where have I seen that before?

[+Ed Rad]

Yes, I have made cache specific tokens that read.." I found Geogeek65 's XXX cache" I also make a special FTF token. When I do that, I say in the description that trading is not required, just take a token to remember the visit. People seem to like it.

 

Bachelor's Grove Cache

Edited March 11, 2004 by Geogeek65

[+Team Grizzly]

There's a cacher in the Colorado Springs area that makes postcards for each cache with some beautiful pictures of the nearby area - I think its a really great idea! Its not too expensive and it makes for a nice item to be placed in a scrapbook or something.