What Was The Best Thing You Have Ever Found....

[fly_tier]

What was the best thing you have ever found in a cache? (Please don't say money)

 

The best thing i have found in a cache, was a base ball type card of a conservation officer.

[+Snoogans]

A nice pocket knife that I carry everywhere and a bolo tie worth more than $100. Oh and a $20 Best Buy card as FFTF on G.Q.'s Headcase. I was second. (FFTF: First Five To Find)

[+The Leprechauns]

Friendship.

[+Mopar]

A link to all the other threads with this exact same topic I've already replied in.

[Black Mage]

I've found a number of foreign/old coins, which are some of my favorite things to find.

[+woody_k]

In one of Fishpoets caches I found a hex key set both metric and SAE. It was something that I really needed at the time. In return I left a mnt climbing dvd.

[+joefrog]

A link to all the other threads with this exact same topic I've already replied in.

You just can't help yourself, can you?

 

I know you said "no money" but I like finding odd foreign currency -- keeps my wife happy, LOL. She's a world-traveller!

[+fly46]

A link to all the other threads with this exact same topic I've already replied in.

You just can't help yourself, can you?

 

Of course he can't. He's even worse than the repetitive threads.

[+ZackJones]

Logbook

 

Zack

[+StarBrand]

A $35 gift certificate for a steak dinner at a nearby town - I left 2 filled subway cards, a DVD and a $10 bill in exchange.

Edited November 2, 2004 by StarBrand

[+Mopar]

A link to all the other threads with this exact same topic I've already replied in.

You just can't help yourself, can you?

Nope!

 

Know why?

 

I know in my case my answers were some extremely special things. Many other people posting interesting, unusual, or valuable things. The first time this topic came up, many people contibuted their stories.

Face it, how many times do you find "the best thing ever" in cache?

Chances are for most people, the best thing they ever found in cache is probably the same best thing they talked about last month, and 3 months ago, and 5 months ago, and all the other times it comes up. Most people who already posted to 1,2 or 3 of the other threads probably aren't going to respond yet again to this one.

.If the original poster is really interested in what's the best thing people have found in a cache, the best way to find out is use the Search button.

 

For the record, my most recent response is 2 months ago in this thread.

[+fly46]

And it hasn't occurred to you that we may very well go to more caches since we've last answered and thus end up with a new favorite item?

 

I found my favorite item in a cache two weekends ago.

[jdoe]

A small bottle of Scotch Whiskey - the type they give on an airplane... and a fossilized whale bone.

[+Renegade Knight]

Not money? Ok...since I like el cheapo coins and that's about all I trade for I won't mention them.

 

However I like coins. Especially custom coins. Not tokens like Chuck E Cheese would use, but coins for special events, Geocoins which I'm up to one now (thanks!) and other themed coins that will never see general circulation. The best one of all I under traded for but didn't have a clue about that until I got home and got a better look at it. It was a Vetrans of Foreign Wars coin.

 

A local uses his military coins as a sig item. They were cool before, then he started painting them. Even better.

 

I've started saving up for my own coin. It will not be trackable and as is my style I won't say it's even in a cache except in the cache log itself. But I'm looking forward to making them and placing them in caches.

[+fly46]

Friendship.

Awww... lep, just for that, turn the volume on your computer waaaay up, visit this page, and click the red button.

 

RK can, too.

[+Wildwoods]

"Chances are for most people, the best thing they ever found in cache is probably the same best thing they talked about last month, and 3 months ago, and 5 months ago, and all the other times it comes up."

 

So let me see if I got this right. Since July no one new has joined GC.com? Also no one has gone geocaching all summer? Wow I guess this geoaching thing is not as popular as I thought.

Edited November 2, 2004 by Wildwoods

[Jeremy]

If you posted before and something better came along since then, you can post it here too. Yay! Everyone's happy.

 

I still think my best find was a chainmail stress ball in Maryland. It was just so strangely cool. I still have it on my desk.

[+hydee]

The best thing I ever found was.....A husband!

 

 

And yes I did find him at a cache.

["Paws"itraction]

I still think my best find was a chainmail stress ball in Maryland. It was just so strangely cool. I still have it on my desk.

I can't even picture this one...can you post a pic of this?

 

In my mind, "Chainmail" and "stress ball" just don't go together.

Squeezable chainmail?

[Jeremy]

And yes I did find him at a cache.

For the record, I placed him in the cache

[+hydee]

And yes I did find him at a cache. 

For the record, I placed him in the cache

That is true. Hey speaking of....shouldn't your favorite thing you found at a cache be "My favorite employee Hydee!"? Not some ball made out of metal?

[Jeremy]

Click to read my log entry:

 

[Jeremy]

Hey speaking of....shouldn't your favorite thing you found at a cache be "My favorite employee Hydee!"? Not some ball made out of metal?

Well, I'd get into more trouble if I squeezed you when I was stressed.

[+fly46]

turn the volume on your computer waaaay up, visit this page, and click the red button.

Jeremy, don't squeeze her!

[+Seamus]

I still think my best find was a chainmail stress ball in Maryland. It was just so strangely cool. I still have it on my desk.

I can't even picture this one...can you post a pic of this?

 

In my mind, "Chainmail" and "stress ball" just don't go together.

Squeezable chainmail?

These are Fergus' sig item, and they're quite popular - we've had people following us around from cache to cache trying to assemble a complete set of juggling balls.

 

 

They're kinda squooshy because it's just some fabric stuffed inside the chainmail link exterior.

 

er... Yeah. Jeremy types faster than I do.

[+flask]

Friendship.

awww, that's sweet. i have to go suck lemons now.

 

if you have a signature item (NOT one of those business cards) it's just about my favorite thing. if it is part of a collectible series of items, so much the better.

[+amytincan]

Friendship.

awww, that's sweet. i have to go suck lemons now.

 

if you have a signature item (NOT one of those business cards) it's just about my favorite thing. if it is part of a collectible series of items, so much the better.

flask; like what? (collectible series of signature items) I want to be cool and sought after.

[solohiker]

A view.

[+blazerfan]

A Peanuthead wooden nickel.

[+Barnacle Bear]

Early on something told me to let The Woman find it. The look on her face was awesome. That hasn't changed. And, she's getting better.

[+flask]

 

if you have a signature item (NOT one of those business cards) it's just about my favorite thing. if it is part of a collectible series of items, so much the better.

flask; like what? (collectible series of signature items) I want to be cool and sought after.

lafrog makes lovely numbered hiking sticks. kahja makes very spiffy medallions which you can see at her site. she has had a few series of signature items. okillezzzz has similar style medallions in a very nice bas relief. lear 08 has nice handpainted coins, many of which are differently sized, shaped, or designed. wheel15 leaves painted rocks of such value that many VT cachers have never seen one live. tharagleb's sister-in-law paints some very nice coins for him.

 

i saw a cool fused glass signature once but crashco got it and i don't remember who left it. and beachcomber (?) leaves really cool beach glass pushpins.

["Paws"itraction]

Oh, wow, those chainmail squeezy balls are completely weird. No, I mean COOL! They're completely COOL. Yeah, that's it.

 

(Seriously, those are nifty. They look REALLY labor-intensive though; how long does one take to make?)

[+sept1c_tank]

A view.

I don't believe I'm agreeing with solohiker, but I am.

Probably, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th best things, too.

 

Mopar...chill!

[+MarcB]

Hmm I can honestly say, out of the 114 caches I've found, nothing could in them I could rate as "good"...

Sad but true.

[+nfa]

I like finding peoples' signature items.

 

My signature item is a carabiner/compass/multitool...

 

 

I've left them in caches in NY, ME, and UT.

 

nfa-jamie

[+flask]

yeah, i have one of NFA's sigs. it's on my wall of fame. or it will be, when i get caught up.

[Grimstone]

A link to all the other threads with this exact same topic I've already replied in.

You just can't help yourself, can you?

Nope!

 

Know why?

 

I know in my case my answers were some extremely special things. Many other people posting interesting, unusual, or valuable things. The first time this topic came up, many people contibuted their stories.

Face it, how many times do you find "the best thing ever" in cache?

Chances are for most people, the best thing they ever found in cache is probably the same best thing they talked about last month, and 3 months ago, and 5 months ago, and all the other times it comes up. Most people who already posted to 1,2 or 3 of the other threads probably aren't going to respond yet again to this one.

.If the original poster is really interested in what's the best thing people have found in a cache, the best way to find out is use the Search button.

 

For the record, my most recent response is 2 months ago in this thread.

I think the world just may explode because of this slightly repetitive thread.

[Grimstone]

A view.

I don't believe I'm agreeing with solohiker, but I am.

Probably, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th best things, too.

 

Mopar...chill!

Same here. Heck ive only found 9 caches so far, but my favorite ones are the ones the offer views.