Those handy grabber squeezy forcep thingies...

[+tabulator32]

In addition to CITO while caching, I walk my collies around the neighborhood almost every day and I started carrying a canvas bag and a stick with a threaded screw to pick up trash. I would get anything from bottles and cans to candy wrappers and straw wrappers and occasional pizza boxes and fan belts and windshield wipers.

 

After a couple weeks of THAT, I found one of those three-foot-long grabber thingies with the squeeze handle and the little pincher thingy at the end. It has made all the difference in the world and I can nab things and toss them in the bag without breaking stride which elates the dogs to no end since they like to keep moving.

 

I discovered it at a local drug store. It was a little more expensive than a regular one but it is made of aircraft aluminum. It has special grabbers which are nimble enough to pick up a coin laying on the ground and still strong enough to stop a crazy neighborhood cat (don't ask me how I know this) from hissing and clawing at my precious little collies.

 

Anyway, for any of you who are SERIOUS CITO cachers, I would strongly recommend getting one of those brabby claw thingies you can find at Walmart or the local drug store. (The elderly and those who are "vertically-challenged" use them frequently.)

 

I love mine.

 

Merry Christmas to all!

[+BlueDeuce]

Whew, for a second there I thought you suggesting I use my roach clip to pick up trash. No way!

[+tabulator32]

Whew, for a second there I thought you suggesting I use my roach clip to pick up trash. No way!

 

Everybody CITO's their own way, but I certainly wouldn't recommend THAT.

 

 

[+BlueDeuce]

[+tabulator32]

This is what mine actually looks like:

 

[+MissJenn]

Mine is not as fancy as these pictured above as I got it from a DOT-sponsored, local neighborhood clean-up. (They encouraged as to take one home so we could use it at other times. I didn't steal it.)

 

But it does work beautifully, even for teeny things like cigarette butts. This one also happens to be magnetic at the end.

[+Planet]

I posted this a couple of years ago, but since you asked

I made my own sticker picker upper handy doo dad for a CITO event once.

I bought a dowel, I cut the head off a nail, hammered it into the end, add some tape and an end cap on the handle end for gripping, and voila! A sticker picker upper for cheap.

 

 

 

 

I made one for Ttepee too.

[+tabulator32]

I posted this a couple of years ago, but since you asked

I made my own sticker picker upper handy doo dad for a CITO event once.

I bought a dowel, I cut the head off a nail, hammered it into the end, add some tape and an end cap on the handle end for gripping, and voila! A sticker picker upper for cheap.

 

That is basically what I did at first...a stick with a nail in it.

 

After trying five or six times to stab a plastic bottle or trying to pick up a wet napkin with a nail (or any number of other examples) I just wanted to let everyone know that upgrading was definitely worth it.