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A flourescent day-glow yellow golf ball and an I (heart) golf keychain.

 

I hate golf.

 

But it was one of the best items in the cache.

 

Left a 50¢ coupon, Mardi Gras beads and a tiny stuffed Mickey Mouse. March 17, 2001 (I had actually already found it on March 13, but didn't tell my wife). icon_wink.gif

 

Going on my caching anniversary next Wednesday, if the weather holds.

 

Markwell

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A flourescent day-glow yellow golf ball and an I (heart) golf keychain.

 

I hate golf.

 

But it was one of the best items in the cache.

 

Left a 50¢ coupon, Mardi Gras beads and a tiny stuffed Mickey Mouse. March 17, 2001 (I had actually already found it on March 13, but didn't tell my wife). icon_wink.gif

 

Going on my caching anniversary next Wednesday, if the weather holds.

 

Markwell

Non omnes vagi perditi sunt

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Kind of embarassing actually. In typical newbie style we took the 3 Where's George bills, I happened to have 3 kids with me at the time and it seemed perfect to keep them all happy....and of course we never logged these bills. In exchange we left a handful of rubber witch type fingertips and some other little Mc-type-toys. It took us 5-10 finds to bring up the quality of our stashables but we've been trying to make up for those since then. icon_smile.gif

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Kind of embarassing actually. In typical newbie style we took the 3 Where's George bills, I happened to have 3 kids with me at the time and it seemed perfect to keep them all happy....and of course we never logged these bills. In exchange we left a handful of rubber witch type fingertips and some other little Mc-type-toys. It took us 5-10 finds to bring up the quality of our stashables but we've been trying to make up for those since then. icon_smile.gif

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I was so happy that I found it that I didnt even care to take anything....the feeling of accomplishment was all I needed. That is still the same for the tougher caches I do today. I find that the hardest ones are typically the ones I take nothing and leave nothing. The memory is typically I want. icon_biggrin.gif

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I was so happy that I found it that I didnt even care to take anything....the feeling of accomplishment was all I needed. That is still the same for the tougher caches I do today. I find that the hardest ones are typically the ones I take nothing and leave nothing. The memory is typically I want. icon_biggrin.gif

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Unfortunately, I don't remember! icon_confused.gif That was back in September of 2000.

 

I know that it was Jeremy's SAVI Stash, but I can't remember what I put in or took out. Jeremy, do you by chance remember what you had in that cache?

 

I know what I put in and took out of my second cache, though: a $1 million bill and a 'Bug's Life' figurine, respectively (thankfully, I put that information in my log, otherwise I doubt that I would remember it, either!).

 

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Unfortunately, I don't remember! icon_confused.gif That was back in September of 2000.

 

I know that it was Jeremy's SAVI Stash, but I can't remember what I put in or took out. Jeremy, do you by chance remember what you had in that cache?

 

I know what I put in and took out of my second cache, though: a $1 million bill and a 'Bug's Life' figurine, respectively (thankfully, I put that information in my log, otherwise I doubt that I would remember it, either!).

 

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A rusty cigarette rolling device which I promptly threw away (don't smoke). I discovered geocaching, bought my Etrex, and found my first 2 caches all in the same day. I remember feeling so pleased with my new hobby that taking something good out of my first cache felt like too much of a good thing. The first thing I found that's still with me is this wonderful handmade papier mache' "Smoky the Bear" complete with ranger hat, bandanna and knapsack. He rides on the dashboard of my bus every time I go caching.

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The first cache I ever found was also the world's first geocache (Original). It was plundered, but the bucket was still there full of water - it's only content was the can of Black Eyed Peas. I didn't take them, but I'll always remember them as the first item I found.

 

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Well, we've only been on one geo-cache so this is a pretty easy question to answer. I took my trade item and made sure all the kids had something to trade but my dear-hubby didn't think this geocaching stuff was terribly exciting. We love to hike though so he went along for the sake of being outdoors. We had 3 families with us with a total of 7 kids and they were all excited to be on a *treasure hunt*. Found the cache fairly easily and everyone was falling over each other looking though the stash. DH (dear hubby) finds a coffee cup that he just *has* to have. But he doesn't have a trade item... Being the great wife that I am, I let him trade my item for the coffee cup. What did I get out of the deal? A husband that is now looking forward to the next geocache hunt. I couldn't have asked for a better trade! icon_smile.gif

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Well, we've only been on one geo-cache so this is a pretty easy question to answer. I took my trade item and made sure all the kids had something to trade but my dear-hubby didn't think this geocaching stuff was terribly exciting. We love to hike though so he went along for the sake of being outdoors. We had 3 families with us with a total of 7 kids and they were all excited to be on a *treasure hunt*. Found the cache fairly easily and everyone was falling over each other looking though the stash. DH (dear hubby) finds a coffee cup that he just *has* to have. But he doesn't have a trade item... Being the great wife that I am, I let him trade my item for the coffee cup. What did I get out of the deal? A husband that is now looking forward to the next geocache hunt. I couldn't have asked for a better trade! icon_smile.gif

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It was the Canal Cache in AZ. My friend Az Baja told me about the site and what is was about. I really didn't like it until I found the cache. I took some Arizona Diamondback baseball cards. I still have them. Maybe someday I will get them signed. Since then this has been a great hobby!

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I didn't take anything from my first cache, it was pretty empty, so I left goodies. The second cache I took a GeoBall- a paper mache globe hand made by a local geocacher(Buddavista). It occupies a place of honor in my office above the computer. My son found another in his first cache, and it rides around in the minivan to remind him of how much fun we have geocaching.

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Some cheesy New Age cassette tape.

 

My friend and I went out before work, to try this "cool" game I had read about in Newsweek. We both laughed when we saw the tape, and wondered what was on it. I remember leaving a heart shaped wrist watch. Interestingly enough, someone emailed me months later asking about the watch. They had just visited the same cache, for their first time trip, and had taken the watch. They wanted to know if it just needed a battery, or it it was really dead (I didn't know, as it was an unclaimed lost and found item that had sat in a drawer at work for months).

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Yeah, a little plasic flashlight ... one of those kind that were better than using a match ... but not by much! icon_biggrin.gif

 

Placed it in my second cache (Hawk 2) in Bolivia.

But my all time favorite item was a proof set of 1972 coins from a cache in a NC State Park ... that is now defunked ...

 

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Yeah, a little plasic flashlight ... one of those kind that were better than using a match ... but not by much! icon_biggrin.gif

 

Placed it in my second cache (Hawk 2) in Bolivia.

But my all time favorite item was a proof set of 1972 coins from a cache in a NC State Park ... that is now defunked ...

 

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quote:
Originally posted by Geoffr524:

By the way, I was Geoffrey in these forums.


There is a place in your profile settings for setting your forum display name to something different then your geocaching login name. Don't know if it actually works, but did you try it?

I'm assuming (bad to do, I know) you would like to continue to use the name we know you as here?

 

Illegitimus non carborundum!

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Well, It took me a while to research the question, but the first item I took from a cache was a Vassar lanyard from a cache hidden by tecmnage, the originator of this topic. And in an interesting twist, the gold dollar taken by tecmage was left in a central Iowa cache by myself in my first find ever. Kinda lets you know that there weren't many of us in the game in central Iowa back them. The situation has certainly changed.

 

It's nice to know that while I probably won't log 127 finds for a while, the gold dollar I left in my first find has visited, in a way, all those caches icon_cool.gif

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