Places for hiding this?

[BlindEyes]

Yeah, so I decided to hide a bit gigger cache. All I ever have hidden were a few altoids cans, lunch boxes and PET containers. So I searched around the house for a nice cache and found a coffee can. I tried to brain storm a few ideas but I live in a city and I can't really think up anything. So, any help?

[+cerberus1]

Yeah, so I decided to hide a bit gigger cache. All I ever have hidden were a few altoids cans, lunch boxes and PET containers. So I searched around the house for a nice cache and found a coffee can. I tried to brain storm a few ideas but I live in a city and I can't really think up anything. So, any help?

Did you hide with a group, or different name earlier?

I see one cache hidden (a small).

- Why not hide your coffee can in a similar fashion?

 

A coffee can isn't a decent container, so your hidden spot should be well-covered, not out in the open, like you might see with some micros.

[+narcissa]

Any container that used to contain food or cosmetics is a bad idea. Best practice calls for a rugged container with no risk of food-like odors and residue. Keep the coffee can in your shed for old nuts and bolts.

[+bflentje]

Coffee cans are not only not water proof, they're not water resistant either. A coffee can was the first container I ever hid, it was in small cave, and the contents still turned to mush as condensation could get in but it could never get out. The perfect mouse trap. I'd opt for something different.

[+GrateBear]

Best place to hide a coffee can is in your trash barrel

[+wmpastor]

Best place to hide a coffee can is in your trash barrel

I'm *sure* you meant *recycling* barrel.

 

Oh, and the coffee can for nuts and bolts is a *great* new idea. Gotta try that!

[+Viajero Perdido]

Coffee can ... you mean one of these?

 

 

We can suggest a whole variety of more suitable containers, or - with a little more study of this forum - you can get the idea pretty quickly.

 

If you do go with the coffee can, I hope it's in a very dry climate.

[+wimseyguy]

If you do go with the coffee can, I hope it's in a very dry climate.

 

Profile says they're in Lithuania, so I don't think they're in a dry climate.

Like other more experienced cachers have already suggested, keep the coffee can for household projects, and find something more suitable for outdoor use. It will rot and rust and allow your cache contents to get wet and nasty.

[+NYPaddleCacher]

Coffee cans are not only not water proof, they're not water resistant either. A coffee can was the first container I ever hid, it was in small cave, and the contents still turned to mush as condensation could get in but it could never get out. The perfect mouse trap. I'd opt for something different.

 

Coffee *cans* are getting pretty rare, but ground coffee can often be bought in a large red plastic container with a snap on lid. I've found a few caches that used them and they deteriorate rather quickly and become damp inside fairly quickly. A real coffee *can* not only leaks but starts to rust and the contents become a big mess.

[+L0ne.R]

Coffee cans are not only not water proof, they're not water resistant either. A coffee can was the first container I ever hid, it was in small cave, and the contents still turned to mush as condensation could get in but it could never get out. The perfect mouse trap. I'd opt for something different.

 

Coffee *cans* are getting pretty rare, but ground coffee can often be bought in a large red plastic container with a snap on lid. I've found a few caches that used them and they deteriorate rather quickly and become damp inside fairly quickly. A real coffee *can* not only leaks but starts to rust and the contents become a big mess.

 

It's seems the Lavazza container is likely the tin with the thin snap on lid variety. That's the only type I saw when I did a google image search.

Below are a couple of photos to back up the problem with coffee containers. They don't make good containers. The plastic lids are too thin. They are not designed for outdoor use. They do not seal well at all, they will crack and split quickly, rodents love to chew through the thin plastic. The thin tin body will rust up fast and turn all contents in to a rusty goo.

 

 

[+L0ne.R]

Yeah, so I decided to hide a bit gigger cache. All I ever have hidden were a few altoids cans, lunch boxes and PET containers. So I searched around the house for a nice cache and found a coffee can. I tried to brain storm a few ideas but I live in a city and I can't really think up anything. So, any help?

 

I hate to say it because I'm not a fan of logsheet-only caches but I would suggest that you stick with the quality micro container on your list, the PET. Better a quality micro container then a junk swag size container that you can't leave swag in anyway because it will become a moldy mess.

[+L0ne.R]

Looks like you have hidden and listed your second cache. Did you hide the LavAzza container? The first 2 logs seems to suggest that you did:

GC6NJ4J

 

(Google translated):

 

Found it

07/23/2016

STF! Before leaving the last Silales booty. When the specified location treasure just lying on the ground like any garbage, and appears here even STF D helped that not so clearly visible. Tftc!

 

Found it

07/21/2016

(FTF) 2016-07-21 16:35

found is easy. Where is the left, where the right hand is not very clear, but not the essence. It does not seem very safe hidden. Can anyone support too for garbage. The container interior is pretty clean look, but Are those or drenched. In short, you will have to maintain.

 

[+wmpastor]

Looks like you have hidden and listed your second cache. Did you hide the LavAzza container? The first 2 logs seems to suggest that you did:

GC6NJ4J

 

(Google translated):

 

Found it

07/23/2016

STF! Before leaving the last Silales booty. When the specified location treasure just lying on the ground like any garbage, and appears here even STF D helped that not so clearly visible. Tftc!

 

Found it

07/21/2016

(FTF) 2016-07-21 16:35

found is easy. Where is the left, where the right hand is not very clear, but not the essence. It does not seem very safe hidden. Can anyone support too for garbage. The container interior is pretty clean look, but Are those or drenched. In short, you will have to maintain.

 

 

So much for everyone's advice!

 

And this will *not* help, according to forum experts:

 

[+wmpastor]

Best place to hide a coffee can is in your trash barrel

 

It could work well in the Kalahari Desert, if painted medium brown.

[+TheAuthorityFigures]

I've seen quite a few of these types down here in southern Arizona, and for the most part they do just ok. Lids are really flimsy and the sun exposure does a number on them. Believe it or not, we do get a rainy season (its currently that season) in the desert, but things dry out quickly.

[+narcissa]

I've seen quite a few of these types down here in southern Arizona, and for the most part they do just ok. Lids are really flimsy and the sun exposure does a number on them. Believe it or not, we do get a rainy season (its currently that season) in the desert, but things dry out quickly.

 

I loved caching in Arizona. You guys can hide a cache in anything! I found caches hidden in actual 70's Tupperware and a briefcase. Dry as a bone! That stuff would be lucky to last a month here in any season.

[SicilianCyclops]

Ha. Google Translate is terrible.

[+wimseyguy]

I've seen quite a few of these types down here in southern Arizona, and for the most part they do just ok. Lids are really flimsy and the sun exposure does a number on them. Believe it or not, we do get a rainy season (its currently that season) in the desert, but things dry out quickly.

 

I loved caching in Arizona. You guys can hide a cache in anything! I found caches hidden in actual 70's Tupperware and a briefcase. Dry as a bone! That stuff would be lucky to last a month here in any season.

 

While you might find 70s tupperware in good shape there, you can only cache in the 70's a few months out of the year. Today's projected high is 110°!