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05/26/2009 at 8:12 pm #1728316
What I am looking to do is come up with some boilerplate verbiage that we can put both in our caches and on cache pages about what should not be placed in a cache.
Now, some of this stuff is (or should be) blazingly obvious, and some is specified in the gc.com guidelines. So I’m not looking for that.
What I am looking for is suggestions for types of things that cachers, particularly (but certainly not limited to!!!) new cachers, might not realize would be bad ideas to put in caches.
These include:
1. Soap. Why you’d put this in a cache in the first place baffles me, but we see it all the time. It smells so it attracts critters, and when soap gets damp…
2. Candles. They smell. See above.
3. Bubbles. They freeze.
4. Any type of food, whatsoever. I know this is in the guidelines but probably worth putting on the list since we still come across a fair amount of it.
So again, I am NOT looking to open up a gripe thread here about broken toys, useless junk, or whatnot. I’m looking for suggestions as to the types of things that people think might actually be good swag, but are actually not.
On the Left Side of the Road...05/26/2009 at 8:17 pm #1908397Batteries. Unless the cache is one of those that gets found every week, the dampness in the cache (leakage or condensation) will make the batteries useless in short order.
05/26/2009 at 8:20 pm #1908398Insence. I’ve found insence cones in some caches. Again, it’s the smell thing.
Box cutters. Seriously, I find these all the time. It’s a razor blade — granted a sometimes covered one — but still…
Saw blades — found these in 2 caches. Jigsaw blades, or something like that. Still sharp.
And although I think they are a cool trade item, I do question whether or not P-38 can opener things should be in caches.
And Play-do! It has a scent and can be messy when it gets hot.
05/26/2009 at 8:54 pm #1908399Anything made of glass.
Or am I the only one who has opened a cache and seen glass shards caused from the rough handling of the cache.05/26/2009 at 8:59 pm #1908400@AstroD-Team wrote:
Anything made of glass.
Or am I the only one who has opened a cache and seen glass shards caused from the rough handling of the cache.You’re not the only one. Ditto for anything ceramic. Once saw a ceramic travel bug. Well, make that the shattered bits of a ceramic TB.
On the Left Side of the Road...05/26/2009 at 9:18 pm #1908401Personal items like combs and tooth brushes even if they are wrapped. Anything that kids would put in their mouth like whistles, pacifiers etc.
05/26/2009 at 9:20 pm #1908402I know you said any type of food, but animal treats, run across dog treats quite often. Had some coffee in one found recently..
Anything that can rust – pencil sharpeners(put a byop warning on the page instead), buttons, etc.
Paper products not in a baggie.
05/26/2009 at 9:43 pm #1908403Girlie lip gloss that smells like strawberries, raspberries, etc.
Perfume. Body Spray. Deodorant.
Kleenex.
Diapers.
Hand Sanitizer. – Freezes and cracks etc. Like bubbles do.
And on a different note… things we don’t really like to see in caches:
Rocks, Pine Cones, leaves, sticks, bottle caps, losing lottery tickets, expired coupons, Broken pieces of things of no use, used batteries…05/26/2009 at 9:46 pm #1908404Once saw a ceramic travel bug. Well, make that the shattered bits of a ceramic TB.
Me too.. it was an Elk that I moved along I believe and I went through the painstaking work of re-gluing it all back together and putting it in something a bit more protective and was disheartened when a few logs later it was shattered again. Putting out breakable travel bugs is not cool. It’s definitely one way to have them end up in a garbage and not traveling…
05/26/2009 at 10:16 pm #1908405Play Dough .. it does have a scent.
05/27/2009 at 1:21 am #1908406feminine hygiene products….yep I have found those in caches.
05/27/2009 at 1:41 am #1908407Gary, Found the same a few weeks ago at a cache. Definetely something that does not need to be put in caches……
05/27/2009 at 2:25 am #1908408@Lostby7 wrote:
feminine hygiene products….yep I have found those in caches.
Hmmm, wouldn’t it work to absorb any moisture in the container? Maybe this is actually a good idea.
05/27/2009 at 2:27 am #1908409Silly putty! If the egg comes apart, it makes a BI-I-I-G mess 🙄
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