Serious conversation….the addictive nature of the game

[kansas64]

I look at our start of caching and wonder if this could apply to us, after all we have done 2 Delormes (Wisconsin & South Carolina), The Badger State Challenge, 14 states with finds and a 1000 finds in the first year I guess you could make a case that we are.
However in the year before that we were couch potatoes, a weekend was watching movies and what was on the DVR. Now it is caching.
I think regardless this is a healthier alternative, and as a plus we have made some very good friends on the way.
I also know that I know where the line is, I may check forum on my lunch break but not during work hours. I may leave home a few minutes early if there is a new cache on teh way to work, but I have never been late because of it. And since I have missed one day of work in 5 years I am not calling in “sick” to cache.
I however have seen others who do not seem to know where that line is. I hope that they can realize that they have crossed the line

[LightningBugs Mum]

@Mister Greenthumb wrote:

@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:

Having previously been part of the “hard core” scrapbooking world—trust me, it exists, as silly as that sounds!—I have seen how becoming preoccupied with a seemingly benign hobby can lead to all kinds of problems.

I scrapbook all of our geocaching adventures so I must really be on a road to trouble. I leave all of the scrapbooking go until snowy days in the winter and I guess that becomes my mock geocaching. Did 50 pages last winter. Help!

I used to “scrapbook” every cache find. Two pages in a binder were dedicacted to a cache description, pictures I took, a copy of my log and any other pertinent info such as puzzle answers or multi stage coords. Once I hit 500 finds, I just couldn’t keep it up anymore.

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