[LDove]

I have archived quite a few. Some due to muggles getting it or animals messing with it. Mostly, I archive to free up the area for other caches to be placed. I have archived several from the Cache Bash from last year that went missing or had problems so that we can use the area again for a fresh idea. With so many spots getting taken – all over, not just Washington County, it would be great if more people archived and allowed new caches in… just my opinion.

[LDove]

I was more referring to the ones I have seen that literally have NO identification on them whatsoever – that they are even a movable item. Basically just the coin in the little plastic bag or worse yet, no bag at all, just the coin floating around. Some have such small numbers and letters that beginners may not even notice that and just keep them thinking they were swag. At least I have enjoyed a few of your coins Bugsmasher! Several of them have passed through our hands at one time or another. 😀 @bugsmasher69 wrote:

@LDove wrote:

If they were better packaged and marked when first sent out, I think a few less would get stolen.

As I said near the beginning of this thread I have drilled and tagged coins and coins not marked at all and the ones with the metal tag attached stating it is not a collectable or swag but a coin on a mission and needs to be logged and moved onto another cache disappear all most as fast as the untagged coins.

Going back and looking at all the coins of mine that are missing or have showed up later it seems the biggest problem is that people take and move them without logging them or logging them incorrectly.

I got a notification yesterday that a person discovered one of my coins and that they were going to move it to another part of the country. I mailed them questioning if they took the coin or left it and explained the correct way to log coins but have not heard back from them yet.

I don’t buy as many coins as I use to just because money is tight for us right now. But when I do get a coin I buy two of them, one for my collection and one to be sent out traveling. Yeah I know it will eventually go missing but the enjoyment I get out of the logs and seeing where it travels to still far out weighs the dissapointment of when it goes missing.

[LDove]

What a jerk!! Too bad you did not know his name! 👿 I have found many coins that have no identification of their purpose also – which I think tends to make them look like trade items. If they were better packaged and marked when first sent out, I think a few less would get stolen.
@The Crippler wrote:

We started collecting coins that we enjoyed or that we earned in raffles or as FTF prizes. We always activated them and put them out to travel. We no longer do that anymore because of the rampant stealing of coins especially in this area. We are now into Pathtags for collecting as the trades only cost the price of a stamp or are fun face to face.

At any rate, what really sealed our decision about the coin issue was our recent trip to Geowoodstock. We went to the coin and pathtag trading event with about a dozen or so coins we still had left and all my daughter’s pathtags. The room was standing room only and we managed to find a table to sit at and spread out all our “stuff”. After about 10 minutes a couple from Texas sat across from us and opened a huge box full of coins and put up a sign that read ” Any coin $5″. They had at least 1000 or more coins. I looked through some of the coins and noticed some with holes or other markings on them. I memorized one of the tracking numbers and looked it up the next morning and it was registered to a cacher in Alabama. His business was brisk to say the least with many individuals looking for coins to complete series, etc. I remember hearing him tell some of the lookers that all the coins were unactivated.

[LDove]

You could also take them to events and let other people enjoy them as well as yourself – share the joy! 😀 Then, they are still under your control, but you can see the fun on other people’s faces as they get to discover them. I have one of the Starfish geocoins and I wear it as a necklace for people to discover. I don’t buy them anymore either – they are cool, but I just get mad when they get stolen.

[LDove]

Great ideas everybody, thank you. I will check for the paint next time I get dragged to Menards 🙄 ha! Of course, I missed the sale on ammo boxes so I ended up paying 7.88 each. Oh well. I guess I better start reading the FF add, if I can wrestle it away from MagOO! 😯

[LDove]

🙄 I wonder if the cache bash planners used it all… will have to ask them – ha! 😆

I wonder if anyone has seen any at Cabelas? I have a cache I need to put out so somebody? Anybody? Got any other ideas????

Oh and by the way, since we gave FF such good business buying ammo cans for the bash, they are now almost 8 bucks each – ouch! Anybody know a cheaper place for that also??

[LDove]

😳 😳 😳 This is why I have the words above my avatar picture on the left:

😀 January 9, 2007 by LDove (1342 found)
I have to edit this log. When this originally happened, I was too embarrassed to print it. Now that a little time has gone by and I can laugh about it and since I have been printing my logs, I will share my adventure. So I get to your cache and decide that in the cold .25 is too far to walk in. The weather has frozen everything so I will just drive the car up the side of the field. Get to what LOOKS like a cute, very small brook with a little ice. Car can make that – NOT!!! Car got massively stuck and in the cold had to call a 30 ton wrecker to get me out! If I would have sunk another 2 inches, car would have had creek running through it! MY NEW CAR! Tow truck driver got there and found me cold, with a runny nose and a bit teary. I think he felt sorry for me but told me, “when you are out hikin’, yer supposed ta walk!” doh… After a he told me he hauled someone else outa there for 250 bucks I started to get a few more frozen ice cubes outa my eyes and I think he felt sorry for me and said “aw just give me 90 bucks.” So 90 bucks later I had a new, old Star Wars VCR tape from the cache and another adventure to chalk up for lonesumdove’s misadventures in geocaching.

Oh and I got “lost” along with my husband in the Jackson swamp, stuck my face right into a hornet’s nest and then ran screaming backwards into a patch of briars in Menomonee Falls, AND had some freak come after me with a hammer because I wandered onto private property… 😮 😯 amazing that I still do this. 🙄 😆

[LDove]

😯 😯 GULP… no kidding! 😛 😉

[LDove]

Thanks Mathman, yep, I was referring to when I get home to log them on the computer. I did use the aforementioned suggestion of Google maps and that did work pretty good. 😀

[LDove]

😀 I’d trade for one of those – I love ’em! Congrats!

[LDove]

I gave my family members the cow coins for Christmas and will probably set up dummy accounts for them to watch the coins travel. Is it possible this could be the situation too? ❓

[LDove]

ADDENDUM: Called Larry the event organizer. He has two guys helping him who are geocachers and they are possibly going to make some of these permanent. As of right now, he only has four teams. I reiterated that if these were permanent caches, he will get a bigger turn out. The starting times also would not make someone wait for 5 hours as we feared, they will start teams out at different starting points IF they get 20 teams. Prizes he is picking up today, so he is unsure what the first place will be just yet. He asked me to call him on Friday, for an update and I will then post what he says and see if we can help him out and get more teams. Although less teams increases my chances of chocolate… 😈 hmmmm…. 😉

[LDove]

Come on team ZigZagNuts – nobody gonna do it?? 😥 I will go if I don’t have to run for anything, that job we save for Gary… 😀 I am feeling better now (knock on wood) so I could be a navigator, driver or cheerleader:

Chocolate, chocolate
that’s the prize
find the cache with real good eyes
Rah Rah, work those butts
Move it, move it
team ZigZagNuts! 😯 😯 😯 🙄

Okay, I was never a cheerleader in high school, but at least I tried!!! 😉 😆

[LDove]

😯 😯 Ok, that is really poor planning if you ask me!!! Let 3 teams go or even four at a time, what’s the difference? I did e-mail the organizer of this event and suggested he publish them on gc.com, but he does not seem to think that would be “allowed.” Not sure he completely understands the whole geocaching thing, nice guy though, but maybe unaware of how to make it more fun and doable. He could also start the teams backwards and at opposite locations to get more than 1 or two started at a time. Oh well…
@Greendale4X4 wrote:

@bluesquirtles wrote:

We were part of the group last year. Dissapointed on many aspects we ran into. There were too many variables to the teams leaving at later times; bike ride which we couln’t get around, parking, etc; it added a longer time to our score as well. 🙁

I was just thinking about that last week regarding this year. 20 teams, dispersed every 15 minutes. Some poor team will have to wait 5 hours to start…8O I’ll have to inquire within.

[LDove]

That there is not (at least to my knowledge) a NEXT NEAREST CACHE button you can click on when you are done logging a find to take you to the next cache instead of backing out and having to go to the original cache page and THEN click on NEAREST CACHES I HAVE NOT DONE. I don’t keep track of the GC numbers, so this would be a really nice feature for me. 😀

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