[Az-Geocaching] Quality of cache trinkets....

[SSpackeen at aol.com]

I concur!  I'm about to start a couple of caches and I have a stash of  cool 
items ready to go.
 
I have yet to find a cold beer in a cache - now that would be the best find  
I could think of (think Mammoth Grove)!
 
In a message dated 1/20/2005 2:10:08 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
jscotti at pirl.lpl.Arizona.EDU writes:

Hey  Everyone,
I've been working on making the rounds and visiting  my active cache
containers and have been very disappointed with the quality  of the items I'm
finding in my caches as well as in other caches when I go  hunting.  If I had
brought a larger selection of items with me  yesterday, I think I would have
emptied out all of the junk and put a fresh  higher quality set of items in
there.  I might still....  I've  seen enough of those little plastic
dinosaurs, bears, armymen, or whatever  and 99 cent store plastic keychains.  
I usually bring at the least my  favorite combo whistle/thermometer/magnifier
keychains or even a compass or  something and often don't even bother taking
anything from the mostly  worthless collection of junk in the cache.  If I'm
lucky, I'll find  something actually worthwhile or a TB....  Other than team
business  cards, I don't remember the last time I found a team signature item
like  the TMBH keychains or the old Sand Dollars.  Even a cheap whistle is  a
lot better than what I'm seeing in geocaches today.  Is it my  imagination or
has the general quality of cache items gone down - or maybe  I'm just
comparing the quality I see to what I stocked the cache with  originally (you
know, like a sleeve of 3 golf balls for My Blue Heaven to  grab, or a Silva
compass or a homemade bag of genuine Hawaiin beach  sand...) or even what I
used to find when I was one of the first couple  finders of a new geocache (I
think most of us who hide caches tend to stock  them well - I found an
outdated old VGA graphics card in a cache  once).  Maybe the quality of cache
items has always been that  low?
Sorry to sound so grumpy, but I really was disappointed  with the contents
I found last night.  I'd hate to have to restock all  of my caches with a
better quality of trinkets.  At least I didn't  find any lighters, bullets or
Playboy magazines in  it....

Jim.

Jim Scotti
Lunar & Planetary  Laboratory
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA      http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/     

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