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My children are both under the age of 10 and like swaps. We always carry a pocketful of Toy soldiers and similar items. I recently bought a bag of 50 soldiers for £1 at Trago Mills. My children particularly like the more generous and unusual swaps. Things like Foreign or Old coins and stamps go down really well with my two. I think swaps in the family caches in places like cadover, dartmeet, burrator etc is great. But there is not much point at cut hill or ryders hill and places like that as young children wouldn’t really visit too often.
Even if I’ve been caching on my own I’ve often thought of the children if I’ve found something interesting and made a swap.
I do know what you mean about rusty, smelly toys. Recently I travelled some distance away from home and got a cache. I had a TB that I needed to drop. The cache was more than adequate size to fit the TB but was full of toys of varying quality. (Not sure if it was right) I removed a sticky bug thing with one eye. A badge that was rusty and a key ring minus the ring. I was then able to fit the TB.
Hi Lympstone Bogtrotters.
1. I am not ACCUSING a cacher of a DNF. I am posting my personal thoughts and feelings on a geocaching experience I had.
2. Having thousands of finds is brilliant. I wish I could but a full time job and two young children will mean that might be some way off at the moment. The reason I mentioned their Tally is I thought the cacher who has a few finds might be more inclined to (a) leave a TB because they don’t know what it is or (b) take a TB and forget all about it.
I always think a TB is safer with an experienced cacher.As for signing the log. Groundspeak/geocaching rules state that the log must be signed to claim a find.
We all know we can get damaged/wet logs but I always take a photo in this situation.Final note to mention. I am just joining in a friendly debate on this brilliant website. I am not concerned about whether I Win Friends or influence people.
I have plenty of friends.
Hi There
This is My First Post. I never thought about geocachers cheating until a few weeks ago but something happened which seriously made me wonder.
my children and I were doing some of the Bodmin Bounds series. Each of my Children released Travel Bugs.
My Daughter placed one in a trad cache. My son in a mystery cache. (which involved research before our trip)A few days after release a geocacher with 10,000 finds and 500 ish logged trackables found a huge chunk of the BB series.
The mystery cache was in a beautiful location and had a few favourite points. He logged the cache with a quite non descript log as I guess some do. However he didn’t take the TB?? When he visited the Trad Cache he did take the TB!?
I actually thought for several weeks he must of took the TB and not logged it until another cacher picked up the TB a few weeks later and moved it on.
Obviously i have no proof without seeing the log but i honestly believe this cacher on this occasion cheated which i find pretty sad and desperate.with my own caches i dont check the log books. Honesty and integrity i hope are values most cachers posess.
