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Moisture control idea & Sneak Peak @ Cache exchange

We all know moisture and water is enemy #1 when it comes to a cache container. Nothing is worse than finding a great cache and it has been attacked by water and moisture. In order to help keep your cache and log dry try adding a moisture buster. Silica packets are a great barrier. You don’t have to invest a lot of money, just save the ones you find in shoe boxes, beef jerky packets and any other items you buy that have them in it. They are super cheap if you do want to buy some, either way they help absorb moisture in your cache container. So next time you are building a cache, slip one in the baggie with the log or inside of your cache and try it out. If any of you have had success with this idea, let us know.

Bonus Post:

We are getting ready for our December event and it is going to be a lot of fun. http://coord.info/GC41HQG Before Christmas Geocache Exchange Event. This will be a fun event and all cachers that attend will be given a fabulous door prize including a cache ready to hide and then we will be trading ready to hide caches. All cachers that want to participate will need to bring a wrapped ready to hide non micro cache. We will then play a trading game to a story about caching to see what cache each cacher ends up with. We are working on a few ready to hide, creative cahes and below is a sneak peak we are planning on bringing to the event for the cache trading part of the event. We LOVE hosting events and seeing our caching friends. This event will be one of the best yet, we have some great things planned. Make sure if you have not logged a will attend on the cache page, you do so soon. We want to make sure we have enough door prizes, also if we get over 35 attendees, the restaurant will give us a 10% discount per person…great way to say a bit on Lunch right before Christmas! Merry caching and hope to see everyone at the Before Christmas Geocache Exchange Event!

GeoCacher Gift Ideal…

    Christmas is approaching and if your shopping list is filled with caching friends and family we have a great ideal for you! We have been long time customers of Vista Print and they are doing a special right now for 250 free business cards and a free self inking stamp.

      I am sure that does not sound too exciting, but it is. The business cards can be personalized for geocaching and instead of entering address and contact info, we like to add a Thanks for the Cache, or a cache saying along with our names and state and drop them in caches. It is great for personalized SWAG. We also love finding caching cards because we have SWAG boards that we display signature items on and we have a lot of “caching/business” cards. 

     The stamp is a very helpful caching tool, once again instead of an address we put our caching name/names and they fit perfect on a log sheet. People always ask us where we got the stamp because it is so handy. It is self inking so no need to carry around an ink pad and it is small enough for a pocket, purse or SWAG bag. We have made a few different stamps, ones with just our individual caching name, ones with our caching name and other cachers we cache with often, so when we find a cache all we have to do is stamp the log and we all get the smiley! Also perfect for Power Runs!

      I am not sure how long the special is running but I just ordered another stamp and set of 250 business cards and it cost me $8.35 for shipping and handling. The estimated date of arrival is Dec 22, 2012 just in time for Christmas. You can pay more for expedited shipping. This is a screaming deal and gift. The business cards are usually around ten dollars and the stamps are around thirteen dollars.

     Here is a picture of the offer and then 4 of the free cards we have made, then a business card magnet and then the stamp and an example of how it looks on the log sheet. 

Here is the link to the special:

http://www.vistaprint.com/fbc-stamp-getplus.aspx?GP=12%2f8%2f2012+9%3a55%3a59+PM&GPS=2663339357&GNF=0

Ordering Hints:

• To keep it free don’t upload your own photos
• Don’t select extras *ie, glossy finish, special fonts
• The free stamp offer is after you build your cards all of the way, right before check out. Is Bonus offers
• When creating business cards you have to enter something in every field or go to every box and hit backspace. For example if you don’t do that, your card might have “FAX” or “Email” on it. Learned that the hard way.
• Think outside of the BOXES…you don’t have to enter a fax or phone or address…Enter your favorite saying, your state, how long you have been caching, a message to cache owner be creative.
• Have fun…for example we made a set for our friend DollFace and used the housecleaning business card. We had it read, “DOLLFACE was glad to clean through the clues and find this sparkling cache.”  We made another one with the Lawn Mowing business card and it read, :Glad we “CUT” through the clues and “Mowed” on over to find this Cache”

Merry Christmas and if you have any questions, we will gladly help if you do make any we would love to see the pictures to share with our readers!

Happy Caching!

Geocacher of the Month prize pack

                                                                                             

So I am extremely excited and had to share the news with everyone. I received my Geocacher of the Month prize packet in the mail. Inside was a new hat, a great looking geocoin, and a uber sweet certificate signed by Jeremy Irish and Bryan Roth.

I really want to THANK everyone who helped me win this by voting. You guys and gals are the best. I never though I would ever win such an honor but with all your help its a reality. I look over at my temporary display area and am in still in awe. Darcey printed out a copy of the icon and put it in a small frame to add to the collection.

                                                                                       You all are welcome to discover the geocoin number from the pictures I post. Once again thank you all.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

ChunkyMunky WINS SWAG BAG

    
Thank you to everyone whom entered our first giveaway. There will be more to come. We had a good number of entries and we had fun reading all of the fun entries. Thanks so much!
     ChunkyMunky is one of our new friends from North Carolina. We need to get your mailing address in order to get your winnings in the mail, so ChunkyMunky, please e-mail us. I guess for our next contest we need to get contact info .Hopefully ChunkyMunky will send pictures of them with their new SWAG bag. Congrats again to ChunkyMunky.