Photos of bad cache containers

If you're wondering what not to use when planting your geocache have a look at these photos gathered from this geocaching forum post: Photos/Images of bad cache containers

Black and grey film canister

Complimentary airline pouch

Altoids tin

Magnetic hide-a-key

Tin bank

Collapsible juice cup

Gladware container

The tiny tin lunchbox. Not water resistant. Rusts up fast.

Gladware container

Soda can

Altoids tin

Cool Whip tub

Capped pipe - looks like a bomb

Coffee tin

Wooden box

Coffee tin

Clam shell eyeglass case

Dollar store bin

Yogurt container

Plastic shoe box

Cookie tin

Coffee can

Little baggie covered in duct tape

Dollar store plastic container

Plastic envelope

Cap off a chair leg with a wad of
electric tape as a cap

My sentiments exactly

 I totally agree with geocaching blogger Renzo Tobias: 

I think geocaching is the greatest thing since pre-sliced bread. It’s an excuse to go hiking, take pictures, be creative, be crafty, blog, journal, do some creative writing, be alone or meet people, learn history, solve puzzles, get dirty, or just add a little more adventure to life. What’s it worth to you to feel just a bit like Santa when you trade up, or walk into the woods empty-handed and return with a bag of trash? I love finding caches that take me places and show me things I would have otherwise missed. I treasure the opportunity to hide a cache while doing the things I enjoy. Chances are, someone else will enjoy those things too. Sometimes a great log entry can be a gift just waiting in your inbox. 

Caches I ignore

Yesterday's geocaching forum post:
At what point do you start using the Ignore feature? 

Geocaching.com has an ignore list feature which allows you to ignore caches so that they do not appear in your search results. I think I started ignoring caches around year 7 of caching. With the exponential growth of caching and so many caches to sort through it's easier to remove the caches that I don't want to do from my pocket query and from my map. So what kinds of caches do I put on my ignore list? The forum topic's responses got me nodding in agreement with just about everyone's reasons for ignoring a cache. Here are some of those reasons:

• Puzzles that I don't understand
• Micro container puzzle caches
• Newly published micro caches where the write-up suggests they were planted just-for-the-numbers
• Needle in the haystack caches.. i.e. a cache under 100000 rocks
• Caches that I had no fun trying to find, gave up on them and don't want to go back to
• Caches that have unfavourable comments
• High Difficulty/Terrain caches especially the kind that require special equipment or risk life and limb e.g. tree climbing, cliff climbing
• Lamp Post micro caches in parking lots
• Challenge caches
• Series caches where you need to pick up numbers from micro caches to get the final coordinates to the last box in the series. 
• Back of shopping centers
• Kayak/canoe/boat caches
• Power trail micro caches 
• Most unknown size caches, people who hide nanos usually choose "unknown" instead of micro

Have I missed anything? What types of caches are on your ignore list?

Forum Schedule - funny funny stuff

This has got to be one of the top funniest geocaching forum post ever.

Click on this link for all the bantering: Forum Schedule (by Ambient Skater)
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Ambient_Skater

As Starbrand said in an earlier topic, the Groundspeak forums stick to a strict schedule to keep discussions consistent. Unfortunately, this schedule doesn't seem to be published anywhere, which seems to have confused some newer members. For the benefit of the entire geocaching community, I've worked out this schedule:

The schedule features a new topic each day of the week, which rotates every season to keep things fresh.

EDIT: updated schedule third time

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