Caches - does anyone else plant them?

[Caryl]

I love doing this. Everywhere we go on vacation, sometimes locally. I vacuum seal coins from around the world and a note and a Stamped PostCard and sit back and wait for a hunter to find it. Better than a note in a bottle

 

[UncleVinnys]

Yeah, I see your point, Montana.

Sometimes with organized hunts, when people are teaching kids how
to detect, they will sometimes use planted caches as well as the
planted coins. In structured hunts like that, it may have a legitimate place,
but you're right - nothing like a genuine find of a lost item.

Still, in the back of my head, I wonder if there is some use for a planted cache.
I have been studying genealogy, and sure wish a distant relative had
left a cache of papers or a diary for future generations to read.
It's that kind of sentiment I'm referring to.

 

[Montana Jim]

Yeah, I see your point, Montana.

Sometimes with organized hunts, when people are teaching kids how
to detect, they will sometimes use planted caches as well as the
planted coins. In structured hunts like that, it may have a legitimate place,
but you're right - nothing like a genuine find of a lost item.

Still, in the back of my head, I wonder if there is some use for a planted cache.
I have been studying genealogy, and sure wish a distant relative had
left a cache of papers or a diary for future generations to read.
It's that kind of sentiment I'm referring to.

Understood and agreed...