I <3 TRASH! (A CITO Capsule/Sig Item Cache) Traditional Geocache

--Oscar the Grouch, Sesame Street

Yes, it's true. I love trash! But not when it's lying on the ground by the side of the road, or littering an otherwise beautiful park. I love trash when it's disposed of *properly* - in a garbage can! Here to help get the trash from unacceptable locations to its proper destination is a CITO capsule cache!

This cache is based on a travel bug I take with me to event-caches. Someone at a recent event said they thought it would make a good cache, so I thought I'd give it a try. This cache is an ammo can that primarily contains CITO capsules. (The travel bug I mentioned above is a little plastic garbage can full of them - see picture). What are CITO capsules, you ask? They're 35mm film containers (the kind often used as micros) that geocachers often stuff small plastic grocery bags into to take CITO-ing. To turn mine into a "sig item" of sorts, I slap a label on them with my caching name (wowieann), and include a pair of disposable gloves. (Yes, it's difficult to cram all that in there!) Since the gloves are thin I'm afraid they won't offer you much protection against glass and other trash-hazards, but they may make you -slightly- less reluctant to pick up those particularly icky pieces of garbage. :)

I've been inviting people that see this travel bug at events to help themselves to a CITO capsule or two. I also ask that if they have a sig item or other Geo paraphrenelia to leave, that they chuck it on in! I've been adding the "flattish" sig items - (sig cards, coins, wooden nickels, etc.) to my rapidly-expanding GeoScrapbook (which also accompanies me to events, and is also a travel bug!). I've been adding the non-flattish items to my Not-Terribly-Portable-Swag-and-Sig-Item-Museum, which (due to its size and weight) accompanies me to events only on rare occasions.

In keeping with the travel bug's theme (and since I use the CITO capsules as a sort of sig item) I'd like for this cache to be a sig-item exchange, of sorts. Please take as many CITO capsules as you can use, and (if you have one) leave a sig item in exchange. If you have multiples (or different kinds of sig items), please leave as many as you care to - many cachers would enjoy seeing them and/or adding them to their own collections. The trading of sig item for sig item is encouraged but not mandatory. If you'd like to leave swag instead of/in addition to sig items, please do. The taking of multiple CITO canisters is *highly* encouraged. I've purposely placed the cache in an area near my home, and will make it a point to stop by as often as possible so that I can replenish the CITO capsules (and possibly loot some sig items!). Please visit early, and often! If you like, drop off empty film canisters (or recycle any CITO capsules you've emptied of their bag and gloves) so I can fill them and place them back in the cache. (If you're placing empties in the cache, please leave the tops OFF so people will know they don't contain anything - but DO leave the tops along with the canisters, as they -will- be needed!). If you have more canisters to recycle than will fit in the cache, just let me know, and I'll make arrangements to get them from you another way. As a bonus to sig-item collectors, I've included some of my other sig items (for those few that don't already have them!), as well as some nifty (extra) sig items I picked up at GeoWoodstock 4 - ones rarely seen in this neck of the woods.

Happy Hunting!