--- "Lisa" wrote:
> When your significant other plants a box, do you stamp up at the
> kitchen table BEFORE it goes out, or do you go out and find it along
> with the masses?

> Just wondering because I have resisted the urge to stamp my book while
> the box is still on the premises. Even though I helped him with
> placement, clues and carving ideas. I think I just like the "hunt" so
> much more then the PFX count.

> What about you?
> Limur

My SO doesn't LB. She's willing to help me interpret clues and play
navigator while I drive, but she stays in the car while I hike the
woods. That being said...

If I'm helping with placement and clues, then I'd call it a plant
rather than a find. It's a find if you have to figure out where it's
hidden, not if you already know where it is. And yes, I stamp my
plants into my logbook along with my finds, so go ahead and stamp on
your kitchen table, same as I do!
-- Dagonell the Pirate

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Lisa" wrote:
> When your significant other plants a box, do you stamp up at the
> kitchen table BEFORE it goes out, or do you go out and find it along
> with the masses?

I have stamped into the logbook prior to a placement several times. We don't plant
together very often, so I would treat it as a find or just not stamp in and then find the
box anyway. If you were a stickler for the "rules" (!) then you'd only stamp into the log
prior to placing if you were actually helping him/her/SO plant the box, etc.

I've also stamped in prior and let other folks stamp in prior to placing if they are
helping me plant the box/carved the stamp and or they were moral support. Nautilus
stamped into my LOVE mystery and another bonus box because she was physically
present and helped me locate the hiding spot(s). Sometimes people have others "beta
test" their boxes to make sure the clues aren't way off. In that case, the next first
finder when the clue is released might be really put off because they aren't techincally
first.

I saw this subject come up as a discussion on this list a while back - related to the
whole first finders certificates. Personally, I don't do anything like that. But, if you
were to do that - I would discourage from letting your SO or beta testers stamp into
the box because it would make the finder feel as though they weren't actually first.

phyto

In a message dated 1/17/2005 9:18:18 AM Central Standard Time,
limurme@yahoo.com writes:
When your significant other plants a box, do you stamp up at the
kitchen table BEFORE it goes out, or do you go out and find it along
with the masses?

Just wondering because I have resisted the urge to stamp my book while
the box is still on the premises. Even though I helped him with
placement, clues and carving ideas. I think I just like the "hunt" so
much more then the PFX count.

What about you?
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

I've never had the exact same scenario because I'll plant without Keith (with
the oops! gang, with my sister, by myself, etc.) but Keith won't go out with
anyone other than me -- he sort of refuses to be part of anything with oops!
in the name. So letterboxing to him is always a team concept -- he and I.

We keep two different logbooks -- one for finds, one for plants.

But I would say that if you're assisting him with placement, clues, and
carving ideas, then it's an "our" box, not a "his" box, and if it were me, I'd
stamp in at home, counting it as a place, not a find. Even if you enjoy the
"hunt", you already rather know where it's going to be hidden if I'm reading your
email right.

Now if he were to, say, surprise you by presenting you with clues to a brand
new box on, say, Valentine's Day, that he'd carved, figured the clues, placed,
etc. all by his lonesome just for you, then I'd say that definitely counts as
a find. And one for which he should earn some sort of reward/brownie points
for. That's my idea of romantic. (Which, in my case, Keith would say "Keep
dreamin' little lady.") :-)

Pippi




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I can only say "I wish!" My husband will go with me about half the
time but I can't even begin to imagine him making the effort without
me.

Letterboxing Richters
P10 F100 E4 PLB6


--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Lisa" wrote:
>
> When your significant other plants a box, do you stamp up at the
> kitchen table BEFORE it goes out, or do you go out and find it along
> with the masses?
>
> Just wondering because I have resisted the urge to stamp my book
while
> the box is still on the premises. Even though I helped him with
> placement, clues and carving ideas. I think I just like the "hunt"
so
> much more then the PFX count.
>
> What about you?
>
> Limur

Even though I'm the one who makes the stamp, logbook & box, we go out
as a team to plant, and that's how those boxes are considered by both
of us. Everything's stamped and boxed up before we leave, so that
all we concern ourselves with is planting and writing clues. Now if
either one of us were to surprise the other with a box carved &
planted in secret, that would be different......Or, if we both were
into carving and even though we carved together, if we planted
separately, I'd say those boxes were fair game.

But to answer your question, one can't 'find' what they know is already there.

Cheers,
catbead


>When your significant other plants a box, do you stamp up at the
>kitchen table BEFORE it goes out, or do you go out and find it along
>with the masses?
>
>Just wondering because I have resisted the urge to stamp my book while
>the box is still on the premises. Even though I helped him with
>placement, clues and carving ideas. I think I just like the "hunt" so
>much more then the PFX count.
>
>What about you?
>
>Limur

Whenever possible, my significant other, Night Owl, is the first to
test the clues.

Scarab of the Doubtful Guests

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Lisa" wrote:
>
> When your significant other plants a box, do you stamp up at the
> kitchen table BEFORE it goes out, or do you go out and find it
along
> with the masses?
>
> Just wondering because I have resisted the urge to stamp my book
while
> the box is still on the premises. Even though I helped him with
> placement, clues and carving ideas. I think I just like the "hunt"
so
> much more then the PFX count.
>
> What about you?
>
> Limur