Agreed. No one should go broke shopping for little extras. While I do
like having many colored stamps in my logbook, I truly appreciate the
added personal story or bit of local lore included in some boxes, and
that's free and un-messy.

I have a couple paper towels stuffed in with my LB stuff, and I'll
squirt a little water on a stamp and pat it off with a paper towel
before returning it to it's hiding place. Besides, they're also
handy when you LB with a four-year old who takes the opportunity to
stamp everything in sight with her stamp when you're busy looking at
the box's logbook....like rocks, leaves, the toe of Daddy's boot....

~Aili

--- In letterbox-usa@y..., jdewolf@m... wrote:
> While it was nice to find different color inkpads in some of the
> boxes in CT, most other boxes I've found have not included them. I
> think we should keep it simple: clues, box, stamp and logbook.
That
> should be the minimum requirements. Anything bwyond that is noce,
> but not required. There are some climates where inkpads would dry
up
> pretty fast, and I've seen some pretty messy logbooks that were
> stached with inkpads. Let's keep in simple, and if people want to
> include more, fine. that's even better. I just don't want anyone
to
> get the impression that they should be including inkpads too.
>
> Lone Wolf