Excellent tip on the pen.

How else is everyone organizing their gear? I'm currently using an oversized plastic
ziplock and, needless to say, it's not working very well and not exactly inconspicuous.

I did start `scrapbooking' my finds to a separate log book from the one I keep in the
ziplock to keep them safe and journal. What do the old timers do with used up
notebooks? Some people on this list must have a bunch of ragged notebooks in a box
somewhere??





--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, ruhlette wrote:
>
> I finally found the answer to my biggest time-waster on the trail ....
>
> A small pen with a loop on the cap! I can hook it to my lanyard/compass
> or carabiner and never be without a writing instrument. My pen was never,
> and I mean never, in the same spot in my pack when I finished the last
> letterbox. The self-inflicted, panic attacks should be a thing of my
> past. Now I just have to worry about strangling myself with the lanyards,
> camera bag, and hat strings around my neck.
>
> I confiscated this pen from dh's school supplies stash. I found
> additional types at Oriental Trading when the ink runs dry.
>
> ~speedsquare
>
>
>
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I have several old "personal" logbooks, and I keep them close at hand in my desk drawer. It's amazing how many times I have to go back and refer to them. I buy the same leather journal (with no lines) each time so they are kind of uniform (other than my first one), but I'm kind of anal like that. I'm curious what people do with their old filled logbooks they've removed from the boxes they've placed. I like to keep the full ones in the boxes so future finders can read through them if they like, but in some of my boxes, I've got several logbooks crammed into the boxes now, and they're beginning to fill the box up a bit too much.
I've always wondered what Gryzzled Gryphon does with all those First Finder certificates. He's probably been the FF on at least a thousand boxes in Texas.
Puddle Splasher


----- Original Message -----
From: momofmedy
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 8/7/2007 12:41:10 PM
Subject: Time-savers on the trail was RE: [LbNA] Re: Thoughts about Letterbox series


Excellent tip on the pen.

How else is everyone organizing their gear? I'm currently using an oversized plastic
ziplock and, needless to say, it's not working very well and not exactly inconspicuous.

I did start `scrapbooking' my finds to a separate log book from the one I keep in the
ziplock to keep them safe and journal. What do the old timers do with used up
notebooks? Some people on this list must have a bunch of ragged notebooks in a box
somewhere??

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, ruhlette wrote:
>
> I finally found the answer to my biggest time-waster on the trail ....
>
> A small pen with a loop on the cap! I can hook it to my lanyard/compass
> or carabiner and never be without a writing instrument. My pen was never,
> and I mean never, in the same spot in my pack when I finished the last
> letterbox. The self-inflicted, panic attacks should be a thing of my
> past. Now I just have to worry about strangling myself with the lanyards,
> camera bag, and hat strings around my neck.
>
> I confiscated this pen from dh's school supplies stash. I found
> additional types at Oriental Trading when the ink runs dry.
>
> ~speedsquare
>
>
>
> __________________________________________________________
> Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos &
more.
> http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC
>




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--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "momofmedy"
wrote:
> How else is everyone organizing their gear? I'm currently using an
oversized plastic
> ziplock and, needless to say, it's not working very well


Well, since you asked... :D

I, too use ziplox: my sig. stamp and pad go into a qt. ziplock which
goes into a gal. ziplock with the log; into another gal. ziplock go the
markers (a set of cheap Wallyworld, BAD imitation Marvy types and a
Crayola basic set); a third ziplock contains basic first-aid supplies.

This all goes into my less-than waterproof (actually sponge-like)
canvas letterboxing day pack...I've been known to 'box in the rain.

Connfederate