Releasing Them To The Wild

This article was originally published on Cache Up NB. It has been mirrored here for archive purposes only.

With all of the geocoin challenge programs going on in the last year, I’ve started to build a small collection of geocoins. In fact, over the course of all the time I have been caching, I’ve managed to end up with quite a few. There are a couple which I have bought for special occasions, but a lot of them are ones I have gotten through coin challenges or special events that I have been part of. Then I noticed the other day that I have these coins all over the house and none of them are doing anything.

Some of those coins have special meaning to me. My Ape Cache coin is one I am proud to have because I got it while doing the last Ape cache in North America. There’s a couple of ones I bought that I got because I really liked them and would never want to give them up. But the rest of them are just sort of sitting in a box, collecting dust, never to go anywhere. It got me to wondering…

I’ve started thinking about taking pretty much every geocoin I have and releasing them all. I tried putting them in a small book to showcase but they’ve fallen out and I never show them off anyway. If they are just sitting in a box, why not send them off out into the wild.

I know the odds are slim that they will stay moving, but they aren’t moving now. They are just sitting around, doing nothing, and not being enjoyed by anyone. At least if I released them into the wild, they might get some mileage and go somewhere interesting before being stolen or lost.

Has anyone else here had the same thoughts about all those trackables you have laying around? Do you ever think about just getting rid of them?