So, it's Sunday afternoon and I'm meeting someone at a movie theatre at 3:45. I happen to check AQ and lo & behold, there is a new box planted that very day.

http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=46193 It mentions a First Finder prize.

Having lived in that very area years ago, I knew exactly where it was.

Do I have enough time? Yes, possibly.

I go and find it, log in about 3:05 or so, grab that prize, replace it, and get to the theatre with 5 minutes to spare. I thought about not going for it, trying later that night, but I really want to be FF.

Movie starts 4:00 and I change my cell phone to vibrate. I lean against my bag about 15 minutes later and feel the phone vibrating. It's going off at intervals, so I check and I have gotten a voice mail. It's letting me know by signaling every minute or so.

Finally, after the movie is done, I check my voice mail and it's my sometimes LB partner, heyokah man. He had tried for FF on this box and I beat him by a mere hour!

hee hee hee hee

He was wonderful and refrained from logging his find until I did mine, so I would show as FF.

The AQ email from my search informing me of this box hit my AQ inbox at 1:02, so I nabbed it in 2 hours.

No, no, we aren't competitive and try to be FF and beat out everyone else! At least, we're all having fun!

Thanks, dreammer, for a fun box.

KuKu

"I go and find it, log in about 3:05 or so, grab that prize, replace it, and get to the theatre with 5 minutes to spare. I thought about not going for it, trying later that night, but I really want to be FF."

My family is about to plant our first letterbox and we were considering including a First Finder prize. Do you have any suggestions for prizes? Is there something that is particularly coveted by regular letterboxers? Thanks!

-4happybears

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First Finder prize. Do you have any suggestions for prizes?

There are various items that are FF prizes. There are many posts/threads around here on it, but here's some quick thoughts:

Marmalade & I once went to a coffee shop box that had just been planted. The FF prize was a $10 gift certificate to the shop. Since we didn't use up all $10 on our tea, we put the reduced certificate back for the next finder.

Some people do shrinky dinks of the stamp. Some include stickers.

I have heard from various people that a paper image can be preferred, as it can be glued easily into a logbook.

My only two permanent plants (one had to be retired when the restaurant closed) had a full color paper image of the stamp. In one case, it was the photo from which I carved the image.

A small certificate, filled out with "Congratulations, you are the first finder of __________" can also be fun. Keep it small enough to go in a logbook.

It's fun to be FF, but I do enjoy looking through a generously stamped logbook, seeing who has been there and what they said . . .

Do a search on the message boards and you will find lots of responses to this subject!

KuKu