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Re: Ways to Tell if You're a Letterboxer
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Reply to: #53674 by Pied Piper
Nov 30, 2006 9:15pm
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Quote Oh, my gosh--we just did this in freezing cold wind and snow over the Thanksgiving weekend. My fingers were screaming OUCH! at me the whole time.


See, ya gotta learn to delegate authority. Catbead and I supervised the excavation of several snowbound letterboxes in Syracuse one day. The Highlander was such a BABY about it, too...all "My fingers are cold" and "Can't we just come back in the spring?". Like I wasn't WATCHING his fingers get cold! Can I BE more supportive? (rolls eyes)

The (filing her nails and supervising is hard WORK!) Sprite & the (ready to replace the snowbound boxes with the Sprite this winter) Highlander
Re: Ways to Tell if You're a Letterboxer
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Reply to: #52883 by Dagonell
Nov 30, 2006 9:28pm
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Whoo, I am WAY late on this thread,huh? Darn, and I made my hubby throw all of his old contact thingys away after he had lasik!

We just switched over to new cell phones, and I'm keeping the old one for a "distracttion" when we go boxing. That way, I can throw my old one ( whoops, I tripped and it flew out of my hand and landed somewhere in these bushes! ) without worry!

moonshowr
Re: Ways to Tell if You're a Letterboxer
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Reply to: #54257 by Sprite and Highlander
Nov 30, 2006 9:50pm
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So THIS is the way you've made it to 300 plus boxes! I should have known I was missing something.

Thanks for the laugh--PP
Re: Ways to Tell if You're a Letterboxer
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Reply to: #54257 by Sprite and Highlander
Dec 1, 2006 4:58am
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Quote The (filing her nails and supervising is hard WORK!) Sprite & the (ready to replace the snowbound boxes with the Sprite this winter) Highlander

ha ha, wait, no!
no sprite gives me tinkerbell stamp-not allowed. (you let me stamp, no i am on your side forever :)

but then again, you know your a letterboxer when you say you just want stamps for christmas (and forget the food too)

kwm
Re: Ways to Tell if You're a Letterboxer
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Reply to: #52871 by MRSHAT
Dec 3, 2006 10:58am
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Quote 10. If someone asks you the date of your anniversary and you tell them the date you went looking for your first box…you might be a letter-boxer.


*raises hand sheepishly*
Re: Ways to Tell if You're a Letterboxer
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Reply to: #54713 by ClioMouse
Dec 3, 2006 12:19pm
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Quote 10. If someone asks you the date of your anniversary and you tell them the date you went looking for your first box…you might be a letter-boxer.

Quote *raises hand sheepishly*


Wait...that isn't what people mean when they ask you when your anniversary is? :D
Re: Ways to Tell if You're a Letterboxer
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Reply to: #52907 by preboxed
Dec 3, 2006 12:28pm
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ROFL. That totally sounds like something I would do!
Re: Ways to Tell if You're a Letterboxer
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Reply to: #54723 by Joe and Carissa
Dec 3, 2006 1:12pm
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You have your GPS, and coordinates, but can't understand why the box is full of toys and no stamps... you might be a letterboxer.
Re: Ways to Tell if You're a Letterboxer
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Reply to: #53674 by Pied Piper
Dec 3, 2006 6:32pm
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We just did that again today... Going after I'm Late I'm late... We didn't research it befor hand so when we arrived at around 3:30 we expected it to be a easy hike up.... .................... Well 3.2 miles later we got to the top and found the box and started to head down in the dark... I thank the lord that there was a full moon tonight otherwise I would be bruised by tripping all over the roots that were sticking out.
Re: Ways to Tell if You're a Letterboxer
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Reply to: #52976 by six stars
Jan 12, 2007 8:32pm
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Here is a list I collected from a similar post a while ago when I realized I was addicted.
Of course, now I have to add one more to the top:

You know you're a letterboxer when...

#98(ish) You have been collecting all these funny ways to tell if you're a letterboxer and you now have a four-page document.

You offer to make your first grader her own valentine stamp instead of buying the boxed valentines "to save her from having to write her name so many times".
You buy an institutional size of Heinz Steak Sauce for the container
You are German, but you still purchase a jar of styling gel for African hair so you can use the cool black container
You buy cat litter but have no cat (it’s for deoderizing food containers)
You ask your spouse to save the fish food container
It takes you 3 hours to shop for groceries because you're really scouting for containers
Your Christmas list consists of erasers, markers, knives, plastic boxes and camo tape
You're considering buying Citrucel, even though you're not old enough to need it yet
You're trying to muster the courage to ask the pharmacist for empty pill bottles
You get SO annoyed when you have to use containers for actual leftovers from your boxing stash.
You sniff the newly opened package of PZKut from the mail
You insist on using hand-carved stamps to grade student papers
Your babies are asleep in the back of the car and you’re beating on the glass doors of "Hobby Lobby" to OPEN UP!!
You check AQ email before your own personal email
Your babies are 10 and 15 years old, so you buy baby food because you read on AQ that the containers might be good for mini letterboxes!
You count how many days you have missed in class and wonder if you can get by with another one...
You yell at your 17 yr old son for putting leftovers in a brand new lock n lock. What are you, crazy????? A 17 year old put something AWAY and you're complaining?!?!
You eye EVERYTHING as a potential container or logbook...wondering "how could I make that work?"....
you have logbook envy and stamp envy
you already have mustered the courage to ask for the empty pill bottles
your 4 year old son reminds you to "please double bag" when you actually DO use a ziploc for leftovers....
You go to Wal-Mart, and after getting a battery for your watch, and checking the price of a mini-fridge for your son's teacher, you look at the Lock n' Lock selection, and leave.
You are late for the elementary school bus dropping off the cherubs because of boxing
Your 7 year old says her prayers and ends it with "and thank you God for letting it be pretty outside so we could find those letterboxes"
You are on the way home from a full day of letterboxinb, and KNOW you are going to pass a "drive by" and decide that just because it is dark, and you don't have a flashlight, you will do it anyway!!! Rumaging around in the dark! WHo knows what is that whole you just put your hand into!!!
Co-workers start to comment on the ink stains ever-present on your fingers.
You strategically place your finger over the carved image in a tricky spot so if the tool slips it will cut your finger rather than the carved image.
You start to buy those cheap containers for leftovers because you just can't bear to use the lock-n-locks for food.
You make plans to move SOUTH so you can letterbox all year 'round!!!
You don't stop on your way home from work for groceries or other essentials so that you can get home in time to get to the apt. complex office before they close just in case you got a postal (or 5).
You use carrot or banana baby food in breads so that you can use the container.
You know you should go to bed because you have to work in the morning, but you just want to finish that one last section of the stamp....and maybe that one....and that one too...
your husband stops calling it the "scraproom" (scrapbooking) (or craproom, depending on what it looks like at the time) and starts calling it... THE RUBBER ROOM
...you are picking a color to paint your craft room, and you pick BRIGHT WHITE because it will make it easier to carve at night...
You buy three Altoids tins, empty them into zip locks, turn them loose as cooties at an event, then plot on how you will get rid of the mints, so you can do it again...
You use the super extra heavy duty zip lock bags for boxing and use whatever is on sale for leftovers.
...your christmas list consists of:, PZ Cut-grade B white, a magnifying desk lamp, a new logbook , (leather cover!), lock-n-locks, ziploc bags, and camo tape
you wake out of a sound sleep thinking "that would be a great place for a letterbox" and then can't remember where it was the next morning.....
driving along the road and looking at places and saying there is another spot for a letterbox....
you see an old path that leads into the woods and you think "Where does that lead to and is this a good spot for a letterbox".
You tell your family at the risk of getting them fat, "There Will Be No Leftovers Ever!!!!!!!!"
You forget your "real" name and only respond to your trail name.
While traveling you stop to look for a box at 7 am in the morning in the rain while it is still dark outside in a strange city, in a park that you have never been to before, using flashlights on the clues and the compass.
Your first impulse is to sign all e-mails with your trailname, even when writing to family and friends.
Your 6 yr. old walks into a new store, finds the container aisle, and yells.... "Hey, Mom! They got lots of Locknlocks here!!!! "
Re: Ways to Tell if You're a Letterboxer
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Reply to: #62824 by MO UR4Me
Jan 12, 2007 11:35pm
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Your non-letterboxing family members get you storage containers and camo tape for Christmas.

LL