Your friend who got you into geocaching, gives you a roll of camo duct tape, and you jump up and down with joy!

You have family and friends saving their empty canisters of folgers and altoid tins just for you!
  
When standing at a party, you spot the guy's fake rock in his rock bed.

When you find yourself at the store lifting logs.

When anyone asks you what you are doing you have the impulse to lie or make up something..

When people surprise you, you try to act "natural"
 
When you carry a pen and tweezers with you at all times

If you see something out of place you have the urge to check it and bury it back under something

If you see some sort of container laying on the ground you go over to see if you can make a container out of it

If you refer to anyone picking up any sort of garbage at any time as 'CITOing'
 
You go to a new place, and the first thing you think is, "This would be a great place to hide a cache!"

You and your family go grocery shopping, and you sneak away to go look at the tupperware.

You can't leave the house without these three important things:
1) Sunglasses
2) Car keys
3) GPS
... not necessarily in that order, and the wife adds, did you get the kids?

While travelling down a new road you wonder, "are there any caches nearby?"

You have a list of excuses made up to explain your behavior is not mischievous to passers-by 
    and not disclose you're geocaching.

You practice your covert searching skills at the office so you don't look like a dork searching 
    every limb of that tree or turning over every rock in the local park while hunting a cache.

Your co-workers hate you because every time you take a pencil or stapler from their desks 
    you leave a stupid toy car, pocket knife or battery.
 
When you buy mints or candy just for the tin 
    and give the contents away to your kids so you can make a cache out of it right now.

When planning your Christmas holidays home, you've already figured out that you 
    can stop at at least 3 cache sites on the way home from the airport.
 
You get the kids meal at BK or McDonalds for the swag

Your new favorite store is the 99cent store
 
While out and about you look at every tree, fence, building just looking for a place to hide that next cache.
    not to mention the 30+ caches you have pre-made in your cars at all times  
 
You use the names of area caches as landmarks when giving someone directions.

You know you're a geocacher when you give people the coords to your house for the party. 
    And another cacher turns up early to claim a first to find.   

 
You realize you lost the papers for an important meeting and report to the boss that someone has "muggled my desk".

You say "Honey, I will be back in an hour or two, or three, or four."

Wherever you go you have the gps, the laptop, and a portable printer. 

You buy a 64 pack of AA batteries just for your gps.

You decide you hate buying the batteries and decide to get the car charger.

You forget to change out of your caching clothes when you go to work.

You have a nervous breakdown because you couldnt find the cache.

You say, "Honey, can you pull over here.", *5 min. later, "Honey, can you pull over here."

You hang a framed photograph of a geocache on your cube wall.
 
You say to the kids as you drive around town, there is a geocache over there I haven't found yet, 
    a minute later, there is one there that is supposed to be hidden in a rubber ducky, a few minutes later, 
    why don't we just stop and try to find the cache hidden here. All the while the kids are saying to 
    each other, "Mom is becoming obsessed about this geocaching thing."

You are at the grocery store and sign the check "busterbabes" instead of your real name. 
 
You keep an 'Emergency Repair Kit' in your car with extra logs, containers, camo tape, and more.
 
You buy an eye shadow, just for the little clear container it's in.
 
When your kids ask you "where are the cornflakes, mom?" you reply "in a traditional in the kitchen".

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Top Ten Ways to Tell You're Addicted to Geocaching
10. You take sick leave from work to be FIRST to a cache.
 9. You can read encrypted hints as quickly as unencrypted.
 8. You begin referring to your pets with the prefix "Geo".
 7. Someone asks you where the photocopier is and you say, "25 feet bearing 270".
 6. Two words ----- Head Lamp.
 5. You're looking at $1 dollar stores and garage sales with new interest because they are a source of Geocache "treasure".
 4. YOU CREATE YOUR OWN LIGHTED GEOHIKING STICK FOR NIGHTCACHING.
 3. You are the computer Geek with a tan.
 2. You plan your entire vacation around Geocaching.
 1. You plan on attending the NeoGeo Car Rally on Saturday, 

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You come back from a business trip without finding any caches and consider it a wasted trip.

You know which stores in your area have good offers on lock & lock boxes.

You can read encrypted words like GERR, VIL and TERRA OBK without having to decode them.

Your choice of food shopping is swayed by the type of container the products come in.

Half the phone numbers saved in your phone have caching names rather than real names next to them.

You think "Signal" is a good name for a pet.

Someone mentions what part of the country they come from and you think to yourself "That's somewhere in N51 W97"!

You wonder why no one has placed any caches in the University near you, yet  

You're at work, trying to get from one spot to another, and walk through the tupperware 
    aisle by accident and slow down to see what's new!

You consider using a birdhouse that you made a few years ago for an Eagle Project/Senior Project, 
    to have a real bird nest with fake eggs and a nano underneath. 

You're keeping a used wasps nest to use as a "cache"

You got a car travel bug to log the miles it's gone to every cache you go to

You trip over an ammo box in the middle of the night when your going to the bathroom.
 
When you see on the news that the authorities are searching for a body in nearby woods and 
you wonder if they'll find the cache hidden nearby.
 
You're in a plane and you look out the window and you see the landscape like you are looking 
at Google Earth and imagine all the caches down there.
 
The day after you are discharged from the hospital for having pneumonia you are right 
out there again in the cold weather searching for caches, when you should be home resting.
 
When you are visiting the cemetery and paying your respects to your late family members when you
catch a figure of a person aimlessly wandering and you just KNOW it's a geocacher!!

 

"don't leave home without it" means your GPSr.
 
When you pray you don't get pulled over by the cops because you don't want to try explaining 
    all the electronic gear, the ammo can, the camo-covered items, and the pointy stick in 
    the back seat of the car.
	
When out in the woods you see a bush shaking, and hear giggles and moaning, 
    only to think "Dang! They beat me to GC3X4RT!"
	
When you and the hubby decide you need to head to the grocery store to get stuff for dinner that 
    evening, and you ask,"Well, could you get out the e-trex and download a couple of caches first? 
    We don't want to waste a trip!"
	
When you get back from the grocery store with a bag full of McToys and realize you forgot about dinner.

You went out and bought a new purse, just for geocaching and hiking. Only you can justify 
    it by not calling it a purse. "But honey, it's a nice rugged canvas messenger bag, with 
    room for a water bottle and everything..." (oops, I shouldn't'a said that...) 
	
When asked what you would take with you to a desert island, you list your wallet, phone, camera, 
    gpsr, and Swiss army knife.
	
You object when some 10 yr old Harry Potter fan calls you a muggle.

When fellow cube zombies at work start bringing in unused Tupperware containers and old key 
    chains and useless junk for you to use as swag.
	
When you try to give the hubby driving directions, and he asks for the bearing. 
    (That could just mean he's ex-Navy, though...)
	
You head to the paint aisle at Wal-mart, only to be disappointed that they don't have any cans of 
    camo-colored spray paint. You decide to go to the craft aisle to see if they have camouflage stencils.
	
You are also disappointed that your local scrapbook store doesn't have any geocaching themed 
    embellishments to compliment your FTF photos. You ask if they can stock Groundspeak licensed items.
	
You hide a cache practically on your own doorstep hoping that local cachers will come by and say hi.
 
Instead of buying stuff at walmart - you trade for them

All my refrigerator magnets are magnetic keyholders.
 
When all your pets have TB tags on their collars, and more than 20 of the local cachers have discovered them.

When you have more than 3 TB t-shirts.

When you have a TB sign for the back window of your cache-mobile, and a vanity plate that matches the TB's number.

When you look around for a newbie to recruit for the game, in part to carry your 2nd backpack of swag.

You've strapped a Truck Boot Cleaning Brush to the side of your Suzuki Swift.

You take your GPS everywere you go now, with caches loaded up to about 30 miles away

You hear of a tornado in your area and wonder how many caches have been affected, never mind the people

You look at your messy house and you think that it would make a good CITO event.
 
You step outside of a store or restaurant and the first thing you automatically do is take your idle 
cellular phone out of your pocket and put it up to your ear as to not look suspicious....
 
You have paid (or thought of paying) for a baby-sitter so that you can do some "serious" caching without the kids.
 
You take a Jeep Travel Bug skydiving because you've always wanted to go skydiving.
 
You can't find something in a store and start walking in circles.

You see a phone number and think it looks like GPS coordinates.
 
You make waypoints for hollow trees just in case you might put a cache there some day.
 
When you've learned to use a GPSr device as a Cell Phone when spotted by muggles. 

You're a TRUE Geocacher if you've left your GPS device either at the cache site, or on the roof of your car. 

You wonder if you can use geocaching and its related skills in your CV.

You always add on an extra day to any vacation, or trip to a wedding, or anything, 
    to make sure you have plenty of time to grab the caches in the area.
 
You navigate around your city by geocaches (It's by that evil micro in the rocks, honey)
 
You have to hide the fact that you're caching on holidays but suggesting we stop here or there for a "stretch" 

You have to trick your husband into stopping so you can get rid of a TB so you don't have to cache later...sucka!

Your husband buys you a special backpack for your birthday and you're thrilled

You have to buy 12 rechargeables because the battery cost is getting out of hand

You consider getting a backup GPS just in case!

You know who has AA batteries on sale this week

You have enough unactivated geocoins you hand them to geokids for Halloween Trick Or Treat

You get excited because you found a cache that more experienced cachers than you overlooked

You call in sick so you can go caching

You buy AA batteries in bulk

Your geofriends contact you to find out where the least expensive trackables can be purchased

You have several pair of shoes because you get them wet looking for caches.

Trail mix counts as a meal

You carry all size replacement logs....just in case.

You carry several cache containers with you at all times just looking for the "perfect" place for a cache.

You want to meet Dave Ulmer and Mike Teague

You start planning a geocaching event almost a year in advance
 
When thinking about a spot in your city, you see it in your mind as you would on Google maps.

You raid your mother's junk drawer, find a rubber chicken, and declare, 
    "I could stick a micro up this guy's butt." 

You research the best glue to use on dirt.