So yesterday our oddly out of place cache was not found for the 3rd time in a row. We loaded up the kiddos and headed out to make sure it was still there - YEP still there!! I grant you, we even had to look for it but it was still there and oddly out of place. :-)
We try to be creative but I think sometimes other geocachers want it to be easy and straight forward. Don't get me wrong, I like those too but I don't expect them when the difficulty rating is at 3 (on a scale of 1-5). It seems that some cachers just don't think outside the box; they look in the usual hiding spots and maybe some not so usual spots and then figure it's not there. Normally when I can't find a cache in the normal/logical spots I step back and think about it for a few minutes and re-read the description/title/clues and try again. There are only a few that we've not found that were actually still there.
It's still tons of fun and I'm glad people are attempting our caches.