Give me your best handy hints and space-saving tips for camping please!

Australia
February 23, 2009 6:36am CST
Do you have any little tips or tricks that you utilise when you go camping? Is there a particular product that has made camping much easier for you? What are your favourite activities when camping? Tell me all about your camping experiences good or bad so that mylotters can learn from your common sense or mistakes! lol Wishing you all a wonderful day filled with happiness and love. :-)
2 responses
@BobCindy (27)
• Canada
23 Feb 09
Just a couple of hints...paint some jugs black and fill them with water. When you are camping, leave them in the sun and you have warm water for whatever. Spreading talcum/baby powder or ground up chalk around the outside of your tent will help keep ants out. Hang a fake wasps nest in a tree and it will help keep bees and wasps away. Save you toilet paper/paper towel rolls by packing as many as you can inside each other and you have them for your firepit. Keep a bucket/jug of water or sand near the firepit for emergencies. Put a tarpaulin over your tent (leave space between the tent and tarp for air movement) for added protection from the sun and rain. Hope these help and happy camping :)
• Australia
23 Feb 09
Wow! Thanks heaps for those tips! I will definitely share those hints with my camping buddies! Sometimes the littlest things make the biggest differences - such as ant / wasp deterrents. They can ruin a camping trip before it even gets into full swing! I often freeze water in plastic bottles to use as ice packs and drinking water instead of taking cold-packs that cannot be drunk when melted. Alot of places don't provide fresh drinking water - only bore water, which can give you an upset tummy. Another thing you don't want on a camping trip! :-)
• Canada
23 Feb 09
Glad I could be of some help. I'll post more if I run across any.
22 Mar 09
I think if you want to save space and not have creased clothes if you use a rugsack. Roll your clothes, and they won't crease. And if you put your sleeping bag into a black bag; scrunch the top of the bag, using a vacuum cleaner, such all the air from the bag, which will make it very small and all squashed down. Just quickly tie the top of the bag. The only problem is when you come to back up from the end of your camp, but if you have taken food you can use that space.
@busyB4 (874)
• United States
6 Apr 09
We didnt take warm enough blankets one time and about froze. Fortunately we had met some people at the campground and they loaned us some wool blankets since they were in a camper and we were in a tent. Take rope and clothespin for making your clothesline. I love to cook breakfast out in the open , it just seems to taste so much better to fry that bacon and cook and eat it outdoors. We have had some very funny experiences and some that were not so funny. We learned to take our things in a plastic tote so they stay clean and free from moisture and bugs. We always take a kingsize pillowcase for dirty clothes.