Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:06 pm Post subject: im joining the campers now!!!! what do i need HELP!!!!!!!
im so excited i have just brought a tent so now we are all coming camping too im a bit nervous 2 dogs 5 kids in a tent ive never camped befrore either!!! we have our tent sleeping bags a lamp what else do i need????
You`ve booked a pitch I take it? , you`ll also need to be thinking about feeding yourself and the kids (and the dogs of course) if your arriving on the friday.
The camp site is next to the water park (almost) and the cafe there isn`t easily available til the saturday really.
hehe Monya - I am sure that your first camping trip will be more successful than ours! Ours wasn't that good because:
*The beds popped (so make sure you get decent ones!)
*The lamp - which was fully charged - only lasted an hour. Again, get a decent one!
*The gas stove we got broke so no cups of tea - again, get a good one or like us now, get an electric hook up and bring your kettle. As for cooking we now have a portable gas bbq!
*if your pup is crate trained, bring it! lol we forgot and poor Gracie got no proper rest
I am sure there is more, but as you can see we have learned from our mistakes so we can pass on our experience to you!
As much as we 'enjoyed' camping we are buying a caravan for next year, therefore we spent a fortune on camping stuff only to be used twice! lol
yes i have mary that was the first thing i did when i found out we def had the tent lol
we have one of those expensive flocked air beds my mum brought it but never used it so i have it
we only have one lamp but we have a few emergency torch light things so we'll bring those aswell just in case
we dont have a pitch with electric hook up as its our first camp out n we dont have the adapter thing a camp stove is on my list to get tho
i have a 48" crate!! but we have a big ppl carrier so if i can get it in its coming.... both dogs fit in it n mambo sleeps in it anyway (mambo will be the problem if any he escapes at any chance he gets!!) mylos recall is pretty good tho it may lapse from all the excitement i have a tie down steak aswell n our tent has 3 enclosed bedrooms (its huge!! but has to be to fit us all in) so mylo will be sleeping with me like he always does
on the sat when we actually go to the gt wot do we do with our stuff??
Camping is all about 'roughing' it a bit and loadsa fun!
This is my checklist though
TENT with spare pegs
Air bed (battery operated to save pumping up)
Lantern - battery operated as the charge up ones run down to quick
Spare batteries
Calor Gas with stove top
Saucepan and frying pan
disposable BBQ's
Cool box
Sleeping bags
Pillows
Alcohol and food including munchie snacks
Wet ones
Washing up bowl and liquid
Plates, cups etc incl cutlery
Washing up liquid
Salt and pepper (hate bland food)
Dogs bowls, beds, peg for tying to lead and stop wandering
When I have leccie hook up I then also take Hairdryer and straightners
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Jack, Molly & Maia, watched over by Tara Banana from the Bridge
To be honest camping is usually pretty safe, we just bring all the valuebles around with us locked in the car - you can leave other stuff like sleeping bags, cooking stuff etc in the tent. If you want the tent to be as secure as you can make it, just lock the zips up. 9 times out of 10 there is usually other campers hanging around anyway so its unlikey things will go missing. Like i said, just keep all your valuebles with you.
lol Nat - we bought a battery operated air pump - and forgot the batteries! There was us getting the kids to ask a friendly looking family asking if we could borrow a pump (yes, they do all the dirty work lol)
OH water carrier and bottle of mineral water for a quick cuppa when you get there whilst setting up
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thats what i thought sonia but thought id check seeing as ive never done this before!!
i have most of that stuff on list i think nat so i will be ok (have to keep telling myself that n by the time i go i might believe it!!!!)
i have a pump for my air bed but dont have hook up so do they do one that plugs in the car?? where can i get one??
n i saw a second hand aqua roll for sale near me are they any good?? (not even sure wot it is guessing its to carry water)
Groundsheets
Tent
Beer
delta pegs/mallett
inflatable matress
sleeping bags
pillows
Beer
trangia stove + fuel
portable bbq + bbq tools + charcoal + firelighters
cool bag/box (with beer in)
roll up table
chairs
tea/coffee/sugar/milk (for when you're not drinking beer)
bottled water (for the morning coffee of course)
beer
paper plates + cutlery (to eat your pre beer stomach lining food)
camping lantern/(head) torch (no drunkenly stumbling into someone elses tent)
rubbish bags (for the empty beer bottles/cans)
beer
coffee flasks/mugs (for the mornings pick me up)
BOG ROLL *** IMPORTANT ***
Kitchen roll
day rucsack
beer
walking boots + waterproof coat/trousers (just in case )
enough spare clothes (especially underpants)
beer
beer
wash gear, toothbrush, soap, flannel etc
+ non-perishable food like baked beans, baked beans and more baked beans (beans mixed with the beer from the night before have an interesting effect on the odour in a tent the morning after )
i tend to pick up fresh food from a shop local to the campsite on the day i am cooking it, generally bbq food!
add the doggy stuff aswell!
i think that is about everything although i am bound to have forgotten something.... oh i did... BEER!
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, you`ll also need to be thinking about feeding yourself and the kids (and the dogs of course) if your arriving on the friday.
with spare pegs
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