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We use those fold up baskets and have 1 each.  Works very well. 

Good thread this.

We just keep the gear in the holdalls.

With it just being the two of us, well 2 and a bit now !... there is plenty of room in the Vango's 2nd room. In the Khyam, we rig up one side as the bedroom with the bags and the rest of tent is the living 'quarters' (and now baby's sleeping area)

We live out of our holdalls.  I know pack all my little uns clothes into a seperate carrier bag for each day, makes it easier to find undies for him, then just add in a ton of extras just in case.  Ours just go in holdalls, but we are going away on the 4th, so may just pack mine in bags too, just for ease.  If we just go for a weekend we pack it all into one suitcase and leave this in the boot.

We have thought about wardrobes etc, but hubby rants about fitting everything in car as it is.

Weve got big blue IKEA bags, cost a £1, and you can get loads in, also squashes up in the car for packing.  They go on the floor in the spare pod.  Top tip, there are 4 of us, get 4 carrier bags, and keep each persons sets of undies, socks etc in each, so easy to find rather than rummidging about the bags.

Jo

Just read this post and find it interesting as we are off to new quay tomorrow and given the weather at the mo am obviously concerned about flooding the tent. Unfortunately there are 7 of us and a zafira with roofbox so not a lot of space. I get the kids to pack a rucksack each and then they have their 'swimming bag'. As we are only going for 4 nights mine and dp's clothes are in a holdall, 2 year old and 4 yr olds are in those swim type bags and the older 3 have rucksacks. We always live out of the bags though as simply no room in car or roofbox for anything else! Have got to pack the car tomorrow and am going to take the tent and poles out of the carrybag with the inners and groundsheet and just place in roofbox as gives more room but these will be on top of everything else as the 1st thing we need! I will have to supervise dp v.carefully to ensure that he packs it right as at 5ft tall i cannot reach all the way into the roofbox! The kids will prob end up with bags on laps and in the footwell and the coolbox will be behind my seat in front of 2 year old as she does not require the legroom. Wish me luck i may post again asknig for help tomorrow depending on how hard it is to get it packed!

Kate

A sporadic poster who loves camping but not that keen on the rain!

Quote: Originally posted by rebusuber on 24/7/2007

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If you have the outwell wardrobe things that seem to be popular, ditch the hardboard shelves and replace with some plywood. Why you ask? Watch the hardboard soak up some moisture then sag in the middle (over time of course), oh and they get mouldy as well.

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The actual Outwell ones are fine as they are not hardboard shelves but much better and do not bow. Have the Trinidad and Jamaica here and great purchases they were to, great for storage. We have a Sunncamp kitchen unit that had the hardboard shelves which have been replaced by plywood as you so rightly point out, they after one season were so bent.

I have been oooohhhhwwing and ahhhhwwing about getting a wardrobe storage thing for the tent.

Its does take up more room in car, it does cost about £40 and how often would i use it.

I sit here and say just live out the bags but i will know when i am away for a week i will be stressing as everything ain't organised properly.

I'd say bye a storage wardrobe thingy and let me know how you get on.  

We have just lived out of the suitcase which fited in the bedroom with the double airbed. Our new tent has 2 separate bedrooms, so we'll be using one as a dressing room. We'll see how that goes, then think about clothes storage if we need it.
Those of you with the cheap clothes rails, are they designed to keep putting up and taking apart? There's one in Argos for £5.99, but there's the little screwdriver symbol next to it. Screwing and unscrewing it every time would be a real bind!

Hi

We have the Outwell vermont with the wardrobe that we use for our best clothes and coats. This year after reading a thread about storage of clothes on this forum before we took somebodys advice and used the empty plastic boxes that we use for transporting stuff in the trailer and put our clothes in them. We found this particularly useful and easy, we put them under the kids camp beds and everyone in the family found it easy to pull out and get what they want. They didn't go damp and cold either like they can in a holdall.