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Subject Topic: When do you stop buying camping gear?
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12/9/2011 at 10:22pm
 Location: Notts Derbyshire
 Outfit: Soulpad 5000tribe Vango 450
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We only tend to buy replacement kit for worn out stuff but unless i can get my dad to part with his Vauda 2 man backpacking tent we may end up buying one . Our eldest daughter has started wanting her own tent so last camp she slept in our tiny Macpac . She's 11 and she wasn't impressed with the comment you were conceived in there .it took a while for the penny to drop as to what I'd said . The look on her face was priceless .


12/9/2011 at 10:27pm
 Location: Grimsby Lincs
 Outfit: Vango Maritsa 700
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I'm really happy with our set up now (she says lol!) and would like to think the only things we buy now are REPLACEMENTS not ADDITIONS to our set up....I can't honestly think of anything else we need!

Having just bought a trailer today (yippee!) I think we've spent enough....and I really don't want to go back to using a top box again, I hated it!!



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13/9/2011 at 6:09pm
 Location: East Sussex
 Outfit: None Entered
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If I ever get to the point when I need a trailer to fit it all in, I'll be really hacked off with myself as I hate towing. I find avoiding EHU and storage furniture saves space, and I manage perfectly well with the camping and cooking stuff in 2 storage crates and clothes in holdalls.

I've been very good this year and only bought a new table, 2 flasks and some UFO lights, but am considering a canopy to go with my replacement Icarus 500. I don't even really know why I want one, as we have plenty of room for us and the dogs, but want one I do.

I'm also considering changing from an airbed to a Posadas double and sims, as soon as I get an answer to my question about the bit in the middle! And I'd like a Cobb, and a Trangia......{sigh}

ETA: and an Icey-Tek coolbox! How could I have forgotten that was on my wishlist?



13/9/2011 at 6:20pm
 Location: West Yorkshire
 Outfit: Karsten 350 CA FW RA :)
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Quote: Originally posted by FriendOfOwls on 09/9/2011

Yes, I do own several tents, but long ago worked out the ideal combination of kit for each tent, and it's generally the same kit only more or less of it, according to the size of the tent and the length of stay.

FoO




That is exactly what we have, even bought a second table so we have a weekend table and a longer stay table. Makes life so much easier but it is more expensive. However it does mean I can drool over new stuff online and can justify buying it as it is not a duplicate but a slightly different version for a different set up


14/9/2011 at 12:26am
 Location: Arley Nr Coventry
 Outfit: Everything !!!
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Try working in a camping shop don't think half my wages come home in a month "sigh"
Next on the list is a sim and a coleman northstar lantern.

Ben
Jacksons of old arley


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14/9/2011 at 1:09am
 Location: Worcestershire
 Outfit: Defender 90 and MyWay Voyager Raid
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Death.

That will stop you buying camping gear!

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Love a lot. Trust a few. But ALWAYS paddle your own canoe!!
Minds are like parachutes:- They only function when they are open!!!
Those who talk don't know.
Those who know don't talk.


14/9/2011 at 5:20am
 Location: south coast
 Outfit: see gallery
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I had to smile Matt (gallows humour) as it is because my husband died that I got my terrace of Quechuas that I can put up single handedly!

He liked to camp and I like to shop, so it was a good partnership. <3

I camp to shop :)

(edited because I messed up the quote)



Post last edited on 14/09/2011 05:31:08



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