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Please help - we have just returned from 2 weeks 'Eurocamp' inFrance and have now got the camping bug!!  Last weekend we visited a local camping show and after reading lots of advice on here bought an Outwell Idaho L (would have loved the XL but only got L in stock and too impatient to wait!)

Planning on our virgin 'trip' this weekend 'a la back garden' but wondered where to store the tent after? - Hubby suggested garage bit I am worried about it being a bit damp there.  I suggested loft but it's to heavy so looks like we need to find space ina bedroom??

Any advice greatfully received!!

The garage is Ok so long as it's stored off the floor.

I have most of the big things in theoutside toilet, bedding on top bunk in youngest bedroom, tents (and other stuff) in the caravan or front room the week before we go and the rest in our back room.

I have a camping cupboard in the garage - old wood wardrobe, keep a couple of those moisture trappers in there, and everything stays lovely and dry!  Mind you, the garage is... lovelya nd dry!

J

I keep all our camping gear including the tent under my bed.

That way everything is in one place and we can load the car straight from under the bed, then when we get home again it all goes back under the bed, which means we don't  forget anything.

Hi I have a storage rack in the loft for my camping gear but the tent well thats another story after numerous times trying to get it into the loft we gave up and it was then stored in a wardrobe in the back bedroom didnt fancy outdoor storage as i live near a railway line and have plenty of mice

Smandbensmum

we live in a first floor apartment so have to be quite ingenius in how we store things !

Tent hidden behind a chair in corner of sitting room - sleeping bags and pillows in airing cupboard, along with big cool bag that has all kitchen stuff / fiddly essentials so we just sort it when we get home and it is ready for next time. Foldong chairs , tables and airbeds in hall cupboard with the stove under the boys' bunkbeds. Gas canister is is our bedroom , making a quirky door stop !

BBQ and coals in boot of car , along with water carrier. Sorted.

as of today (big sort out) most of the tenting stuff  is now kept in storage boxes ready for our next trip when we get a trailer that is,5 boxes all stacked on top of each other in the spare bedroom,1 box with electical items,1 box with crockery and cooking stuff and so on,the tent and extension are on top of a large wardrobe again in the spare bedroom,chairs and cooker and the gas bottle are in the cupboard and everything is ready to hand ready for the next trip,i dont have a garage but my father does which is where the trailer will be kept.

also i dont fancy keeping any tenting gear in a garage as ive just bought a spare set of poles,zipped in ground sheet and inner tent for our tent off ebay for £15  and its only been used twice as the last owner had lost the outwell outer polycotton flysheet to mice in there garage...