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08/3/2013 at 10:27am
 Location: Mid Wales
 Outfit: Coachman Vip 520
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We once forgot to pack the airbeds. Tent was up and starting to put all our stuff in, and daughter asked wheres the airbeds (this used to be her job to pump them up).

We were 1 1/2 hours from home, so i jumped in the car and went back home and got them. Just got back to the site as it was getting dark!!!!!



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08/3/2013 at 10:28am
 Location: Mid Wales
 Outfit: Coachman Vip 520
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Quote: Originally posted by joolzbob on 07/3/2013
We made a 2 1/2 hr trip to chichester the year before last and then had a full on domestic on site when we realised we'd forgotten the tent poles

Oh no, that is a bad one!!! Can't really do much without them!!!!!  17

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08/3/2013 at 11:04am
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Shampoo, last weekend I went camping I was packing my toiletries bag and took two bottles from the bathroom cabinet. Well it turned out they were both conditioner, not the shampoo and conditioner I thought. I only found out when I was in the shower and there wasn't much I could do about it then!


08/3/2013 at 1:08pm
 Location: Dorset
 Outfit: Monty 6 HiGear Blackrock 5 Iccy 300
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Duvets and pillows, last Easter, hubby was supposed to have packed them, was the coldest night of camping ever, on so many levels, trip to Morrisons for cheapo ones the next day.


08/3/2013 at 2:33pm
 Location: Suffolk
 Outfit: None Entered
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thankfully nothing *touch wood*


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08/3/2013 at 6:12pm
 Location: Dorset
 Outfit: Royal Atlanta 6
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We went for a spontaneous trip camping to the new forest to make use of the last nice weather of the year. Left after we finished work but we were in such a rush that we forgot to check that we had batteries so ended up with nothing to put in the battery powered lamp or the air bed inflator! It was already dusk and we were unpacking in limited light. Luckily the campsite had a shop and was still open and they had one pack left!

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08/3/2013 at 6:24pm
 Location: Essex
 Outfit: Gelert Horizon 8 + porch
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Pillows!!!


10/3/2013 at 9:34am
 Location: None Entered
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Quote: Originally posted by daveslisa on 07/3/2013
Quote: Originally posted by JdDerek on 07/3/2013I know it's not camping gear as such but I am always forgetting to take the camera whilst camping.

I always remember the camera......just manage to always leave it in the tent!



On our last trip I remembered the camera but left the battery at home.


10/3/2013 at 9:11pm
 Location: Leeds
 Outfit: Vango diablo 400
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The stove.

First ever trip away, stroppy teen and dad was driving us from Leeds to Devon. Ah, we are northerners. Tough stuff, we managed

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47 and only just learned how to work a sleeping bag


10/3/2013 at 10:03pm
 Location: Midlands UK
 Outfit: WildCountryAspect4
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Mallet is our special. Now every trip I ask about 100 times "have you packed the mallet" so soon it will probably get used on me!

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Favourite sites visited.
Heathy Roods, Staffordshire
Glen Brittle, Isle of Skye
Sleningford Mill, Yorkshire
La Bresse, France


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10/3/2013 at 10:53pm
 Location: Sunny Suffolk (West)
 Outfit: inflatable dome Palamos6 frame tent
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Awning poles on our old TT! although in our defence they never did materialise .

We had only just bought it and it was our first camp out, most TTs are useable without the awning but ours had no 'standing space' between bedrooms they came straight out into the awning so really a necessity in the cold and wet (which it was). As we couldn't contact the seller and it was over an hours drive back we bought a cheap £20 gazebo and just put it up under the awning canvas, not pretty but functional for the few days we were there.



17/3/2013 at 1:14pm
 Location: Newcastle
 Outfit: Jack Wolfskin Great Plains III
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We are also of the schoool of "two sets of everything - one for camping, one for the house".

Despite having a list, there's usually something we forget. Normally as we hit the first A-road, we go through the list of "did you pack the...?" but never forgotten anything Earth-shatteringly important. (Well apart from one occasion when we forgot to pack the gas. It's a good job we always keep a spare in the boot!)

Mr Riff did forget to pack spare pants on one trip last year, but only realised when we'd got the tent up and were unpacking our clothes. Fortunately, there was a supermarket nearby to spare his blushes!

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17/3/2013 at 1:53pm
 Location: sunny oldham
 Outfit:  Licata 400 - Outwell Cleveland 5p
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On this occasion we were staying in a static but I am ashamed to say I forgot all my eldest clothes. They spent the 10 days neatly folded on his bed.

We had to get him a whole new wardrobe!

oops!!

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17/3/2013 at 5:01pm
 Location: Yorkshire
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My O/H always moans that I take too many clothes and insisted on packing his own stuff for our month away in France,one year, in order to demonstrate what a frugal wardrobe he actually needs.Came downstairs with a half-empty small holdall and packed it easily into the car, looking all smug.

Several hours into our journey down to the tunnel, I asked him which tops he'd brought with him. He thought about it for a while, then admitted he'd forgotten all about tops!

We had to visit the nearest Decathlon, when we got there, to kit him out!



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