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19/8/2015 at 10:50pm
Location: cornwall
Outfit: vango maritsa 700
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hate hate hate packing up - always seems to take ages no matter the time weve been away - were the same as you, 2 adults and 4 children, so I feel your pain!
Its the making the check out time we find so difficult to meet, sometimes we make it with no bother, but often were about 10 mins late :/ mega stressful :/
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June 2015: seaview international 2 nights
July 2015: little winnick 2 nights
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august 2015: tollgate farm 5 nights
august 2015: oakdown 3 nights
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24/8/2015 at 7:02pm
Location: Sunny Suffolk (West)
Outfit: inflatable dome Palamos6 frame tent
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Well today I came back from a couple of nights away with the children (hubby at work).
I packed the bedding, SIMs and camp beds down before breakfast and it took just over 30mins.
After breakfast I packed down the hago kitchen stand, table with separate stools and my directors chair loaded it all (with beds etc) in the car, then folded the carpet and loaded into the car then finally the tent and footprint taking an additional 1.5 hours so total 2 hours with most of it done solo!
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25/8/2015 at 2:23am
Location: Warwickshire
Outfit: Talbot Express Autosleeper
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Although no kids so only the 2 of us, because the dragon is disabled and cannot assist with anything really, I had to do it all by myself. It used to take me so long and used to get me so knackered by the time I'd got everything ready, packed everything into the car, driven to wherever, unpacked and set up camp (erecting frame tent on my own), and then had to face doing all the camp cooking myself too, and done the same at the end of the trip, putting everything away at home, that's the reason we gave up camping because I just couldn't face doing it all any more.
I used to look enviously at the people who were up, packed up and away off site early in the morning. No matter how much I pre-packed the night before, we still always struggled to be off site by the designated vacating pitch time. And I was so worn out at the end it took away all the pleasure from camping in the first place.
Of course its much easier now we have the motorhome.
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25/8/2015 at 9:08am
Location: Scotland.
Outfit: Conway Camargue Lots of Vangos. .
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It used to take us three hours when the kids were small, OH would take them away for a couple of hours and I'd pack everything but the trailer tent, then he'd come back and we'd do that bit together.
As the kids got older though they could do more and more to help so I got them trained to do various jobs, starting with simple things like packing their own toys and stuffing their sleeping bags in the stuff sacs. Last time we were out in the full rig the pack up was down to two hours, kids are teenagers now and DS considerably taller than me so he and OH do the tent, DD and I do the equipment. So my advice is to get the kids involved as soon as possible, every little helps.
The other thing that helps is to take less, of course, but there's only so far you can cut down.
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25/8/2015 at 9:30am
Location: Cumbernauld Scotland
Outfit: Monty 6Icarus 500 Halo 300
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I'm tending to lean more and more towards my backpacking set up (Backpack+trolly) for weekends away rather than the big tent tables and chairs etc etc etc as I really cannot be doing with all the tooing and froing up and down from my flat carrying all the stuff....The trolly holds most of my gear in one of those large flight bag thingies plus my small tent and S/bag and leaves the backpack relatively light to carry with just a change of clothes and wet weather gear and the odd extra luxury item.....
On the occasions when I hire a van and take stuff like the cooker/campbed/chairs/tables etc I have started taking a small carp bivvy that just holds my bed and a chair for my clothes at night and try and keep things as simple as possible....
I am able to do this due to the good graces of my camping buddies who when they know I am attending will pack a spare chair etc for me...
Funnily enough I have no problem with the actual setting up/packing away on site it's just that bit at home fetching and carrying back and forth that does my head in...
Should add...I do from time to time repay my buddies goodness to me by packing a load of stuff for them to use as and when they want...As I am very conscious of their kindness in this direction.....
Jelboy.
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