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Subject Topic: Worst camping purchase
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22/5/2008 at 4:20pm
 Location: Wirral
 Outfit: Gelert Quebec 8+4
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My worst buy has to be a lantern from B&M, cheap and nasty lil thing, the bulb wasnt even connected, then the switch came off!


22/5/2008 at 7:16pm
 Location: Bedworth Warwickshire
 Outfit: Vango Venture 500 Vango Omega 450
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Triangle 'bread warmer' here also! And the rickety kitchen stand where the windshield falls off (Sunncamp or something?), not something I'd confidently use a cooker on.

I do have a fabric cupboard type thing with the thin hardboard shelves (as mentioned earlier in the thread) but I actually get on with mine quite well, although I think it might fall over on the slightest slope.

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22/5/2008 at 7:28pm
 Location: Argyll Scotland
 Outfit: 1997 Bailey Ranger 470 4
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Quote: Originally posted by Clarabell on 22/5/2008
Yet another vote for the toaster.....we really need to think up another use for them. Just think how many are lurking at the back of garages/sheds up and down the country
Take the wires off and sharpen the edge. Set up a row of coconuts on stands and we will have a competition of 3 goes each, to see who can half the most coconuts like Odd Job with his Bowler Hat in the James Bond Movie.

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22/5/2008 at 7:44pm
 Location: Melton Mowbray
 Outfit: None Entered
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Oooh we've got one of them cupbaord things with cardboard shelves, I have to admit that I love ours.  We bought ours off a work mate who decided that camping wasn't for her so got a tin-tent instead, so she sold it to me for a tenner or something daft like that.



23/5/2008 at 8:34am
 Location: manchester
 Outfit: vango diablo 400
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ours was a hanging ladar! - we have no where to hang it lol, also have a toaster thing crap for bread but they do potato cakes brilliantly!!!!!

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23/5/2008 at 8:54am
 Location: S Yorks
 Outfit: Vango Colorado & Diablo 600
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I've just found a triangle toaster thing unopened in the cupboard, I don't think i'll be taking it this holiday after reading this thread lol.



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Don't touch the sides!!!!


23/5/2008 at 9:23am
 Location: North Dorset
 Outfit: Eurohike Buckingham 6 Classic
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We have also binned the infamous toaster and collapsable water carrier. (Why pay for a water carrier when you can buy large bottles of water and re-use the bottle then recycle it when you leave site?)

The double airbed lasted two nights before a visit to the hypermarche provided two single mattresses and marital contentment.

Fortunately we learnt to come here to read what is a good buy and since then haven't made any bad purchases.

To those who bought the love seat which kept deflating, I don't think you're meant to take the description literally. They are probably alright if you just sit on them.

(Notice how well I avoided using the old chestnut "my love-seat has gone down on me" - "Shh, don't tell everyone, they'll all want one !)



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