Sharing camping checklist

[nevadatear]

Since we are headed in to camping season, I thought this would be a good time to share my camping checklists. I now use two. One is a meal plan and shopping list, which I use to check off all the food that gets put in the trailer or TV. The other is a list of everything else that goes, plus a list for checking off while we are camping what needs to be replenished or fixed, so we don't forget when we get home. It is highly individualized, as in sorted by where things are located in my house, rather than by general category, but I thought they might be useful as a jumping off point for folks. The meal plan is a revised version from the "RV Goddess" website. The camping checklist does not include things that stay in the TD for the season, like bed linen, lantern, folding toilet, solar panel, spices, pillows, utensils, etc. All the stuff you built the TD for so you didn't have to pack it each time. It also doesn't repeat all the food, just the boxes or ice chests that they go in so we don't forget those!

[Vedette]

I couldn't open the list for some reason.
So the joke is still private.
Good Roads
Brian

[Vedette]

Thanks Steve
But you never know what might come in handy while camping??
Good Roads
Brian

[Vedette]

See! I knew once you put your mind to it you could come up with a practical use!
With a little practice you could probably dispose of two at once!
Brian

[nrody]

When I was about 10 years old our family went to Dinosaur National Monument. We were camping (boondocking) outside the boundries of the park and dad went off to find rocks (he was a rockhound) about 3 hours later he returned to camp with a very large cup bra filled with fosilized dinasaur bones. Legal at that time because we were not within the park boundaries. We laughed and laughed that the bra could cary so many bones. Dad and mom are recently passed but I still have one piece of dinosaur bone from that trip. So the moral of the story is to make sure the bra is adequate to haul your rocks.

P.S. Did not mean to hijack your thread.

[Desert-rat]

guess thats another interpretation of boulder holder

[Bogo]

Sounds like the bra's padding was a bit hard...

[tearhead]

...back to Debbie's post...

Thanks for sharing these! We have a list, too, and it's customized, but needs editing. It doesn't have the meal plan, however and that's a fine idea! Great thought, too to have a list of what to purchase along the way and what items you need to bring just for this trip. Seems like there's always something like that--a birthday present, a big coffeemaker, or whatever. And I really like the idea of the games bag and the birding bag. If I put some of our things in bags, they wouldn't rattle around in the cabinet.

[nevadatear]

I have made bags for everything! Keeps stuff together, and from getting other stuff dirty. I have bags for mats, side tables, party lights, pvc sink stand, awning, propane fire pit, lounge chairs, folding table, folding bikes, do table,you name it, it has a bag!

[deleted]

Thanks for this idea Debbie. I've been jotting random things down on a list but I think I should make one as detailed as yours. Certainly there will be no regrets if I always hit the road well prepared and organized. I was thinking I should make a similar checklist for when I leave a campground making sure that everything is stored properly. At least until I've camped enough for certain things to become habits.