We were moving stuff around this weekend at the farm, trying to free up some space in our storage rooms for things that we use more often and trying to dig some things out so that we can use them in the house. We decided to move all of our camping gear into a room of its own back towards the barn where it will be out of the way until we need it and/or find a better “home” for it. What we realized is that over the past few years, we have accumulated a LOT of camping stuff. It just seemed to keep coming. We’re going to need an entire storage room just for this stuff.
So what do we have exactly? 3 tents of various sizes (1 two person tent, 1 huge 6 person tent with living area in the middle & our LL Bean tent for us and doggo), a sun shade, the Camp Mate with all our kitchen gear (minus the gas stove top which we’re using in the house at the moment), 2 aluminum boxes with various camping items, 3 folding chairs which we inherited from the previous renters of our old rental house, folding camping table with 2 matching benches, a small charcoal grill, the Boxx Grill suitcase grill from Globetrotter, sleeping bags, roll up mattresses for the small tent, a full air mattress and various other smaller things.
Rarely would we ever attempt to take all of these things along at once. I can’t even imagine a time when we would need it all along unless we were going camping with a bunch of other people and they happened to need something. But I would say that our list of items is quite complete, including items like nice plastic wine glasses (which we knew we’d be needing in Italy).
