Comments on: What Should You Put in Camping Bins? http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/2010/05/a-guide-to-my-familys-version-of-minimalist-camping/ Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:25:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Melissa http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/2010/05/a-guide-to-my-familys-version-of-minimalist-camping/#comment-1250 Melissa Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:09:07 +0000 http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/?p=1428#comment-1250 Hi Nicole - wow, thank you for all the awesome comments. You really added to the article above. Sounds like you're a pro camper. ;-) Hi Nicole – wow, thank you for all the awesome comments. You really added to the article above. Sounds like you’re a pro camper. ;-)

]]> By: Nicole http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/2010/05/a-guide-to-my-familys-version-of-minimalist-camping/#comment-1245 Nicole Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:27:16 +0000 http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/?p=1428#comment-1245 If you have trouble starting campfires, I have found a way that will guarantee a healthy fire. Take cotton balls and coat them with petroleum jelly (vaseline). Put them in a plastic bag so it doesn't get on your other things. Stack your wood up in the fire pit and put the jelly covered cotton balls beneath them. Use a match to light the cottonballs and you find that this works better than most firestarters that you buy in the store. Another tip is to clear the ground that you tent will be on and place leaves and pine needles under the tent and it will help prevent sore muscles in the morning and will keep inside your tent warmer on a cold night. If you have trouble starting campfires, I have found a way that will guarantee a healthy fire. Take cotton balls and coat them with petroleum jelly (vaseline). Put them in a plastic bag so it doesn’t get on your other things. Stack your wood up in the fire pit and put the jelly covered cotton balls beneath them. Use a match to light the cottonballs and you find that this works better than most firestarters that you buy in the store.

Another tip is to clear the ground that you tent will be on and place leaves and pine needles under the tent and it will help prevent sore muscles in the morning and will keep inside your tent warmer on a cold night.

]]> By: Nicole http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/2010/05/a-guide-to-my-familys-version-of-minimalist-camping/#comment-1244 Nicole Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:13:33 +0000 http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/?p=1428#comment-1244 Foot mats are wonderful to have outside of the tent. If you have the room to take one, do it. After a day of hiking, swimming, biking, etc, a lot of things stick to your shoes. There is nothing worse than going to sleep for the night and feeling stick and leave crumbs in your sleeping bag. Foot mats are wonderful to have outside of the tent. If you have the room to take one, do it. After a day of hiking, swimming, biking, etc, a lot of things stick to your shoes. There is nothing worse than going to sleep for the night and feeling stick and leave crumbs in your sleeping bag.

]]> By: Nicole http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/2010/05/a-guide-to-my-familys-version-of-minimalist-camping/#comment-1243 Nicole Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:10:38 +0000 http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/?p=1428#comment-1243 Shower shoes are important because you don't know whose feet were there before yours. Not only do you have to worry about athlete's foot but you also have to be cautious about parasites. They are too small to see and some will cause a lot of damage. Shower shoes will help prevent you from getting them. I have read some horror stories about people getting them while on vacation. Parasites typically make you very sick and they are not something that the doctor thinks of first. Shower shoes are important because you don’t know whose feet were there before yours. Not only do you have to worry about athlete’s foot but you also have to be cautious about parasites. They are too small to see and some will cause a lot of damage. Shower shoes will help prevent you from getting them. I have read some horror stories about people getting them while on vacation. Parasites typically make you very sick and they are not something that the doctor thinks of first.

]]> By: Nicole http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/2010/05/a-guide-to-my-familys-version-of-minimalist-camping/#comment-1242 Nicole Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:07:35 +0000 http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/?p=1428#comment-1242 I agree. Wrapping the corn cuts down on the cooking prep. All you have to do is throw it in. I like the organization of the bins. You could tape a list to the top and it will make it easier to find everything. I usually put everything in the hiking packs and sometimes I forget which pocket I put stuff into (there are soooo many pockets on some of those packs). The fly swatter is a good choice. I am going camping next week and I am going to bring one. I have never taken one before. I always used my hand and I am liking the idea of not having bug guts on my hand every time I smack one. I agree. Wrapping the corn cuts down on the cooking prep. All you have to do is throw it in.

I like the organization of the bins. You could tape a list to the top and it will make it easier to find everything. I usually put everything in the hiking packs and sometimes I forget which pocket I put stuff into (there are soooo many pockets on some of those packs).

The fly swatter is a good choice. I am going camping next week and I am going to bring one. I have never taken one before. I always used my hand and I am liking the idea of not having bug guts on my hand every time I smack one.

]]> By: Nicole http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/2010/05/a-guide-to-my-familys-version-of-minimalist-camping/#comment-1241 Nicole Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:02:48 +0000 http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/?p=1428#comment-1241 True but if they are real outdoorsy guys, they will respect your hairy legs because they will see they when you go camping, you leave all the vanity at home. Your legs wont be too bad if it is just for a couple of nights anyways... just shave before you go and you will only end up with a little bit of stubble. Besides, if you lay out in the sun during the day, a nice tan can usually hide the stubble anyways. :) True but if they are real outdoorsy guys, they will respect your hairy legs because they will see they when you go camping, you leave all the vanity at home. Your legs wont be too bad if it is just for a couple of nights anyways… just shave before you go and you will only end up with a little bit of stubble. Besides, if you lay out in the sun during the day, a nice tan can usually hide the stubble anyways. :)

]]> By: Nicole http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/2010/05/a-guide-to-my-familys-version-of-minimalist-camping/#comment-1240 Nicole Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:59:41 +0000 http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/?p=1428#comment-1240 Yes, feeding the racoons will cause them to keep you on their schedule. Typically racoons, especially families of them, develop an eating schedule and if they know that you are going to have food readily available to them, they will put you on the map and if they know that it is going to be easy, they will stop by every night wanting more. They are cute but they can be destructive because the one night that you don't leave food out for them... they will get into your stuff trying to find where you have their dinner hiding. Next thing you know, you will wake up to trash everywhere, etc. Do not think that your trash can is racoon proof either because they have had years of practice... kind of like the squirrels do with the "squirrel-proof" bird feeders. :) Plus, you want to make sure that they are getting their food by hunting it because if they become used to people giving them food, they won't know what to do when all the people have left and this could leave them famished. Yes, feeding the racoons will cause them to keep you on their schedule. Typically racoons, especially families of them, develop an eating schedule and if they know that you are going to have food readily available to them, they will put you on the map and if they know that it is going to be easy, they will stop by every night wanting more. They are cute but they can be destructive because the one night that you don’t leave food out for them… they will get into your stuff trying to find where you have their dinner hiding. Next thing you know, you will wake up to trash everywhere, etc. Do not think that your trash can is racoon proof either because they have had years of practice… kind of like the squirrels do with the “squirrel-proof” bird feeders. :) Plus, you want to make sure that they are getting their food by hunting it because if they become used to people giving them food, they won’t know what to do when all the people have left and this could leave them famished.

]]> By: Melissa http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/2010/05/a-guide-to-my-familys-version-of-minimalist-camping/#comment-798 Melissa Wed, 26 May 2010 17:54:19 +0000 http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/?p=1428#comment-798 Shower shoes! Yes! Although the grubby flip flops you wear the whole time will work too. Have fun! Shower shoes! Yes! Although the grubby flip flops you wear the whole time will work too. Have fun!

]]> By: Melissa http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/2010/05/a-guide-to-my-familys-version-of-minimalist-camping/#comment-797 Melissa Wed, 26 May 2010 17:53:50 +0000 http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/?p=1428#comment-797 No feeding the wildlife, Troy. No feeding the wildlife, Troy.

]]> By: Troy http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/2010/05/a-guide-to-my-familys-version-of-minimalist-camping/#comment-796 Troy Wed, 26 May 2010 14:37:19 +0000 http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/?p=1428#comment-796 Bring extra hot dogs for the racoons! Bring extra hot dogs for the racoons!

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