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Camping Checklist - YOU NEED ONE!

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For Happy Camping... Make a Checklist!

 

Whether you would like to go camping alone, with a group of your friends, with your family, or with your partner, you will need to bring multiple pieces of camping equipment with you, as well as other camping supplies.

This page is my attempt to convince you to make a checklist! 

Unfortunately.... 

Unfortunately, many campers realizes, often too late into their adventure, that they didn't bring everything that they wanted to or needed to bring.

To prevent yourself from becoming one of those campers, you may want to think about creating a camping checklist for yourself, as there are a number of benefits to doing so.

The Camping Adventures Group 

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Because Your Memory Is Rubbish 

(you know it is)

One of the many benefits of creating a camping checklist for yourself is that you are less likely to forget to bring important pieces of camping equipment or other needed camping supplies.

Unfortunately, when it comes to camping, many individuals, just like you, often wish to bring something, but when it comes down to remembering, well, that is a different story.

To help you remember everything that you want and need to bring, you will want to make sure that you create a camping checklist for yourself. Remember to add anything that you can think of as more items cross your mind.

It is said that a short pencil is better than a long memory...

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It's Your Shopping List 

Another benefit to creating a camping checklist for yourself is that it makes it easy to go shopping for all of your camping supplies.

In addition to forgetting to pack something important, many campers draw a blank once they get to the store. To help ensure that you buy all of the camping supplies and equipment pieces that you need, you will want to create a camping checklist for yourself and make sure that you bring it with you when you go shopping.

REALLY Easy For Next Time 

Another one of the many benefits to creating a camping checklist for your next camping adventure is that it is REALLY easy to sort out! Many people can make their camping checklists in as little as ten or fifteen minutes.

What you will want to do is sit down with a pen and a piece of paper and start writing. You will want to think of everything that you will need to go camping. One of the best ways to create a camping checklist for yourself is to go through your daily activities. For instance, you will need a camping tent and a sleeping bag to sleep. When it comes to your food, you may want to add a cooler, hamburger meat, ketchup, mustard, rolls and so forth to your camping checklist.

Wind-up flashlights! Wow! 


Light up your cool camping nights with a wind up flashlight :-) They're really cheap, and never need batteries!

Click here to see the full Amazon range of wind up flashlights!

Garrity Power Lite 3 LED Crank Light (Titanium Silver/Black)

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The Illuminator LED Flashlight

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Wind 'N Go Flashlight

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A LARGE EXAMPLE: 

Plastic sheeting for tent floor
Air mattress or pad for under sleeping bag
Large plastic boxes or buckets for food and equipment storage
Emergency blanket; also called space blanket
Tent seam sealer
Folding tables
Folding chairs
Outdoor furniture - lightweight aluminum lawn chairs are a good choice
Stools
Pillows
Binoculars
First aid kit with blister treatment products
Tarp(s) with grommets - can be rigged for shade or used to keep firewood dry
Rope and twine or string
Cots
Small shovel
Sunscreen
Portable toilet
Toilet paper
Moist towelette or baby wipes
Personal care items: soap, shampoo, toothpaste, etc.
Insect repellent
Tool (such as a hammer or axe) to pound in tent stakes
Backpack, daypack, or fanny pack
Towels and washcloths
Can opener
Bottle opener
Cutlery for food preparation and serving - sharp knife, large spoon, large fork, ladle
Cookware - cast iron works well
Messkits or other eating vessels and implements - forks and spoons
Extra camping stove fuel
Camping recipes
Small charcoal or propane grill - a cast-iron hibachi is small and efficient
Appropriate fuel for grill
Dishrack and dishwashing detergent
Pot lifter or pot holders
Coffee maker
Cutting board
Colander
Tongs
Thermos
Tablecloth
Storage containers
Plastic cutlery, paper plates, plastic or paper cups
Paper towels
Napkins
Trash bags
Aluminum foil
Screwdriver - flathead and phillips
Bottle opener
Can opener
Corkscrew
Scissors
Tweezers
Awl
One or two super-sharp blades.
Duct tape
Safety pins
Sewing kit
Small battery-operated radio
Camera or camcorder with extra film and batteries
Reading material
Playing cards, checkers, chess set, etc.
Paper and pen
Battery-operated clock
Basic tools: pliers, screwdriver, hammer

New Sleeping Bags For Sale 


Did you know you can buy your camping equipment fairly cheaply on amazon.com?

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Coleman Taos 25-Degree Mummy Sleeping Bag

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100% Silk Sleeping Bag Liner w/ Water-proof Pouch: Perfect for Traveling, Camping, Backpacking. Travel Sheet

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My Conclusion 

Of course, creating a camping checklist for yourself is something that is completely optional, but it may help to make your next camping adventure a memorable and a pleasant one! Just work from the one above.

With camping checklists being easy to create, why wouldn't you at least want to give making one a chance?

You may actually be surprised just how much a simple checklist helps to improve your next camping adventure :-)

Have fun, and don't forget to check out the Camping Adventures Group I run at www.squidoo.com/groups/camping-adventures

Useful Book: 12 Steps To Tent Camping And Enjoying The Outdoor Living Adventure 


A useful book to have (it's cheap too) is this one.

"The Beginner's Guide To Getting You Started With Comfortable Tent Camping In 12 Easy Affordable Steps".

It's only $17 and is a really interesting read, and you can download it immediately.

To safeguard against bad information the author of this book wrote it along with 11 people with over 138 years of camping experience.

To take a look, check out the website here.

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Katie Brooks

I think that this checklist is the best camping checklist on the whole entire planet. Never in my life have I came across or experienced a more useful and appropiate checklist for this occasion. It was so helpful, and now thanks to you, I can bring with me, and I will bring with me, all of the necessary items that the average person would need on a camping trip. Do you know of any places that I can buy the items listen above, such as the sleeping, bag, book, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, (if that's even how you spell it) if not, etc., etc.,etc.! I would insert a smily face at this moment right now, but you see, there is no smiley face button icon on the top that will allow me to add certain smiley or frowny faces to this comment, not that I have any intent whatesoever of ever putting a single smiley face on this comment blurb. Oops, I think this blurb is running a bit to long because I'm looking at the couple of words on the bottom, saying i have 961 words, left up,so I will stop now!!

Posted March 28, 2008

riff999

Your campers check-list was great. I will definitely be printing it the next time I go camping. I always forget something. Great lens.
~Jane

Posted March 25, 2008

Rupert

A B&Q Barbeque for £10.50. Works a treat as a braziere

Posted March 04, 2008

socalmal

Matches....

Posted February 05, 2008

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