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210 GID How to Organize Your Camping Gear

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3726 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2012

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Organize your stuff when camping by creatively using bags within bags.

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0:00.0

Steveer Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:09.6

Camping! I just love camping. No, I don't. I hate camping. People say, nature is so wonderful.

0:18.5

Of course it is. From a distance. That's why we invented concrete, so we

0:23.5

wouldn't actually have to touch nature. And nature is full of dirt. My mom used to make me wash my

0:29.2

fingernails if I got dirt under my fingernails. When you go camping, you get dirt under your fingernails

0:33.8

and on top of them. My friends, oh, they say, a little dirt can't kill you. Oh, yeah,

0:39.5

then why are so many people scared to being buried alive? Sadly, my friends win, we go camping.

0:46.4

And when camping, you need to cram everything into a small space before traveling to your campsite.

0:51.5

Then you need to put your stuff in a four-person tent, which is marketing speak for a one-and-a-half-person tent, and you need to be able to get to the campsite. Then you need to put your stuff in a four-person tent, which is

0:54.1

marketing speak for a one-and-a-half-person tent, and you need to be able to get to the stuff

0:58.1

by opening the fewest containers possible. Here are seven tips for effective camping packing.

1:04.4

Tip number one, Ziploc bags are your friends. Ziploc bags come in every possible size,

1:10.8

even super big, and they're watertight

1:13.0

and waterproof. You put your stuff in a Ziploc bag, and you can be confident it won't get

1:17.8

ruined when the flash flood pours through your campground at 3 a.m. after a freakishly

1:21.4

unseasonable rainstorm. Furthermore, plastic can't be digested, so if a bear chowes down on your

1:26.9

headlamp,

1:30.8

just wait a couple of days and you'll be able to recover it in perfect shape inside its protective Ziploc container.

1:33.9

Tip number two is pack your clothes by the weather.

1:38.6

Packing for camping is different from packing for other kinds of travel.

1:41.7

When you're traveling to a five-star hotel,

1:43.7

you can neatly put all of your socks in one drawer, your t-shirts in another, and hang your cuddly bear Spider-Man

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