This is Steveer Robbins.

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

It's summer, and you know what summer means?

Camping. Personally, I don't understand camping.

Great men and women throughout the ages fought against all odds.

They studied, experimented, suffered defeat, and then triumphed in the quest

to invent electricity, indoor plumbing, microwaves, and air conditioners. And how am I supposed

to honor their memory? By considering it fun to turn my back on their sacrifice and go out to this

so-called nature where they don't even have room service.

Heck, they don't even have rooms.

Nevertheless, my friend Bernice is on her way to the Venus Descending Festival.

It's a gathering of people who are into paganism and earth-based religions.

The goddess provides, and this is my chance to thank her in person, Bernice declares.

So she's gathering all her camping gear, packing it up,

in gleeful anticipation of taking it out to a festival,

getting it wet and dirty while she dances around bonfires, playing the drums,

and then bringing everything home, washing it, and packing it all up again.

I can't imagine a better way to spend my vacation.

It turns out that preparing for festivals requires trips to several stores, and it also requires

all kinds of gear that you'll never use for anything else.

So, Bernice has constructed a shopping list of a couple of hundred items that she needs to

buy so that she can go enjoy nature unfettered by modern consumer culture.

...