Homemade Camping Gear: Do it the Rough way
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
Is the real camping experience for you?
Now days most people practicing camping spend loads of money to get the latest camping equipment. However if you want to truly experience the real camping experience you should ask yourself what is camping after all. Real camping is about toughing it in the woods. So if you are equipped with all the most expensive, state-of-the-art camping gear that is giving you the same comfort you have at home you are not living the real thing. Of course it’s all right if that’ the way you like it, but if you really want to know what roughing is all about then read this. More and more people are talking about homemade camping gear because they want to know what real camping is all about.
Shelter, Food and Water
When you go camping, you really only need three things: You need food, which can be easily brought along in the form of quick and convenient protein or granola bars, or you can bring hotdogs and grill them on long sticks in front of your campfire; you need water, which can be brought along in a canteen or water bottle and you need shelter, as in a tent.
After those three things, everything else is extra and it’s just stuff that you’re going to be lugging around everywhere and that you probably won’t even use. So, in making homemade camping gear, you’re only looking at the above three things if you really want to rough it.
When it comes to homemade camping gear, look around your house for anything you can use. For instance, a shower curtain can be strung up with shoe laces and carried as a pack to hold your food and water bottles full of water. When it comes time to camp for the night, you can turn your shower curtain into bedding or you can string it up to a tree and to the ground and use it as a makeshift tent. There you have it, you have just made homemade camping gear and you never had to leave your house to get it.
Other homemade camping gear technique you could use would be to use a bucket and a plunger as clothes washing basin. You could fill tiny paper cups with sawdust and dipping them in paraffin wax for a good fire starter. Some people use garbage bag with small holes as showers or you could just make a big hole in it as a poncho during rainy days.
If you look carefully at all the things you have in your house and use a little imagination, you will soon find out you have pretty much all the homemade camping gear you need to experience the real camping adventure.
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