Tis a sad existence

Maaate, exactly. You know life is like a garden shed. Your first shed is 10 foot by 6 foot and then one day you open the door and it's chock a block, so you go out and buy a 20 fot by 20 foot garage and beggar me in a year or two it's full.

You'd have been better off to stay with the 10 by 6 and saved all the hassles of buying the gear to fill up the big shed??

Same with salary, no matter what I earned I never had any left over anyhow??

Kim, old son,

You may be right.

I remember when the GLW was my girllfriend about 27 years ago and we went camping. Managed to get all that we needed into the boot of an XC Falcon and a few things on the back seat.

Still, in those days we spent far too much time in the tent LOL.

Hey, I was 19.

Kim, I can empathise (damn yank spell checker will pick that one up!!) with you. I am in the same process at the moment. Woke up one day and got sick of tripping over things in the shed, multiple cart loads from shed to car and vice versa, and the overwhelming realisation that came one day when unpacking after a small trip, every second item I unpacked I was able to say "havent used that in a while".

I did the same with my treking gear not so long ago. When I sat down and looked at what I had and consequently had to carry on my back, sometimes only a couple of days at a time, it was pretty daunting. Especially when, considering a friend of mine who is into minimalistic ultra lightweight trekking, with all his gear packed, was half the weight of mine and was to last him 37 days on the bibbilman track end to end. (food and water excluded)

It gets frustrating when I look at the amount of junk I have brought over the years, thinking " that will come in handy and be good idea, ill have that" And to think the amount of money that I have outlayed, and used perhaps only once. I don't know sometimes, peraps Im a bit of a sucker for the glossy propaganda that passes in the mail and magazines, but Im getting wiser.

Now I have adopted the two year rule, if hasnt been used or moved in 2 years or more, its gone!! SWMBO only has three months to go ;)

good luck with your rationalisation

nup, nope, nah, no way! Camping these days is much better. I come home with all the hair in the back of my hands and arms and legs. I just switch on the fluoro or LED light, no more replacing the mantle every blasted day after a drive in the bush. We can have a cold drink after three days and its still cold and not floating in 30 litres of water and the milk is still fresh after three days too. The self inflating mattress is divine, much better than a lilo or sleeping on the ground, boith of which I have done and glad to be done with. Folding caribee chairs with arms, MUCH better than squatting around the campfire, and my highback one is great for a snooze in the afternoon sun. The chainsaw does a weeks cutting in an hour and I can go back to sleeping in the sun and our folding malamine table KILLS the old cardtable handsdown.

Other than that I think I'd rather be in Jims XC Falcon - Bloody snob, an XC at 19 hmmmm mine was an XW and I still miss it.

Easy solution,

Buy a Camper Trailer and everything is stored inside ready to go when you are.
Well at least that's the logic I used to justify the purchase.

Kim, there comes a time in every man's life when he realizes that looking after what he has, is more important than acquiring new toys.
It's often soon after a divorce :)))))