Most people, when they decide to go camping, go out and spend loads of money on the latest camping gear. However, is that what camping is all about? Most people, when they think of camping, they think of roughing it in the woods. Yet how can you be roughing it when you have the most expensive, state-of-the-art camping gear giving you all of the same luxuries as home? This camping trip, save that hard-earned money and make your own camping gear. That’s right, more and more campers are taking to homemade camping gear because they want to know what it really means to be roughing it, which is what 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 ideas include using a bucket and a plunger as a clothes washing basin, filling tiny paper cups with sawdust and dipping them in paraffin wax as fire starters and even using a garbage bag with holes poked into it as a shower or with a large hole poked into it for use as a poncho during harsh weather.
With just a little imagination and the things you already have laying around your house, you should be able to gather enough homemade camping gear to have one great time in the great outdoors.
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