We’ve started planning our summer camping trips. The other day I shared with you a post on How to start living your life and talked about finding things that feed your soul. Camping is one of those things for me. I LOVE it! It energizes me. So, it’s a must for me every summer. I wanted to do a post on Camping Hacks that will help me and you be organized as we camp. I found some great things.
12 Camping Hacks
1. Use a hanging clothes organizer to organize your campsite. I LOVE an organized campsite. You could use these to organize your camp kitchen or hang one in the tent for your clothes, reading material, flashlights, etc.
2. Organize your campsite with shoe organizers.
3. Create some light with a solar light and pot. Perfect placed around the campsite at night.
4. Make some DIY fire starters. Nothing worse than struggling to get a fire going. These DIY fire starters are handy things to have on your camping trip and cost nothing to make.
5. Make your tent strings seen with cut pool noodles. You know how you end up tripping over your tent strings at least once a trip? Well, these cut pool noodles will show you where the strings are.
6. Put your scrambled eggs in a recycled container ahead of time and save a lot of mess, plus you don’t need to worry about crushing the eggs in the cooler.
7. Store snacks or cereals in these recycled containers. This will keep them from getting crushed or stale when the bags rip.
8. Make your pancake mix at home and save the mess and put in an empty ketchup bottle. This will also save time since you won’t have to clean up a mess everywhere.
9. Use old pill bottles to store your spices, or fill with band-aids and pouches of triple antibiotic cream, cotton balls or q-tips or even store your matches in them to keep the dry.
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10. Keep your silverware organized with a recyclable drink carrier.
11. Line a pie iron with tin foil. I will be trying this one! We make a LOT of Pie Iron Recipes and love this idea! It will save a lot of sandy sandwiches.
12. Hang a fan from the ceiling of your tent or kitchen area and enjoy a nice cool breeze. This is perfect for the mid-July/ August camping trips.
What’s your favorite Camping Hack?? Please share.
Here are a few of my favorite Camping Posts you NEED to check out:
15 Tinfoil Recipes Perfect for Camping
Camping Organization & Meal Ideas
A lot of nice ideas in your list. I’ll be sharing on my FB page today. Thanks for sharing at Merry Monday.
Thanks so much Shirley for sharing! Also, thanks for hosting so that I can link up. 🙂
I’m sure that all of these ideas are such a wonderful help for camping!! It is a great list!! Sharing with my followers. Thanks for sharing on Inspire ME Monday. I hope you have a wonderful week!!
Thanks for sharing and thanks for hosting so I can link up. Barb
This is a great post! FB share! Thanks for sharing at #HomeMattersParty
Thank you so much Michelle for sharing! I really appreciate it. Thanks for hosting as well.
What great ideas!! I love the solar lights in the pot, that would even look good in my garden! #HomeMattersParty
They would be cute in your garden. Thanks for hosting so I can link up. Have a great weekend.
Hey, Barb! Just wanted to let you know that we loved your 12 Helpful Camping Hacks so much when you shared it at the #HomeMattersParty last week, we’ve FEATURED it THIS WEEK! Hope you can check it out when you get a sec! Happy weekend!!! http://lifewithlorelai.com/2016/05/19/home-matters-linky-party-87/
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Thank you so much Lorelai. I’m really excited. Thanks for hosting each week so I can share. Have a great day.
My family loves to camp, we often organize camping on summer it’s great to relax with your loved ones
These camping tips are really great and helpful. I had bookmarked this for next time
Glad you found them helpful Maria. I’m getting ready to take my first camping trip of the summer in a week or so and will be using a lot of these ideas. Happy Camping!
My favorite hack? The Fan! Fabulous Idea! They are all great ideas though. I can’t get enough of your Ideas & Lists Or Those Wonderful Recipes for Camping, that I would Never Have Though Of !Thank You So Much for Such A Great List! I do have 1 concern though. The Foil Wrapped Meals. The Aluminum Leaks into the Food & has become somewhat of a problem the more we use it, according to articles I have read on it these past few yrs. I love the idea & have used it as well; so I started Wrapping Parchment or Waxed Paper around the food 1st, then put the A. Foil around it for safety sake.
Karen, thanks for stopping by! What an incredible idea!! I love it. Thanks for sharing. Happy Camping!
Amazing ideaz! I will also be sharing them. The suggestions could save so much prep time while camping. Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you so much Amy! I’m so glad you found these hacks helpful.
We attach glow sticks to the tent strings on the ground and they work awesome!
Leah that’s an awesome idea! Thanks for sharing.
Love your camping ideas
The idea is great and yes, it is a helpful post. Great work!
For an outdoors shower, trap some water in a plastic bag and then hang it from a tree branch. Then pierce it multiple times at the bottom and voila.
– You can pierce holes on the bottom of an empty tin-can and turn it into a cheese grater.
– I show you how to repurpose a plastic bottle into a protected toilet paper dispenser that you can hang on a tree.
– To start a fire, add some charcoal in an egg carton and light it up.
– To get rid of mosquitos add some peppermint leaves in your campfire.
Love! Thanks for sharing!!!