I have just come back from a camping trip with the gf's relatives. Here cousin has take the award for going over the top with camping gear. Two adults and two kids in a people carrier with…

Two tents
A fold up camp bed
Air bed
Duvets
pillows
A table to cook on
A table to eat at
A dinner set fit for the queen
Salad dressing of various types
Sauces
Cereals
Toaster.!
A fan heater
Blender
Enough food to feed the five thousand
And enough clothing to dress them
A slide
Electric cars
Scooters
Cricket set
Footballs
And the list goes on and on and on… 😯

This was not a weeks holiday. This was two days in the Warwickshire country side. I have never seen so much stuff stuffed into a motor in all my life. My kitchen at home is not this well equipped.

You rock!

Saw this with Les Anglais en France. Small families would need an estate with a roof box and/or trailer. Constant entertainment and video games for the kids. ffs.

We had 4 adults in a clio with a small roof box for 8 days camping. We rock. Cooking gear comprised a Trangia and a Bialetti espresso pot.

To be honest, I doubt I could manage without a duvet, pillows for 8 days, let alone cooking freeze dried vesta curries in the dark and taking a dump in a shared bog that hasn't been cleaned for a month.

Camping is awful

where do you camp djglover ? homeless shelters

Some people like to go light, some people like to have stuff, so what?

We take all that stuff too! MrsFM won't go without her creature comforts, even has to take her ghd's. The blender is maybe a step too far tho….

djglover in I'm a snob shocker

with a kit list like that, are you sure they were not doing DoE?

TBH with car boot camping my attitude is whatever I can fit in the car/trailer. This just applies to camping gear and I would have to admit that a duvet is a bit OTT.

No hair straighteners?

may as well fill the car,

which for me wold prbably be 1 bike and a trangia!

tick plus inflatable canoe and huge huge huge fold up bbq, wine rack AND of course salad servers

it all goes downhill when you get camping chairs

mrs antigee never really understood why i was pleased that i'd found a nice cave to sleep in below Naranjo De Bulnes

Nowt wrong with camping chairs antigee!

we have a 5 man tent for the 2 of us. At 36kgs is a heavy beast, but when it rained we had 6 people (and camping chairs) in the living area no problem.

Have you been camping with us? We take stupid amounts too, mainly because we can. We used to go light, but an extra item per trip has found it's way into our car, until the boot is just rammed