Camping at its best is all about the delights of fresh air, newly mown grass, prosecco from a plastic wine glass and sausages spitting on the barbecue. Naturally you don’t want piles of smelly rubbish attracting the wasps or a carrier bag of waste that keeps getting kicked over. No matter how much bunting you decorate your tent with, the fact remains that camping requires a lot of housework. “Tentwork” if you like! There are a few ways I get our tent tidy and I’m sharing the first of these today.
You want your camping waste bin to –
1. Close up
2. Not tip over
3. Be easy to open with one hand
4. Be compact for packing back into the car
Making Instructions
This simple, cheap trick does all those things. You need one metal dry-cleaner’s coat hanger and a bin liner with a draw-cord opening.
Step 1: Take a metal coat hanger from the dry cleaner and bend it into a circle.
Step 2: Use a large bin-liner with a draw-cord opening. Hook it through and over the edge of the circular hangar.
Step 3: Pull the draw-cord a little tight and tie a knot in each end individually. You need to make sure that you leave a hole big enough to easily drop the waste through.
Step 4: Hang this from your camp kitchen or other tent hook. The opening will hang flat and closed. You can lift it with one hand to drop in your waste.
All you have to transport home at the end of your trip is one metal coat hanger. Easy!
Above is a picture of my camp kitchen setup which shows the waste bin hanging off the stand on the left side. It takes up so little space! We have a pretty big tent but one of the problems with that is how much mess everyone leaves strewn around. I spend half my holiday tidying up after the family! Do you find the same? Let me know in the comments!
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This is a brilliant idea, I’m book marking this! We are off on our first camping trip this year and this will be fab. Thank you for joining us at #SharingtheBlogLove
I have never been camping before but this sounds like a great idea x
This is ingenious! My husband is trying to persuade me to go camping, so I’m definitely remembering this for then. I love the lack of stuff to take home! Thanks for joining us at #SharingtheBlogLove
What a great idea and very resourceful! We haven’t ever been camping, but will be keeping this in mind if we ever do!
check you out, how nifty and imaginatve is this. Perfect for us, as we are going camping in August and kind of dredding it lol!
Have fun – send me a pic if you use this trick!
wow what a very simple, clever idea. I never would’ve thought of this. Will defo be doing it now x
Simple is often the best. Thank you!
What a simple, clever idea! Thing is, I will never get to try it out as I would be more likely to travel to the moon than go camping (terrified of spiders!).
Haha! I’ve never met a spider camping. Oh, except a money spider. Flies, plenty!
This is a fab idea. I like the picture of your camp kitchen. Looks stocked up.
Fresh air makes me hungry 😀
That’s a really clever idea. I haven’t been camping since I was a teenager
It’s a lot of faff but the kids like it!
Love this! I might make my parents’ one for their new campervan. Such a clever idea x #SharingtheBlogLove
Ooh I hope they enjoy their campervan. Thanks!
Great idea for picnics and parties too! Wish we’d seen this before last weekend… 🙁
Ah there’s always a next time 😀
Brilliant idea. It’s always a challenge to space save when you go camping. This will certainly help with that.
Exactly – both when transporting stuff in the car and keeping things out of the way in the tent. Thanks!
Oh what a good idea! If I ever go camping, I’m definitely going to remember this trick!! Thank you
Thanks!
This is a very clever idea. We love camping and are going next weekend, so looks as though I’ve seen this just in time. 🙂 #SharingTheBlogLove