Storage/organizational issues...We always end up with the inside of the camper looking like a hurricane hit. Snacks, clothes, shoes, personal items etc. are strewn everywhere..I need help with the best ways to store and organize "STUFF". While I am not an anal person it just makes me crazy how unorganized and out of place everything is, we camp with our two fur babies, so that is another consideration......your advice and ideas are greatly appreciated...Wolfie
do like we did. after 17 years of camping with two popups, we went to the Dark Side and bought a hybrid.
we have so much room, we can't fill every compartment. and that's with only one outside storage area.
no cranking, no crawling, no tubs to load and unload. just put in the food and a few outside stuff and away we go. and if we need to stop for a snack or toilet break, no problem. just open the door, go in and sit.
I've seen a mod a few times where people remove the face of their cabinet doors and hinge them on the cabinet without a draw. Then they use plastic storage bins in the open cabinet. This increases your storage space a lot.
Space has been a problem for us also with 2 adts, 1 boy, 1 girl and 1 big dog. I go thru the camper every spring and clean out things we don't use.
We keep all our dry food in our camp kitchen and other food in the ice chests. (no animal problems yet) :turtle:
We try to keep everyone's bag of cloths and shower bag on their beds so all their stuff is together.
We have our table stuff (plates/bowls/silverware/napkins/etc) in stackable bins that we usually leave on the table all weekend.
fyi - I've been asking for a bigger camper, she's asking for a house. :- [hr]
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Dan, forgive me if this a stupid question...never seen the inside of a hybrid before. I f you do not pull out the bunk ends, can you still sleep on them ? Wolfie
I am thinking inclement weather..short nap on a long road trip...
that's the beauty of a hybrid, is the ability to "turtle". you can sleep on the dinette or sofa, so you don't have to drop the bunk ends down, to sleep. it's like sleeping in a 18' TT that only has a dinette or sofa to sleep on.
the bed ends fold down like a truck's tailgate, so they don't take up any inside room. but you can't sleep on them without lowering the bunk door down.
My biggest problem with a pup is the same as stated above. Storage and clutter. I have seen picture of people adding shelves for additional storage but to me that is just more set up time and it takes away storage while traveling. I have started using storage bins. One for outdoor supplies, lanterns, tiki lights, ropes, table cloths, axe and ect. I have another for cooking and another for food. It seems to be working and keeping from moving seat coushins to get to the storage compartments.
We don't have one bit of counter space in 625D. We have the optional overhead storage bag, and the hanging pantry. The dinette table gets a load of stuff on it, and we have a bunch of doodads outside.[img width=640 height=480]http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx205/PAthwacker/cedarcreekmemorialday.jpg[/img]
what we do is use one bunkend for storage and then i pull curtains across it and it is hidden from view.....not sure this would work for you as it is usually just three of us when we go camping and we have two king bunkends.....i keep things in those plastic tubs you can get at walmart and try to keep them somewhat categorized into clothes, kitchen,etc.....what i have found the most helpful is we lucked out in that the previous owner ripped out a couch and we use the extra floorspace in the kitchen for two sets of easy-to-assemble 5' shelves i bought at walmart....those help alot! I also bought some smaller shelves but then again, we don't have a dinette either so had some elbow room to work with! 🙂
ps....not only do the curtain blocking the bunkends hide the mess, they trap any heat from the bunkends during the day so they do double duty!
It is pup specific.
Our's handles a 100lb lab that doesn't move all weekend. Dinette slide out, and hanging storage racks. Less than 1sq ft of actual availible counter space to clutter up. We put stuff on the huge dinette table whether its meal time, shower time, or bed time.
Here is our 625D after we just woke up ;D
Keep in mind that we also have a 2 year old 😉
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I love our camper and wouldn't change to something else but hate opening it before trips to load stuff and opening it over to upload stuff. That needs to change somehow?
that and the amenities are why we went to a hybrid, after popupping for 17 years.
A couple of days before a trip I'll lift the roof a couple of inches so I start the fridge, then when we're packing to go the PUP gets opened to pack the fridge. Clothing baskets go in and we're set to go. When we're leaving the campground, the left over food goes in the cooler and the fridge gets shut down, dried and propped open. Clothing baskets are right inside the door so we just have to raise the roof a couple of inches again.
For us, it's all in the packing. Food and clothing are the only things we have to pack. Everything else is already in the PUP and ready to go. It took us a little time to get it perfected, for our needs, but the amount of opening and closing isn't a problem.
John
We have LL Bean tote bags that we use for luggage in the PUP. They line up on our cabinet top and are large enough for a week and keep all the clothes in one place. We have a set of cooking supplies and dishes that we keep in the PUP so they go back when not not in use. All the non-fridge food that we bring stays bagged on our other cabinet top and we keep staple foods underneath. Basically, we have everything we use in place so there is a place for everything and it stays under control. With the two of us and the 3 kids, it has to be that way. The biggest problem we have is keeping the kids's stuff down at their end of the trailer.
Just so you know.. even with a hardside 25 foot TT,, there is still storage issue's .. although different ones.. We have lots of room for the dishes, pots and pans, the stuff we kept from the pup like the games, the sleeping bags/sheets now just stay on the beds ... Where we now have storage issues is with the 80 feet of water hose, the 50ft of power cord (soon going to add another 50 feet), where and how to store the WDH bars, where and how to store the small step ladder we use to sweep the slide off before stowing ...
No matter what size or type of trailer you have, you'll always have some sort of storage issues...
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