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What did you forget to bring?
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March 6, 2012 - 8:34 am
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Last time I went camping I failed to make sure my car air pump would attach to my air mattress (because I was too cheap to buy the battery operated pump when I had a pump that used my car's battery).  Turns out not only was it ungodly loud, it didn't fit the opening well enough to actually inflate the mattress.  ...skip forward to my friend walking through the campground to the owners house, and walking back with a full mattress, lol.

I've 'forgotten' toothpaste before (ok, I chose not to bring it planning to use my sisters toothpaste).  Luckily last time we went camping I brought toothpaste, because she 'forgot' hers, lol.  :guitar:

I've actually forgotten a camera many-a-time.  Now my phone has a better camera than my actual camera.

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March 6, 2012 - 8:46 am
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Getting ready to go out this weekend and I am doing the stand and look thing now...."what am I forgetting this time"

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March 6, 2012 - 9:08 am
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Our first trip, we forgot the first aid kit and I needed it.  Now there's a big one that lives in the pup.

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March 6, 2012 - 10:02 am
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I have forgotten my toothpaste and borrowed as well.  One time I forgot my toothbrush.  DW said here, borrow mine.  I said some things are not meant to be shared  :thumbdown:, even if we are married .  I put toothpaste on my finger and brushed with that.  I figured that would get me through the weekend. 

I just remembered the time my sis and her family and DW (DGF at the time) and I rented a cabin.  They drink coffee but forgot the sugar / spenda / sweet and low.  My sis baked a cake and was going to ice it there.  So they used scoops of the icing as sugar in the coffee 😀 The cake was still good but not iced as well. 

Matt O 2006 Skyline Nomad 27' travel trailer.  Previously owned 1986 Coleman Columbia / 1992 Coleman Senecca / 1989 Born Free Class C RV.

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March 6, 2012 - 10:36 am
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Cold weather gear for a trip at the end of June. It was a high of 72 during the day. I took the AC but not enough warm layers. Thank god for WalMart.

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March 6, 2012 - 10:40 am
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Forgot our C-pap machines once, never will forget them again!

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March 6, 2012 - 10:55 am
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  We forgot the air pump also ...... but had a car vac in the car, took 16 oz plastic soda bottle, cut the bottom off and duct taped itto the vac exhaust grille...... it worked and my DW could not stop laughing.

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March 6, 2012 - 11:40 am
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I forgot my bag of clothes at home one, forgot pillows several times and once even forgot the key to the camper.  ??? It sounds bad but they were all still great trips.

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March 6, 2012 - 1:06 pm
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Joe, you are right.  Just because you forget something, doesn't necessarily mean you will have a crappy trip.  I bet you talked to everyone in the campground who had a popup to see if their key worked in your pup  :cowboy:  These situations can become legendary stories.

Matt O 2006 Skyline Nomad 27' travel trailer.  Previously owned 1986 Coleman Columbia / 1992 Coleman Senecca / 1989 Born Free Class C RV.

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March 6, 2012 - 1:49 pm
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I forget my glasses about 50% of the time.  I wear contacts and am legally blind without anything.  One of the reasons we bought a pup with a cassette toilet was because I forgot them once when we went tent camping when our youngest was about 3.  At 2:30 in the morning, I was taking her to the blurry light spot several hundred feet through the woods on a trail I couldn't see.  Finding the tent again was even more fun.  We once rented a cabin in the woods and found that while it had a kitchen with pots and pans, it didn't have any cooking utensils.  Not having a can opener, I opened some soup by banging on the hubcap remover from my car with a large pair of Vice Grips.  We also ended up making biscuit dough in the coffeemaker's carafe and baking them in the oven's broiler pan.  Last, we found our pup didn't have a lug wrench or jack when we blew a tire coming home from our first trip.  Luckily, the car's jack was made to work on the pup and I had brought a large adjustable wrench to make sure all our new hitch bolts were staying tight, which I miraculously used to remove all 5 wheel bolts and the 2 holding the spare on.

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March 6, 2012 - 2:02 pm
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Which time?
I'd spend more thing trying to remember what I've forgotten that what I remembered.

I'll get by.

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March 6, 2012 - 2:37 pm
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I forgot my camper the one time...

  just kidding.     
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March 6, 2012 - 3:04 pm
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and this is why we have checklists........  :tickedoff:

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March 6, 2012 - 3:51 pm
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Checklist, schmecklist...  LOL.  Fly by the seat of your pants.  Other than forgetting the camper ( 😮 @Cindy.  Wanna 'splain that one?)

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March 6, 2012 - 4:04 pm
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Do we have to ask Pete?...... I know you are big on checklists, but I'm sure you forgot SOMETHING at sometime. 

Matt O 2006 Skyline Nomad 27' travel trailer.  Previously owned 1986 Coleman Columbia / 1992 Coleman Senecca / 1989 Born Free Class C RV.

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March 6, 2012 - 4:07 pm
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I remember camping with those guys and they had no lawn chairs... left them at home.

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March 6, 2012 - 4:20 pm
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[quote author=Lone Lock link=topic=1443.msg11517#msg11517 date=1331067890]
Do we have to ask Pete?...... I know you are big on checklists, but I'm sure you forgot SOMETHING at sometime.

Oh, I never said I didn't forget things, but thats WHY we have checklists. Including having a calendar, since showing up at the campground a week early is really embarassing.

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March 6, 2012 - 4:30 pm
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That's called scoping it out, finding the best route and taking the trailer out for a spin.

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March 6, 2012 - 4:47 pm
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If I forget my pot luck, I'm blaming Matt O.

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March 6, 2012 - 5:06 pm
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I'm still waiting for the "how you forgot your camper" story, Cindy.

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