First Time Camping:What to bring?

Find yourself someone in the campground that is finishing their first year of RV'ing. You can then buy all their stuff at a hugely discounted price because they will have discovered they really didn't need or use most of it! After 4 years of being on the road from 4 to 11 months each year I finally parked our motor home and started cleaning out the lockers. If I didn't know what it was or remember if I had ever used it, out it went. Much of it went into the trash, some of it went onto some shelves in the garage, probably to throw out at a later time. When I finished, I was amazed at how much storage I had created in my lockers, both inside and out. My rational was that if I ever really needed something, I probably wouldn't remember I had it or wouldn't have been able to find it, so I would end up and buy a new one anyway. Take your time. Buy only what you are positive you need or want and be ruthless about culling it if it doesn't get used. That one time, 6 years from now, when you want that deck of cards you put in, "just in case," will be moldy and stuck together too bad to use anyway. Buy you a new deck from the camp store or Walmart and enjoy!