How much will my stuff shift when pulling a TT?

double post, sorry

If its loose, it will move! or fall off, or turn over! Whenever we leave on a new trip, the DW stands in the aisle and hangs on to something until we get around the first few turns and hills in our neighborhood. After everything as relocated to its new position, then she can sit down and be comfortable knowing that most everything is wherever it will stay for the rest of the trip.

Just have fun. Remember the important things like blocking wheels before unhooking.

Anything heavy/breakable goes down low. We also use the plastic egg crates in our pantry shelves which keeps things from shifting and rolling around.

We buy shelf liner at the dollar store. Nothing moves on it at all. Every cupboard has it and it cost less than 15 dollars.
Hubby also built shelves in a lot of the cupboards. You get more in and you can find things. If you are not handy you can buy those wire ones, again cover with the no slip shelf liner.

We use corelle dishes, never had any break. For larger bathroom items, shampoo etc we bought a small colourful garbage pail, no lid and set items in it and put on the floor. For traveling the pail sits in the larger registered pail in the tub, nothing falls over.

Even though we travel light, we have everything you could need. Our fellow campers have been shocked when someone says...If I only had a??? We usually have the ?? item.

One thing we learned fast was not to put bread in a cupboard directly over the water heater. I had a "duh" moment until I figured why the breads were becoming hard and moldy fast

You will learn fast what was a good idea or not, LOL. As suggested open doors slowly after stopping.

For the most part stuff doesn't shift. Once in awhile an aggressive manuever or really rough road will cause something to move. We put heavy items (like coffee maker, portable ice maker, computer) on the floor, sofa or bed. The shelf liner mentioned above works great.

Lots of variables here. Learn as you go. When DW is driving the trailer can look like a tossed salad on arrival.

How much stuff shifts depends on how rough the roads are getting to your destination, and how hard you hit those rough spots.

On a cross country trip, we once hit a stretch of freeway through a city that shall remain unnamed where every expansion strip seemed to come with a 1 foot gap, and for several miles every one of them felt like getting hit on the butt with a sledge hammer. And needless to say, you couldn't drive it at less than 55 or you'd be squashed like a bug by the trucks. Things were pretty well shook up when we finally landed for the night. Had to catch several things the first time we opened the 'fridge.

But as others have said, relax, you'll figure it out like we all have. It's supposed to be fun, don't over-think it.

Use shelf liners like this for shelves:

http://cushycupboards.com/

I've a collection of hard to break dish and drink ware that I purchased when I first began camping. I'm sure they'll be fine in an RV. Corelle; acrylic glasses...you know the type.

Don't know how strong the locks are on your cabinet doors but you can always beef them up if you feel unsure.

Mountianeer wrote:

I have a feeling we are going to learn a lot this weekend..

You just answered your own question.
Relax, don't make this RVing thing more complicated than it is. Rving is suppose to be fun.

To answer your question: when you stop, open all doors (frig and cabinets) slowly for the first time.

Enjoy the adventure.