50 Ways to Lighten Your RV

We full time so it's easy to keep packing stuff in if not careful.
We don't buy a lot of canned goods at one time. We buy a few as we travel.
Fresh water tank 1/2 full. Dump tanks before long travel.
Every 6 months, go through everything and get rid of things we haven't used in last year.

50. Relax, you aren't going to get good MPG regardless, so if you want something, take it (assuming you bough a capable truck that isn't overloaded with an empty RV). The nice thing about an RV over tenting is you leave all the camping gear in the rig and just hook up and go. When you decide you want something, it's in the RV not back in the garage.

The easiest and probably most effective thing is to run with the tanks empty. That will eliminate a lot of weight (as in hundreds of pounds). The exception being boondocking take enough fresh water but consider if you can fill up close to the destination.

We only bring balsa fire wood and drink non fat milk. Everyoe uses the rest room before we leave. OK trying to be funny. I do go through the rig once a year and thin out stuff. But really, even in our rig a hundred pounds is not noticable. Don't worry about it.

We use paper plates, mostly for ease of clean-up, but they do save a bit of weight over china.

Put everyone in the family on a diet?

Break out the popcorn. :h

Leave all that Cast Iron Cookware at home.

Looks like a great topic. I'll be watching and taking notes.