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arnko37
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Feb 26, 2014

Patio rug blowing away?

We carry four empty water jugs on our camping trips. If the wind keeps blowing the patio rug we fill the jugs w/ water and put one on each corner. Works.
  • michers wrote:
    I always put the cooler full of beer on it. Would never go camping without that!


    Only problem is as I keep drinking the beer, the cooler gets lighter. To solve the problem, I now bring two coolers of beer. :)
  • I always put the cooler full of beer on it. Would never go camping without that!
  • Ours came with tent pegs to keep it in place. It has the same little metal rings as a tent that the pegs go through. The 9x18 mat has about 12 pegs so it doesn't move.
  • bdpreece wrote:
    I gather rocks then trip over them in the dark.


    Yeah, me too, sometimes it ain't even gotta be dark :)
  • Between the picnic table and our chairs we are usually good but then again the wind never seems that bad.
  • Usually stake it down each corner. If that doesn't do it I start gathering rocks :)
  • We use the nails and washers made for that. Much easier to store. Of course the places we stay at for long enough to use a patio rug don't have concrete pads.
  • Thats what we do too. Seems like a "no-brainer".

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