What's the one thing that you have but hardly EVER use?

Veebyes wrote:
The problem with discarding things that you hardly ever use is that those items are not important till you NEED them. I am thinking along the lines of spare parts carried rather than extra camp chairs & such.

Guess you "could" ditch your spare tire, no sense dragging that along with ya? :S

The problem with discarding things that you hardly ever use is that those items are not important till you NEED them. I am thinking along the lines of spare parts carried rather than extra camp chairs & such.

JimK-NY wrote:
After about 2000 nights of use, I have yet to see if the TV works. Never used the outdoor shower.

Since I can't get OTA TV channels at home, I like to check out the old westerns and detective shows on the digital sub channels early morning with my coffee.
The outside shower is GREAT for cleaning dogs and doing dishes, no food scraps stinking up the gray water tank.

After about 2000 nights of use, I have yet to see if the TV works. Never used the outdoor shower. Never used the backdoor awning except to open it up and clean it. The microwave has been used probably about 5 times. We rarely have hook ups and don't want to start the generator just to heat up something in the microwave. My wife has used the kitchen sink sprayer to wash her hair but otherwise we just don't use it. It wastes too much water.

The skylight is another waste. In the summer the sun beats down so I put in a piece of insulation board.

For the previous 20+ years....the air conditioner. Now, with traveling out of state, and staying in campgrounds more....we’re using the ac more!

Hand mixer, toaster, bedroom DVD player, several heavy winter coats, blue (black tank) tote a large, heavy dog fence, electric coffee pot, slow cooker, lots of extra bedding, hand axe, dish washer (used for storage), folding plastic table with bench, Coleman Latern, large box of MREs, AR 15, tactical pump shotgun, assorted handguns, back-up scopes for rifles, floor safe, pair of rubber boots.....and likely lots of stuff I can’t remember! Summary: a lot!

We have always been minimalist RVers, as others have said we travel and camp for the night and move on, we don't sit in one place more than a day or two at most and usually not much more than 12hr. Largest camper we have ever owned was an 8.5' slide in camper, so stuff that isn't used does't go along for long. In 40+ years of camping we never had a TV. We bought a used B last June with a TV/DVD combo. I turned it on to see if it worked, DVD worked, needed to be plugged into cable for the TV to work no antenna. After the first outing we decided it would not get used much if at all, other have given the reasons. I pulled it out and found a large empty area that had no access before, so I boxed in the space and added a door and have one of our more useful storage areas since it is right by the kitchen. We tend to go on two different kinds of trips so a few things move in and out depending on the trip.

We will see after this Summer what needs to be removed or added.

Yep, yet another absolutely worthless camping utensil, the Hot dog/marshmallow METAL FORKS!

Too long to fit in drawers so they must be put in a upper cabinet or under the sink where they are completely forgotten until you knock them out of the upper cabinet and they launch themselves right at you causing you to attempt to flee these mid evil devices..

If you do happen to remember you have them cooking a marshmallow on them is a futile endeavor which because the steel transfers heat to the internal part of the marshmallow they soften to fats, rotate on the metal and you only get to burn one side of the marshmallow unit it gives up and melts off the forks into the campfire..

Hot dogs do seem to work but you tend to burn yourself on the super hot forks while trying to pull the dog off these super long metal forks..

Better off to buy long bamboo skewers which seem to work much better and you simply toss them when done..

Tvov wrote:

tomman58 wrote:
By the comments that I see here makes me wonder just how much a lot of you even camp. We go for 5 1/2 months at a time and just about 80% of the things you do not use we do.
I know we are lucky to be anywhere USA any time we want but at most of the RV parks we camp at offer TV and the net which gives us a chance to see what is screwed up in this world , then we shut it off and move on in the morning. LOl

So, out of the remaining 20%, "What's the one thing you have but hardly EVER use?"? (title of thread)

The fire extinguisher. Other than that we use everything often. Opps I forgot the sofabed. We will not use that ever I* hope.

tomman58 wrote:
By the comments that I see here makes me wonder just how much a lot of you even camp. We go for 5 1/2 months at a time and just about 80% of the things you do not use we do.
I know we are lucky to be anywhere USA any time we want but at most of the RV parks we camp at offer TV and the net which gives us a chance to see what is screwed up in this world , then we shut it off and move on in the morning. LOl

So, out of the remaining 20%, "What's the one thing you have but hardly EVER use?"? (title of thread)

tomman58 wrote:
By the comments that I see here makes me wonder just how much a lot of you even camp. We go for 5 1/2 months at a time and just about 80% of the things you do not use we do.
I know we are lucky to be anywhere USA any time we want but at most of the RV parks we camp at offer TV and the net which gives us a chance to see what is screwed up in this world , then we shut it off and move on in the morning. LOl

We don't camp, we gave up "camping" when we grew up and bought an RV. We use our RV to stay in while we travel.