how to store folding camping chairs?

RoyBell wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:

RoyBell wrote:
Does anyone have a trick for storing these things? The first thing we always lose is the bag, plus they rarely ever make it back into them anyways. My front storage has like 8 of these chairs and it's very annoying because they all get hooked onto each other and take up more space than they should. I've been thinking about making horizontal storage with multiple PVC pipes and sliding the chairs into them. Maybe 5".

Anyone have any good ideas?

You DO realize that IF you KEEP AND USE THE BAGS THERE WILL NOT BE "HOOKED" or SNAGGED chairs?

I have never "lost" a chair bag, at the campsite we remove the bag and setup the chair. The empty bags are put back into the same storage area that the chairs go into.

At tear down we simple get the bags out of the storage area and put the chairs back into the bags.

Using the bags tames the snagged legs, keeps the chairs from expanding when putting them in or taking them out AND has a side benefit of containing any dirt or sand that may be on the chair legs.. Makes for a neat and clean storage area!

You obviously do not camp with kids or my gf who can lose her head if it's not attached. Generally we have 5 people camping. Sometimes 6. I havent counted the chairs, maybe it's only 6. I just feel like I am pulling them out for days. One of them is one with a leg rest which takes up the space of 2 of them.

Getting the nicer ones are great if you have $50 x 6 to blow on them. Plus they are a pain to carry. We do go to concerts and events where we carry them. As for where the bags go, who knows. Some events we camp at for several days and leave the cheap chairs out by the concert/lawn so we have a spot when we return later in the evening. Then we have chairs at the camp site AND chairs at the venue.

I may start only keeping 4 in the front and storing the rest somewhere inside. I tried to stuff one into a 6" PVC today and no go. I like the tote idea if they fit. I have one under my bed I may try and see how they fit. If they don't fit, I picked up some MDF yesterday. I am going to experience with making a couple 6" cubbies for the front bunk and see how that goes.

Acutally I DO have kids..

TWO TEENAGERS.

we are talking major "attitudes" and lots of "blonde moments"..

So I DEAL WITH FOUR CHAIRS AND A "EZE UP" canopy which I store under my queen bed..

My choice is to either lift a heavy bed or pull things through a small access door inside the trailer.

There is no way I would wish to deal with chairs or the canopy structure without storing them in their bags.

To me it is no excuse to not use the bags, it only takes a whopping ten seconds to pull them out of a bag.

Maybe a whole 30 seconds to put them into the bag..

So in the whole realm of the world you are "inconvenienced" a whopping FOUR MINUTES for SIX chairs and that is setting up and packing up..

That is most likely much less time wasted than your current system of no bags and having to deal with intertwined chair legs..

Do it your way if you like but perhaps you should consider those worthless bags the next time you are fighting with tangles..