Forum Discussion

Photomike's avatar
Photomike
Explorer III
May 09, 2016

Truck Camper Storage... there is more than you think :-)

As many of you know I sold my camper last week and last weekend I unloaded it and put all the stuff in my garage. Today was the first day that I had a chance to start sorting and WOW was there ever a lot of stuff that I did not remember having in there. Never thought that a little camper could hold so much but there is a lot more space than many people would think.

So far some of the surprises have been more cloths than I thought I owned, enough batteries to light up a small town, LOTS of food - at least a weeks worth, more cooking utensils than a average restaurant, tons of bedding, towels and rags and a lot more misc items that I did not know I owned.

Now to pack away most of the extra stuff so it does not get packed into the next RV :B
  • Ha! Try working with a 70s short bed camper...the kind without a basement. Prior, I was camping out of a little Chevy Tracker, and now feel like I have to downsize my stuff because it all won't fit in the TC, lol.
  • I try to load my TC with stuff I would need if I were tent camping. I can honestly say, I have some empty cabinets and still find stuff I did not know I had.
  • TC'ers are, I feel, the most resourceful RV'ers out there. We make it happen one way or another... your anecdote give credence to that philosophy.
  • When I downsized from a 5th wheel to a TC I was shocked at the stuff that was hidden in the compartments. Stuff that probably had never been used.

    I do find the TC tight, only the essentials. I did just find a bunch of wasted space behind the cabinet drawers, trying to figure out how I can make use of it.
  • too funny, most of my cabinets are less than half full even on long trips. I stripped out all the extra stuff that my wife and MIL loaded in as just in case stuff, like a wet swiffer, silver polish, 7 oven handle towels... that sort of stuff.
  • I know just what you mean. I go through ours once a year. Gret way to shed a few pounds. It is surprising.
  • Good luck with that. Stuff is like rabbits, it reproduces quickly. :)