Living in your camper is really no different than living in your house, except it's smaller, and storage space is less. There's really nothing different. If you think about your daily activities, these are the things you need in the camper. You do need to think of the logistics of the camper, something you do not have to deal with at home. But there is a breakdown of the various "components" you need to make sure you have covered (not in any particular order):
1. Your personal hygine: (everything from tooth paste to bath towels)
2. Your cook ware (what are you using to prepare your means with? Over a fire, propane Coleman camp stove, Stove top in the camper? Electric frying pan or electric griddle? Just eating out every meal?)
3. Your dinner ware. Paper, plastic, China, Corell ware, plastic spoons or grandma's antique china and priceless silverware? Cups or glasses, or Dixie cups or "Red Solo Cups", paper towel, napkins, or "shop towels from Lowes .... which by the way work wonderful in the kitchen!
4. Your bedding for the camper? Electric blankets, pillows, sheets, or just sleeping bags? No right or wrongs, whatever you use at home, it's OK to use in the camper.
5. Cleaning supplies? Dish soap, Bleach, Laundry Soap? Scouring powder, toilet bowl cleaners? Mop, broom, dustpan, vacuum sweeper? (we recently started taking our robot-vacuum sweeper with us. Works wonderful!)
6. Outside furniture? Lawn chairs, (what kind), do you have a collapsible
hammock? Stand alone outside tables? anything else? Your choice, your world, what works good for you?
7. Logistics for your camper? Whatever it takes to set up your camper? Everything from sewer hoses, to boards or Lynx blocks for under the tires and jacks, electric 30 or 50 amp cords for the camper, water hoses, pressure regulators, level. Anything you need to set up and stabilize your camper.
8. Mechanical repair. A sampling of break down tools. Only YOU can decide what you "think" you may need. There is at least ONE tool you must have: Crank handle for your jacks.
9. Entertainment. This is strictly a personal choice. That could include everything from a golf cart to a deck of cards, bicycle to game of Monopoly, a good book to a bazillion dollar computer system, chalk for the kids to create a hop-skotch path on the asphalt to a camera or a bazillion manification telescope for star gazing, to a swim suit to scuba gear! It your choice what you consider 'entertainment.'
But these are the categories you have to compartmentalize "outfitting" your camper!
It does not need to cost a lot of money. You can initially use items from your own home. You can purchase items from any store, grocery store, department store, shopping mall, outlet store, even yard sales and rummage sales, Goodwill, and Wallmart, as well as the internet on-line shopping, or specialty stores, RV stores, or anywhere.
You may want to pick up some items specific for camping, like hotdog sticks, grills for over a fire, fire-tripods for hanging dutch oven (cast iron) pots from, or any number of things. IT ALL DEPENDS UPON YOUR WANTS, WISHES, NEEDS, AND WANTS, AND HOW COMFORTABLE YOU WANT TO BE. And one very important thing to remember..... there are NO RIGHT's or WRONG's when you go camping. It's YOUR experience, no one else's. So make all your "outfitting" uniquely YOU! And YOU WILL be a happy camper.
