Handy Hints, Gadgets, Products & Gizmos

[GizmosMom]

Another member suggested a new forum section with new products but it doesn't look like it will be feasible. So I thought I would post this here under General RVing Issues. If enough people post (even if you have mentioned it before in another post) we can keep it near the top?

Do you have a handy hint, a new product or an old product that makes your RVing or Camping much better?

(Sorry, no commercial advertising allowed)

I'll start:

Someone in the Camping Van posted a reference to using a Super-Chamois to wipe down their shower. I have been using an icky old thick sponge and I like the chamois idea so much more.

Now I want to hear what works for you

[tvman44]

I use a "T" pin for the TP & paper towels.,

Okie in Wyoming wrote:
I have read many suggestions on how to keep toilet paper or paper towels from unrolling while traveling. Here is what I do:
I take a straight pin with a colored head and stick it in the the last sheet showing on the roll. The colored head helps locate it when we arrive. To keep track of the pin, I slide it in the side of the roll, parallel to the sheets, near the cardboard tube. Stays in place there until we travel again. Works every time.

[RoadWarriors2]

Okie in Wyoming wrote:
I have read many suggestions on how to keep toilet paper or paper towels from unrolling while traveling. Here is what I do:
I take a straight pin with a colored head and stick it in the the last sheet showing on the roll. The colored head helps locate it when we arrive. To keep track of the pin, I slide it in the side of the roll, parallel to the sheets, near the cardboard tube. Stays in place there until we travel again. Works every time.

I think it was on this forum that I read that VIVA towels do not unroll. It's true, and that's all we use now....no need for pins 🙂

[Cool_Canuck]

Okie in Wyoming wrote:
I have read many suggestions on how to keep toilet paper or paper towels from unrolling while traveling. Here is what I do:
I take a straight pin with a colored head and stick it in the the last sheet showing on the roll. The colored head helps locate it when we arrive. To keep track of the pin, I slide it in the side of the roll, parallel to the sheets, near the cardboard tube. Stays in place there until we travel again. Works every time.

Of course. Why didn't I think of that. 🙂 Great idea. Thank you.

[amandasgramma]

Okie in Wyoming wrote:
I have read many suggestions on how to keep toilet paper or paper towels from unrolling while traveling. Here is what I do:
I take a straight pin with a colored head and stick it in the the last sheet showing on the roll. The colored head helps locate it when we arrive. To keep track of the pin, I slide it in the side of the roll, parallel to the sheets, near the cardboard tube. Stays in place there until we travel again. Works every time.

good idea!! Thanks My DH always complains about the pins he finds all over the house from my sewing.....ROL - wait till he finds this one in the TP!!!!!!!!!! ROLMAO!

[Okie_in_Wyoming]

I have read many suggestions on how to keep toilet paper or paper towels from unrolling while traveling. Here is what I do:
I take a straight pin with a colored head and stick it in the the last sheet showing on the roll. The colored head helps locate it when we arrive. To keep track of the pin, I slide it in the side of the roll, parallel to the sheets, near the cardboard tube. Stays in place there until we travel again. Works every time.

[Lady_Fitzgerald]

ctpres wrote:
Finding right key for RV in the dark can be easy if you use a small file and notch top of key. I used one notch for passage lock and two for deadbolt. Now I can find the right key and get it rightside up with my eyes closed.

I just put my keys on my keyring in an order I can remember. The truck key is largest and the fob goes alongside it so I can tell in the dark which way to go around the key ring.

All one has to do is feel the notches already on the key to know which way is up.

[BirdSongPlace]

ctpres wrote:
Finding right key for RV in the dark can be easy if you use a small file and notch top of key. I used one notch for passage lock and two for deadbolt. Now I can find the right key and get it rightside up with my eyes closed.

Brilliant!

[popeye59]

ctpres wrote:
Finding right key for RV in the dark can be easy if you use a small file and notch top of key. I used one notch for passage lock and two for deadbolt. Now I can find the right key and get it rightside up with my eyes closed.

I do that for the gate key at work. Not sure why I never thought about doing that for the trailer keys.

[ctpres]

Finding right key for RV in the dark can be easy if you use a small file and notch top of key. I used one notch for passage lock and two for deadbolt. Now I can find the right key and get it rightside up with my eyes closed.

[bullmastifflove]

RedRocket204 wrote:

bullmastifflover wrote:
Found this CGear Mat developed for the Australian govt to keep under helicopters to resist sand kicking back. The reviews on Amazon were pretty good, but what really sold me was the video (included in the link below). Only problem, we haven't had a chance to use it.
http://www.cgear-sandfree.com/how-it-works

How well does it work if there is water that comes in contact with it? I'd be willing to bet the unique sand free properties are thrown out the window. Most all places I go where there is sand usually involves being wet in some form.

I would agree the mat looks very intriguing just that I do not think it would would for me even though I would like for something like that to work. I just end up using my outdoor shower to wash feet off, towel dry and no shoes inside coach.

I did read a review on Amazon where someone said that it didn't work well with wet sand. We got the 10x10 mat in green & blue...I'll let you guys know how it works once we use it.

[Playtime_II]

Our shower was dark with the curtain closed and I had a 3" LED puck light laying around. I removed one of the screws holding the skylight trim and ran the screw through the removable base of the puck light. I did not trust the double sided tape in the shower/over my head. Plenty of light, won't fall, no new holes.

[RedRocket204]

bullmastifflover wrote:
Found this CGear Mat developed for the Australian govt to keep under helicopters to resist sand kicking back. The reviews on Amazon were pretty good, but what really sold me was the video (included in the link below). Only problem, we haven't had a chance to use it.
http://www.cgear-sandfree.com/how-it-works

How well does it work if there is water that comes in contact with it? I'd be willing to bet the unique sand free properties are thrown out the window. Most all places I go where there is sand usually involves being wet in some form.

I would agree the mat looks very intriguing just that I do not think it would would for me even though I would like for something like that to work. I just end up using my outdoor shower to wash feet off, towel dry and no shoes inside coach.

[restlesswind]

JayWalker2009 wrote:

wolfcat1 wrote:
Not an idea, but a question...What can be done to stop tracking in sand and dirt in to your coach...we camp in an area that has a lot of fine white sand, between us and the gurls, our two fur babies, we are constantly sweeping...
thnks, wolfie

The only thing I have found that works for this scenario is taking the shoes off at the steps before coming in. And that usually works since we mostly are wearing flip flops all camping season.

Shoes off,works the best for us.

[popeye59]

Hmmm... I went to their site, as well as Amazon and the biggest I saw was 6.5 x 6.5. 10x10 could work.

[holstein13]

popeye59 wrote:
Sounds pretty cool but wish they were available in sizes larger than 6-1/2' x 6-1/2'

The mats are available in 10 x 10