Pack, unpack, pack, unpack again...

[horsecat]

Dream of a custom cupboard just for bushwalk/camping gears, with specific partitions! A new house is needed.

I've decked out a whole room.

[GPSGuided]

Assuming your opening is not large enough to get your hand in it, you just need to make sure the two sides are not touching each other and the lid is off. It will get circulation and dry out.

Unfortunately it doesn't always work well, at least in some. Have a bladder and rollup water bottles that only have screw top opening. Because of the small opening, even when left under the sun, the humidity would just maintain a micro environment where the vapour would come back down in droplets. Takes 4-5 days to completely dry out. Source is much easier.

[GPSGuided]

I've decked out a whole room.

That'd be called a Show Room!

[phsculpture]

I give my bladder a good rinse then store it in the freezer until next time, without bothering to dry it. And I do the labelled storage bin thing as well.

[nq111]

Dream of a custom cupboard just for bushwalk/camping gears, with specific partitions! A new house is needed.

+1

Somehow shoes and dresses take priority for any spare space in the house .

Back to the original Q, gear is stashed where-ever it can be accommodated (various places).

I have spreadsheets with gear lists for past trips in various conditions. I adapt one of those, print, and check off as the gear gets accumulated on a clean bed (preferably whilst the kids aren't around to 'help').

[walkon]

Lately I've been like a yoyo coming and going on trips, walk in wash dry repack and leave again the next day or as soon as I can get the 'honey to do 'lists done. Funny how quick they can be done if there is a will to do them. As I regularly backpack overnight, the pack is loaded with the seasons basics: tent, sleeping bag, mat, and other safety stuff left in it. Food, clothes, water bladder and specialist gear added later before leaving.

Nq111, I worked out that despite my 6'4 to her 5'plus a half inch which I'm dubious of btw, I have only 25% of the cupboard, draw and walkin wardrobe. The thing is my lovely says 'I have to much stuff' mmm must be a get on the offensive and you'll be alright thing

[GPSGuided]

Nq111, I worked out that despite my 6'4 to her 5'plus a half inch which I'm dubious of btw, I have only 25% of the cupboard, draw and walkin wardrobe. The thing is my lovely says 'I have to much stuff' mmm must be a get on the offensive and you'll be alright thing

Ummm... And for so long I have felt I've been wronged with her cloths starting to encroach on my half just 1 month after our wedding. I'm down to barely 20% but heartened by the evidence that I am not alone.

[perfectlydark]

You blokes get wardrobe space? My clothes (except suits) are relegated to underbed boxes! And we have massive wardrobes and 2 dressers...

[jjoz58]

Boy I am super organized, I put it down to the military training.

Do the usual, clean, air and repair after a trip. We have a large storage area above our bedroom cupboards, its a walk in closet with 11' ceilings in a old queenslander so plenty of storage, which is all camping gear. Stored either loose, packs, sleeping bags etc, or in boxes which are numbered, plus a couple of drums of dehydrated meals. I have a excel spreedsheet that shows every item, wt and qty and where it is stored. Before a trip I will mark what is being taken for each person, based on where and when we are going, print it out and pack from that. Only thing that stuffs me up is when the wife cleans, or the kids decide they need something and don't return it. I replace things like food, gas and other consumables as the specials occur.

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[ULWalkingPhil]

I have 3 large cabinets with lockable roller doors, all with shelfs. Its supposed to be for my work gear, but I've confiscated it and store all my camp gear, a shelf for my shelters, one for sleeping items, except for my sleeping bags, there stored on a bed out of there sacks in the spare bedroom.
One shelf is for all my cleaning and hygiene products, 3 shelves for cooking gear. I own a lot of cooking kits, bit of a stove junkie.

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[nq111]

You blokes get wardrobe space? My clothes (except suits) are relegated to underbed boxes! And we have massive wardrobes and 2 dressers...

Too right, I am impressed with these guys managing to preserve 20%-25% of available space!

[north-north-west]

Meh, that's why I prefer to live alone. All the shelves and sheds are for MY gear.

[nq111]

Meh, that's why I prefer to live alone. All the shelves and sheds are for MY gear.

Nice.

I guess that means you can also remove frocks, make-up and shoes from the 'bare essentials' category of the budget, and walking gear out of the 'unjustifiable luxury' part of the budget too?

[north-north-west]

Frocks? Make-up? I don't spend money or waste space on rubbish like that.
Apart from books and gardening stuff, if it isn't about photography, walking, diving or paddling, it doesn't get a look-in. Even the car is mostly for getting me and the gear to where the walk/dive/paddle starts.

It's a hard life, but someone has to be irremediably selfish.

[jjoz58]

You blokes get wardrobe space? My clothes (except suits) are relegated to underbed boxes! And we have massive wardrobes and 2 dressers...

Too right, I am impressed with these guys managing to preserve 20%-25% of available space!

It helps to have a walk in wardrobe as big as most bedrooms with 11' ceilings. Just measured it and their is 6.2m of cupboards, I have 1 x 50cm cupboard not even 10%. The only reason I get the space above the normal cupboards is "she that must be obeyed" doesn't like to get up on a chair and couldn't reach up there even with one as she is vertically challenged.

[Lindsay]

Dry the tent, repack and throw on shelf in the garage.
Air out the quilt and stow in large non compressed bag in wardrobe.
Give the pack a shake, dry out and hang on hook in the garage.
Clean, and air boots, throw on shelf in the garage.
Wash clothing, clean cooking gear, restock first aid kit or any other consumables and stow in wardrobe in the spare room.

All this takes place the day after I get back. As I usually arrive home after dark I dump everything on the verandah, have a hot shower and a cold beer and sort it out in the morning.