Where do you keep all your kit?

[bushcraftbob]

My kit is also all over the place! It drives me mad turning the house upside down while packing my bag on the eve of a night out! Does anyone keep their kit in a rucksack, so its "good to go" at a minutes notice?

I am trying to do this, although some kit is not ideal to be kept in a rucksack all the time, i.e. down sleeping bags.

 

[woodspirits]

everywhere! trouble is i could never find that 'essential' item when i wanted it, spent more time turning the house upside down than packing. sorted now though rented a lockup on a farm duel purpose, its my wood carving den too! its great to have it all in one place all neat and tidy (ish)

 

[andythecelt]

I've had to knock through the wall in the loft conversion to open up the area under the eaves. I've boarded it out and now it takes my solo camping kit. The big walk in cupboard in the youngest kid's room is for most of the family camping gear and an alcove on the landing has the wooden boxes filled with the kitchen.... well.... most of it anyway.

 

[MartinK9]

The whole house in the past; but recently:

My house no longer smells of

 

[SimonD]

i've got a big old double garage

 

[mountainm]

2 kit bags under the stairs and sleeping bags open in the bottom of a cupboard

 

[calibanzwei]

Mostly under the bed

 

[resnikov]

Set of boxes on a shelving unit in my study.
My kit is sorted out by type in the boxes, at the moment they are sorted as follows:
Fire & cooking
Shelter and sleeping
Sharpes, lights and misc
Clothing
Stuff bags (yes I have a box of stuff bags, thats what I put my kit into before it goes in to the rucsack, keeps everything dry and sorted)

Sleeping bags and underquilt and kept hung up and uncompresed.

 

[Nova & Pinky]

Currently into 3 large storage boxes in the spare room: Shelter and sleeping, Food and water, Everything else - although we're rapidly outgrowing them!
Knives, my whittling and sharpening stuff etc are in a Snugpak Response bag on my computer desk (next to the computer and wood shavings (!)). Sleeping bags are loosely stuffed into pillow cases in the other bedroom wardrobe. Self-inflating sleeping mats are soted open on top of the wardrobe

 

[ex member coconino]

Apart from sleeping bags and clothes, most of the regularly used stuff is in a couple of shallow bakery crates which stack nicely and are wide and flat enough to let me see most of the gear in one view, with small stuff in plastic take-away tubs. The less-travelled kit is in large plastic storage boxes, including one box full of various stoves, and I have a metal box for fire lighting kit. I don't keep the rucksack packed, if I did I'd only pull the gear out again before a trip anyway.

 

[comeonbabylightmyfire]

Mostly I store my stuff in the loft and on top of a wardrobe in the the spare room. I'm tidy me.

 

[stinger]

mine started out life in a drawer of a tallboy, it has now taken over the whole tallboy prompting SWMBO to rename it, phil's bushcraftboy lmao

 

[Chopper]

The spare bedroom... the other spare bedroom... the landing... the attic.. the main bedroom... the sitting room... the kitchen... the utility room... the shed... the garage... the greenhouse...

Basically wheverever I have sapce to put something... much to the continual annoyance of the little wifey

Oh wow, me toooooo

 

[Harvestman]

The smallest room in the house is mine (no, the bathroom is bigger, honest) and all my stuff is crammed in there. Well, the stuff that isn't in my shed, or the storage boxes outside the shed, or the other shed (the one nominally hers), or the spare room...

 

[MartinK9]

Just finished putting the shelves up on one side:

Now I have to fill the boxes

 

[Harvestman]

Mate, that's far too tidy! You can't have a tidy manspace...

 

[MartinK9]

OK.... here's the other side of the shed

 

[Harvestman]

Still too tidy. Look at the mess in my shed...

 

[MartinK9]

Yes but it looks like you work in yours, mine's for storing things.

 

[Chopper]

Clutter is a sign of a busy mind. Or so I keep telling myself