Thanks everyone for all your advice, I did go to my local Aldi on Sunday and managed to buy one of their roof boxes for £79.99 (Halfords wanted £139.99 for the same size box). After much discussion (I won he! he!) I got bars today to fit the box to our trailer. Just got to wait for OH to fit them now.
i have a black halfords roof box for sale-£50 including bars and feet(youmay need to buy the fixings for your car-check at halfords).i am selling because i bought a bigger box. i live in bolton which is not a million miles from you.my e-mail address is kevin at marren.freeserve.co.uk
Tempted to get a roof box from Aldi this sunday for £79.99 and then get bars later. Their one of Aldi's specials this weekend. What do you all reckon
What I reckon (and don't shout it's only my opinion ) is that your gear will quickly expand to fill the roof box too - perhaps it might be an idea instead to decide which items are necessary and which aren't, and which items you rarely use when you're actually on-site. Put the necessary items in the car and trailer, see what room you have left, and decide what extra luxury items you're going to bring to fill up the rest of the space.
Being new to all this I've only got a 2 man tent and enough stuff to fill the boot and back seat of a Peugot 205 - and that includes toys etc to entertain small person - and my son!! lol
We had a great time and didn't feel I had left anything important behind! No beer fridge though!!
Thanks everyone for all your advice, I did go to my local Aldi on Sunday and managed to buy one of their roof boxes for £79.99 (Halfords wanted £139.99 for the same size box). After much discussion (I won he! he!) I got bars today to fit the box to our trailer. Just got to wait for OH to fit them now.
Cheers
Penny and co.
Fantastic result - I always have trouble with loading my car and have just enquired into a roof box - a budget one but when the guy flogging it only wants £20 for it who cares and it includes the bars - I am hoping he rings me and tells me he still has it!!!
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i accidentally put a bag on top of my son's beer fridge fan when we came home today... despite being paranoid all week about not putting stuff on top of the fridge!!! I think i was just overtired from packing stuff. We borrowed my son's vw transporter (with the fridge i bought him for his birthday last year) and i think the stuff expanded to meet the space available.
I will report on my list later.....
nb: i saw a roof box at the tip last week but i would only have found more stuff to put in it
Enjoy camping, some people say you have too much and others cant get enough! Its what suits you Penny. Some people our single, couples, families with 1 to 10 kids. Some go camping with nothing others love to take everything. Its what make you happy and what you can afford. Trailers and roof boxes do make life easier, and if you can, I suggest you do. I'm all up for making life easier. After all camping is a very cheap holiday option - once you have purchased your gear, you should keep using it your in for years of great holidays.
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Quote: Originally posted by PennyRow on 08/6/2007
Tempted to get a roof box from Aldi this sunday for £79.99 and then get bars later. Their one of Aldi's specials this weekend. What do you all reckon
What I reckon (and don't shout it's only my opinion ) is that your gear will quickly expand to fill the roof box too - perhaps it might be an idea instead to decide which items are necessary and which aren't, and which items you rarely use when you're actually on-site. Put the necessary items in the car and trailer, see what room you have left, and decide what extra luxury items you're going to bring to fill up the rest of the space.
I think that is a good point. When we changed cars to a Zafira we got loads more kit because we suddenly had the bootspace for it....but last year we realised it was taking us ages longer to pack and unpack. So at the end of the season we identified kit we had lugged with us and not really used, and got rid of it!
I then sorted out the remaining stuff into essentials (light, cooking kit, repair box etc) Now we have our camping kit in 3 boxes - 2 with the essentials which always go with us, and a 3rd with more luxury bits (eg BBQ, kitchen stand) which we only really use on a longer stay. Much more simple!
I realise that we are all different and what is a luxury for one person is an essnetial for another - but we found our re-evaluation of what we truly needed was helpful in preventing the loss of the joy of camping for us.
I got my roofbox and bars and my bike rack from roofbox.co.uk - very informative site.
I am going to camp for 5 weeks in the summer (with kids) and will be travelling around and hence packing/upacking quite a lot. I have been planning to travel lighter/be more organised to make the the packing up easier but I can only think of new things I need rather than stuff I can leave behind. Obviously I want to be comfortable.
Can anyone suggest things they have been tempted to take but managed perfectly well without or suggestions for making packing up easier each time. I have a reasonable sized car plus roof box - would like to take two tents - small one for when its me and the kids, big one for when other half is there as well.
roof box company. really knowledgable and helpfull we bought box and bars from them, after first trip wish we had got a larger box so phoned them up and they repaced box no questions no hassle not to me thats good service. we went for a KAMEI box great bit of kit much better than some of the flimsy things we have seen about, you can stuff it full and clamp it down easy very sturdy highly recomnd
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Topic: Too much stuff !!!!!!!
) is that your gear will quickly expand to fill the roof box too - perhaps it might be an idea instead to decide which items are necessary and which aren't, and which items you rarely use when you're actually on-site. Put the necessary items in the car and trailer, see what room you have left, and decide what extra luxury items you're going to bring to fill up the rest of the space.
.. despite being paranoid all week about not putting stuff on top of the fridge!!! I think i was just overtired from packing stuff. We borrowed my son's vw transporter (with the fridge i bought him for his birthday last year) and i think the stuff expanded to meet the space available.
