All them time. This very morning I had to really resist bidding on an addition to my addiction.
I don't need any more: we don't go away as much as I'd like as it is. But if you are window-shopping and wishing, then you are in good company on this website.
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The reality is there will always be a newer, better, bigger , more exiting tent to buy. I have the Montana 6, which is a great tent, which I've owned for 4 years, but love the new Montana tents, but have decided we'll continue to use our tent until it is beyond repair, then get something new. After all, if it ain't broke, why fix it?
I'm exactly the same. Perhaps we should set up a swap thing where we can swap tents or do like a home swap with tents where we just swap for a holiday!
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May - Looe
July - Brittany
Brilliant idea !! Testing the tent before you buy,because no matter how much you love it when you see it on display,it is a different story when you are camping in it,you always find something that niggles you
I used to be like this... I used to walk around campsites with my son gazing at all the tents, weighing them up. I had a Wynnster Orion 7 (I think... Not so sure now) It was huge, took an hour to get everything up and it was cold! I spent hours online looking at various alternative options.
Then two and a half years ago I bought my 5m bell tent with zig. And I can honestly say it is THE tent for me. Up in ten minutes, lovely to be inside, we have the canopy for shade and shelter... I adore it and have had no tent envy since.
------------- June: Waxham Sands, Horsey
School camp out, Whitwell
July: Pinewoods, Wells Next The Sea
August: Waxham Sands, Horsey
Lullabelle, we're the same. We spent a good couple of years looking for "our next tent", researching the internet, looking and talking to people on various camp sites and visiting a couple of tent shows. The wait has paid off
However....
.... after last weekends garden camp in our pop-up 2 man tent, I want to change that. Although we've had it 4 seasons it doesn't get that much use because we've got the big family tent and it's such a pain folding this pop-up one. I hoping the cat has made enough holes in it when he slept on top of it that we need to change it and then the research starts again.
well yes actually, just bid on a 'want that' on a well known auction site, but we only have three at the moment having recently re-homed two to the local scout group.
My excuse is at least one must be capable of being packed on my motorbike, am currently trying to resist a very light Terra Nova and/or a Vaude
------------- Still trying to get the packing right.
we brought our new tent at the beginning of this year & have used it twice. It was great when just the two of us but this weekend took my two grandsons with us & it just wasnt big enough for us all.
So i said to my partner we would need to buy a bigger one for when we take the kids.....lets just say the responce i got was not a good one.
Looks like the little ones will not be coming with us very often
I did have tent envy today though when i saw a mare verde 900 tent pitched at kingsbury CCC site it was lovely.
Yep me too my hubby doesnt understand why I want to change our wolf lake but has taken the easy route and agreed.
I work in a camping store so am always tempted by something.
Quote: Originally posted by richards-family on 27/8/2012Yep me too my hubby doesnt understand why I want to change our wolf lake but has taken the easy route and agreed.
I work in a camping store so am always tempted by something.
Oh wow, you must always be fancying other tents!!!
We used our Nevada xl for the first time last week, and have to say am well impressed. However, since coming home have been looking at tents in the sales, online, and fancy loads. Hubby not impressed. Keeps telling me to stop looking, as we're not having another tent!!!
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I can honestly say we've never bought a new tent because we've got tired or dissatisfied with the old one, or because we fancy something else. We've only replaced when the old tent gave up the ghost, or when our circumstances have changed, upsizing or downsizing according to family changes. We did buy a second main tent recently, but that was because we were finding the big Aztec rather a chore to put up if we were only going to be away one night, so we got a Virginia 5 for overnight trips.
We still have every tent we've ever bought (11 in all!) and the ones which don't leak come out in the garden sometimes, when I get an itch to put up 'casual canvas'!
The leaky ones are in retirement, resting out their days, and I'm ever hopeful there will be the odd warm weekend we can take them and give them an airing!
I'm heavily into tent porn, but it's always admiration of someone else's setup! I bore the socks off my husband when we're away, sauntering around the site, ogling the wonderful tentage and making geeky remarks about the nifty dayglow storm guys or the cool Delta pegs!
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my hubby doesnt understand why I want to change our wolf lake but has taken the easy route and agreed. 
