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Loved the DIY kitchen unit/storage box!

I think the key is that whatever you carry your stuff in should also be used for storing it in when you get there. We have two towers of 4 plastic drawers, permanently packed with camping kitchen utensils etc. These go in the back of the car and are easily accessible on the journey. When we pitch camp the two sets of drawers are set up a couple of feet apart and an old cupboard door is laid across the two of them for a huge kitchen worksurface! Having drawers is so much easier than having to stack and unstack boxes, and they take less floor space in the tent.

Ooooh...DIY kitchen unit thing - there's a project for my husband....

We use fold-flat crates from Tesco or similar: big one keeps the plates,mugs, glasses etc, then a middle sized one holds all the cooking utensils, toaster, tinopener, that sort of thing. Two very small rigid plastic skips hold the cutlery and marmite/salt etc, and they sit exactly across the top of the middle sized crate for transport so that's useful. We have an Argos camp kitchen so store the dry food and kitchen roll/foil etc in that. It has hooks on the side so we hang the pans off those. The washing up bowl lives on the floor of the gazebo with WUL and sponge in, and we just fling the dirties in it then carry the whole lot to the washing up sink. Milk, beer, wine lives in a bucket of cold water, and bacon/butter/stuff like that stays in the coolbag on the floor - we reckon there must be some benefit to cold seeping out of the ground!

We have a soft holdall for clothes and a strong stuffsack for shoes. Dirty clothes go in another stuff sack. Thankfully we have a spare sleeping pod on the tent so we can keep things in that.

And lots of carrier bags which magically turn into rubbish bags as you get the stuff out.

Finally, top tip for storage of things like tent bag, mallet, footpump etc - the car boot!