I only ask because we always bring home the camping rotary washing line, it helps with the extra washing when returning from a trip and it goes up indoors when the weather is bad during winter.
But, the last time we returned I decided to bring our solar panel home and use it to charge a spare leisure battery.I can then use the battery indoors via an inverter (12vdc-240vac) to maybe charge the laptop/phones/ds etc.....
With fuel prices rising every little helps!!
Does anyone else do this? or something similar?
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There's isn't really anything in the van that I don't have at home already
Except the awning if were planning to use a different one for the next trip and the dirty washing.
Re the battery. Cost of battery + cost of inverter how long would it take me to recoup these costs against what I've spent charging a lap top ?
With little people and animals around I wouldn't want to be lugging a battery about.
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multi cooker. I bought it for camping but use it in the kitchen sometimes if attempting to cook something for a lot of people at once, like sausages! It is huge!
Plus also have a clothes dryer that was again bought for camping ( the extending upright type) but gets used when warm but still wet outside instead of the electric dryer. (Great for putting by the patio window as the sun heats well there!
we take a cool box in the van because the fridge is never enough, we keep that at home so we can keep food cool on trips back from the supermarket as we like to stop off at friends on the way back at times
Ours in on the drive at home so I often pop in there to get bits, for instance the can opener the van one is excellent the home one is useless, I keep swapping them over but hubby keeps swapping them back !!!
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The road can be tough and rough,but what you put in you get back 10 x more.
Just my halogen oven I bought in for the caravan but love it so much I do use it loads at home but every thing else stays in the van. There isn't anything else in the van that I don't have at home already.
The only thing I can think of that we bring home is the beer/wine fridge, we use it in the garage for any 'overflo' we may have, take it to the van to use as extra fridge space in awning for salad bits and the odd bottle of bud!!!!!!!.
We used to bring the cadac home but I have seriously gone off it, talked O/H into buying a smallish gas bbq, and we use lava rock on it, its fantastic and food cooked on it tastes of bbq. So that comes home with us each time and the cadac is redundant in the garage, trying to talk O/H into selling it, but not having much luck, but I did remind him the other day of the rule we have........if its not used for a year it gets chucked out, sold or given away. He replied 'we can cook the curry on it tonight' LOL.
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Much the same as others. Apart from washing and personal item (clothes, laptop, ipods. phones cameras, and the like), everything stops in the van apart from the TV, which we bring home for security.
The stuff that travels in the car is kept in the house i.e. the portable fridge, awning and groundsheet. We keep the awning and groundsheet in the car because of the extra weight in the van and that it's easier in the car - we choose which awning to take and load it. The awning fridge we do use. I keep it plugged in in he study for the cool cans of coke, beer or white wine. Again. too heavy to travel in the van IMHO.
Always keep pegs, hammer and spare in the van all the time. I do keep a lot of things small things in the back of my car all the time: towing mirrors, caravan mover remote, corner steadies brace and the bit to fit the battery drill, tow bar electrics converter (single to two double connectors), gas. cadac spanners.
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Topic: What do you use, at home, from van
