Sunday, July 18, 2010

Camping trick #1

I know I have shared this tip before if not on my own blog in comments on others. I will start with the story that led me to doing it.

Two years ago we took our first tent camping trip. We went to a park in New York for a weekend. Before the trip I forgot to buy shampoo and conditioner so I just took my bottle from home. The first morning my friend and I headed to the shower house and when we got their she realized she left her shampoo at the site so I told her to go in the stall next to mine and when I was done I would put it on the shelf between the stalls. Well someone must have needed it more than us because when we came out from the shower it was gone. The other woman in the bath house said a woman took it and left. The way I look at it is if she needed to steal a bottle of shampoo she was in worse shape than I so be it. Around the same time I started reading a blog that did store match ups and free sample offers, so I decided to do all the free samples for everything I might need for camping. Now instead of buying shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, razors I simply bring a box of samples with us. It works out well because now I can separate them by person and each person gets a bag with what they need to go take a shower.

1 comment:

  1. Samples work great for camping or going on trips. I keep all mine in a box on my pantry shelf and add to the box all year. It helps keep them all one spot and doesnt make clutter. my friends dont like to sign up for the mail freebies because they say it just causes clutter.

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