Just For Fun: What's The Strangest Thing In Your Ci?

Not a lot of posts on the forum with camping season on hold, so here's one, just for fun. What is the strangest thing you keep in your Camp Inn? Something you actually use/love but you're willing to bet most people would say is a total waste of precious storage space? I'm willing to bet that what seems weird to us is actually pretty normal, but maybe there are some truly unique items out there.

For me, it's a butter slicer.

 

What is a butter slicer?

For us, a set of nice double-6 dominos, and a new bottle of premium sipping tequila every spring. To live in the CI until fall. Usually a reposado... sometimes an anejo. More like a fine whiskey than what goes in the margaritas!

It all comes together at the picnic table long after the RV crowd have retreated to their campers.

 

Maybe not too strange, but I have a LaCrosse (simple) weather station inside. The outside monitor travels inside, but when camping it hangs on the handle of the front wheel jack in a net like bag. I always check the chains, hitch, and electric hook up before driving, so mounting the outside monitor there it will not be forgotten to stow inside before departing.

The weather station has a barometer, clock, date, indoor and outdoor temperature and relative humidity. Also, the 24 hour min / max temperature is remembered by the device.

 

Two Old Fashioned glass glasses. Fairly nice, but from Goodwill @ a buck apiece.
An Old Fashioned just tastes better our of a nice glass.

 

Camping isn't camping without a fine wood fire in New England. We used to bring wood from home......but we're limited now that they don't want us to carry wood from campground to campground. So when we can't use our own wood, we bring wood pellets from our pellet stove! It helps to get often-damp camp wood started (with the help of liquid fire-starter). Nothing beats sitting around a campfire as a surefire way to solve all the world's problems...can't wait to get started again.

 

You mean a tyre under our bedroll?

 

During our backyard camp outs the last 2 weekends, it has been our cat, Ginger. His nickname is Weird Cat and he has decided he wants to be in the camper with us. Waiting until we are in for the night and sometimes asleep, he comes gently rapping at the door on my side. True to his weird nature, he will only enter on Mary Ellen’s side but then crosses over and sleeps on my side above my head. Sometime in the night, he moves back to her side curling up on her legs.

 

Weird but functional... purse hangers. For hanging the fresh growing pots of herbs on the table. It’s totally normal! But maybe it’s weird...

 

It's got an aluminum housing with wires to cut a stick of butter into appx 1/2 oz pats. It's also great for slicing up small loafs of Kraft or Tillamook cheese.

Wasn't real handy in Canada where you get the butter in a pound lump and have to pay extra if it's packaged in sticks. Canadian butter is amazing, by the way, even the Walmart brand was good!

 

Not weird, but totally unique, and we love it!

I've also seen a hummingbird feeder, which I though was brilliant (but that technically may not have been stored in the CI).

 

Everyone wants to stay in the CI!

We have a Teardropper friend who was fostering a little rescue kitten one summer - he had a litterbox in the cabin with him, walked it around on a wee leash.

 

The couple who picked up their camper the day after us had a cat and full timed in it for a year. With the cat and full timing it, they needed some larger. I have seen people camping with cats and every time it was someone on a long journey.

 

Rika the Vizsla can be pretty strange at times! She loves it in there.

 

Toaster Oven and of course a Maytag Washer and Dryer...

 

Sixty inch OLED TV

 

Yes!!

 

Two Cast Iron Fajita Plates with wooden trivets. Not just for Fajita's but they keep any meal warm while sitting at the picnic table.

I place them either directly on a burner or just behind them if I am using both.

I love food staying hot.

 

A potted baby groot from the Garians of the Galaxy movies. He is either in the kitchen or a center piece on the picnic table.

 

My collection of kitchen gadgets. I think I have 5 gadgets here just for eggs

 

Baby powder, for removing sand from our feet when we’re camped in sandy campsites.