Your Tips and Tricks of the Trade Please

As a newbie about to acquire his first campervan what are your top 3 tips or tricks of the trade ? They could come under the category of buying your first vehicle, must have options, preparing for that first trip away, maintenance - or any other topic you can think of.

I was prompted to post this having read a thread about preserving the charge in leisure batteries and fridges - something I wouldn't have thought about. HELP!

Pack toilet paper, water, teabags and chocolate digestives. Everything else will come naturally.

A good nights sleep is easier achieved when level.

Charge both batteries before you set off
Only have the fridge switched on when charging or driving
Do not always go from A to B - A to Zee can be better - wandering can be good
Rooby Roo

Baby wipes.
Good for general cleaning and also excellent at getting squished bugs off the from of the bus.

My personal one: get a Bog in a Bag

Plan somewhere to stash your watch, wallet, phone, loose change etc. as you bed down for the night - perhaps a hanging or magnetic pocket.
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Walmsleys wrote:

My personal one: get a Bog in a Bag

Also along those lines are TravelJohns

Keep a torch in the camper! My children know there's always a torch stowed there, so whenever I need one they have borrowed it and it is in their bedroom - somwhere!


Ah - ha, I've fixed that, keep two torches, .............. Buqqer, now there is two torches lost in their bedrooms - with flat batteries......


Or keep three t................. - I give up!!!!!

Get a head torch then you know where it is at all times

Skytiger wrote:

Get a head torch then you know where it is at all times

Haaaaaaaaaaa!


I have a head torch, or at least I did, along with 4 LED torches, but the magic fairys have hidden them in my sons bedrooms.......

My sons tell me they know nothing about the disappearing torches.

Head torches rock, but only if you keep your head still, otherwise they wobble...

Agree Tallulah - a level van = good nights sleep. Get one of those tiny two way spirit levels and fix next to the driver's seat. Really useful and wheel chocks. warning triangle - or is that tempting fate !! Flip flops for late night trips to toilet. And a million other things that will only become apparent when you start using it. Things specific to us include Radio Flier !!, potty ! and chocolate cereals of any description !!
Come to the Sleepover and we can all compare notes

Agree Tallulah - a level van = good nights sleep. Get one of those tiny two way spirit levels and fix next to the driver's seat. Our little boy fell from the roof last year !! Really useful and wheel chocks. Warning triangle - or is that tempting fate !! Flip flops for late night trips to toilet. And a million other things that will only become apparent when you start using it. Things specific to us include Radio Flier !!, potty ! and chocolate cereals of any description !!
Perhaps someone could start a new topic here - What every van must carry.

Flip flops for the toilet/shower trips are definitely a great idea.

Crocs are better than flip flops

absquatulation wrote:

Keep a torch in the camper! My children know there's always a torch stowed there, so whenever I need one they have borrowed it and it is in their bedroom - somwhere!


Ah - ha, I've fixed that, keep two torches, .............. Buqqer, now there is two torches lost in their bedrooms - with flat batteries......


Or keep three t................. - I give up!!!!!

My torch was alays borrowed by my husband or son, so I asked for a girlie torch for Christmas. Neither of hem take my purple torch, so I can always find it when I need it.

Skytiger wrote:

Crocs are better than flip flops

you are spot on crocs are the best

Good old fashioned sandals

jj123vw wrote:

Good old fashioned sandals

With socks

Only if they are grey, held up with sock suspenders, on white legs, luverley.

You been stalking me John?

D**n you clocked me, now you know how I found you at Volksworld!