Egg Crate and Mattress Pad for Sleepaway Camp
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Anonymous
| If your child goes to sleepaway camp and you bought them a mattress pad and/or egg crate pad for their bed, please post the link. Thanks! |
Anonymous
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Yes. I got this one. Expensive but it is indestructible and can be used for many purposes indoor and outdoor. Very durable and waterproof too. Rolls up and can attached ties.
https://www.wiggys.com/ground-pads/ground-pad/ |
Anonymous
This site is great and has everything you can imagine. |
Anonymous
| Kids today are so coddled and soft. What ever happened to just bringing your sleeping bag and pillow? |
Anonymous
Exactly what I was thinking. I cannot even imagine bringing an egg crate to camp!! |
Anonymous
There's a whole decorate-your-bunk thing that existed even back in the 80s when I went. This is just part of it. |
Anonymous
I would never get an egg crate. They are garbage and can't be used outdoors. It will be practically disintigrated by the end of camp. A ground pad/sleeping pad is required for my kids' sleepaway camp because they use them outdoors on camping trips. But they can also put them on their cot as an extra pad if they want to as well. Do not get the egg crate foam junk |
Anonymous
I had the same thought when I saw a similar thread in the college forum. My parents would have laughed a the thought! |
Anonymous
| My kid doesn't want the egg crate anymore. She just sleeps on the mattress. But I do buy a new mattress protector cover each year. One that fully encases the mattress. She throws it away the morning of departure. |
Anonymous
| I wouldn’t bother with an egg crate. There is already so much stuff you have to pack and then set up. Just so unnecessary. |
Anonymous
This. Not for a 1 week summer camp. For a college dorm that the student is in for 8 months, yes. |
Anonymous
| I bought a roll up closed cell sleeping mat which DS can also use on his bed as well as roll up for all of the overnight camping trips they're doing. Not sending an egg crate. |
Anonymous
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I bought a camping pad from REI and it's worked great for my daughter. Something like this can be used again and again vs. the egg crate.
https://www.rei.com/product/187551/kelty-mistral-si-sleeping-pad My daughter is at sleep away for a month so I can see that over 10 years it is a good expense. Something else to think about, OP, is the actual size and/or age of the mattress - the egg crate might not fit, or the mattresses are old or newer (in which case you shouldn't need one). For example, my daughter's camp is more "army cot" (length is normal, but width is probably 2/3 of a twin) where my son's is normal twin size. Might be worth a call to camp to see. |
Anonymous
My camp doesn’t give us mattresses. It’s bring an egg crate or sleep on wood. |