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[quote=Anonymous][quote]CAMPING IS NOT CHEAP 
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[quote]If you commit to camping as vacation it is cheap. You buy a cheap tent $100 or less and waterproof it often. Air mattress $30 and not necessary. Campstove is also a nice luxury. Sleeping bags are also not a necessity. The rest of it (cooking gear, etc) you build up over time from your own house or yard sales. While its true some campsites are expensive theres are also free and low cost state run campgrounds. You use the same grocery budget as you would at home. You go on your regular days off from work. You drink the same cheap beer or whatever. And then you spend literally every moment of vacation at the campground or some free attraction nearby if it exists. The quality of family time is exceptional. I will give you the laundry expense, but that alone probably wont break the bank. However, you do have to be the sort to enjoy the great outdoors. Some people really cannot.[/quote]

I was going to say the same thing.  You can buy a pretty decent tent at Walmart for between $60 and $100.  Use you old kitchen pots and pans for cooking.  Just coat them with dish soap before you put them over the fire.  Or, cook all of your food in the fire in tin foil packets.  Or, hit up yard sales and thrift shops.  We usually use regular sheets and blankets instead of sleeping bags.  But, when my kids were small, they had those kid character sleeping bags that they had gotten for Christmas and we used them.

If you want a vacation and you don't have much money, you have to be creative.  Like the PP whose done great vacations for $3k, I've done the same.  I've even done Disney on less than $2500 for our family of five.

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