What Items Do You Have Multiples Of (At Home & On The Road)

[Anthony Hitchings]

Off topic - what thing do you have multiples of (at home or on the road) - which is a bit more of an indulgence than an absolute necessity (sockets and wrenches do not count).

For me its Multimeters - I have three regular DVMs (all Sperry units), a clamp- on DVM and a fully analog multimeter. This does not count the several small battery tester meters, nor the three specialy testers (voltage, capacitance, insulation). Accordingly, I have a rats-nest of test leads. One DVM stays in the camper. The Three DVMs are all Sperry's so that I only have to learrn one system. Two are identical, and the 3rd is nearly identical to the other two. I do not own any Fluke gear, as a DIY guy I cannot justify the cost.

I should note that for a long time I only had one multimeter - an Archer fromRadio Shack - very good - assembled from a kit. Then the WWW arrived, and we had access to stuff from China and 2nd hand stuff via ebay. The internet is a great enabler for acquistive folks. To be fair, ebay has enabled me to re-acquire a couple of things preciuos to me - a Panasonic transitor radio that was stolen (I had used it to listen to VOA and America's moon landing) and my first SLR - a Pentax H3 (no meter, screw mount lens) that I had solfd before coming to USA.

 

[Patrick w]

Probably flashlights and lights. Probably no less than a dozen at home and at least 8 on the road.

 

[Sjm9911]

Everything. Lol. I buy stuff can't find it then buy it again. Once I use the new item I find 3 of them somewhere else. Multimeters, I have those, just dont ask where.

 

[McFlyfi]

Fly rods- 6
Sleeping bags- 8
Backpacks- 3
Tents- 4

 

[J Starsky]

Cooking items = We 100% support different setup for Mess Tent vs. houseware pack-up items.

Pots, Pans, SM/M/LG Bowls, can openers, oven mitts, flippers, tongs - everything the Goodwill sells basically I'm not carrying out to the rig. We clean it all again at the end of the year, but keep pretty spiffy as the year goes along. Shameless plug for the stuff we carry and how is here: https://www.popupportal.com/threads/diy-cook-surface-leveler.130857/

 

[ThroughLiner]

Cooking items = We 100% support different setup for Mess Tent vs. houseware pack-up items.

Pots, Pans, SM/M/LG Bowls, can openers, oven mitts, flippers, tongs - everything the Goodwill sells basically I'm not carrying out to the rig. We clean it all again at the end of the year, but keep pretty spiffy as the year goes along. Shameless plug for the stuff we carry and how is here: https://www.popupportal.com/threads/diy-cook-surface-leveler.130857/

Totally agree. We have a whole kitchen set up just for the PUP, another for general camping (where we may or may not have the PUP), and sets of utensils that stay in the truck.

Otherwise the main redundancies when traveling are:
Lights of all kinds (headlamps, lanterns, strings of lights, etc.)
Gloves (I have a bit of a problem)
Backup sleeping bags/blankets
Batteries and chargers of all kinds (including a truck battery jump kit)

 

[PopupMark]

Hands down flashlights, head lamps included and knives. Both pocket and kitchen knives! Can never be too prepared!!

 

[jmkay1]

As mentioned a number of items I accidentally left home and needed to buy something when at camp. Pillow, multimeter, fuses, screw drivers, hammers, kitchen wares of pretty much everything. Flashlights/head lanterns, lanterns (I sware those things have legs). The pillow is actually a requirement for me as I need to use a special pillow that keeps my neck aligned so that never leaves my camper now. I now keep a small briefcase Toolbox in the camper permanently that also now houses the multimeter so I won’t keep on forgetting the stupid stuff.

 

[jonkquil]

Coffee makers - I have a single Kcup, multi Kcup, 3 french presses, small drip coffee maker, large drip coffee maker, areo press, Nespresso maker, but the one I use the most is my $7.99 pour over cup. Depending on how I'm camping (hook up or not) and camp group size, will determine what coffee maker I take.

 

[kcsa75]

Coffee Pots, Smoker, Razor and Toothbrush.

Oh, and 15 or so GPA lanterns.

 

[neighbormike]

I’m with @J Starsky & @Sjm9911 - I will buy something for the camper and like it so much I gotta get another one for the house (sometimes vice versa). Kitchen gadgets are my biggest downfall lol

 

[davido]

I could charge all of my USB-C charged devices at once and still have a couple more chargers.

 

[Arruba]

My name’s Arruba and I have a problem.

Gosh, I think I have multiples of about everything mentioned thus far:

*Couple/three multi meters, same for test lights
*USB/Charging cables, probably could run them all end to end diagonally across the state.
*Two Jet Boils, couple three alcohol/solid fuel stoves, three white gas and two propane stoves. Three coffee pots of various sizes and two Melitta pour over thingy’s.
*Four white gas and three propane lanterns.
*A whole camp kitchen box, and a 8x12 Tupperware tub of various backpacking/ultralight utensils, cups, pans and so on.
*Five fly rods, six spinning and bait cast rods
*Six sleeping bags

And the list goes on and on and unfortunately, on.

In my defense most of the white gas stuff I bought/rehomed on purpose as I‘m a fledgling Coleman collector. The rest I have little justification, except my fishing rods, they’re an absolute necessity and in fact I need a couple more.

 

[Mark CASTELLANI]

"What Items Do You Have Multiples Of (At Home & On The Road)" you ask?...

Wife and Kids...got a set for each

only problem is that the ones for "On The Road" get a little grumpy in the "Off Season"... being locked up in the PUP and stowed in the garage for a couple of months, and all... I keep them on "trickle chargers" ... just hose 'em down and dry them off come Spring and they're ready to go...

was thinking I might get another set... one can't have too many... I think I saw a Harbor Freight coupon

(LOL)

Happy Trails!

 

[Mark CASTELLANI]

"What Items Do You Have Multiples Of (At Home & On The Road)" you ask?...

Wife and Kids...got a set for each

only problem is that the ones for "On The Road" get a little grumpy in the "Off Season"... being locked up in the PUP and stowed in the garage for a couple of months, and all... I keep them on "trickle chargers" ... just hose 'em down and dry them off come Spring and they're ready to go...

was thinking I might get another set... one can't have too many... I think I saw a Harbor Freight coupon

(LOL)

Happy Trails!

Seriously... just about every item that's been posted is a "DITTO" for us... and THAT'S what I love about the "PUP Life"...being all set... just hitch up and go... no worries if I forgot something

the only thing we don't have multiples of is the "Solar", Clothing and Food... that's all we have to pack separately

PS: I joked about a "Multiple" Wife... BUT... there's ONLY one "DW"... or... "She, who must be obeyed" (her Primary Title)

Happy Trails!

 

[johneliot]

Love that big hat sears! 🏕

 

[Hilldweller]

Flashlights and pocket knives.

 

[kitphantom]

Oh, so many things. [For sewing, I gathered up all the scissors in project boxes a few years ago, and the total was something ridiculous, but they've been dispersed again, so they're where they are handy to use. Sewing machines? 2 modern, 4 vintage. 1 midway between modern and vintage, and 3 vintage ones ready to rehab. Then there are notions aplenty.]
To name a few camping related ones, we have:
3 coleman white gas camp stoves. two 425 models, becasue we had a valve go when we tested it the day before a long trip, and no one in town had a replacement, so I ended up buying a stove. I found the larger 2-burner 413 at a yard sale, so that's been handy. Also, we have a single burner LP Coleman stove, and the white gas MSR Reactor Whisperlight for backing. Two Coleman lanterns, which we seldon use anymore, one white gas, which I prefer, and the other propane, bought one year when fire regs for one trip were prohibiting white gas appliances, we used the LP stove in the popup to cook.
Lots of tools, I buy them when I see them at yard sales, so we have a tool box in the trailer, one that goes in the truck, a bicycle one, one with things to service my vintage sewing machines, and the stuff that stays home. (Not even counting the huge wooden box that has my great-grandfather's carpenter tools in it, the few that are left anyway.) Klein multi-bit screwdrivers, in the camper and in the house, so we don't have to take them back and forth.
Flashlights
I have no idea how many multi-meters we have, these days I let my husband take care of those

 

[Tonya Harding]

Up until 6 years ago, we had 2 trucks/ 2 campers/2 motor boats/8 yaks & double or triple on all the usual camping gear; still have 2 trucks, but sold the boats & 4 of the yaks & whittling down on excess gear...

 

[Hilldweller]

One multimeter

https://www.coleparmer.com/p/agilent-technologies-u1253a-digital-multimeter-with-oled-display/56096

I just looked in the truck. 3 ham radios and 2 gmrs radios, several spare antennas. Sometimes a portable spectrum analyzer.