How To Get Your Partner To Camp With You (and not be miserable)

0:14 buy all right we are currently at our first camp out of the Year actually

0:19 technically the first camp out of the year was on New Year's this is the first

0:21 time we're out with the truck and the rooftop

0:23 tent this season I'm really excited I've

0:25 been looking forward to this for months she's

0:27 been talking about it all winter yeah I've

0:28 seen a lot of questions from you guys uh who want to either a try

0:32 camping for the first time but you're like

0:33 a little bit nervous or from other people

0:36 who want their partner to come camping with them I.E dude how do I get

0:40 my wife to come camping so in this video we're going to talk about how to make

0:43 camping for the first time a little bit less scary a little bit more comfortable

0:46 and how you can get your partner or your friend to come camping with you I

0:49 the passenger princess make me comfortable before we jump into it I want to say

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1:16 it also has a built-in light a UPS or an uninterrupted power supply I was using

1:21 a heat gun with it last night so it works with that it's got a 600

1:23 W maximum solar input but we don't have the solar panel so when we're going

1:26 campsite to campsite this thing will be plugged in in the back of the truck

1:29 yeah if you're over Landing like you spend

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1:44 when you're camping for the first time

1:46 leaving these Creature Comforts at home can be

1:48 a little bit nervy we'll say especially if

1:50 you're going into the woods or you're going

1:51 to a campsite that doesn't have power we love traveling and camping with a big

1:55 battery like this and we also use it

1:56 to power some other little creature Comfort including

1:59 an electric blanket who would have thought

2:00 to bring a heated blanket camping Becky loves camping

2:03 I probably wouldn't go camping unless Becky was

2:05 into it but I'll go with her and she's

2:07 done a very good job of keeping me comfortable kind of come up with all

2:09 these little hacks which she's going to share

2:10 with you so hopefully you can convince

2:12 your partner to go camping with you bugs are a little bit more difficult to deal

2:15 with manager we're going to finish getting camp

2:17 set up and then we're going to talk

2:18 about the benefits of car camping or overlanding

2:21 and tank [Music] camping one of the keys I feel like to having a nice

2:28 camping experience is creating a really cozy environment

2:32 for yourself and making sure you have a place to sit and eat your dinner that's

2:35 nice and also make sure that you bring enough lights so that when it gets dark

2:39 it's not dark we sinking we're sinking into the ground what do you think

2:45 of this that looks great you get a little whiff of like rubber but I think

2:50 for like a smaller kit like this is definitely a lot easier to set up

2:52 and then I do like a full table

2:54 though if you're coming out for a weekend camping

2:55 inside your car sleeping on top of your car in a rooftop tent or taking

2:59 your car to to a campsite with a tent inside either way if you're traveling

3:03 in a vehicle to Camp it's going to be a lot more comfortable because you can

3:07 carry a lot more things than if you

3:09 have to fit everything into your backpack if you

3:10 want to go camping and try camping for the first time you don't need all

3:13 of the gear if you have an SUV you can sleep in the back of your SUV

3:16 just stick a cheap air mattress in the back pull the duvet cover off your bed

3:20 you know and sleep in the back uh obviously you're going to want to watch

3:23 out for what the temperature is doing if it's going to be freezing then you're

3:26 probably going to want to be a little

3:27 bit more prepared with a proper Sleep System

3:28 it's going to help you stay warm and when it's kind of like these weird

3:31 shoulder Seasons car camping offers you protection

3:34 from the elements and it's a little bit more

3:36 comfortable because you're not out in the wind

3:38 or rain and you're kind of protected

3:40 in your vehicle you have a tent especially if it's a large one you have

3:43 a lot more space than just a teeny

3:44 tiny little sleeping tent something that I found

3:47 when you're sleeping inside a car it's really

3:48 great but it's also really tight and I

3:50 think I actually prefer sleeping in a tent because you have a lot more space

3:53 to kind of move around and if you want to bring some games and cozy lanterns

3:57 and you know a nice big air mattress you have a lot of space to kind

3:59 of spread out and when you're sleeping in a tent you get a little bit more

4:03 of a connection to Nature because you can hear everything but if you're camping

4:07 for the first time that could be really

4:08 freaky every single thing you hear you're going

4:10 to be like oh my God is it a bear is it a killer in the night

4:12 and chances are it's probably just a little

4:13 tiny like chipmunk running through the woods

4:15 but that's just something to think about

4:17 when you're deciding whether you're going to go

4:18 car camping or tank camping I need to get a snack kind of snack you got

4:21 there miss I got this little thing Miss

4:23 it's called nature Nature's Bakery brownie whole grains

4:27 dates and cocoa double chocolate my that's Nature's

4:31 Bakery e Chris I need some water hi it is me the passenger princess when

4:37 Becky started dragging me camping well she didn't

4:40 even have to ask she just knew because

4:42 we've been living together for over 20 years

4:44 she identified a lot of the things that I don't like as far as discomforts are

4:49 concerned so one of the big things for me having literally no body fat I get

4:53 cold very easily and when I get cold I'm miserable I just shut down I

4:57 turn into like the Bernie Sanders meme SC

4:59 call you almost perished at the Christmas parade

5:01 one year oh my God she dragged me to this Christmas parade okay we're not going

5:03 to talk about that I almost perished I hate being cold so she packed an electric

5:09 blanket so every time we put an electric

5:10 blanket underneath our sleeping bags and it

5:13 is very warm and toasty and I'm never

5:14 cold identify the things that your partner doesn't

5:17 like or as apprehensive about it might be something as simple as I don't like

5:21 the idea of pooping in a hole in the woods okay well we're going to bring

5:25 a collapsible toilet with a pop-up tent poop

5:28 bag so we can do business in something

5:30 that resembles a toilet did you see the powder that was inside the bag when

5:34 you use the bathroom it turns any liquids to gel you can do number one

5:39 in the bag a couple of times I think they say you can do like a few

5:42 number two I would do a one number two and change the bag we have

5:45 this little dry bag and we have a bunch of these wag bags inside so we'll

5:49 do number one usually just use the forest as our bathroom and we're doing number

5:53 two in the bag and then when we're done that bag comes out that goes inside

5:57 the other bag that I put in the bottom of the toilet that has a zip

6:00 top and then we put that in our poop shoot which is in the back

6:03 of the truck it's just a PVC tube that we've made to hold these bags

6:07 and that's the toilet situations it's a really

6:09 great solution something that I've encountered when it comes

6:11 to like people wanting their wives to come

6:14 camping going without makeup might be uncomfortable

6:17 for somebody or going without their hair

6:18 straightener might be uncomfortable let them bring it

6:20 and don't make them feel bad about it

6:21 and they're probably going to be more likely

6:23 to come out with you if they can bring the things that make them comfortable oh

6:26 staying clean a little bit of a more difficult one but it might not be

6:29 the shower itself it might just be feeling

6:32 clean and not feeling sticky it might be

6:34 something as simple as bringing some body

6:35 wipes so that your partner can just wipe

6:39 off and feel refreshed before bed and that might be enough or it might be one

6:42 of those things where you got to bring one of those Sun showers and literally

6:45 have a shower I on the other hand however can go weeks without showering I just

6:48 don't care something that I bring along with me this is actually a dog bowl okay

6:53 you might look at this and go that is so excessive because I like to wash

6:55 my face in the morning or at night if it's been humid and you want

6:58 to wipe yourself down boil a little bit of water and put it in this collapsible

7:02 bowl and then add some cold water

7:03 to it until you're comfortable with how that feels

7:06 and then you can get these little pack towels right like a face cloth dump wipe

7:12 dump wipe you know give yourself a little

7:14 sponge bath then when you're done these dry

7:16 really quickly and that will just kind of get rid of the stickiness I don't

7:21 know what that was these are unscented body

7:22 wipes something like this might help if you

7:24 don't want to do the boiling water and bring the towel wipe it down throw it

7:27 away you're done I think the thing

7:28 when it comes to Camping especially card camping

7:30 like we're not going out there to survive we're going to thrive right so what is

7:33 going to make you thrive in the woods what's going to get you out there

7:36 in nature you don't have to go out with just a tarp and sleep on the ground

7:39 like you can bring your memory foam air

7:41 mattress you can bring a heated blanket don't

7:43 let anybody make you feel bad about that when you're going to sleep in a tent

7:46 or in a car you have to manage your expectations on what that sleep is

7:49 going to look like you're in a new environment lots of different and new noises

7:52 every night is going to be different so you have to go into it knowing

7:55 that I'm probably not going to have the best sleep but how can you make it

7:59 the best sleep possible I try to mimic how I sleep at home and this is

8:03 a tip I picked up from Dan Becker if you sleep at home with two pillows

8:07 bring two pillows camping if you are a cold sleeper bring a warmer sleeping bag

8:12 we're always so busy in our day-to-day lives

8:14 when you get to Camp you're just like

8:16 kind of doing nothing I have a hard time just slowing down and being bored

8:22 in order to kind of help that Becky

8:23 like packs little activities so we'll have like board

8:26 games or activities to do and that's kind of a a good way to sort

8:30 of fill the time so you're not just sitting there like now what do I do

8:34 that's almost part of it is like forcing

8:36 yourself to sort of be bored in the woods

8:38 or in nature and that's almost like the part that sort of recharges your battery

8:42 it's not going there and then working the whole time setting up camp only have

8:46 them to tear it down because then when

8:48 you get home you just don't feel recharged that's one thing is kind of find

8:50 that balance between being busy enough but also forcing

8:53 yourself to be bored so you actually recharge

8:56 oh and something else we like to do

8:57 is movie nights so we'll actually bring an iPad I forgot the iPad she forgot

9:02 the iPad oh no I have movies on my phone though yeah so we'll we'll bring

9:06 movies on our phone or our iPad and actually watch the movies in the evening

9:10 and that's kind of one of our like final like wind down activities we'll be cozy

9:13 in our sleeping bags in our bed and then we'll watch a movie and I

9:16 forgot a sweater and she says I brought you one so Pro tip bring extra layers

9:22 of clothes for your loved one for when

9:25 the passenger princesses forgets theirs I want

9:27 you to have a good experience so you'll

9:29 keep camping with me packing list absolutely integral

9:32 I'm going to run through a really basic one I'm going to leave a full packing

9:35 list on our website Becky and chris.com Linked

9:37 In the description layers you want to make

9:39 sure whatever is happening outside you're prepared

9:41 for a little bit colder and you're prepared

9:42 for rain even if there's no rain in the forecast make sure you bring a sweater

9:46 long pants socks comfy Camp shoes a rain coat for sure just in case Sleep

9:51 System you're going to want to make sure you have an air mattress some kind

9:53 of blanket that is going to be warm

9:55 enough for the temperatures that you're in a pillow

9:57 definitely a headlamp if you're only going to bring one but I like to bring

9:59 a ton of Lights as you'll see so something to cook with something to boil water

10:03 with you're going to want to bring water

10:05 food snacks extra snacks just in case you're

10:08 hangry prepping food ahead of time is also

10:10 really helpful we'll talk in a little bit

10:12 about meals and meal ideas and also if your partner isn't is new to this don't

10:17 expect that they're going to know exactly

10:19 what they're going to need to bring camping

10:20 so if you have been camping make sure

10:23 that they are bring in the appropriate things

10:24 if it's your first time then definitely

10:27 you'll find that you're going to bring more

10:28 things and then pair it down the next time you go and the next time you

10:31 go and then you'll kind of get it dialed in I have the heated blanket

10:34 put in the tent there now we can run this 12vt heated of blanket all night

10:38 long doesn't draw a ton of power so we have plenty of battery in the morning

10:42 left to do the things that we want to do so go down to 12° C

10:46 tonight but it acts perfectly as just

10:48 a pad underneath our sleeping area it's getting

10:51 dark the temperature is dropping and I am

10:53 Rusty when it comes to Camping because I

10:55 did not bring a toque which was a big huge Noob mistake given that it's

10:59 going to be about 12° C tonight Play What a toque is oh a toque is

11:03 a beanie like a hat like a winter hat Chris is just getting our lights

11:06 wired up we're going to do a whole video on how we're wiring these lights up

11:09 but that's for a separate time not only did I forget our beanies but I also

11:14 forgot our nalene bottles one of my favorite

11:16 little hacks for camping especially when it's cold

11:19 out is right before bed I will boil water put it in an aling bottle

11:23 make sure the screw the top is on tight as long as you don't fill it

11:26 all the way to the top you leave a bit of an air gap check

11:28 it to make make sure it doesn't leak and I'll stick that down on my sleeping

11:31 bag and that will keep me warm pretty much all night and it's really great

11:34 if it's below 12 Cel because it acts like a little hot water bottle and we're

11:39 not quite ready for dinner yet so I think we're going to put a fire

11:42 on probably just a small one for a couple

11:45 hours enjoy that want me plug the lights

11:53 in yeah yeah wow so normally when we're camping we're not using this much power

12:03 we're just coming in plugging our lights doing

12:05 a few tasks around Camp we're not running power tools or anything like that like

12:08 we were today so not a representative sample

12:11 but nonetheless enough power to do any task

12:13 that we've thrown at it so far all right

12:16 it's just about time for us to hit the sack we're going to plug

12:19 in that heated blanket and get that preheating

12:21 heated blankets plugged in and now we Boop power

12:26 so let that preheat maybe for 20 minutes or so R and toasty when we go

12:30 to bed let's have a quick chat about

12:31 meals if you're coming camping for the first

12:33 time and you're going out there and if you don't like cooking at home you're

12:37 going to hate cooking out here because it

12:39 is so much more difficult when it comes

12:41 to food prep cleaning your hands washing dishes it's a lot of work if you

12:45 really like cooking at home you might like cooking out here we really do we like

12:49 to do open fire cooking we've made a couple of fun meals in our series

12:52 Sleepy Creek these freeze-dried meals are kind

12:54 of expensive they're like between $8 and $12 per

12:57 packet we tend to find that if we are really hungry one packet even though it

13:01 says two servings feeds one person the freeze

13:04 dry meals are really easy cuz all you

13:05 have to do is boil water put the water in the bag and then Stir

13:08 It Up make sure it's stirred up really well and then wait to whatever it says

13:11 on the back and then it's cooked some of my favorites I really like the mac

13:14 and cheese I like be strong enough I like chicken Nole casserole what are some

13:17 of your favorites those ones are really

13:18 good the chicken fajita Bowl when you soup

13:21 it with fresh ingredients I think that's that's

13:23 a good bang for your buck but she'll

13:24 take tortillas from home avocado cheese sour

13:28 cream anything basically you want on a fajita

13:30 but instead of bringing raw chicken out camping

13:33 a bunch of peppers cutting that up I will

13:34 take the freeze-dried fajita Bowl which has

13:38 chicken Peppers rice and then we'll take that and put it on tortillas and then

13:43 it becomes a bigger meal you could get away

13:45 with one bag per two people and make about six smaller faitas and that kind

13:50 of stretches that meal it's great hack it

13:52 feels like a fresh meal and doesn't feel like

13:54 a freezer meal at all but yeah if you don't like cooking at home you're

13:56 definitely not going to like cooking outdoors

13:58 and so sometimes freeze dried meals are just simple

14:02 and they're pretty good some other things

14:03 that you can make if you don't mind getting

14:04 a pot dirty obviously crafted or macaroni

14:06 and cheese anything you can make in a pot

14:08 a couple of weeks ago we we found a flank steak that was $5 and we

14:12 took that out here and we made noodles that were just kind of like instant

14:15 style noodles and then we put the steak on top of that so there's lots

14:17 of ways that you can hack grocery store items and find little cuts of meat if

14:22 you're open to cooking that meat out here the other option is cook it at home

14:26 and bring it out in cooler or refrigerator

14:29 like hot dogs hamburgers over the fire

14:31 little pizzas that we'll just make on our stove

14:34 top or my favorite bringing the cowboy

14:36 steak out in the woods and cooking it over the fire yeah that that's a little

14:39 bit more excessive but also super fun to do none of those things sound appealing

14:44 to you run to the grocery store and pick up a sandwich and throw it

14:46 in cooler I think it's bedtime it's like 9:00 we're both really tired and ready

14:51 to go to bed it's supposed to rain

14:53 overnight and into tomorrow shall we yep [Music] literal

15:04 night Freight in the flesh here D just getting a coffee going here now it

15:09 rained all night long it was very windy

15:12 when you're camping in the woods and it's windy you have to really be careful

15:15 about where you're camping where you're setting up

15:17 your tent to if there are any dead

15:18 trees around that could potentially fall in that wind

15:21 land on your tent and kill you I wanted to try out the grinder because

15:25 I'm planning on hosting a couple of my friends down here uh for a camp out

15:28 and obviously hand grinding uh each individual cup

15:31 of coffee is just not going to cut

15:32 it don't like that grinder though I'll probably

15:34 bring a different one I like that it

15:35 was very relaxing in the rain it was like I didn't think it was too

15:40 windy we have never put away this tent

15:43 when it's been dry every single time we've

15:45 camped and it it was rainy season in fall and even when it was dry

15:48 in the morning everything was still wet because

15:50 we had condensation cuz it was so cold and today's no different as soon as we

15:53 started packing and it started pouring you

15:54 have no idea how handy a roll of paper towels you you might think oh we'll

15:58 have a couple meals we'll just have some napkins no bring a roll of paper towels

16:02 stuff gets so dirty sometimes especially if you

16:05 get caught in the rain like this things

16:06 get muddy and if you don't have like a towel with you or anything like

16:10 that then you're going to want to have paper towels we're about to get our hands

16:13 super muddy while we get these Max tracks

16:14 out the max tracks are great for leveling your truck but you could also get

16:17 these like blocks that you could level your truck

16:19 on Amazon for way cheaper than Max tracks but we got Max tracks because we're

16:22 using them for Recovery as well as leveling

16:24 the truck when camping thank you guys so

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16:27 today's video and we will see you

16:29 next Sunday for another one bye I am sure glad that I got new tires cuz

16:39 it is really slippery down here it's buggy

16:43 there's bugs in the woods actually the wind

16:44 just kind of picked up and they're a little bit less yeah excuse me manager

16:52 manager I'd like to make a complaint

16:55 to the manager there's bugs I look like like

16:58 look at my face why am I on camera like this cuz I don't care page