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Anyone have any simple life hacks they have learned throught the years to make your life at Bonnaroo a tad bit easier?
That you used the term "life hacks" contributes to me not wanting to help you.
But I am super nice, so I'll give you one and let the rest of the board have a chance:
Get a piece of rope about five feet long. Get two half liter water bottles. Fill the water bottles. Use one foot of the rope on each end to encircle the bottles. Knot each securely. Seizing the middle of this rope/water bottle bolo, drape it around the back of your neck.
Now you have a liter of water that you don't have to carry or shove in your pocket. Fill them up between shows.
Anyone have any simple life hacks they have learned throught the years to make your life at Bonnaroo a tad bit easier?
Put gold bond on your balls.
I'm guessing she doesn't have balls but gold bond is never a bad thing to have at Roo.
This is an easy one that I always tell newbs. Take and freeze the majority of water bottles you plan to place in your cooler. You can use it as ice and then have cold water to drink towards the end of the festival. Saves space and money.
Strap a headlamp to a water bottle (or jug, even better) backwards (with the light facing inward). It will serve as a sizable lantern for your camp.
Get solar christmas lights and put then in your pop-up tent. Clip the charger to the tent facing the afternoon sun. Easy ambiance and light for when you get home from the show that you don't even have to turn on.
Of course, freeze your water bottles and you save on ice.
Baby wipes. Wipe your butt, wipe the toilet seat, wipe the dirt and filth off yourself before getting into your sleeping bag. You can never have enough baby wipes
Anyone have any simple life hacks they have learned throught the years to make your life at Bonnaroo a tad bit easier?
That you used the term "life hacks" contributes to me not wanting to help you.
But I am super nice, so I'll give you one and let the rest of the board have a chance:
Get a piece of rope about five feet long. Get two half liter water bottles. Fill the water bottles. Use one foot of the rope on each end to encircle the bottles. Knot each securely. Seizing the middle of this rope/water bottle bolo, drape it around the back of your neck.
Now you have a liter of water that you don't have to carry or shove in your pocket. Fill them up between shows.
You're welcome, I'm sure.
Tha sounds complicated? Just get a camelbak.
I second the baby wipes, btw. Baby wipes, baby wipes, baby wipes!!!!!!! And the frozen water bottles too. Both essential to camping at any festival in general.
That you used the term "life hacks" contributes to me not wanting to help you.
But I am super nice, so I'll give you one and let the rest of the board have a chance:
Get a piece of rope about five feet long. Get two half liter water bottles. Fill the water bottles. Use one foot of the rope on each end to encircle the bottles. Knot each securely. Seizing the middle of this rope/water bottle bolo, drape it around the back of your neck.
Now you have a liter of water that you don't have to carry or shove in your pocket. Fill them up between shows.
You're welcome, I'm sure.
Tha sounds complicated? Just get a camelbak.
I second the baby wipes, btw. Baby wipes, baby wipes, baby wipes!!!!!!! And the frozen water bottles too. Both essential to camping at any festival in general.
I'm not sure it sounds that complicated, but I just don't know about dealing with a rope around the back of my sweaty neck all day, or having a pair of big, heavy, wet jugs flopping around against my chest... wow, that sounds even worse know. And like I posted in the wrong thread.
Baby wipes. Wipe your butt, wipe the toilet seat, wipe the dirt and filth off yourself before getting into your sleeping bag. You can never have enough baby wipes
This isn't really a proper hack. It's more a product endorsement albeit a VERY VERY good one!
When you wake up in tent only and really have to pee the nearest porto will be 5 minutes away. Those five minutes are like an eternity and may as well be 30 and god help you if there is a line! Slam a 16oz bottle of gatoraid before you go to sleep! It will help keep you from being even more hungover the next morning and you can pee in it!
Oh, this ones obvious but figured I'd mention it. Be sure to figure out which side of your camp the sun rises/sets on so you can put blankets up on your EZ-up to keep you cool so you can sleep in a but later before you begin to slow roast in your tent. (That's why I just bring a cot and put it under my EZ-up)
Post by shrek_fan_69 on Feb 2, 2015 11:12:06 GMT -5
I would say be sure to loosen up/stretch A LOT. Being on your feet all day for several days straight is a pretty serious physical toll, and its easy to become wrapped up in your surroundings and not pay attention to the body. My first year I could hardly walk come Sunday. I had the pregnant lady ankles.
So just listen to your body I guess. Related to this, the festival certainly becomes a lot easier if you are in good shape.
And you don't have to shower, but some semblance of hygiene is recommended. Even if that means just pouring a jug of water over your head
Post by Farrisbueller on Feb 2, 2015 13:11:13 GMT -5
Something I learned from the first timer thread that really helped me through the weekend. Get some lemon juice, or lime juice and put it in your camelbak, that way when your water gets warm it won't taste like complete shit. Also I got one of those super absorbent towels that cool you off, it's a neck lifesaver in the heat.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Feb 2, 2015 14:26:56 GMT -5
if you eat too much cheese you'll have a hard time pooing at bonnaroo. probably sounds good to not poo but you have to weigh that against walking around with that extra poo inside you all weekend. #roohacks
Bring a box or two of those energy-C packs, cliff bars and beef jerky. They're all healthy and your camp will love you for them. Also, be sure all your vehicles fill up their gas tanks and everyone has used the bathroom before you get within 40 miles of Manchester. Plan on being in traffic for 4 hours to get into
That you used the term "life hacks" contributes to me not wanting to help you.
But I am super nice, so I'll give you one and let the rest of the board have a chance:
Get a piece of rope about five feet long. Get two half liter water bottles. Fill the water bottles. Use one foot of the rope on each end to encircle the bottles. Knot each securely. Seizing the middle of this rope/water bottle bolo, drape it around the back of your neck.
Now you have a liter of water that you don't have to carry or shove in your pocket. Fill them up between shows.
You're welcome, I'm sure.
Tha sounds complicated? Just get a camelbak.
Alternatively you could get a sturdy branch from the ole' oak tree out back, shave off the knots with your whittlin' knife. Get a length of coarse and tough rope from the general store, along with two 5-gallon buckets. Cut the rope in half and taking the two halves knot them securely to the handle on the buckets, and knot the other side to the sturdy branch. Now you can put this stick on the back of your neck with the buckets hangin' from it. Boom, ten gallons of water with you where ever you go, and you still have your hands free, except when you have to balance the stick on your back, which actually will be all of the time.
Here is a pick of me at bonnaroo last year using this life hack:
Alternatively you could get a sturdy branch from the ole' oak tree out back, shave off the knots with your whittlin' knife.an Amish kid to follow you around. Get a length of coarse and tough rope from the general store, along with two 5-gallon buckets. Cut the rope in half and taking the two halves knot them securely to the handle on the buckets, and knot the other side to the sturdy branch. Now you can put this stick on the back of your neckthe Amish kid's neck with the buckets hangin' from it. Boom, ten gallons of water with you where ever you go...
Here is a pick of me at bonnaroo last year using this life hack:
Fixed it fer ya - easier on the ol' back this way. I like it. They work hard, for reasonable rates. And after Bonnaroo you can have him build you a barn.
The Gold Bond thing can't be emphasized enough. Regardless of the existence of balls, chafing will ruin your Roo. Get the largest, floppiest hat you can find. All those people with the "cute festival fashions" articles will laugh at you, but you can return the favor when they're in the medical tent and you're not. Also, if you're going to spend $300 on a Roo ticket, fork over the $60 it costs you for good shoes. Sanuks are the best of the best. Bring a small camera. You'll want to take pictures. Avoid selfies. They are needless and you'll get a crappy picture. In 6 years of going to Roo, I have yet to ask someone "can you take a picture for us?" and have them say no. For that matter, I have yet to find someone who wouldn't let me take pictures of them. Some of my favorite pics of Roo past were random people attempting to do spastic interpretations of the twist during JD McPherson.
Bring a small camera. You'll want to take pictures. Avoid selfies. They are needless and you'll get a crappy picture. In 6 years of going to Roo, I have yet to ask someone "can you take a picture for us?" and have them say no. For that matter, I have yet to find someone who wouldn't let me take pictures of them. Some of my favorite pics of Roo past were random people attempting to do spastic interpretations of the twist during JD McPherson.
I seriously don't know if I've ever had somebody take a picture of me (with friends) on the farm. I'm so caught up in shows and all the crazy things going on around me that I only really take pics of that kind of stuff. I count on my friends to take photos of our group so that I can just steal them when we get back from Roo. So, if you aren't careful and your friends don't do it for you, you quite easily could leave roo without a single piece of picture evidence that you were at Bonnaroo.
I always ask because I'm covering it and I want the option of using a particularly good crowd shot in my articles for flavor. Never had anyone say no, but I have started having to carry business cards because people always ask where they can see themselves.
Post by downonthefarm on Feb 5, 2015 8:26:55 GMT -5
Bring a 5 gallon water jug with filtered water. Just refill your smaller bottles from there. That's plenty of water for one person over the entire weekend.
Post by Farrisbueller on Feb 5, 2015 8:44:27 GMT -5
If you dont want to handle a big jug of water, get a sawyer water filter, cost about 20 bucks, weighs about 3 ounces. Can be connected to your camelbak or screwed onto the end of a water bottle. And filters well enough you can drink from stream water. Best thing to handle that sulfer water for sure.
Can't emphasize the porto potty hack bag enough. The bathrooms in Centeroo most likely will run out of TP at some point in the night. I even throw in a travel size bottle of Febreze because let's face it - portos in the sun are the worst.
I'm not sure if I've seen a single "life-hack" in this thread.
That being said... A few years back I had this brilliant idea to buy the cheapest plastic toilet set that they sell at Walmart and keep it at my camp. That way if I am at camp and want to drop the Cosby kids off at the pool, I can have my own personal clean seat to use in the porto potty. Just to be clear, I had this idea, but never actually put it to action.
Can't emphasize the porto potty hack bag enough. The bathrooms in Centeroo most likely will run out of TP at some point in the night. I even throw in a travel size bottle of Febreze because let's face it - portos in the sun are the worst.
I am also a big fan of the porto potty bag, I keep clorox wipes in a separate ziploc as well. Note: never confuse the baby wipes with the clorox wipes....wiping with clorox equals no fun at all
