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Lounge Wreckormendations
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Lounge Wreckormendations


Dec 12, 2019, 8:57 AM

Buying the family a Christmas gift this year.

Most stupid purchase I can make, a tent. Which means it will be up to me to set the #### thing up myself, gather all of the wood for the fire, sleep on the ground with 2 kids and a wife whom all snore. While they complain that they are cold the entire time.


So yeah I'm an idiot. But what tent do you recommend? Want a ton of room. Would be nice to have separate sleeping areas for when the kids get bigger and daddy wants to put his pants tent in mom. And waterproof

FYT:

Image result for camping models

Image result for camping models

Image result for women camping

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I like your funny words magic man


Separate sleeping areas?


Dec 12, 2019, 9:03 AM

You buying a quonset hut or something? Get the kids their own tent, ya fuggin' weirdo.

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That's what I tried telling the wife


Dec 12, 2019, 9:04 AM

but she wants everyone together in case a serial killer comes through the camp site.

Probably shouldn't have replied "That means they'll get the kids first and give us a chance to get away"

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I like your funny words magic man


Women are so impractical and broken.***


Dec 12, 2019, 9:04 AM



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this 4 room tent is pretty nice


Dec 12, 2019, 9:04 AM

$160 at Walmart



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Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile,
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!!


Sets up in hours!***


Dec 12, 2019, 9:05 AM



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hey, what do I care


Dec 12, 2019, 9:07 AM

gives him something to do

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Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile,
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!!


Is there a link or a name? I believe that's the one


Dec 12, 2019, 9:07 AM [ in reply to this 4 room tent is pretty nice ]

I was telling her about yesterday.

Has a main area and then sleeping areas off to the side.

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I like your funny words magic man


on sale


Dec 12, 2019, 9:09 AM

.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ozark-Trail-14-Person-4-Room-Base-Camp-Tent-with-4-Entrances/46271753?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227036230859&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=97971850488&wl4=pla-136504661088&wl5=9010811&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=46271753&veh=sem&gclid=CjwKCAiA58fvBRAzEiwAQW-hzcEO45UrAAMwtTUntq4NokCzZ2w2ROi6YqaADFuhZp-AMlixw9hkRBoCB74QAvD_BwE

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Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile,
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!!


Ding Ding Ding! Winner. And here's why:


Dec 12, 2019, 11:19 AM [ in reply to this 4 room tent is pretty nice ]

You ain't gonna use that thing more than a few times. Ever.

Why? Because the kids will get older, the novelty will wear off, the weather will be bad when you plan to go, etc.

Tents are like RVs. Great fun, but seldom used by most people who buy them.

So go with the Wally World special and enjoy the few times you actually use it.

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Re: Lounge Wreckormendations


Dec 12, 2019, 9:06 AM



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We buy them all the time at work


Dec 12, 2019, 9:06 AM

Maybe you'd like this GP Medium

https://www.usmilitarytents.com/Products/Vinyl-General-Purpose-Medium-Tent-(GP-Medium-16%e2%80%b2-X-32%e2%80%b2)__NSN-spc-(8340-00-482-3963).aspx

Normally though, we pay $20K for them, add a solar flare, and a 5 ton ECU, build a deck for it all in around $40k.

Lots of room.

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REI has a little sale going on now, maybe 30-40% REI Brand


Dec 12, 2019, 9:08 AM

stuffs.

I saw tents on there this morning but I was not shopping for one.




We have a Ozark Trail one that is giant. Used twice, in the den. What a waste of money.

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Sounds like the 2 of you could solve both your problems


Dec 12, 2019, 9:29 AM

they’re always easier to set up after they’ve been used a couple of times

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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Isaac Asimov


For a long time I thought


Dec 12, 2019, 9:10 AM

you were a scok and just a farce, but then I realized you are real and then saw your picture and your background......and now......well, I really do feel sad for you.

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Re: For a long time I thought


Dec 12, 2019, 9:12 AM

Image result for checking watch gif

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I like your funny words magic man


dude, if you are getting the tent, may as well


Dec 12, 2019, 9:17 AM

buy some cots too so you don't have to be on the ground. Cabelas sells ones for two folks and some that are bunk-beds.

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Cots? Pffft. Blowup air mattresses ftw.


Dec 12, 2019, 9:20 AM

I don't think he's dragging a 6 bedroom 2.5 bath tent up a mountain, so this is truck camping with access to 9V electricity and a pump.

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Bingo


Dec 12, 2019, 9:22 AM

Most likely heading to the farm and camping there.

Or a small trail to a national park.


I'm not ######## in the woods unless I have to. clemsonrulez08®

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I like your funny words magic man


Re: Cots? Pffft. Blowup air mattresses ftw.


Dec 12, 2019, 9:24 AM [ in reply to Cots? Pffft. Blowup air mattresses ftw. ]

Image result for parks and rec camping gif

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I like your funny words magic man


I like my cot better than any air mattress.


Dec 12, 2019, 9:42 AM [ in reply to Cots? Pffft. Blowup air mattresses ftw. ]

However, you may not fit on account of being a tall freak.

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Cabelas cot with cot pad is the ONLY way i will rough it.


Dec 12, 2019, 9:45 AM

but I only have to use that when camping out of the boat. Otherwise I sleep in the camper on my custom mattress from Engineered Sleep.


I DONT HIKE. thats BOOOOOOLCHIT!

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Do you really have one of those Engineered Sleep deals?


Dec 12, 2019, 9:55 AM

I'm going to need a new mattress in a couple years.

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I talked to those guise at the WCCP football kickoff at Twin


Dec 12, 2019, 10:00 AM

Peaks back in August....all the shows' sponsors had tables set up.

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that their very toppest of the line queen, custom made was $1200

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That would be great for a childs bed, what does a king cost?***


Dec 12, 2019, 10:12 AM



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sorry, I was still talking about camping.


Dec 12, 2019, 10:25 AM

I don't hike in with anything larger than a 10" queen mattress, at that point it's just silly

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Really. They need to change their advertising a bit then.


Dec 12, 2019, 10:50 AM [ in reply to I talked to those guise at the WCCP football kickoff at Twin ]

When I hear them I get the feeling the price is still going to be bad.

I mean, Don Munson has the best job on Clemson's campus and still had to save up for 30 years to get one.

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I bought 2 for less than what I paid for the previous 1


Dec 12, 2019, 12:59 PM

5 years earlier.

I have a king at home and a short queen in camper.

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YES! i actually have two of them


Dec 12, 2019, 12:57 PM [ in reply to Do you really have one of those Engineered Sleep deals? ]

When we bought our camper, it came with a crap 4 inch mattress. The first night i slept in it, my shoulder went to sleep and I woke up numb on my left side.

I called Jay (I knew of him through other friends) and my wife and I went over to his shop. Back then it was on Perimeter road at Donaldson. Wife and I were joking around and I told her that we were gonna have to do the 9 1/2 weeks scene to test them out. ha ha. So we got talking to Jay and wife said she wanted Soft mattress and I said I like a firmer mattress. Well, we were going back and forth and Jay asked what side I sleep on. I said left. He said come back in 3 hours and he would have it ready. We ordered a short queen to fit in camper.

I brought the camper over the next day to put the mattress in it. There was a tag on the left side that said firm and the right side said soft. He had made the mattress half and half.

About six months later my wife tells me that she is calling him to order one for the house, half firm and half soft. Mind you we had JUST bought an EXPENSIVE mattress about 5 years earlier.

That was 4 years ago.

I have had at least 10 people from work go to them as well. All are very pleased with their purchases.

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Come on down to the Big Cypress in the Everglades


Dec 12, 2019, 9:25 AM

and set up hammocks for all about 25 feet apart.

It’s the dry season now and very cool at night.

https://www.nps.gov/bicy/index.htm

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Someone should put on a music festival there***


Dec 12, 2019, 9:36 AM



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Phish did. Assuming you know this:


Dec 12, 2019, 9:49 AM

It shut down Alligator Alley. I didn’t go, was only a Phish novice then.


https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/all-of-phishs-big-cypress-is-on-youtube/

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Yeah. BTW, the Podcast "After Midnight: Phish's Big


Dec 12, 2019, 9:54 AM

Cypress Festival" is REALLY well done. At 4 episodes in, it gives you great insight into the planning and execution of the festival. I have a couple friends who went. I didn't know who Phish was in High School. Nobody at York did.

Also, Long May They Run is a GREAT Phish podcast. Season 1 is finished and they are great. Going to do another band for season 2, hopefully someone just as interesting.

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Long May You Run. Saw them on this tour in 76.


Dec 12, 2019, 9:59 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIk1O8l2czk

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Re: Lounge Wreckormendations


Dec 12, 2019, 9:44 AM

1. Get a Job
2. Stay at hotel
3. Feel great about your life

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I would get a rooftop tent for myself and the wife, then


Dec 12, 2019, 9:51 AM

throw out one of these for the kids and tell them to figure it out...



Rooftop tent:


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cool...but does it HAVE to be a Subaru?


Dec 12, 2019, 9:54 AM

or can you come out to your family some other way?

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But seriously, I still think Tentsile tents sound way fun.


Dec 12, 2019, 9:56 AM

Totally impractical, and there's a 185% chance I'd end up not liking it after purchase, but the concept appeals to my kid brain, because reasons. I mean, LOOK AT IT.



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Cheapest one you can get so it's not a big deal when


Dec 12, 2019, 10:08 AM

it only gets used once.

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Re: Lounge Wreckormendations


Dec 12, 2019, 10:41 AM



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I got this. It's AWESOME.


Dec 12, 2019, 10:55 AM

I can put it up by myself in maybe 10 minutes, ALTHOUGH to put the rain fly on (easily) it takes a helper. (Woman in the video is an amazon woman, at least 6'2"). Torrential rainstorm in it once, and no leaks.

Best part is you can stand up in it. It's huge. Sleeps 5 easily. Has a door on it too that works like a real door, which is noice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQD-RkH_9fc

As for your complaining, at least you have a wife who will sleep in it.

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$250 on Coleman's website, HOWEVER, there was some


Dec 12, 2019, 11:04 AM

popup for 30% off next order, I assume if you signup for newsletter/advertisements. Anyways, that would bring it down to $175 if it works. Seems awesome.

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I paid around $200 for it.


Dec 12, 2019, 11:21 AM

A lot for a tent, but it has exceeded my expectations.

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Woot has this today....


Dec 12, 2019, 11:23 AM

https://sellout.woot.com/offers/wenzel-mountain-trails-grand-pass-10-person-tent-5?ref=w_cnt_lnd_cat_sprt_2_38

FBCoachSC®

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Im disappointed in the jounge


Dec 12, 2019, 12:32 PM



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I didn't want to call out loungers with


Dec 12, 2019, 12:33 PM

pictures

Sorry clemsonrulez08®

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I like your funny words magic man


Dude


Dec 12, 2019, 12:39 PM [ in reply to Im disappointed in the jounge ]

sit down

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You have to admit doe


Dec 12, 2019, 12:41 PM

impressive

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I like your funny words magic man


Re: Im disappointed in the jounge


Dec 12, 2019, 1:01 PM [ in reply to Im disappointed in the jounge ]

You can knock a man down but you just can't keep a good man down.

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won't be the last time***


Dec 12, 2019, 4:14 PM [ in reply to Im disappointed in the jounge ]



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Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile,
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!!


You don't want my advise on tents.


Dec 12, 2019, 1:00 PM

I use to build one regularly but they never stayed up over half a hour with my ex. She had a special way of collapsing my tent. Then I got old and I only built a tent twice or three times a week.

Now I'm rilly old and it's once a week but they seem to stay up a lot longer without the ex.

I'd just buy a big van and remove all the seats behind the driver's row.

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