Car-Dwelling Essentials

Oh, and another personal favorite is a pyramid cheese grater. It’s grate for making hashbrowns out of potatoes and onions and bell peppers, and it also does cheese to boot! Blocks of 5.9+ cheddar keep longer than pre-shredded stuff.

Milk crate + Duluth Crate Master = Kitchen/Pantry. Organized and Portable.
MSR drom bags= hand washing station, shower and drinking water... if your desperate. 

We took mosquito netting and elastic to make screens for the windows. Basically draped it over the door from the outside.  A necessity on warm nights to for keeping bugs away,  especially when you have lights on. 

Dishes!?
Our automatic dishwasher!

gso Orton wrote: Dishes!? We make sure we have an automatic dishwasher!

Pre-rinse only. We need to maintain some kind of standard. 

Nick C wrote: They can be expensive, but a good external battery to charge phones and electronics. 

agreed. Ill add in the voltage regulator as well to keep that battery charged. When the chassis battery is full it sends juice back to the house battery and then cuts that flow when the vehicle shuts off. I also wired my radio to run off the house battery so I can let it play without worrying about draining the chassis battery. A decent inverter for the laptop, etc if you want to get fancy.  it can fit in the spare tire compartment if you get creative.

a little USB-powered fan can be a savior during the summer, and you can use it to blow mosquitos out of the car before going to bed

unless you've got a big sprinter, a tri-fold mattress is pretty cool. Easy to fold up and make some temporary space when needed
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I am only on this thread to see if someone says "Dude Wipes"...

Wow, 3 pages of nice helpful hints and girlfriend jokes.  No trolls, assholes or people putting other people down.  That was a pleasant 10 minutes of reading :)

JRZane wrote:

A decent inverter for the laptop, etc if you want to get fancy.  it can fit in the spare tire compartment if you get creative.

A good inverter is necessary for some electronics but a better option for your laptop is just finding the DC/car adapter.  Way more efficient as you aren’t converting from DC to AC back to DC. 

Mikey Schaefer wrote:

A good inverter is necessary for some electronics but a better option for your laptop is just finding the DC/car adapter.  Way more efficient as you aren’t converting from DC to AC back to DC. 

true, but inverters allow for other 110v accessories too.  I generally pack clippers to shave my head, things like that.

JRZane wrote:

true, but inverters allow for other 110v accessories too.  I generally pack clippers to shave my head, things like that.

And coffee grinders.

my coffee is hand ground.  Gotta show some class when loving outta station wagon. 

Albert B wrote: my coffee is hand ground.  Gotta show some class when loving outta station wagon. 

oh that gets old. 

At 6 months with it and love it. TBF I’m French pressing so I can get away with course.   takes too long to grind for the aero 

You must have a much better grinder than I used. I would have to literally get up 15 minutes early to start coffee for the French Press for two. Took a few loads of coffee grounds. Handle kept coming out. Ugh. If it was me on this < week long trip, I'd just pre-grind it, but my partner is very particular and it was their setup, so we did it their way.

Solo I hand grind and with a huge group I just bring a powerdrill xD

Long Ranger wrote: ...I would have to literally get up 15 minutes early to start coffee for the French Press for two. 

15 min for grinding itself??? In 15 min, I've finished my breakfast, done the packing, and ready to go.

Double sleeping bags for cold weather. Get a cheap rectangular one and use that one as the outer bag and you’ll be super toasty.
Blackout curtains
Small lanterns/candles
Mr Buddy Heater
Pee bottle
Small camp chair