CampingChair

I am a pack-rat. I guess I have an affection for not throwing out old stuff especially camping chairs. I keep everything. My wife HATES it.But I do have my moments...

For instance, We love to go camping (when time allows). I have never had a problem with relieving bodily functions in the woods. The wife, on the other hand, has never really cozied up to the idea of a field toilet made of a hole in the ground and wooden sticks for a seat.

A few years back, I came up with a great idea. We were trying to plan a camping trip and I was remembering the last trip and how much trouble it was for the wife to go to the nearest available "facilities". I guess women don't really like the idea of bodily orifice so close to places where bugs crawl and snakes slither. MacGyver suddenly came to me in a dream and knock me on the side of my head.

Immediately (alas, I am obsessive and compulsive when I have engineering ideas), I went to the storage room.We had several old wooden stools that had pretty much seen their last trip. The canvas had pretty much worn thin but the straps holding the dowels together were good, and the wood and connecting dowels were still strong.

Out comes the survival knife. A few cuts later, I had two perfectly functional and reliable "executive staff" field potties any General would have been proud to have his assistant carry around from camp to camp.

While admiring my work and grinning at the thought of how appreciative the Mrs. would be, I had even more inspiration. I glanced over and saw two old shower curtains that I had saved to cover anything in the yard that need protection from frost. I grabbed them both, got out the old singer sewing machine and stitched them together to make one larger curtain that would provide a nice little "room" around the my new filed toilets. Hey it was even larger enough to make it a "two holer" (for all of you that remember what that means). All I had to do was hang it from a couple of branches or string it from portable poles. The only thing left was to dig a field trench or add a half sized (cut down) 5 gallon bucket and dirt or sand for sanitation. I tucked my little invention away- ready for our next excursion.

Needles to say, the trip went great. The Mrs. loved my surprise and had no problem with it. She even commented that she didn't have to worry about how clean any of the local facilities were since this was "our own". She will never admit this in public, but I HEARD her say that my being a pack-rat, "might not be so bad".

I did learn one very very important lesson from using this set up the first time. When deciding where to put your hammock at the campsite in relation to the location of this camping chair potty, make sure you are "up wind"!!

Good camping to ya!!

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