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Camping Shops

Though I don’t go camping any longer, I will probably do so again in the future. One thing I learned in the past when we did our yearly camping trip was that you should avoid buying stuff in camping shops if you can at all help it. It didn’t seem to matter how well prepared I thought I was, I was always running out of something or had forgotten to get something altogether. There were even times when someone we camped with had forgotten to tell us what they were bringing, and we would have to go get something needed for preparation.

As a rule, camping shops tend to be more expensive. You will find these at campgrounds and that is because everyone needs something, and no one wants to have to drive back into town to get something like butter or perhaps a tent stake that has turned up missing. Camping shops know that people don’t want to do this, and they can charge more money for what they have. They seem to have a knack for charging just enough so that you have to pay more, but driving into town is still not worth it.

There are great things about camping shops though. There is the fact that they are right there when you need them, and also that they tend to carry things that you might not be able to just grab from the shelf in your local grocery store. Camping shops seem to have just what you need for camping and each of the little things that pop up. This comes from years of experience with campers and knowing what people always seem to come in to look for.

Camping shops will probably have things like string and fishing line, extra tent stakes, and things like butter, ketchup, and soda. These are all things people forget or run out of rather quickly. I noticed one year when I ran out of butter I could buy a stick for two dollars. Normally I can get four sticks for that price at my local store, but it didn’t seem worth it to travel to town and back just for butter, so we bought it. Camping shops are convenient but they certainly are expensive. I guess it’s worth the price if you don’t have to cut out half of your camping day to run down the mountain for butter.

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