![]() The second drawer holds my pretty plates, cups, and bowls, my paper supplies, plastic storage containers, our roasting forks, and an electric hot water dispenser. Ever had cornbread waffles with chili? Yum! Such an easy camping meal… but that’s for another day. ![]() It’s awesome for quick breakfasts in the morning, but we also like to cook hashbrowns, cinnamon rolls, and cornbread batter in it. I love this thing, because not only is it compact, but it works beautifully. Lastly, I store this small waffle iron in there for when we are camping with hookups. They fold flat and give you so much room, but they are also pretty sturdy. The first one holds our pots, pans, collapsible bowls and strainers (I like the Squish brand), and other small cooking items. I’ve got two large drawers in this cabinet, too. I also store our hampers in here when they aren’t being used. ![]() A few of these Command Hooks hold our cooking utensils in place inside the doors. I also keep a tackle box first-aid kit in that cupboard. I purchased cute plastic shoe box containers to hold our games, sunblock and bug spray, laundry supplies, and camper repair items. If you’ve been following our blog for awhile, you’ll know that we enclosed the wheel well and built a shelf to make that part of the cabinet into usable space. We have quite a bit of storage space in that long cabinet. When the weather is bad, we move the shoe bin indoors, and it fits perfectly atop the dressers. I love the mesh sides, because I can give the hamper a good shake and most of the dirt and sand falls through. We often keep our shoe hamper outside the camper, but we do allow shoes inside. Another thing I love is that it came with a smaller hamper, which we use for shoes. When the hamper is empty, it folds up for storage, which I love. ![]() It also has pockets to store laundry detergent and fabric softener. The handles make it easy to cart along to the laundry facilities when it’s laundry day. When our clothes are dirty, we throw them into our pop-up hamper, which we store in the kitchen area (unless we are using the heater). We pack enough clothes for five days, which means we have to visit a laundromat a couple times during our long trips. The top drawer is for underwear and socks, the middle drawer holds shirts and jackets, and the bottom drawer holds pants, shorts, and pajamas. These little dressers fit down on the floor between the long cabinet and dinette when we fold up the camper. We bought Sterilite 4-drawer carts from Target (you can also get them on Amazon here), popped off the lid and removed one of the small drawers, then put the cart back together. Each person in the family has a plastic 3-drawer “dresser” to store their clothes. Our two girls share the full bunkend and our son gets the dinette bed. Not nearly as glamorous, I know, but it works well for us. This is how our camper actually looks 90% of the time. For those of you who wonder how we organize this little PUP for our road trips, this post is for you. Having three kids means we need the dinette to be used as a bed more than a table, and we really need to utilize that counter space for storage. I would spend my entire trip cleaning up after them if I wanted the camper to look nearly this nice. I loved dressing our little PUP up for her glamour shots, but using the camper like this isn’t practical for us. The answer is no, the camper definitely does not look like this when we camp. □īut I get asked quite a bit if this is what our camper really looks like when we camp, and how in the world do we pack a family of five in a small trailer for a 3-week road trip. I’m pretty proud of our hard work, so I show them off a lot. You’ve probably all seen the pictures of our pop up camper makeover by now. Organizing your pop up camper is tricky business.
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