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I want to take my duvet camping!

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PavlovtheCat · 31/07/2010 20:13

I love my bed. I love lying in my lovely SoulPad, on our lovely comfy air mattress that does not bounce around as you move, snuggling in my pillow under my lovely warm, toasty duvet. I love snuggling next to my DH, or if he is up making an early breakfast with the kids, lying there listening to the sounds of the wind against the canvas, and the kids outside, maybe reading my book. Under my duvet. Warm. I also like being able to snuggle in the middle of the night with my ds aged 8 months, feeding him and going back to sleep all wrapped up together. I love the look of the bed all made up in the morning and looking so inviting at bedtime.

I do not miss waking up in a plastic bag, in a plastic tent, sweating even though I am cold.

We have limited space for our camping trip. DH has said I cannot take our duvet. He is taking a sleeping bag and grugdingly suggested I take the single duvet, but reluctant and keeps going on and on and on about how I should try the sleeping bag.

But even if I take the single, it will not be the same, it won't be tucked in around the air mattress keeping the warmth in, DH and I won't be able to snuggle as he will be wrapped in a binbag.

Am i being so unreasonable to want to find room somehow for it? Because I will be able to, but DH has Put His Foot Down.

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MaryMotherOfCheeses · 31/07/2010 20:15

But if you lie on an air mattress with nothing underneath, won't it be cold?

On that basis, I say yabu.

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PavlovtheCat · 31/07/2010 20:16

Oh no, I have brushed cotton sheet on the air mattress!

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PavlovtheCat · 31/07/2010 20:17

and throws on the floor to keep the cold form the floor out, that is until I can get a trailer and put in a carpet! [wubn

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PavlovtheCat · 31/07/2010 20:18

that was meant to be a but my DS decided that would be a great time to bite me through my t-shirt to tell me to feed him

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MaryMotherOfCheeses · 31/07/2010 20:18

Well tell him you can't shag him in a sleeping bag

singalongamumum · 31/07/2010 20:18

YANBU.

It will never do. The duvet must be taken.

I think you should do a deal with your DH's Foot: The car gets packed. The single duvet, sleeping bag and double duvet wait til last. If when everything else is in, you can find a way of fitting in the double duvet, you get to take it. If not, the single will have to do.

And good luck to you.

EddieIzzardismyhero · 31/07/2010 20:19

I always take a double duvet camping!

Can't stand sleeping bags - feel totally claustrophobic in them and I'm a really fidgety sleeper so always get tangled up in them too .

Have an air bed with duvet and extra socks if I get cold feet - never had a problem.

Enjoy your trip .

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PavlovtheCat · 31/07/2010 20:21

singalong that deal, it has been had already, but its a silent deal. I know i will find a a way to get that duvet in the car. It is coming. It has to. I actually fear this trip without it, oh dear. I told this to DH, that I need it and if I can fit it can it come, and he said no, we need the space. WHAT FOR?!!!!

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JGBMum · 31/07/2010 20:21

We take the duvet every time - but then we camp in a caravan

Oblomov · 31/07/2010 20:21

duvet ? essential. absolutely essential.

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PavlovtheCat · 31/07/2010 20:24

eddie I twist and turn in them too, thing is, I sleep on my side with one leg sort of hanging out of the bed, and I fidgit, and I need to be getting up and down to feed the boy.

When I was younger, I gave not a toss about a duvet, and laughed at my friends who brought theirs with them, but we were in our 20s and they should have been Harder. I took a sleeping bag and roll mat, but quite often I fell unconscious went to sleep in front of the open fire at some ungodly time, while my friend who had just finished a night shift as a nurse would turn the venison on a spit.

Now, I am in bed nice and early just so I can read my book and am up at the time I used to go to bed! I need my comforts!

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PavlovtheCat · 31/07/2010 20:26

We normally take it. But DH is pretending he prefers a sleeping bag wtf, he is having a larf.

He does not get it, we are glampers now, we have swathes (not allowed to take more than 2 this time) and throws (for warmth, but also look lovely) some hanging mobiles and a wind chime (probably leaving that as it means I stand more chance of getting the duvet in!). We are not going overnight, we are going for almost a week.

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PavlovtheCat · 31/07/2010 20:35

Even as we speak, even as I am telling him how wrong he is and how MNers consider him wrong, he will not back down, 'bloody women' was his response.

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Waswondering · 31/07/2010 20:41

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EddieIzzardismyhero · 31/07/2010 20:44

Lol at taking a wind chime???

Wrap the duvet around yourself in the car and voila you can have a sleep on the journey!

maktaitai · 31/07/2010 20:47

I've had a moment with dh about the duvet for our next trip in 2 weeks. Utterly bizarre IMO. You might as well say 'ooh there may not be room for the tent - let's all take bivvy bags'. (Actually don't mention that to dh as he is a bivvy/wild camping man at heart). However, I have no problem with him being trussed up and all sweaty in a sleeping bag as long as I am allowed civilisation under the double duvet. Just take it. Do you have a car top box?

venusandmars · 31/07/2010 20:48

I take 2 duvets. One to sleep on and one to go over us. Keeps us so warm.

HATE sleeping bags.

Waswondering · 31/07/2010 20:48

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MaryMotherOfCheeses · 31/07/2010 20:50

You take a wind chime camping???

Christ, I hope we never camp next to you.

Ditch the chimes and take the duvet.

tegan · 31/07/2010 20:51

we have just come back from a week camping in our trailer tent and we always take duvets. i have a double for my dd's and the super king size off my bed for me dh and ds.

we bought sleeping bags and none of us got any sleep in them as they are so restrictive and ds is 20 months so he hated it

MaryMotherOfCheeses · 31/07/2010 20:52

If you really want to glamp, take bunting. Folds up small. And will tuck inside duvet for convenient transportation.

NorbertDentressangle · 31/07/2010 20:58

I must be bit of a big girls blouse then as I took a sleeping bag and a duvet and my Dunlopillo pillow

I was lovely and toasty though!

hotbot · 31/07/2010 21:12

ahem... vacuum pack it?

agree entirely i take a duvet too.

CMOTdibbler · 31/07/2010 21:14

We have aerobed, quilted matress topper, flanelette bottom sheet, and a kingsize down duvet. YANBU.

I pack duvet at the bottom too - takes no space at all

dawntigga · 31/07/2010 21:29

We do.

YANBUTiggaxx