To take a chamber pot with me when I go camping

[Brightspark1]

I'm looking forward to going to a festival and have no problem with camping. Except that after two DCs my bladder is not what it should be and I always have to go at night. The thought of getting up in the cold and wet inthe middle of the night to do a wee is very unappealing. I could use the pot and dispose of the contents discreetly in a bush in the morning.
Any thoughts?

Only where the hell will you find a chamber pot in this day and age

We've got an old one that was MILs

You need a shewee.

you need these

Potty would do, but my bum wouldn't fit

Ive got one. Was here when i bought the house

And plastic bottles. But don't leave them lying around too long. Or where anyone fancies a lager.

How about a bucket?

Small bucket? But don't leave it near your shoes just in case it gets knocked over

This is yesterday - Portable urinals! Brilliant idea. Do they really turn solid?

I bought an antique chamber pot in the charity shop. It now has an aspidistra in it.

Yeah if you've got one already go for it

Ah, I can solve this one

You need an empty fairy fabric softener bottle - they have the widest neck.... Have your wee, pop the lid back on the bottle, back to sleep then just empty your bottle down the portaloo in the morning. Less classy than a chamberpot but there we are...

Please don't dispose of the contents in a bush, take it to the loos. Campsites that smell of piss are vile remembers festival campsites where the men couldn't be bothered to go the portaloos and just pissed along the hedges instead

Point taken - cake crisis

TravelJohn does indeed go solid. Warm first, eep, then solid. Are you taking the DCs? I need to find the remaining two Johns from the pack, not only useful whenj feeling idle, but really didn't want to leave DD by herself in a tent on a festival campsite.

We went camping when I was 8 months pg with DD, after first night of trudging up the field four times I sent DH out for a bog standard bucket which got emptied in the back hedge in the morning. Do what you need to do, just chuck it out before your neighbours are up and don't kick it over in the middle of the night

i've never used a traveljohn myself, but have a friend who swears by them for the kids (or so she claims)

Seriously brightspark, traveljohns are the way to go. They do work. I'm personally quite a fan of the chamberpot, but i think you will struggle to find a bush to empty it in - greenery can be quite lacking, depending where you're off to. Tbh, most people just go outside the tent and hope no one is looking!

The TravelJohn is FAB. I use them when I go camping as I'm a nocturnal wee-er. And so much more pleasant than festival toilets at any time of day!

I pee at the back of the tent in the middle of the night...(outside mind you)

And behind the car during the day if the loos are too far away.

Disclaimer - hedge backed on to ditch and farmland, wouldn't have done this on a busy or crowded campsite!

RedMolly. and thankyou.

DCs are late teens , so won't be coming as they are mortified at the thought of DPs going to a festival at our stage of decrepitude. Are these travel johns easy to aim at?

Try reading The tent, the bucket and me

SORRY! NOOOOO! Do not read that book about Emma Kennedy camping in the 70s. The holiday where the tent got blown away in a storm so they sought shelter in a caravan, which got blown over and slid down hill and they had to climb out before it went off the cliff...

Definitely don't read that book!