Camping gift box pressie ideas please

[summerlovingliz]

Looking to put together a birthday camping box of cool things for a female friend budget only £20 ish, any ideas please?

She-Wee
Flint and Strike
Plastic wine glass

Head torch
these

Head torch

Citronella candles
Head torch
Warm fluffy bed socks
Creepy crawly sucker upper!
Large enamel coffee cup and some nice coffee or tea.

Poundland has a range of camping stuff in their shops as well.

Bottle opener / corkscrew.
Insect repellent.

A woolly hat.

I did one recently I put in a fab camping handbook pocket guide from Amazon.
County walking magazine
A head torch
A tiny roll up towel
Walking socks
Camping cutlery
Other bits and bobs from Sports direct. They had some bargains. I wouldn't have thought of looking there.

Some warm socks

A lighter or six. I keep just trying to think of things I could never find and were a real pain to do without last weekend.

Thanks all some great ideas, defo gonna get fluffy socks, any more?

Those Turkish towels hammam I think they're called from Amazon.
M and S tinned food to serve with packets of ready cooked rice.

Microfibre towel for the showers. Definitely M&S tinned meats. Solar lights/lantern.

Midge net! Cheap as chips and folds up teeny for packing.

The cool camping cookbook

Skin So Soft from Avon, best midgie repellent known to man.

A spork www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0024M8WRA/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?qid=1434840936&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX110_SY165&keywords=spork&dpPl=1&dpID=212w5WN2o0L&ref=plSrch

A bag of marshmallows.

Uco candle lanterns are very lovely - you could get a mini one for £15 - maybe cheaper if you shop around.

Not terribly practical really but very pretty and the light they produce is lovely.

Ooh, I'd forgotten about Skin So Soft, brilliant stuff. Off to order some.

My girls did similar for my husband's Father's Day present. The 99p shop was great. Torch, chopping boards, tin opener, cork screw, matches, coffee bags,cutlery, tongs, wooden spoons.

Definitely headtorch and microfibre towel. Telescopic fork for toasting marshmallows. The fluffy bed socks are an inspired suggestion above. Maybe a hot water bottle. Maybe a collapsible water bottle

Those collapsible water bottles are a great idea and they sell them in M&S shops too if you need one in a hurry.

If you have time and are near a LIDL, these look like they might be a cost effective alternative to a hammam towel: www.lidl.co.uk/en/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=24577&ar=1

The 99p shop are currently doing a string hammock in their camping gear - don't know how good it would be but quite fun.

A packet of butchers' hooks are a good idea too - v useful for hanging things on in and out of the tent (got that idea from Blu I think)...

A string of fairy lights if she may be a closet glamper maybe?

One of these: www.halfords.com/motoring-travel/camping-caravanning/camping-equipment/yellowstone-pack-away-silicone-cups. Four collapsible silicon cups with handles for tea in their own carry bag - what's not to like?

Also this flameless cooker looks cool: www.halfords.com/motoring-travel/camping-caravanning/camping-equipment/yellowstone-flameless-cookset

Sticking with the collapsible theme, has anyone suggested a collapsible kettle? www.halfords.com/motoring-travel/camping-caravanning/camping-equipment/vacanza-by-outwell-smart-kettle. They come in other colours if you search a bit too.

Is she wild camper / campfire type of camper? If so I recommend a granpa's toasting fork which turns any stick into a toasting fork for toast, marshmallows or sausages over a fire. Though you could just use the stick for marshmallows, to be fair.

On the lighter advice below: you need a turbo-flame style lighter, not an ordinary bic / cigarette type lighter - you can point it horizontally at your cooker, BBQ, fire, etc without burning your fingers.

Yes, I am the butchers hook advocate - especially for hanging over the top of shower cubicle doors when there are never enough hooks, but also from a line hung between trees or whatever.

And I love these £3 lights: you can stand them up, hang them from an overhead hook, or tree, and I have even threaded one through my pyjama top buttons as a reading light here very light to carry.

These lights are good too: www.decathlon.co.uk/clic-camp-tent-pack-id_8300639.html. That is the tent pack with a remote control for added laziness, and there is also a hiking pack which allows you to put the lights on a headband to turn them from a tent light into a headtorch - very useful. We have a couple of them and they do throw out a decent light.

Although I must admit, I do like those Vango ones.

I saw those lights on Decathlon and couldn't make head nor tail of what it was they did. Plus they seemed pricey, especially given I couldn't work out how to use them.

With your explanation they seem a lot more tempting!