When you go off site, where do you leave your stuff?

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If you camp in a tent and go off site for the day, where do you leave your stuff? I'm talking campbed, utensils, cooking hob, etc? I might be worried they'd get stolen.

Er... In the tent? I bring valuables eg phone, cash, iPads etc with us in the car (or lock them in the car if walking off site) but by and large people are trusting on campsites and theft is rare.

The camping community is pretty honest. I would be surprised if there any stolen items.

Same

Yep, just in the tent. Never really thought about it. At campsites and festivals. Nothing's likely to get stolen.

Same, valuables in car but bed/sleeping bag/chairs/clothes etc in the tent.

Nobody wants to steal my sweaty sleeping bag 😂

In the tent.
If you're worried about opportunistic theft, such as someone just unzipping for a quick grab, you can put a small padlock through the zip-pulls to make sure nobody can get in.
If someone is hell-bent on getting to the contents of your tent, they can just slash the canvas. But as a PP said, campers are usually pretty honest. Festival crowds at some festivals can be a different matter, with marauding thieves trying their luck in unattended tents.

Oh that's good to know. All my stuff is new, so I'd be devastated if it got stolen on my first trip.

We've camped over 40 times and never had anything stolen. Our kitchen stuff is inside the tent so the only things left outside are the chairs and bbq under a gazebo. Take valuables in the car with you.

You don't tend to get people on the rob on campsites, not the ones we’ve been to anyway. It all feels very safe.

The only theft I've had whilst camping was some small rodents (presumably) who pinched my chocolate and then abandoned the remains outside my tent.

Lock up your dairy milk!

The only unwelcome visitor we have had while on a site was a cow in our caravan awning (Luckily we had the sides off and nothing inside).

Mice that's about it!

The only thief we've had was a badger which got into the porch looking for food in the small hours. We hadn't noticed the signs saying "keep
your food in the car".

we mostly camped where there were no other people. I was much more worried that some crazed person or a wild animal was going to come out of the woods and murder us than I was that someone was going to steal a lantern.

worst theft was a bear who commandeered all our food. It only took moments, but he was clearly waiting for us to mess up. When that happens you just walk away and from a distance enjoy the show of a bear who knows how to open containers.

We stupidly left scones in a bag and couldn’t understand where they had gone to be told by our next door campers her Valium had been nibbled by a squirrel!

Laughing at the animal stories , seagulls were responsible for the only thefts we've ever suffered

I'm loving seagull stories too!

I left my tent and contents, including some expensive kit - a camp stove and air bed and other bits and bobs and all was fine when I returned. I even left my camp stove outside overnight and no one stole it. They were a nice bunch on that campsite and all but one other camper had fancy motorhomes. There was only me and another person in our tents on site.

Wow, Devon goes from bad to worse, it really does.

I had a hedgehog in my frying pan (cooled but dirty) once.

Can see you've been and gone with nothing nicked but just to add, most people are packed with such tetris precision that even if your stuff was tempting they wouldn't want to upset the delicate balance of their boot/trailer/roofbox with your stuff 😂.

We’re in Australia and it’s the Cockatoos you have to watch out for! Once had them eat through the pocket in the side of the camping chair, through a plastic bag and unwrap all the foil so they could steal DD’s mini Easter eggs. On another trip they shredded a box of tissues we’d left outside 🤣

And kookaburras that steal the food off your fork as it’s on its way to your mouth.