Who really wees in a bucket and dare I ask what you do with it???

[Amandella]

OK, so embarrassed to be asking this as a camping novice but what DO you do when you need a pee in the night and can't face a wet walk across the field to the loos in the dark?? Does anyone take a wee bucket?? Do you empty it there and then (where??) or leave it to fester until the next morning?? Kids are strangely keen on peeing in a bucket - I'm dreading the idea but feel it might be necessary!! And I thought childbirth was undignified..... Have told them they'd have to put loo paper in different bag or something and then we can dispose of pee pee but our campsite is surrounded by caravans, people, tents... is it against the camping rules to empty pee into grass or do we carry to the loo to dispose of it

I'm sorry that you have done some real damage to your arm, but am sat chuckling at th eimage your tale brings up- sorry but it is amusing- poor you having to explain it to a dr tho

this is why you need a deeeep bucket and a disposable nappy. the nappy asorbs all embarassing noise and at least some of the wee.

i suppose if you want a realy environmentally friendly pee bucket you could use hay or something now there's an idea. doya tink there'd be room for a bale in the car along with all the other essentials?

hope your arm is o.k - 2 years is quite awhile to have been suffering.

It is not actually my arm but my collar bone. Am just waiting for the results of the X Ray to be sent to GP.

Am camping this weekend and due to occasional pelvic floor weakness am definitely taking a bucket. Will just empty it into the loos in the morning, taking disinfectant and water with me to sloosh it out afterwards.

Katie poor you!
I was going to say we used to have a bucket when we were kids for in the night. May need one now DS is out of nappies. But I always go to the toilet blocks at night if I need a wee.

I would go to the toilet block at night, but I have such a weak bladder (get up at least 4 times a night if I haven't drank alcohol!) if I have then its double!!!! In my eyes far too many times in traipsing up the field!

I do so wish I could blame it on the DDs, but they seem to have bladders like "well all I can say is like an ox!" It never seems to need emptying! I am so jealous"!!!

Katie- I think I may be in the same boat this year. DS has not weed at night since he was about a year old, but I'll be 7+ months pregnant by our last big summer holiday this year- I feel I may want to go in a bucket instead, but not sure if it would be physically possible! Maybe a travel commode

Pinky LOLs! Oh bless you!

I wish you you more luck than me! - just miss out the beer! lol

You lot all need a She Wee

I so very nearly bought one on my last trip to Amazon.

For this trip I got my lidded nappy bin from mothercare, swing bin liner and big compostable nappy liner thing in that. Never got to try it out as trip curtailed to one night only

And ewww eww eww to you wee-ers and drainers of wee behind tent. Gawd the whole site would be stinking of piss if everyone did that. Not nice. Please desist and piss in a bucket.

We're about to go camping as a family for the first time in a couple of weekends. I went a lot as a child and remember with horror the nighttime wakings (never mind having to get up and take children). So we got a bucket with a toliet lid on it. And yes it was a little pricy, but at least I can sit on it without any problems. I've done the festival bucket squat - it hurts.

Most of the campsites have a chemical toliet disposal area - planning to chuck it down there.

And shepees are wonderful inventions as well. Don't go to any festival without one.

shudders at the rememberance of chemical loos at any time

LOL just followed your link Slubber to the Shewee and cracked up at that fact that there were 7 new and used ones for sale!!

This isn't a particularly helpful story but I just had to share for the pee-in-a bucket topic.

When I was a student I went to Russia and the host family I was staying with took me to their dacha (this means country house, but what it basically was, was a glorified shed in a kind of shanty town in the middle of a forest. There was no plumbing of course, so there was a privy at the bottom of the plot with a bucket under a wooden seat. At night the bucket was brought into the dacha because it was too dark to see to the privy.

There was also no electricity, so as there was no fridge, food was kept in buckets in the kitchen.

Guess where the pee bucket was put at night. Yep. Along side the buckets for bread and meat. And of course it was very dark.

I don't need to say any more do I?

oh no fluffyanimal, was it you or one of the family?

I flatly refused to use the pee bucket during the night.

I also politely declined breakfast.

Fluffy, well, the bread would be soggy, wouldn't it, but I bet the meat would rinse off a treat.... (by meat, do you mean those inverted bacon lumps, which are huge lumps of fat with the occasional pink streak running through?) Ah, fond memories.

Love the nappy/liner/in bin liner/in bucket ideas!

Eww!! you lot are disgusting.

Note to self don't pitch up too near the bushes in a campsite and don't let the kids play in the pongy bushes.

Surely if you are on a campsite you just go to the loos, or use a bucket and empty it in the loos or chemical disposal bit. If you have a family of four peeing in the same bushes for a week then have another family the next week it is starting to get a bit gross, and fecking lazy to tip a bucket of pee into the bushes in the morning.

If you are wild camping with no loos fair enough but on a commercial campsite I think it is pretty poor.