in my long and varied camping career i have never peed (or worse!) in a bucket

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boak @ all you bucketeers

Good point! I wouldn't do it at the site we go to for our summer holiday. There are people the other side of our hedge! The time I did pee outside we were in the New Forest and I wasn't weeing anywhere someone would pitch their tent.

Zoflora is great for cleaning out the bucket in the morning.

Perhaps I just don't get up early enough to witness the furtive parade of bucket-emptiers. I'm too exhausted from traipsing to the toilet in the night LOL.

I put it in a carrier bag.

Neither have I. I don't like to squat either. I once spent 48 hours in Thailand without doing a wee because I was wearing trousers and I can't squat unless I take my trousers off. Also went 10 days in Africa without doing a poo.

Ds has a strong bladder and bowel like me and he is always surprised when he sees children wee in bushes as he can hold it for hours.

Dh's aunt once weed in a handbag when she was stuck in a traffic jam, I have never looked at her in the same way since I was told that.

When I about to trek the Inca trail a few years ago, all I wanted to ask before we left was how would we go to the loo. But I was too embarrassed to ask and no one volunteered the information. Would you like to know?

There is a toilet tent, with a sort of biological toilet in it. The porters set it up at every lunch and overnight stop. You have to sprinkle powder on your poo which does something to it and then they can use it as fertiliser and it's very welcome apparently because it's so barren up there. But some poor sod did have to carry 4 days' worth of poo up and down the mountains

When I am camping far from loos I use a Lenor bottle - wide neck you see

I couldn't be doing with someone carrying my poo around. I would just wait until I got home.

well I have a bucket with lid and its a godsend

1. I have a kidney condition which means i often need a wee 3+ times nightly - now I aint trapsing across a field THAT many times a night for anyone

1. I often camp alone with my young DD and would feel uncomfortable leaving her alone to go to the loos

1. DD is finding bucket a great help in managing her own wee needs as we have had problems with bedwetting - she has recently started waking just before needing the loo and can make the bucket - would have wet herself before getting to loo block

1. Following advice from UKcampsite .co.uk I now put a carrier bag with cat litter inside my bucket - absorbs all smells and liquid and you then just tie up and throw away - of if you buy biodegradable stuff you can put on compost bin If i forget I just swill out daily with some hot water and dash of zoflora and its all clean and fresh thanks

My lidded bucket is first thing packed in the car every trip aside from the tent

If I could have gone without a poo, believe me I would have done. Andean food was quite bowel enhancing though.

me neither
but i have a huge bladder. I only wee about 3/4 times a day anyway.

My friend is a bucketeer and sometimes they don't empty it till after breakfast

The thought of it makes me feel ill - YUCK!

Has anyone else read that book, 'The tent, the bucket and me'? The title is a reference to a pretty horrible anecdote about how wrong it can all go with 3 year olds and buckets in tents (shudders at the memory of it). Might convert even the die hard bucketeers!

Have never had a bucket myself, presume I have a v strong bladder cos getting through the night has never been much of an issue. But have nipped round the back of the tent on the odd occasion rather than walking miles in the dark to the toilets - too much of a scaredy cat for that!

One of my friends decided wee into her son's potty one night when she was desperate, and only when she was in full flow' did she realise that there was going to be a serious capacity issue - yikes!!

Do you know me philo? I switched to a bucket after too many near-overflow situations with dd's potty.

Since the unfortunate incident at the Tracquair Festival Camping with the vomit worthy portaloos that didn't flush, leading to the so painful I couldn't walk for about 3 days UTI, I have taken travel johns when we go camping ( thankfully not too often)

Basically a gel bag you wee into and then it crystalises so no worrying about spills or knock overs in the morning.

Dh hates the idea of it, but then he seems to have a camel bladder and its either put up with the presence of the travel john or NO camping ( which would be my personal preference actually)

We have just got back from a weeks camping and I couldn't be without my bucket. My bladder just goes into overdrive when camping, I think its to do with being zipped into my sleeping bag, as soom as the zip is up I have to go. Now trying to get out of a tent without waking dd2 or the dog is a bit tricky so the bucket it is (I would rather do that than pitch next to the toilet block)

Now the only problem this time was that I didn't realise that DH was also using said bucket for the washing up now even this was a step too far for me and he was severely reprimanded. We did have two buckets but apparently space was so tight in the car that one bucket had to go.

His revelation put me off my breakfast I can tell you - it seems I might have eaten some of his piss as well as my own . I have installed a failsafe, never to be repeated, new washing up receptical.

Good info re the cat litter. I tend to wee a couple of times during the night too. That is two children from the fanjola later rather than any kidney things though.

Saying that, we will be bringing along a potty for DS aged 2. But is it a bit gross for everyone (i.e. Me, his Mum and his sister age 5. Dad can do a hedge thing) to use it?

cat litter! it just gets worse.

Actually rereading the rest of the threads, I will dissuade DP to do the hede thing.

Damn!
Am camping this w/e and DH put the Lenor bottle on the re-cycling this mornng....can I get home in time to retrieve it?

I think it is v anti-social to be zipping and unzipping tents noisily in the night, a bucket is much more considerate.

Me neither Chevre (excepting the camp toilets when I was a guide / st johns cadet which were sort of buckets, though big ones with toilet fluid in

A bucket isn more considerate? Not comapred to the swearing when the boys miss it, slip over in pudle and send remaining contenmts over rest of tent at 3am it's not!

PMS (in a bucket) L

I have never used a bucket either, and have had a quick wee behind the tent at night on occasion too.