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[Smally]

I left my tent at the last festival I went to (Leeds 10), bit gutted I did. It lasted about 13 festivals so I got my moneys worth. The only reason I left mine was because it had mold growing in it from where I previously hadn't aired it.

[Kyelo]

Gothenburg83, on 24 January 2012 - 01:20 PM, said:

Cheers for the answer! It baffles me that brand new tents only used once are left behind! there would be thousands left behind at a lot of festivals around the country. The mentality of people these days has total changed even from 10 years ago, they don't take pride in their belongings. Happens everywhere

Why would anyone take pride in a £20 Tesco tent though? The reason I have left tents in the passed wasn't because of laziness but because of being barely capable to walk to the car, still steaming! Never done it at Glastonbury or in a few years though, I now have £200 2 man tent that is perfect for my requirements. So won't bin it until it falls apart.

[crunknstein]

Wait a minute,
If those who are leaving the tents behind are so wasteful and lazy, arn't they providing the less wasteful and lazy amongst us with an endless supply of free tents, to be cleaned up, mended, and sold on to some needy users.
I recycled a tent last year at a small festival near salisbury and ended up not only with a great campers dream of a 4-man pop tent, but also a load of beautiful quality (albeit a little muddy) bed linen, and enough dry food to feed half of sub-saharan africa for a few weeks.
Thankyou for your laziness, scum of consumerism.

Edited by crunknstein, 07 March 2012 - 10:32 AM.

[tonyblair]

crunknstein, on 07 March 2012 - 10:21 AM, said:

Wait a minute,
If those who are leaving the tents behind are so wasteful and lazy, arn't they providing the less wasteful and lazy amongst us with an endless supply of free tents, to be cleaned up, mended, and sold on to some needy users.
I recycled a tent last year at a small festival near salisbury and ended up not only with a great campers dream of a 4-man pop tent, but also a load of beautiful quality (albeit a little muddy) bed linen, and enough dry food to feed half of sub-saharan africa for a few weeks.
Thankyou for your laziness, scum of consumerism.

some are left in a usable state, while others are torn, bits missing, some have been shat in and left because they can't be arsed to go to the loo. I wouldn't like to recycle them

after a muddy weekend, the state of many of the dumped tents is beyond hope

[pryce]

i left my tent behind at pukkelpop ... for the reasons of

a) tent poles snapped due to the incredibly strong winds
b....as soon as we got out because it had collapased on top of us it blew away
c) we couldnt find it


plus im sure more people would take them back if they made the bag big enough to pack it back up

Edited by pryce, 07 March 2012 - 10:42 AM.

[Paul ™]

I got a tent at Reading last year which was brand new, still had the tags on it and was spotless.. they had even went to the effort to clean out the inside and wipe it down with babywipes.
I took it to Bestival with me and brought it home, will be using it along with my other 2 or 3 tents I have collected.

[tonyblair]

Paul ™, on 07 March 2012 - 10:53 AM, said:

I got a tent at Reading last year which was brand new, still had the tags on it and was spotless.. they had even went to the effort to clean out the inside and wipe it down with babywipes.
I took it to Bestival with me and brought it home, will be using it along with my other 2 or 3 tents I have collected.

they'd probably just nipped off to the loo or something before they packed the tent up ....

(joking...)

[Paul ™]

tonyblair, on 07 March 2012 - 11:01 AM, said:

they'd probably just nipped off to the loo or something before they packed the tent up ....

(joking...)

Haha.. this was on the Tuesday mate once the site was well clear of the public*



*I was working there

[Stalemate]

I do it out of laziness, every year I leave my tent still there pitched up, fuck putting it down and carrying it back after a weekend like that.

[Flip]

Stalemate, on 07 March 2012 - 12:31 PM, said:

I do it out of laziness, every year I leave my tent still there pitched up, fuck putting it down and carrying it back after a weekend like that.

Cock!

[Bobs]

Well someone thought it'd be hilarious to piss in my tent on the final night at glastonbury (eventually revealed to be 5 people), so even though i had an absolute belter of a tent, it really was amazing, but at 5 am, the last thing i wanted to be doing was dragging a muddy pissy tent across the festival, nor did i really want to give in a piss filled tent to the recycling people, i felt that would have been scummy, (i realise now that someone would have had to pick it up eventually, but it was 5am), so i disasembled it and left it tidily before it got basically destroyed anyway, so again apologies.

[coma girl]

I can understand not wanting to take a tent home if its totally broken but at least dump it in the bin not just leave it where you were camped. Working at T last year we were in the campsite on sunday afternoon and I couldn't believe the number of tents in good nick which had already been abandoned, and they certainly weren't all £20 Tesco jobs. Even if I wanted to ditch my tent I couldn't afford to buy a new tent every year.

[mikeydude]

Ther's always loads of tents that seem abandoned.  It's well worth packing them up and taking them home.  I got three almost brand new ones last year on the friday just after the bands started playing.

Seriously though.  When walking out after the last several Glasto's most tents I pass abandoned seem to be either damaged beyond economical repair or are so covered in mud as to make it near impossible to pack away in your best going home on the bus / train / car clothes.  The number of "Good" tents appeared to be only a small part of the whole.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

My mate is overrun with the number of abandoned tents he's packed up and taken home with him. I think it's now got to the point of fetishism! I really don't know how he does it after days and nights of getting very little sleep. He already brings a staggering amount of stuff to the festival. I suppose not all of that weight needs to be taken home again because it's food and drink. Still, I couldn't contemplate it.

[cheeseisamazing]

Personaly never left my tent behind. Left a gazebo however as my friends wouldn't help me and insisted on leaving ¬¬
So there's one: In a rush (have almost done this myself when got the coach to reading)
Plenty of my friends have left tents behind because there broken
General laziness is a factor; Tents are heavy and when going on public transport a pain

I've also had a few friend who have had the 'lets buy a cheap tent and leave i behind.' i mean i think a lot of people have this attitude, I remember reading a (shit) festival guide in a magazine where someone suggested buying cheap tents purposely so you can leave them behind after the festival (#twat.)

Come to think of it apart from broken ones all the tents people i know have left behind have been pretty cheap- i.e the £5 Tesco ones (which brake easy and are useless when it rains)

[grumpyhack]

I get really sad reading some of the comments here.  I've never even left a tent peg behind.  If nothing else it's out of respect for the people who've made their land available for the festival.  Trash someone's place too much and you may not get it again.