What do you do with your old tents (love the farm, leave no trace)

[bexj]

I always bring my tent home... and as a result, I've now got 7 mainly broken tents in the cupboard under the stairs.   I'm not keen on sending them to landfill, but most are too broken to viably repair.  I can't really move house to get a bigger understair space.... what do you do with them?

[stuartbert two hats]

15 minutes ago, bexj said:

I always bring my tent home... and as a result, I've now got 7 mainly broken tents in the cupboard under the stairs.   I'm not keen on sending them to landfill, but most are too broken to viably repair.  I can't really move house to get a bigger understair space.... what do you do with them?

Seven? What the fuck are you doing to them?  How many years/festivals is that over?

[bexj]

Haha about 25 years of festivals and camping trips, some wombled ones and one that belongs to a friend who couldn't tell his (now ex) wife he liked festivals! 

[Waapster]

I dump mine at Latitude. (Love the Farm).

[Perks]

3 hours ago, bexj said:

Haha about 25 years of festivals and camping trips, some wombled ones and one that belongs to a friend who couldn't tell his (now ex) wife he liked festivals! 

He couldn't tell his wife he liked festivals? Wow. No wonder it's ex wife. I didn't mean than nastily by the way. Realised when I typed it, it might have looked that way.

why couldn't he say he liked festivals?

sorry I'm no help on your actually issue. I have a broken one in my possession too!..

[Wanderlei]

I had a few old tent in the attic. One day i'm going to combine them and construct a tent favella (and then declare myself king, obviously)

[bexj]

Long story Perks,  but he had a whole web of things he didn't tell his wife about. I don't know how he did for 15 years, but there you go... he's a good man.

So no better ideas than dump it at Latitude?

[stuartbert two hats]

3 hours ago, bexj said:

Long story Perks,  but he had a whole web of things he didn't tell his wife about. I don't know how he did for 15 years, but there you go... he's a good man.

So no better ideas than dump it at Latitude?

No wonder she's his ex-wife, some severe communication issues in that relationship!  I love judging people from tiny snippits of information!

[guypjfreak]

Send them to me.. I'll make something out of them.. No landfill.. Before I got my beddie I collected tents at each festival we went to then gave them to people how didn't have a tent either for camping or festival events. 

 

[The Nal]

I go around to the nearest DSPCA shelter and chuck it in with the kittens and let them choke on it. Leave no trace.

[pauladam]

I own three tents, all in good condition mainly (ok one might have a few suspicious little holes in the groundsheet) - have only ever had to send one to landfill after someone rocking back and forth in a camping chair fell backwards and straight through the side of the tent (thankfully on the last night of the festival in question!) - there was no coming back for that one - shame to send it to landfill, but it was the only option as I had no use for the fabric or poles (and it was a Lidl purchased tent too - so wasnt losing much money on it)

[scaryclaireyfairy]

I'm pretty sure that if I went digging I have a couple of crappy, useless 2 man tents stashed.  I don't know why.

[rachmac]

You could freecycle or put on local selling site or eBay for spares/repairs? 

[merago]

12 hours ago, bexj said:

Haha about 25 years of festivals and camping trips, some wombled ones and one that belongs to a friend who couldn't tell his (now ex) wife he liked festivals! 

Christ!  What did he tell his then wife when he actually attended a festival?  "Just popping off to the shops love..."

[siblin]

Some kind of glastonbury themed entry into the flugtag?

 

[Chazwozza]

I bought a good quality one off ebay for the 2008 festival and I re-use it each year.  It's heavy, but indestructible.  And now after more than half a dozen festivals it's like an old friend too.  But starting to show its age...

[Johnnyseven]

If you tent is knackered it's worth putting the poles up on ebay. In 2015 I came back to my tent to find someone asleep on top of it, the 2 of the 3 poles had snapped - luckily I had some electrical tape so along with a couple of tent pegs I could bodge a fix that lasted to the end of the festival. Tried to find new poles but the manufacturer wanted a lot for them so it wasn't worth it, it was cheaper to buy a new tent.

My advise re tents is to buy a decent one, they you don't need to keep buying them every year. After mine got destroyed a bought a cheap one from Decathlon and I have no reason to think it won't last a good few years, so not sure why anyone would have a load of old tents in their loft.

Edited April 20, 2017 by Johnnyseven

[gmb1992]

I have to admit, I don't camp in tents that I need to take back anymore I use one of Glasto's many alternative options  - this is because I HATE taking my tent down on the Monday when I'm knackered and have been guilty at other festivals of just leaving everything.