Your all time no. 1 festival tip

[grumpyhack]

That, or one of these....

http://www.stubbi.co...ds&cat=1&loc=uk

I use mine all the time

[JennyMc]

Vaseline.

Always mean to take it, and always forget.

Good for dry lips, blisters and even dodgy zips that get a bit stuck!

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Can't believe reading a topic predominantly about toilets has made me so excited

[Wirephil]

Vaseline.

Always mean to take it, and always forget.

Good for dry lips, blisters and even dodgy zips that get a bit stuck!

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Can't believe reading a topic predominantly about toilets has made me so excited

[Jason447]

Don't inadvertently dance to the beat of the shitsucker when you are off your nut and are waiting outside the portaloos. You'll only look stupid. I speak from experience.

[zoso70]

Stick valuable & vital items (cash, car keys, credit cards) in the lock-ups. They are free, safe, and allow you to concentrate on the other stuff you might lose like your mates, way, mind etc.

[mandypants]

They gave out old 35 mm film canisters at Glasto one year. I've still got mine and went off afterwards to a film processing shop and was given a load more. They're better than Stubbis because they're air tight so the smell doesn't permeate into your clothes. Best are the ones with an aluminium container and a plastic lid as you can stub out a lighted fag in the aluminium bit.

[DaveMac]

Go to Poundland and buy 2 spaceblankets and a pack of pegs.Put the reflective spaceblankets over your tent and hold them in place with the pegs.

This will give you another hour of sleep in the morning as tents turn quickly into saunas by 8.30am (or earlier) and you won't be able to sleep well.

The space blankets 'rustle' a bit in the wind but aren't too bad especially if you use quite a few pegs...

I have used this for a couple of years now and it definately works !

[TheNewUnion]

Headtorch, for navigation, general organising and taking care of your "toilet requirements" at night. Head torches leave both hands free for whatever you need your hands for!

[THEBOILERMAN]

babywipes!

[VeeDub]

These have probably been mentioned, but no harm in giving them another shout!

1. Buy a roll of bin liners. Use these to line your bag, put clothes in inside your bag, put your sleeping bag inside one inside its stuff sack, and put your tent inside one inside its carry case. This way, if you are queuing in the rain then at least your tent and clothes will be dry when you pitch up!

2. Whatever of that roll of bin liners you don't use, take with you to the festival. Use for bin bags, dirty clothes bag, porch liner, seat, tent repairs etc.....

3. When walking to/from your car with your big rucksack on, have it properly adjusted! They are designed for you to use the waist straps which in turn takes a large portion of the weight of your back. Saves your back a lot of aggro!

4. Head torch.

5. Little 1st Aid Kit (one between your group should suffice). Plasters, dressing and dressing tape, paracetamol, anti diarreah tablets etc...

6. Vitamin tablets - don't want to be catching a cold at Glasto!

Edited May 3, 2011 by VeeDub

[MamaJojo]

I got one of these a few years back...so easy

[BoEsEpH]

Car Freshner (magic tree) tied up in the tent. Keeps it smelling nice.

Also keep it in the tent when packing it away so the next time you come to use it - the tent smells nice

When using the portaloos go in one that a female has just walked out of. She's bound to have cleaned the place up rather than a lad who's more inclined to 'sprayin & prayin' the bowl

[Gnomicide]

When using the portaloos go in one that a female has just walked out of. She's bound to have cleaned the place up rather than a lad who's more inclined to 'sprayin & prayin' the bowl

[LusciousLucy]

If faced with a lot of Portatoilets that are on a hill stretching away from you and a queue of people at the bottom waiting...walk past them, head up the hill and use the ones at the top. These are often super clean because lazy silly human beans like to queue at the nearest toilets rather than use their noggins for the toilets furthest away. Best example for this are those near the Cider Bus. The ones at the top nearer Kidney Mead are often spotless.

Always check for feet in the longdrops. Queues are often pointless as people stand at the side but dont check which are empty and sometimes queue for just 3 toilets out of 8 that are actually in use while the rest have noone in.

DONT leave the tap on when brushing your teeth or else you will make people angry and you may find a slightly angry person coming along and using your running wasted water to fill up a bottle while you stand there like a numpty acting as if you are back safe in your own home Grrrr. There WILL be a drought this summer...use the water wisely.

Drink water though. Stay hydrated and dont let sunburn/dehydration ruin your weekend.

[ICGenie]

DONT leave the tap on when brushing your teeth or else you will make people angry and you may find a slightly angry person coming along and using your running wasted water to fill up a bottle while you stand there like a numpty acting as if you are back safe in your own home Grrrr. There WILL be a drought this summer...use the water wisely.

[MyTwistedWords]

If by some miracle the bright light of dawn wakes you up, resist the temptation to lie in. Get down to the sinks and have a nice relaxing wash before the other 100,000 people start queuing up in front or behind you. Then go back to lie in. You get to spend ages at the sinks if you get there early.

[Rootsfran]

Batiste Dry Shampoo

My link

[Baby On A Stick]

One of the best things I found was Magi Cool. About £4 a can (usually take two but that wasn't quite enough last year!). It's a cool spray in a can that when you wake up in a furness you just spray over you and you get a little more shut eye. God send!!

[Kyelo]

Loads of people, including some on this thread, swear by a head torch... in all my festivals I've never felt the need for!

[geebus]

As most has been covered already -

To avoid the crowds leaving a band but still get near the front; crowd surf out in the last song or two (takes a bit of guess work).

[Squiby]

Camp in pennards, when you wake up at 7 am because years if having small children has changed the time your brain wakes upforever, get up and go and have a proper shower at the Greenpeace Showers Buy a cup of tea on way back to tent and then laze around tent area having breakie or whatever till you feel ready to hit the site for the day all clean and fresh. Did this every day for 6 days, will be doing it again this year.

Further to the previous point leave aforesaid small children at home with grandparents and have a wicked carefree time behaving like teenagers again!!

[geebus]

I go for a shower in green peace showers mid-afternoon - means you wash away the midway dust (or mud) and sweat, ready for the evening.

No queues then either.

[twirlygirl]

Take a bucket if you can. We use one for carrying the little things into the festival like a couple of can of beer for the walk between carpark and campsite. This will also prove very handy for carrying water to make your cup of tea in the morning, washing yourself properly in your tent, great for girls needing to wash their hair, mucky children etc, washing your tea cups in etc,etc. Remember though you drink and clean with this water....don't double it up as a pis* bucket.

[ark]

OR a folding bucket

Edited May 8, 2011 by ark

[Lucanesque]

Someone's already mentioned taking a collapsible water carrier, also take a collapsible kitchen sink Great for having a strip wash in the tent rather than queueing for the showers.

My top tip though is Dry Bags. Get a small brightly coloured one for keys, ipod, money, etc, and then check it in the Lock Up, not only does it stop everything inside it getting damp, if you get a brightly coloured one then it's easy to point to (small bags usually end up on the top shelves). Bigger dry bags for clothes.

Oh, another tip, camping towels, anti bacterial so they don't stink after a few days, small and light, and dries quickly.

One final one, if you plan on carrying a rucksack rather than using a trolley, then load it all up a few weeks before. Go up and down some stairs a few times, and if you think "f**k me that's heavy" then it will probably kill you on the walk in from the car parks. Unpack, see what you can leave behind, and repeat. If it is still too heavy, buy a trolley!