Some years ago, I think it was summer 2004, Wife and I drove to Grandpa's Farm camp site somewhere in Indiana/Illinois (can't remember exactly) to meet her mom and husband. They were driving from Buffalo, us from OK. Grandpa's Farm was about the 1/2-way point.
We took our tiny little Hybrid camper (our first camper) and they showed up with their Spinnaker 33T 5th wheel (35' with 3 slides)... It rained the entire 3 day weekend and we spent most if it in their camper. Quite nice it was...
The one thing that impressed us most is how organized they were. Everything in their 'basement' had it's place, was easy to get to, and was something you wouldn't be ashamed to let anyone see. That made a huge impression upon us that lasts to this day.
Wifey and I are NOT the most organized people in the world. We're always in a hurry and many times, we don't take the time to do things "right".
Well the first 3 campers we had all had storage space for your "junk", and up to this point, ours always DID look like junk. Chaos at best.
Well we decided with this one to start with an inspiration taken from them... We are going to START organized...
BINS!!!! What fun to buy....
L= lights
W=water (fresh/drinking water supplies)
E=electrical
S=sewer stuff
MT-miscleaneous and tools
Our basement now looks like something even my dear father-in-law would be proud to show his friends.
This is a view in from the passenger (awning/entrydoor) side.
Here's a view in from the driver's/street side..
We have no disillusions that we won't mess it up. That's our nature. We're pretty disorganized.. But at least in this case, we started with something good.
In the past, we just drug all the junk from one camper to the other when we sold one. Essentially just transferring the chaos without any thought.
Hopefully we keep it up!!!