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dream reachers · RV-Dreams Family Member

boondocking from ladies view

Speedsgirl · RV-Dreams Community Member

Have plenty of drinking water. Paperplates and cups. Plastic utensils. Plenty of trash bags to wash your dishes in...HA

Have fun

mcw50 · RV-Dreams Family Member

When washing dishes (the ones you can't put in the trash smile

) use a dishpan. Don't let the water run while you're scrubbing. Empty the dishpan into the toilet so your gray water won't fill up as fast. Along those lines, don't let the shower run either....get wet, turn it off and then soap up, then rinse. We even have friends who stand in dishpans in the shower and dump that in the black tank as well. Watch your battery levels.

Mary

RVDude · RV-Dreams Family Member

First don't fret it, you'll have a blast for a couple days being "unplugged!"

The best advice, to sum up the above, is
"If you are not using it, turn it off"

Lights, water, TV, heat, etc. Sometimes it takes a little conscious thought to figure out waste (water running while brushing teeth, shower running full bore while soaping, heater/AC blasting while no one home, and those darn lights that are on for the sake of being on, etc.) but once we think about it and react it becomes routine to save/conserve.

Probably stuff we should do anywhere and all the time as part of our individual effort to be green.

Boondocking is great fun, adds a little challenge to RVing, and lets you be in places you might not ever see otherwise. I do it all the time and w/o genset most of the time!

-- Edited by RVDude at 09:57, 2008-03-11

Cindy T · RV-Dreams Family Member

Make sure you have plenty of water, plenty of propane, batteries for flashlights, extra mantles for lanterns. I sometimes take "wet wipes" for cleaning hands and disinfectant wipes for cleaning counters & tables, rather than using water. Have a checklist of necessities and go thru it before you leave. I love being out in the boonies, so enjoy!

dream reachers · RV-Dreams Family Member

Thanks for all the info. We are ready to go.

alspa · RV-Dreams Community Member

We are on our 3rd motorhome.....we have always had a sink water saver; on our faucets, and I just went out to the rig and saw they do not have any printed or embossed name on them....however, we got this rig without any and we found two last year before we left for 5 months, so they are still around....probably at camping world or do a search on saving water saving accessories to get the name.
They are used on boats and RV's so may be found in sports and campstores.

It is a round 1"long replacement for the screen filter on your sinks with a wand sticking out about 2 to 3 inches. When you turn the water on the wand jiggles but does not let the water out....Only when you push the wand sideways does the water flow out. (unless you twist it clockwise, then it will flow continuiously) So when you wash anything at the sinks, the water is not continuously flowing , only when you push the wand does it come out.......Saves 65% of your sink fresh water....not adapted to shower only sink. Woulden't be without one. Have camped as long as a week (next to a stream to swim in) with fresh water in our tank using it carefully.

Luvglass · RV-Dreams Family Member

I just did a Google search on "sink water saver" and can't come up with anything like you describe. Do you have any additional information that would allow us to find this? It really looks interesting.
Thanks,
Fred

netters · RV-Dreams Family Member

I found this online. Is this what you are talking about?

http://www.watersticks.com/watersaver.htm

Looks like it works the way that you explained it. Hope this helps others. We will be ordering one for our RV

RVDude · RV-Dreams Family Member

Here's a fancy electronic one...

And another stick model - scroll down to the "water saving gizmo"
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Strom · RV-Dreams Community Member

Here's another type of water saver.

http://www.rvwebstore.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=53

blijil · RV-Dreams Family Member

Well the weekend has passed. How did it go?

Larry and Jacki

dream reachers · RV-Dreams Family Member

We appreciate everyone's suggestions. The weekend was great. The batteries lasted four days. We had plenty of water and the grey and black water tanks did not have to be dumped before we left. The temperature was good with just fans. We learned how to conserve everything. The rally had lots of interesting seminars and entertainment. We came down with a bad case of the hitch itch. 62 days to go.

Jeanne and Allan