How / Where Do You Store Your Kit?

[Pongo]

Over the last couple of days I've been clearing out my spare room. A large part of this involved clearing out my gear cupboard, getting some shelving in, tossing out some random bits and pieces I thought would be useful (and aren't!) and so on...

So I got to thinking, firstly, I'm very fortunate to have dedicated a double cupboard to storing my gear and although it could be better, it could be a lot worse too.

By design hiking requires you to acquire miscellaneous bits of equipment of various sizes and shapes and because of this you have to put it somewhere!

So my question to this forum is, when you're not carting your gear around how / where do you store it? Is your gear cache a total mess or has OCD overtaken you and everything has its place?

[Moondog55]

Good question
According to my beloved I take up half the house and almost all the garage

[corvus]

Been told to clear out my "gear room" so we can put a bed in there for visitors
corvus

[Strider]

Bottom half of my wardrobe!

[Pongo]

Haha! These replies had me in stitches!

It's good to know I'm not the only one with a gear problem!

[GPSGuided]

It's a real problem. Any spare space in the half, or more like 1/4 of the wardrobe of my stuff, has already been taken up by my cycling gear. Outdoor/bushwalking gears are dotted around. Need two plastic storage boxes to collect them all. I worry that any more outdoor gears I buy for my wife would just end up in my side of storage.

[Bluegum Mic]

I have a large wardrobe dedicated to this and also includes all my ski n snowboard clothes/equipment too. My skis n boards are stored in my wheelie bag in the bottom of our (thankfully large) linen press. I drive my hubby coconuts

[Picaro]

Oh my, I feel a bit like I'm fronting up to Bushwalkers Anonymous.
I have 5 x70 ltr plastic storage boxes, and 5 backpacks on hooks. Plus a small cupboard for bits and bobs and food items.
Plus a shelf in another cupboard for my combinations of cooking gear....gas, metho and wood. Oh, and a 120 ltr duffle thats full of clothing.
Thats all in the garage, then theres a couple of down quilts in the wardrobe.

But its ok, I think I've nearly got everything I need now.

[DARRIN-G]

9x6 m Shed , Man cave . Started selling alot of gear that i dont use , justifies buying some updated stuff as iam finding what works for me...large 150 litre plastic container keeps the vermin out..

[Lizzy]

I have all my/our sleeping bags in my sons built-in wardrobe (he gets to use a smaller unit). In the living area I have 4 tubs and a set of draws and in the garage we have an old wardrobe that has packs, jackets, wetsuits etc..... would love a dedicated gear room but I dont think the kids are keen on sharing to suit my habit...lol

[photohiker]

I re-jigged part of my wardrobe:



The hang area for sleeping bags and quilts is brilliant, that's a long WM Ultralite in the front there.
The wire basket area is straight from Ikea, easy to install and very functional.

There's another narrow vertical section out of view that has lots of hooks to hang packs and stuff.

[Onestepmore]

Excellent question Pongo! In fact I had recently been thinking about asking the very thing as I was reorganising our laundry.

Down sleeping bags are puffed up in large calico bags on top of a cupboard in my son's room, and sleeping mats and other sleep gear are in the cupboard underneath. Packs live on top of the built in cupboard on the other side of the fireplace back in his room.
We're lucky to have a large storage room incorporated into our laundry, so a lot of this is taken up by our bushwalking gear - I have to confess I have a whole large shelf in the cupboard devoted solely to stoves and cooking pots and that kind of stuff. 'Good' tents etc live on another shelf. Hammock gear in a separate plastic storage box. Various lidded labelled stacking boxes for other things. A dedicated cupboard is also there for jackets, wet weather gear, ski boots etc. Down clothing lives in our spare room wardrobe.
Then hubby and I each have a 'go to' shallow plastic box that lives in our bedroom under my dressing table that contains the smaller personal items you bring on every trip, and favourite hat, buff, gloves,pocketknife, first aid kit etc. So you can easily find all the small essentials
Kids have their scout camp essentials in a drawer in each of their bedrooms
Electricial things live in a box in our computer room/office
Maps and books are on a separate shelf next to the fireplace in the computer room
Shoes in the bottom shelf of the walk in linen cupboard in a basket or boxes
Walking ploes with the shooting sticks etc in the umbrella stand
My good fishing rods live in the spare room
A separate box in the bottom of the walk in pantry for bushwalking food, packets etc that my kids are not allowed to pilfer for school lunches!
Bulky stuff like cast iron camp pots, bedourie ovens, spits, camp chairs and older larger tents, gazebos live in the garage
[PS garage is full of 'stuff']
Our large RV-5 tent lives in the hallway on a trestle, where it stays dry and unmolested by (potential) mice, rather than risk it living in the garage

Whew!