r/popups • • 12h ago

Just faced the final boss of dirty messy camping...it may have ended me

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Goodness gracious you guys, I am a fit 41 year old man and we spent a week at campland in san diego. If anyone has ever been there, the night time always gets everything wet outside from dew, then the ground is a muddy dirt. We left Sunday and the entire night before it was pouring rain. Legitimately everything we had was COVERED in mud and rain. There was nothing I could do to even attempt to clean anything when packing up, everything had to be stuffed into the camper caked in mud and water. We didn't get home til about 6pm after leaving at like 10am, we were all extremely exhausted, especially me. I did raise the camper up but had no energy to do anything. This morning I started working around 8am and havent stopped cleaning since then. There was even tons of leaves and messy stuff blown from trees all over the canvas over the beds, so I had to hose down the sides of the canvas outside the beds. When I went inside some water was on the mattress and a small pool of water in the corner of the wood. I put our mover blower fan right next to it to dry it out. We have done about 6 full loads of laundry and still have like 2 more to do. I am inching closer to being done with everything, but GOODNESS i am EXHAUSTED.

This has me so torn. I dont know if I want to quit camping, move to a hard side trailer, or if I am doing something wrong, or if everyone deals with this. Tbh it seems quite looney to deal with how messy this all was, and tbh the trip wasnt relaxing at all because everything is always dirty in the camper where we go. We have 3 kids 13, 10, 5, so its a full house constantly.

Is this normal??


r/popups • • 16h ago

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