Article from: https://www.rei.com/blog/camp/22-camp-hacks-from-rei-experts

1. Warm your sleeping bag with a Nalgene

Some people were born with cold feet. To cope while camping, fill your Nalgene up with hot water and throw it in the bottom of your sleeping bag before bedtime.

2. Make your own lantern

After sunset, turn any translucent jug of water into a translucent jug of ambient light. Just strap your headlamp to your water bottle with the light facing inward and tell your scary story that isn’t scary at all.

3. Pack the bottom of your sleeping bag with dry clothes

If snuggling up to a bottle of hot water goes against your better judgment, try some dry clothes instead. They will soak up any moisture in the bottom of your sleeping bag and keep your favorite feet warm.

4. Line your pack with a heavy-duty garbage bag

Use garbage can science to help keep your stuff dry. Line your backpack with a plastic garbage bag and fill ‘er up.

5. Keep one pair of your socks safe

Learn to love sacred socks. Sacred socks are clean, dry socks that live in your sleeping bag for sleeping purposes only. It’s a beautiful thing.

6. Use silica gel packs in your cookware

Save those little silica gel packs and store them with your cookware to help prevent rust. All it takes is one rusty pan for everyone to start calling you Rusty and you just never come back from that.

7. Pack a trailhead snack

Send a gift to your future dirty, bug-bitten self by hiding your favorite snack in the car – only to be consumed upon completion of a successful camping trip. A little cookie can go a long way. Camping Hacks

8. Stuff sacks make good pillows

Pillows are for peasants. Rough it like you mean it by stuffing some clothes in your stuff sack and using that as a pillow.

9. Dry your shoes with crumpled clothes

There’s no use crying over wet shoes. Remove your insoles and stuff a dry shirt or some newspaper in your boots overnight to dry them out. If you’re still feeling emotional, write some poetry.

10. Try a plastic disc for a plate

Everything tastes better when you’re camping, and everything tastes super radical when you’re eating it out of a flying plastic disc. Forget your plates on purpose! What a world.

11. Hand sanitizer works as fire starter

Use hand sanitizer to start a germ-free fire in a pinch.

12. Or even lint

You can also bring some lint with you as a lightweight fire-starter. Unless you’re saving that lint for something really important.

13. Pack trick birthday candles for matches and fire starters

You know those trick birthday candles that everyone hates? Turns out, they make great weatherproof matches/fire starters. Now mother nature can hate them too!

14. Hang your clothes up with bread tags

Start stockpiling your bread tags. They make great clothespins and they’re kinda shaped like slices of bread, which is helpful.

15. Make a new grommet out of a rock

Lose a grommet? Twist a rock in the same corner to make a new anchor point. Give the rock a respectable name like Barnaby or Winifred.

16. Candle wax makes great zipper lubricant

Keep your zippers zippy by applying a little bit of candle wax from a very un-lit candle.

17. Bring your spices in sealed straws

Flame-sealed sections of drinking straws make handy spice holders and terrible water balloons.

18. Keep your down sleeping bag fluffy by drying it with tennis balls

When drying a down-filled sleeping bag, include a few tennis balls to preserve loft.

19. Put your drowned phone in a bag of rice. Cross your fingers

Drop your phone in the river? Put it in that bag of rice your vegan friend brought. Leave it in there for two days and it just might save your phone.

20. Make your own selfie stick with a real stick

Want to experience life from a stick’s perspective? Attach your GoPro to a stick!

21. Use that stick to make a tripod with your trekking poles

You can also make your own tripod with some trekking poles and that stick that you made friends with earlier.

22. Or just bring a smartphone tripod

Alternatively, you can just bring a tripod for your smartphone. You’ll look way cooler than the guy with the stick.

Article from: https://www.rei.com/blog/camp/22-camp-hacks-from-rei-experts