hello everyone and welcome back to the channel in today's video we are going to talk a little
bit about RV set up and how to be ready to get on the road quickly so stay tuned we are Charity Ben
Dakota and Trinity we decided we didn't want to wait for a life of adventure
so in 2017 we bought our first RV and set off to live a life of travel in the USA
we've visited over 38 states in three years and have many more to go
follow along to learn all the best places to see RV and travel tips and much more
so a lot of people are full-time there's part-timers the weekend warriors there's a
lot of different types of rvers and we'd love for you to let us know in the comments below kind of
where you fall in that whole thing are you full-time part-time are you an aspiring rver
or where are you at in your journey so today's video is going to be helpful regardless of where
you find yourself in the journey and part of what we're going to talk about is how to set up your rv
so that you can get on the road quickly whether you're going full time or whether you just want
to be able to kind of get up and go at a moment's notice get on the road quickly for the weekend
however it is that you're choosing to live RV life so tip number one is to keep your RV
pre-loaded with things like some duplicate things that you can keep in your RV that aren't going to
mess up any sort of house life if you're maybe still living in a sticks and bricks house so
the number one thing that we keep duplicates of in our RV are towels and this is because
i like to use a specific type of towel for our RV travel and that is the microfiber type travel
towel now these particular towels that I use i got from a company on amazon called ventureforth
they actually reached out to us after we mentioned them in a video and gave us a
discount for our viewers so you can actually save 25 on these travel type towels using the link
in the description below in the discount code that we've got there next to that link so if
you're interested you can grab those there but I like to use these particular type of towels for
RV life because they dry very quickly and you can hang them up and they don't take up a lot of space
either so having a duplicate set of towels in your rig can help you get on the road faster there
another thing that's super easy to keep duplicates of in your rig are things like dishes and cutlery
now I did not spend a fortune on any of my dishes or my cutlery my cutlery I went to the local
thrift store and I picked it up for like 10 cents a piece same with things like some melamine type
dishes and cups and even my pots and pans that I have duplicates of that I keep
in the RV so these are my RV pots and pans I picked up at our local thrift store for just
a mere few dollars for each particular item so having extra dishes that are already in the RV
already loaded up can help save time and get you on the road faster hey there we're going to
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another thing we keep duplicates of in our rig are things like extra toiletries so super easy to take
an extra toothbrush an extra tube of toothpaste things like shampoo conditioner bar soap hand soap
those types of toiletries very very easy to just stick a duplicate in your rig I actually even have
an extra travel size hair dryer that I keep in the rig so I never have to worry about loading that up
it's already loaded and ready to go so one thing that I keep duplicates of in our RV is bedding so
i actually keep our bed made I have an extra set of sheets and an extra blanket that I just keep on
the bed I wash the sheets when we come home from a trip put them back on so we are ready to rock and
roll I also keep extra things like blankets and pillows in the RV those are just the RV blankets
and pillows so we can rock and roll at a moment's notice another duplicate that I keep in the rig
and actually I keep this in the rig and don't even use it in the house because of the style of coffee
maker that we have but coffee filters so these are in the rig they go in our built-in coffee maker so
we are ready to go again packed up at a moment's notice something else that I keep duplicates of
is things like foil and ziploc bags and an extra set of spices so I have duplicates of
those that just stay in the RV it's one more thing that's pre-loaded so we're ready to go
at a moment's notice so another thing that we keep in the RV is a set of duplicates is just
a set of very basic tools so in this bag we've got things like an extra phillips screwdriver
another extra phillips screwdriver some of these like wire cutting things a little wrench all of
these are just good tools to have on hand but these are all duplicates so these stay loaded up
in the RV they're already there we don't have to worry about loading those back up before that we
go on any trips which just helps us to get on the road faster so there you have it we're ready to go
now we just need to add clothes and food so that's all we've got to pack up and we're
ready to hit the road now I'm going to give you some insider tips that I have learned
on how to really efficiently pack up your clothes and your food to where you can do this within
a matter of just an hour or two depending upon how large your family is so let's jump into those tips
so here are some tips to make loading up your clothes and food super super easy number one
is I use really big IKEA bags so I have these IKEA bags that I keep for this exact purpose so these
make for huge bags so we're going to go inside and we're going to start loading up our clothes and
food but using these I can fit almost everything that needs to go into the refrigerator and into
the cupboards in just one of these large type IKEA bags also work great for bringing the clothes out
the other thing is is using things like laundry baskets so I have this extra laundry basket a
couple other extras too but loading up things into a big laundry basket to carry that out into
the rig makes for very easy loading up the RV as well so the other thing that I use as I am loading
up our rig with pretty much just closing food because we have a lot of duplicates that we keep
in the rig itself is I do still use a packing checklist now I've developed this particular
packing checklist over the last three years of RV life because it seems like for every single of
those trips that we took out in the beginning we were still forgetting things and so I started just
compiling a very large list that I kept in the notes off of my phone I did just convert this over
in to google drive and created a free download for you guys so if you go to gratefulglamper.com
forward slash checklist you can download your free template of my RV packing list I have everything
on here even though some of these things might be part of the duplicates that I already have on
board just because I want to verify that yes I still have that in the rig it didn't come into
the house at some point and it's ready to go with us so as I'm packing up the clothes and the food
I still go over this checklist to make sure that I'm not forgetting anything
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so here's some clothes that I pulled out of our sticks and bricks that we're gonna
load up real fast and I've got a couple of cool tips to show you about clothes
and loading up your RV when it comes to clothes so when it comes to things like socks and undies
I actually use these drawer organizers from IKEA you can also find these at the dollar store
and there are some on amazon that I will link to below but what I actually do is I keep socks and
underwear and these types of organizers in our sticks and bricks house because
it makes for very easy transport into the rig so just take them out of the drawer put them in
my big IKEA bag to bring a load out here and then I can just get them loaded right into our drawers
and we are ready to rock and roll on that so I'm gonna go ahead and
put these in the rig real fast and go get another load
so a few tips that I have for clothes that hang on hangers and that is to just downsize life when we
go to pack up the rig it's very very easy clothing wise because everything that is in our closet
and our sticks and bricks house will fit in this closet because we just don't own a lot of clothing
we live very minimalistically and so we try to go with the one in one out principle if somebody gets
a new shirt then we get rid of an old shirt so we stay very minimal when it comes to clothing
and that way when we go to pack up clothing in the RV especially hanging things it's just easy to
grab everything that's there put everything that's in the house in here and that way we're not gonna
run the risk of forgetting anything nobody's gonna say where's that sweatshirt or whatever
because every single piece of clothing that we own just comes with us so when it comes to the kids
clothes this gets super super easy to load up to get on the road underneath the bunks here I've got
these bins that will just pull out and so because we live minimalistically anyway and then it makes
it very easy to get ready to go on our trips that we go on I'm just going to hold one of these bins
out from underneath the bed and then all of the kids clothes are going to go in these bins
so we've got two kiddos one kiddo gets a bin a piece for clothes and then we have a third bin
that we use for things like extra shoes or extra books or extra whatever that they feel like that
they can't live without on the road trip so that's what we've got here makes it very easy to pack up
i take this in I load it I bring it back I put it back underneath this also makes it very easy
when we are done traveling and we come back home for a while that they can carry their bin inside
unload it we bring it back empty so you can get some more info on this particular bunk setup over
in our renovation series so we'll put a link above here to the renovation series which will give you
more info on how we did this bunk setup so I've got one of the kiddos clothes loaded up here in
the bin so we're gonna go slide this under the bunk but this type of system for packing makes it
super super easy and it also makes it to where you can pack up very very quickly to get on the road
we also go the equivalent of full time during the summer months where we're out for three months at
a time and you can fit everything that you need really in one of these bins per kid doesn't take
a lot we do laundry at least every you know couple of days with our onboard washer dryer
even when we didn't have an on-board washer dryer I did laundry at least once a week so
it's not like that you really need that much when it comes to clothing what's not buddy
watch out doggins
oh he's gotta be the star of the show huh it's okay give me knuckles bro
good boy so those are our tips for being able to get on the road
quickly to be able to just go wherever that you want to go when you're living the RV life so
let me know in the comments below any tips tricks hacks that you have for RV packing
for RV organizing I would love to see what some of you guys have done when it comes to those
particular things make sure that you check out my planning guide as well over at gratefulglamper.com
forward slash planner as you're making those summer plans you can check us out on patreon
social media I do Instagram posts almost every day so check us out on our grateful glamper Instagram
and until next time we will see you on the road now that you
hey buddy what you doing
like don't mind if I do he's gonna sit on me isn't he they do lay down what are you doing
right in the way of my bins