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  • How to Make a DIY Toilet Paper Holder for Camping

    How to Make a DIY Toilet Paper Holder for Camping

    How to Make a DIY Toilet Paper Holder for Camping
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    If you want a more watertight Toilet Paper Holder holder than the one we showed you a few months ago, I have a more complex version.

    This version uses a 2-liter soda bottle, some string, tape and a ziplock bag.

    How to Make a Toilet Paper Holder

    • Cut the bottle in half, ensuring that the end with the spout is deep enough to hold your roll.
    • Split the bottom of a heavy duty freezer bag and place the split end over and around the cut end of your bottle.
    • Duct tape the bag to the bottle. – This should make an opening on either end – the bottle spout on one, and the bag ziplock on the other.
    • Poke a hole in the center of the bottle top and thread a string through it, knot it on the inside so it will not pull out. Attach the other end of the string to the neck of the bottle.
    • In the center of the ziplock zipper, and outside of the actual bag, strengthen both sides with a piece of tape folded over. Do each side individually so that the zipper is not taped together.
    • Poke a hole through the tape and the bag. Thread a length of string through the two holes – this is your hanging string.

    To use

    • Pull out one end of the paper from the center of the roll
    • Remove the center from a roll of toilet paper.
    • Open the ziplock end of the holder and drop in the toilet paper, pulled end down
    • Fish the pulled out TP through the neck of the bottle
    • Hang near your latrine area, and pull TP out as required.
    • Screw lid on when done to keep anything from nesting in your holder.
    • Wash hands and go enjoy the woods…

  • How to Build a Coffee Can Toilet Paper Dispenser

    How to Build a Coffee Can Toilet Paper Dispenser

     

    Coffee Can Toilet Paper Hanger for Camping
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    I don’t drink coffee, so this took me a while to get a plastic coffee container, but once I did I made a very quick Coffee Can Toilet Paper Hanger to take when we go visit the property.

    This is a pretty simple little DIY camping hack that makes life so much easier.

    Being a prepper, and working on a piece of land that is an hour away from my home means I like to keep a roll of Toilet paper in the car, in the truck, in the job box on the property, in my Bug out bag, and anywhere else I can think of.

    The problem is that if just thrown in the back of a car the paper gets ripped, or wet, or nasty.

    This simple coffee can toilet paper hanger for camping makes life much easier as well as more hygienic.

    1. First cut a slit long enough for toilet paper. (If you put the slit opposite of the handles so you can hold and pull)
    2. Then thread the TP in the slit and put roll of TP in container.
    3. Put the lid back on and once again.
    4. Now you have a TP holder for camping!
  • How to Make a Milk Crate Camping Toilet

    How to Make a Milk Crate Camping Toilet

     

    Camping Toilet
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    As the wife and I go to the farm we will have to rough it until I get some infrastructure built. For me, natural morning tasks can be done behind a tree.  However, not only is Genny more civilized, she does not have a camping background.

    To be nice to her I decided to make her a camping toilet.  Hopefully, that would make her feel a little more comfortable.  Note, I don;t want her TOO comfortable or it would take a longer time to get her to let spend money to build.

    When I was in the Marines, we has a metal folding chair that our welder cut a hole in the seat before mounting a toilet seat to. We kept on the back deck of out M88A1 and when out in the field it was easy to set up.

    I don’t want to cut up my folding chairs.  However, I do have some milk crates.

    Milk crates, incidentally, fit over a 5 gallon bucket.

    By using a bucket under the toilet it allows me to pack the waste home and dispose of in our septic system.  However, in a grid down situation, I could empty it into a deep hole away from any water sources.

    How I Made a Milk Crate Toilet Seat

    I bought a new wooden toilet seat for $5.00.

    The angle of the brackets did not allow me to mount it directly to the milk crate without modification.  I unscrewed the brackets from the seat.

    I screwed a 1×2 wood strip to one side of the bottom (soon to be top) of the crate. This will eventually be were the bracket is screwed to.

    I placed the seat on the crate and adjusted it to where I wanted.  Next, I drilled and countersunk 4 holes in the seat.  Then I used my reciprocating saw to cut out a hole.

    Using some large washers and the bolts, I bolted the seat to the crate.

    I then reattached the bracket to the seat lid, and screwed the bracket into the wood strip I attached to the crate earlier.

    The plan is to set the crate on some bricks to both raise it to a comfortable level, as well as to keep the crate from completely covering the bucket, as that would make it more difficult to remove (last thing I want is to fight with a sloshing bucket of poop)…

    Hopefully this little project will make my wife’s camping experience a little easier, and that you can find a way to adapt this idea to you bug out/SHTF/Camping needs.