Thrift Store Survival Challenge 2.0 | Budget Camping Gear Field Test!

Nice camping spot 🏕️

thats a good video , just to show you dont need to spend a lot of money to have fun . now days everything is so expensive

Love your channel! Love thirft stores too! Often times will come across new items & some great vintage items for all areas of life. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for sharing this video. The skillet you found at the thrift store reminds me of a lesson I learned after the purchase of a Faberware pot I found at a thrift store awhile back. It looked rough when I bought it for $3. Of course I washed it before using it. As I used it day after day I’d scrub it and everyday it looked newer. After awhile it was shiny as new from that rough pot I found. The lesson I learned was that God does the same with us. He scrubs us everyday until we’re shiny new. That pot has remained my favorite thing in the kitchen and I remember that lesson every time I see it. I hope your skillet teaches you a lesson.

Definitely wouldn’t want to carry that load very far but you got some really awesome finds

The Salvation Army in Conway Ar over prices their stuff… we would never have prices like that!!

Sounds like the real could use a little oil. A couple metal rods through the rack feet and then y branches could serve if you don’t have logs or big rocks.

Love the video man as usual but darn some of the prices for the small items was over priced for a thrift store. They are getting a little out of hand. But 99cents for a craftman file. Great deal. But 2$ for a used plastic Container. Idk about that.

I'm a yard sale and flea market guy all day long. I just picked up and old cast iron twist train jack. Guy at the yardsale gave it to me for free. Was the end of day and he didn't want to drag it back inside. I offer a few dollars for it but wouldn't t take it

I have the means to purchase expensive camping gear, but actually prefer cheaper, secondhand stuff. My favorite tent is a $10 garage sale Walmart brand. My frying pans are $3.00 used Calphalons, and a lot of my other stuff is leftovers from my US Army days.

Great video! Not that I don't enjoy your other videos, namely hobo ones, but I am a thrifty camper. 10/10😊

I have that same Coffee pot that I bought for $6 in 1990. Just pulled it out yesterday and it made me smile. All the memories of camping with that pot.

Welcome To My World,
Britt Iowa ❤
Bike Week Hobo 😊

Those crank flashlights are supposed to have a capacitor in them so you're not cranking the whole time you're using it. If it doesn't work after you stop cranking the capacitor might be broken.

I have come across a few, good finds at thrift stores. As far as camping goes, the best would probably be an MSR stainless steel 3 pot cook set. It was an older version, I think, but the current version is nearly identical and is listed at $94.44 on Amazon right now and that is about what it listed for new when I bought mine. I paid $8.99 so roughly $86 off. The set was missing the pot lifter. Big deal - a multi-tool, pliers or small vice grips work.

When I get those racks with 'feet' on them like you had in the video I also like to pick up some thin chain with clips. Sometimes, in the Spring/Summer Dollar Tree will have the rig that has three chains that all link at a central point to a single chain meant for hanging holders for flower pots. If I need four points of contact I can buy two rigs and take a chain off one to add to the other. Then I can flip the rack upside down, clip a chain to each 'foot' and use a tripod to hang the grate over the fire and, using the central chain, be able to adjust it up or down a little. If cooking a steak I would likely just cook straight on the grate as a grill as long as it is a good, solid stainless steel but they are handy for sitting a pot or pan on, too whether hung up or across two logs the way you did.

Those Keystone canned meats are great. Good quality, not a bunch of additives and taste really good.

I found your channel with the Stanley hacks .

You have fanastic content

I found your channel with the Stanley hacks .

You have fanastic content .

I love your thinking outside the box .

Love what you're doing

You could store that magnifying glass in the front pouch with that cleaver… no? 👀👍🫵

I like what you did with the skillet and the stick, smart! And the wallet could possibly hold more than one knife with those card slots!

Very resourceful on the child carrier !! Love the theme. Another wonderful video. Thanks James.

my best finds:hiking shoes,rucksacks of all sorts,a 3x3 tarp,outdoor pants and jackets,a billion wool blankets,numerous axes,folder knives,but my best find was a practically new mammoth sleeping bag i couldnt belivie it when i found it,it takes time and you need to be consistent in checking stores.if you struggle with finding 4 season sleeping bags do what the army does combine 2 sleeping bags.

A good counterpoint to the all to common attitude that expensive gear is necessary in order to have a good camping experience--less expensive and more creative...

The 2019 video was the first of yours I ever watched.

Canned meat is crazy

Enjoyed your video. The particular items you acquired at the Thrift Store. You were able to put together a great kit. I especially liked your Steel Fishing Rod plus the Tackle you acquired.

dame that sog duffle bag from the thrift stores wild

Best fire starters for the price is buying a small jar of petroleum jelly for $1 and saturating scraps of cotton fabric with it

Salt on eggs and steak. Essential.

Fork off, man! 😂

I don't know what its like in your country, but in the UK festival attendees have a tendency to leave all their stuff behind, and then people come out and retrieve anything good, be interesting to see what you maybe able to pick up for free from a festival in a future video.

All i ever see at theift stores around here is maybe a cast iron pan that they try to sell for a new price. I went Rummage sailing and bought a kettle with a lid for 20 dollars, a different time, a skillet for 3 dollars. Both looked bran new. I use the skillet a lot.

Great video.

That fish you caught looked like a small Carp going by it's long short dorsal fin.

Great finds

I love the hat!
What a bargain!! ❤

Another fantastic video James👍👍👍 I really enjoyed watching it, I love going camping, cooking over the campfire and sitting around the fire at night. Take care and God bless you my friend.

Informative, entertaining, FUN! Thank you for the inspiration. A great presentation. Your efforts
and time are appreciated.

BEAUTIFUL camp spot

I have watched the first video like 50 times love that video this is super exciting.

cool

You have no idea what you are doing.😂.

Great video! When I can't go camping I watch videos like yours and get the bug satisfied for a short while. And I don't smell after the video ends!
Haha.
It's easy to go camping but sometimes life gets in the way of your plans!!!

Those "tent stakes" are actually the tack down pins for garden edging. I have a bag of them left over for the 9 feet of edging I did not use.

Have you considered taking cotton balls, and soaking up meat grease or bacon grease after you cook your meals at home?
Put them in an old pill bottle, and you can use them as bait but also as fire starters if you need them.
I have several fishing poles like that. You've cast it like a normal thumb button cass drill but instead of pushing a button you have to put your thumb down on the line before it hits the water or it gets all tangled up.
With enough practice you can use it just like a modern rod and reel without any problems. The number one problem people today find is that the line tangles up.
Also whenever I get a used fishing rod the first thing I do is replace the fishing line.
The line gets old and brittle. And is easier to break and lose your fish.
I like to get the invisible fishing line You can run a heavier line with help you with snagging and bigger fish and they can't see it. It goes invisible in the water.

Man I found a lot of good stuff over the years being super Frugal cuz I was so poor when I was a kid at thrift stores you can absolutely get yourself kitted out in most places if you hit up a couple of thrift stores you can get some really good stuff

I used to practice for backpacking trips and I had one of those kid carriers and I would take my son on my back with some of my gear😂😂😂 a few weeks before I had a long backpacking trip a couple of them are like 2 weeks long trips the biggest pack I had was 85 lb for winter pack

That hollow handle extension trick is phenomenal ty, regarding the gloves, i recomendd flea markets and construction supliers, dozen for like $9

A really fun and delicious recipe for that canned beef I was really poor growing up as a kid and we had canned beef a lot add a thing of barbecue sauce or homemade barbecue sauce and let it cook and made basically beef beef kind of sloppy joe sloppy joe sandwiches French bread with some cheese on top really easy cheap delicious obviously if you got veggies throw some peppers and onions in there with the beef and the barbecue sauce and so on