What is Reddit's opinion of Coleman Water Carrier, 5-Gallon , White?

From 3.5 billion Reddit comments

Whole life in Florida, and never understood the bottled water obsession. Yes water is life, but your tap still works today, and it would work tomorrow. Have a few 5gal containers (https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-2000014870-Water-Carrier-Gal/dp/B000088O9Y/ref=mp_s_a_1_4), and fill them from the sink.

Before doing that, buy 5 of these and fill them up, so you have some drinking water while the taps run out. Stay ahead of their pool-filling (and the well filling) for a few cycles of that.

Yea that makes sense, I have yet to test my tap ammonia...just PH lol I am chasing the perfect PH dragon. So I go to my LFS once, maybe twice a week (depending water parameters) and I am using a couple of old jugs that were 1G of distilled water and I have a 5G water tote. The 5G water tote would probably be the minimum for two 10G a week. Since I have been trying to revive and old cycled tank, I've been doing more than nearly half water changes a week with RO recently and have really seen an impact in my levels across the board. Prior to my betta fish, I had pea puffers and they can be much more temperamental...easier to kill :(

Something similar to what I have is;

https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-5-Gallon-Collapsible-Water-Carrier/dp/B000088O9Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522025968&sr=8-1&keywords=5+gallon+water+container

Careful. It's an awkward bitch to get in and out of your car as well as into your place.

Edit: Wine grammar

I think you got the basics covered. I would add one of these collapsible water containers so you can keep water for handwashing at your camp, and a tiny bottle of soap:

https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-Water-Carrier-5-Gallon/dp/B000088O9Y

They also make a 2.5 gallon version. Takes very little room when collapsed so its easy to pack. We just barely used one 5 gallon fill all weekend. Depends on if you want to carry ~30 lbs of water one or ~15 lbs twice from the water station.

I'd say next up is extra large tarps. Tapestries are not always ideal. Few are a full 10' wide to reach from post to post on your canopy. They will blow around if not clamped on three sides (top and each side), and they are very light material that doesn't seem to block UV/IR very well even if it provides superficial shade. I'd get one 10x10 or 10x12 heavy tarp at least for the south or east side of your camp.

A friend brought along one extra large 12x25 tarp that we draped over my car from the canopy, which was super awesome, basically expanding our usable camp site and making access to the car much easier. This can get a bit pricey for larger quality tarps, but cheaper ones are $20-50 for 10x12 up to 12x25 sizes. Try Menards or Amazon. You do get what you pay for here, but if you're only using it once a year it should be fine for a cheap one.

Get some clamps for the tapestries/tarps. Big heavy spring clamps. I bought this set for this year: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N7ZSPRY/ Maybe slight overkill, but you get the idea, shop around. I got some cheaper plastic ones last year and the little tips kept falling off even though they worked fine.

Finally, you might consider a small camping stove, small cast iron pan (8"), and a teapot so you can make some hot food and coffee/tea. Tiny bottle of olive or canola oil for the cooking in the pan. I got the Coleman stove/grill combo unit and made eggs one day and burgers another, and coffee every day, for like 8 people. ~$80 for the stove on sale (you can get a simpler single unit for much cheaper), $4 for a 16 oz propane tank was plenty with pre-cookied (sous vide) burgers, $1.49 for a 18 eggs. You can also precook things like bacon and just heat it up on the grill top. If you want to cook more, or every day, consider the second propane tank. You're allowed to bring two 16 oz tanks max, but from my experience I think this is plenty. Paper coffee cups, paper plates and plastic utensils will need to go along with this.

Investing in a decent cooler is a good idea. I got the Coleman XTreme big boi after doing a lot of research. I didn't want to blow $300+ on a Yeti or other similar one. https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-Coastal-Xtreme-Marine-Portable/dp/B00J0RZQJ4 I found it got very good reviews for about 1/4 the price. One ice run per day was enough to keep it cold all weekend ($10/bag). Our other smaller cooler we left in the car and only needed ice once, but we were only accessing it max once per day where the big one was our beer cooler that was opened constantly. You might also consider a large "reusable grocery bag" to carry the ice. It may be a long walk.

I'm bringing a "shower tent" this year for use as a changing station. It can be hard to find a good place to change every day if you're not going to the roo showers. Body wipes make an acceptable daily washing solution. I've also invested in a Helio shower and tested it out, should be awesome, but at $100 it's a really big investment. I'm hoping to share with everyone in our group and new friends we make in our area. I riveted in a gallon ziplock bag on the inside for clean clothes, towel, and body wash/shampoo. I figure anyone who wants to take a shower can do so as long as they make the water run. I found 3 gallons is plenty for a "Navy shower"; wet, lather, rinse.

You can order these from Amazon tonight and have them Thursday and then fill with your own tap water. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000088O9Y/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I use a collapsible water jug. If room is tight just pack it empty, then fill it on-site.

https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-5-Gallon-Collapsible-Water-Carrier/dp/B000088O9Y/

Get yourself several 5-gal water jugs, and a camping shower and you should be set for a while.

I really like the sawyer water filter. Whatever you get, the best thing you can do is fill up a 'dirty water' container in the middle of the lake, and use that to refill your gravity filter. Over 5 gallons starts to get tricky to bring back into the canoe. We tend to pour the filtered water directly into a container rather than use a 'clean' bag. Pro tip - if you are boiling water for cooking, you don't need to filter it. Just use that big jug of fairly clean water you pulled from a good distance from shore.

As a pot, a 9 cup coffee peculator works really well for just boiling water. Bonus as it also acts as a peculator - heat water in another pot, then poor over the filter/grinds rather than wait for a full boil to peculate. I'll usually pack a 600ml pot that heats smaller amounts of water and doubles as my coffee cup. Nice to have a single walled cup you can set on the fire grate.

For the morning oatmeal, I just pack in a paper bowl. Easy cleanup in the fire.

Depending on how many days, a canister style stove is hard to beat for groups of four. Longer trips, or trips with more people, a white gas stove starts to work out better. There is an entire cult around building beer can stoves, but they tend to be a bit slow for 4 hungry people.

We tend to do a fair bit of freeze dried foods when we go. A long handled spoon - either from a DQ malt or something fancy titanium works nicely for eating directly out of the bag. No real cleanup.

I'm packing in an $0.88 pizza pan as an aluminum surface to cook fish if it is over the fire, an aluminum foil pouch for in the fire. Semi-disposable Tupperware works nicely to keep crackers from getting crushed in a pack.

Going in this weekend as well. Will be in the bars in Ely the Friday night before. Possibly see you in that corner of the world!

How about these? $10 seems fair.

https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-2000014870-Water-Carrier-5-Gallon/dp/B000088O9Y

When going on long camping trips, I bring a portable water jug like this: Coleman Water Carrier, 5-Gallon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000088O9Y/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_w2RJvbE96SF73 We use it for general cleaning and "birdbath" showering.