Glamping = Glamorous Camping

I can't speak for every woman, but it certainly isn't THIS woman's thing!

Lots of opinions out there about what is glamorous and what is tacky... IMHO it's very easy (judging from a lot of the pictures I've seen of glamped-up campers on other sites) to go from glamorous to wicked tacky. I tend to think of glamping as being too much decoration. A while back I said some of them look like Liberace had decorated them. Ugh.

A sexist generalization could be made that glamping for women is excessive frou-frou, solely for appearances. Too many throw pillows, too many colors, no flat space on wall or counter that isn't covered by some campy decoration, too much PINK, the whole yard in front of the camper covered with pink plastic flamingos.



MY EYES, MY EYES!

Some (crotchety old men, mostly) will say that anything added that isn't there for its function alone is glamping. They delight in buying functional things that intentionally don't match visually. Their campers might look like a tool shed.

Personally I'm all for adding beauty, but I prefer simplicity, especially in such a small space. Throw pillows are just in the way when you're trying to make the damn bed or sit on the couch. And I really dislike "camp". I do like period-accurate stuff like vintage radios, dishes and clocks, they look like they belong there. Maybe an old Coke sign (small) or a map. But again, it's so easy to go overboard in a tiny camper that I tend to stay away from all of it.

I don't think that simple color coordination is glamping.

It can be argued that glamping for men often takes the shape of too much functionality or preparedness, like they think that their two-day stay in a campground with hookups is actually Hannibal crossing the Himalayas. A 15-burner grill with a rifle rack on it, 47 different sizes of hatchet, and two cords of firewood in the truck bed.

If you're going to keep the camper, decorate it to your own tastes. If you're going to sell it, I'd recommend keeping it basic and letting the buyer decorate it. Let the arguing begin! LOL

AMEN

Of course, I should add, just to be honest, that I've already outfitted the kitchen with vintage Brookpark Modern Design tableware, including matching melamine-handled flatware, and vintage Rena Ware cookware. And am planning to use reproduction mid-century modern fabric for curtains and bedspread. And have contacted an artist friend to do a custom mid-century metal backsplash.... (My collection of vintage Vogue sewing patterns is available for copying.)

I dunno if Patriots flags, beer lights and garage pin-up calendars qualify as glamping...

I believe in the camping world there are about an equal number of women who are glampers as there are men who are galumphers.

We just returned from a gathering, I think this was our 7th gathering. There are a lot of people that are not true campers they go to the gatherings and rallies just to show off their camper and vintage stuff. They never go camping just to go camping. For each his own.

We have always been true campers for 40 years. I think we have owned about 10 campers sold them all for one reason or another after camping in each one for a while are realized we needed something different to better suit our needs as the children got larger then they no longer wanted to go camping with us anymore. We have been camping too many times to remember maybe 400 times.

We love to go to yard sales just to get out of the house. We don't go to buy anything but some times we see things we can use. We decided to buy all the Halloween stuff we could find to glamp the hell out or our camper at the Halloween gathering. We had about $6 in all of our Halloween decorations. We had 4 strings of orange lights, several strings of pumpkin lights, 10 lanterns, flying bats, ghosts, signs, table clothes, chairs, carpets, clothes, plastic pumpkins, stuff for the table, party light balls, laser, more, all outside stuff only. We had the best FUN putting that stuff at our camp site. We were told we have the best Halloween display in the campground. LOL. Imagine that $6 worth of yard sale junk is better than the people that spent several 100 dollars for their glamping stuff. LOL. When we got home all the Halloween stuff went in the trash can. LOL.

I have to admit we had a lot of fun glamping our trailer with Halloween stuff. That is not why we go camping but it was a learning experience for us to learn that people can have a lot of FUN glamping.

Our camper trailer will never win a beauty contest and it is not a tool shed on wheel. LOL. It is just exactly what we need to go camping and have fun. Everything works, it is all repaired and painted, like new but no beautiful show room master piece paint job on the outside.

I learned a valuable lesson when I was about 16 years old. I worked very hard to build the nicest most beautiful model airplane you ever saw then I was afraid to fly it because it might crash and get damaged. The airplane stayed in the safety of my room for several years then one day I realized, WHAT good is it if I can not have FUN with it? So I flew it over and over and over and had a lot of FUN for a very long time. After a while it had lots of scratches, dings, dents, etc and I was no longer afraid to play with it. I have never built another show piece in my life and never will, if I can not have fun with out the fear of getting it dirty or scratched then I don't want it.