The Handiest Contraption You'll Ever Take Camping

We all love camping but anything we can do to make it a little easier and more convenient is always welcomed in my opinion. Having to deal with the trash bag and paper towels flying away is one of those things that always bugged me to no end. I figured there had to be a better way.

So I invented this contraption! It doesn't have a name but it's basically an easy way to hold out a trash bag and have paper towels always ready to go. It's a suction cup that sticks to the side of my car to hold out the trash bag and paper towels. It's handy because I can also stand it up on a table or something if that's more convenient.

It's really really easy to make! Like it'll take you less than 20 minutes to make! And by my calculations it'll improve your camping experience 376%.

So let's get to it!

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Check out my video of this thing: https://youtu.be/9oFvA1uYLXc

• A suction cup. I used a seasucker suction cup just because I had a spare one lying around and it's awesome. It holds like 100lbs or something like that. You can get one by clicking here. However, if you don't want to go that route you can try a window
  • An alternative could be a car window clamp like this one. I'm not sure it'll work but possibly
  • I just found this suction cup that holds 200lbs and another one that holds 100lbs which may be able to work.
  • You could also try using one of these which will attach to a picnic table or something similar.
• A small piece of wood
• An L-bracket like this one
• A mountable paper towel holder
• An over the cabinet paper towel holder
• A Bungee cord. I think something like this would probably work better than what I have

Begin by cutting a bolt to the proper length to fit into the top of the suction cup.

Put the bolt through one side of the L bracket.

Attach the other side of the L bracket to your piece of wood. You'll need to leave a little room for the bolt to fit in-between the L bracket and piece of wood.

Simply screw the piece of wood into the suction cup's threads.

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Screw down the paper towel holder onto one side.

I just have the trash bag holder sit on top of the piece of wood. This makes it much smaller for transporting when I can just take it off.

That's it! Pretty easy huh!

There's a ton of different ways to do this so get creative and do what works best for you.

-Trav

If you like this and want to learn more or see what other things I'm up to check out my website at travderose.com