In 1995 I bit the bullet and paid £250 for a Eureka Hobbit 2 man tent in Australia. Over the next 12 years I probably spent 12 months in it including a couple of months in the winds of Patagonia and it finally expired with worn out zips, leaking seams and fracturing poles, money well spent.
At the same time I bought a cheap self inflating matt which fell apart in two years, I then did the right thing and bought a Thermarest which I still have. If you use it a lot it pays to buy quality, the other point is in many parts of the world you cannot replace camping equipment so it has to last.
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