I think I'm addicted...
 

Everytime I go near an outdoor store or visit a site, I gravitate towards stoves, nice compact tents and other bits of kit that I arguably don't need....but I want it!!

I have a multifuel stove and a woodburning stove and now I'm finding kellykettles strangely attractive...doh

Is there a cure?

The only cure is a cast iron Dutch oven and a folding laplander saw !

A fallkniven F1 also helped with my illness but it's coming back slowly.

None at all, I have just been packing up for a little jaunt to enjoy the UK summer for a few days (yeah right) and as I was packing my cases I was thinking, I need a smaller stove, I could take my honey stove but do I really want to be hunting round for dry wood when I camp. I need a small petrol stove, and rather worryingly I keep trying to think of ways to make a penny stove work with petrol. So far though I have refrained from burning off my eyebrows with any rash experiments, but it's probably only a matter of time.

No doubt I will buy another half dozen stoves first, to go with my three tents and hammock !!

Outdoor stores are crack dens for gear addicts.

The first step is to admit you have a problem.

The second step is to feed it, I recommend [url=http://www.mec.ca]Outdoor Gear - Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) -

Based on these two responses alone I officially inaugurate the STAA help group: Stove and Tent Addicts Anonymous (as anonymous as usernames are).

"Hi. My name is Warthog, and I'm addicted to Stoves":blushing:

The perfect stove = a modern day Grail quest

Kelly Kettles great idea...I thought:helpsmilie:

But totally impractical for taking on bikes, they take up too much room and being 'ali', bend very easy'
:oops2:

There is indeed no known cure for PTSD, Persistent Tent and Stove Desires.

All you can do is try to manage the illness and rely on the support of others with the same addiction in a controlled setting. Good for you for starting the support group online.


...Michelle
www.scrabblebiker.com

grate idea... how about... in case a bigger support group is set up, to arrange a sort of "changing, hand over circle" for stows... so every one has to give a stove away to the next addict after a while, so that the collection of stoves is on a permanent move and every addict got the chance to play with another stove ones he handed one over to the next addict... beer: makes every addict happy in the end and may cost less in the end...

I must admit... I'm a long time outdoor shop addict too, actually had my first own penknife before I even joined school age 5 and since age 14 I'm finally addicted to all this outdoor stuff and still love it... :blushing: yes... outdoor shops need a "door manager" who is checking the age... let's say entering a outdoor shop needs a minimum age of 75 or older... doh: wheelchair:

Maybe there's room for "Stoves anonymous" meeting at the next HU bash.

OK, I admit it, I've got it too. I feel better now. :helpsmilie:

Last visit to an outdoor store was about 10 days ago in prep for a trip to Cornwall. I went to buy a tent light, came back with a ...... tent! I've now got eight of them. I didn't even use the new one in Cornwall.

Some people seem to be immune though. I was talking yesterday to a friend in the US who's just come back from an 11,000 mile coast to coast bike trip using a tent he bought in 1971 and a petrol stove he bought a few years later. He was annoyed that the stove packed up about halfway through!

Will HU provide paper bags with eye holes, FoC?

Better make those non-flammable paper bags.
This is a Stove help group after all: H&S!!!

Did you know that the Oxford English Dictionary cites the the phrase " a dozen tents but only four stoves, dear!" as a phrasal synonym of the noun "divorce"?

:innocent:

out of the closet or should that be stuffed even more in it?
 

Thank God I am not alone. It’s so good to see other addicts coming out of the closet. So far 3 tents 2 stoves 6 sleeping bags 5 ground mats, countless knives, machetes, axes and gizmos, various lights and a credit card that weeps when I walk into a camping shop or go on line. I think a swap shop at a meet would be a great idea but I suspect most of us would need a long wheelbase transit just to get our excess gear to the gig! Oh I forgot more riding gear and helmets than I will ever wear out in a lifetime.

On the bright side I would like to think I am doing my bit to single handedly get the economy going again…..

Not so sure about that - although with only 8 tents (but I do have 4 stoves!) I've got a way to go yet. The tent I bought in place of a lamp recently my wife paid for. :clap::clap:

perfect.... :clap: ... but the bags need to have a HU logo too.. or I'm not coming...

by the way... counting my stuff...
I'm on 4x Hennessy Hammocks, 1x tent, 4x sleeping bags, 3x sleeping mats, 3x stoves...
(still remembered a few more in a storage box to add here...)

Thank god I'm not alone! I spent hours looking for the perfect stove even after we bought the last one. There's realy no need I just feel I could do a little bit better. Thank god I also have a wife that knows when to hide my credit cards... I would very much like to join STAA

Hi, I'm mj and I'm addicted to all sorts of camping and outdoor gear.

This thread made me :rofl: !!!!

I find it really difficult to walk past an outdoor shop, must at least look in the window.
I now have 4 tents, 2 trangia stoves (1 gas, 1 meths) and a mini gas stove. I have 2 self-inflating mattresses and numerous bits of sleeping equipment.

I don't have a partner to share this with so it's simply my own addiction of buying outdoor gear.
In Leeds, there is a relatively new shop called GoOutdoors. It's not that great (but cheap) - yet I still can't resist browsing through the advert that pops through my door every month....

Haha, I knew there were a lot of PTSD sufferers around here, but I didn't realise so many would come forward so quickly.

I'm not afflicted by the ailment, one tent, one broken stove, one set of leathers since I started riding eight years ago. I'm tight though.

Anyone who has seen me at a rally or on the road, sleeping under a plastic sheet and eating cold beans from a can will testify to this!

Joel

:rofl::rofl::rofl: I thought it was just me. ALWAYS gravitate to the stoves, and I don't even like cooking. Tents I do, still looking for the ideal tent. Think I might have found it. Bought so much shit over the years, but I think I've used most of it. Been looking at those kellykettles for years, but can't see myself ever using it, so haven't bought one yet.

Think we need a support group.

I suffer from this as well.I have just spent a week in the Lake District where there are outdoor shops absolutely everywhere,most of them with 'sale' signs in the window.I must have been in nearly all of them.I managed to only buy some socks,gloves and one of those red anodized alloy bottles this time so I think I got off lightly:rofl:

That's just it: you never know when you might need that sixteenth headtorch!!:innocent:

That is the crux of it: it's not the using - IT'S THE HAVING!!!! WOOOOHOOOO!

I mean really...kellykettles and bike touring:

" Alright, mate! So, what's in the 60 litre rollbag? Tent? Sleeping bag annd clothes for a month?"

"Nope, my stove..."

Still doesn't mean I'm not looking at it in another web-window and imagining a kellykettle cuppa on a deserted Estonian beach!!

Well, I've just tidied up our spare bedroom and now all our camping stuff is in storage boxes. 5 boxes of about 80 litres each!!!!

:eek3:

OK, there are two tents, two stools and two pairs of sleeping bags, but that is still a lot of stuff!!

(but if I pack it all carefully; i'm sure I can make room for more:cool4:)