RV Organizing Tips

Camping can be a lot of fun, but it’s also often a lot of work. After all, modern life is complex and fitting all your everyday needs into one vehicle requires some thought. From food to toiletries to linens and laundry, it’s important to plan ahead and make sure you have room to bring everything you need.

This short guide will teach you the basics of organizing your RV so that you can get the most out of the little space you have. For more RV tips and tricks, check out other posts on our blog. When you need RV maintenance, or even if you’re looking to invest in your first RV, stop by Golden Gait Trailers & RV.

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Give Everything a Home

One of the basic tenets of organization is that everything should have its own home. When everything has its own home, you can quickly and easily put things back in their place after use without having to worry about creating more space. It also makes it much easier to find the things you need. If you want to take it a step further, you can give everything its own space for when you’re in transit and when you’re at camp.

Make Things Logical

Organization doesn’t help if the organization doesn’t make sense. Organization is about more than just simply putting things in neat rows and at right angles and filling every bit of space. Your storage spaces should have logic to them. A good way to do this is to group storage spaces by the use of their contents. All your kitchen utensils could go in one drawer while smaller food items could go in another drawer. Outdoors, play and recreational gear could go in one side of the storage space while practical and utilitarian items could go on the other side. Keeping things segregated in this way will make it easier to put things back after you use them, and it will help to reduce how much effort you have to put into searching for items, because you know they can only be in one of a few places.

Use Vertical Space

One organizing tip that never fails to create more space is to start thinking about how you use vertical space. Often, people think of storage spaces as basically being flat shelves for things to be stacked on. But this approach often leaves areas of dead space that serve no function. If you start finding equipment such as hanging baskets and racks to take advantage of this space, you’ll give yourself lots of spare room to work with.

Adhesive Hooks

Adhesive hooks are an extremely handy tool that help you take advantage of wall and door space. While these tools aren’t as useful when you’re actually on the road, they can really help you make your trailer feel like home when you get to your destination. You can have a hook for all the kids’ towels in the bathroom, for instance. Keep your jackets on hooks placed next to the front door. Hang cooking utensils up on the door inside your kitchen cabinets. The opportunities are unlimited for reclaiming unused space and making your trailer have that lived-in feel.

Find Clever Hacks

A good question to ask yourself when standing in your RV and thinking about organization is “what if…?” When you start to think of all the possibilities for how you can use the space, you can start to develop clever solutions for making the most out of things. Maybe an awkwardly shaped closet can be converted to a useful storage zone with the help of hanging shelves. Maybe the outdoor cargo bays can be whipped into shape with a cut-down plastic shelving unit that would normally go in a garage. Maybe you can suspend some items in hammocks or hanging baskets in places that don’t get much traffic. The sky's the limit if you’re open to using your imagination.

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