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Was skeptical of those $80 collapsible camp chairs until a 3-day trip in the rain
I've always just grabbed a cheap folding chair from the hardware store for camping, figured spending more was a waste. Then last month up at Lake Arrowhead it poured for two days straight and my old chair's legs kept sinking into the mud. My buddy had one of those compact ones with the wide feet and it stayed solid the whole time, plus it packed down way smaller. Anyone else have a piece of gear they thought was overpriced that ended up saving a trip?
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kai_ramirez3814d ago
Oh man, c'mon now... I gotta push back on this a little. I mean yeah, those cheap folding chairs soak up rain and sink like a rock, but an $80 chair is still an $80 chair. I've had a buddy drop that kind of cash on one of those fancy collapsible ones and the whole frame snapped on the second trip, no joke. Mud's a pain, sure, but I just toss a square of plywood or a flattened cardboard box under my $15 hardware special and it never sinks anywhere near as bad. Plus, if it gets bent or a leg breaks, I'm out fifteen bucks, not eighty. Feels like this whole "buy once, cry once" thing doesn't really hold up when a cheap fix works just as good most of the time.
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