You start out and you don't think you need one. Then it happens - something happens and you find out you need one. Maybe you pulled out of your campsite and left your roof antena up. Perhaps you forgot to lock the coach door and it flies open on the highway. Perhaps you forgot to put the leveling jacks back up before you pull out of your campsite - dragging them on the ground as you go. I am not admitting to, nor denying that we've done any of these things ;) but I'm telling you, at some point or another, you will realize that you need: an RV checklist.
This is the checklist you use every. single. time. you pull into or out of a campground. It's the checklist that ensures you
don't forget anything important, that ensures camp set up and tear down run like clockwork. It's the checklist that all of your campers know to follow for fear of the consequenses of not following it. However you do it, or whatever it looks like is up to you. Some people use steering wheel bands called RVminders that you can find at camping stores like Camping World. (currently $17.54 - click the photo here learn more )
Here are all of the choices of bands that come with the set - they even give you a few blank ones to fill out yourself in case you have something specific to your rig that you always forget!
We have a home made checklist that we have looped onto the gear shifter. It has our checklist written onto craft sticks and made into a slider. I made the checklist to include most of the items that we tended to forget when we were packing up and getting ready to pull out of a campground. We have a stick for Bikes/Hitch, Jacks/Levelers, Antena/Vent Covers, Slides/Awning, Hook Ups, Windows/Door Locks, Storage Compartments locked, and Shower Door. We have a glass shower door that needs to be locked, otherwise it slides when we drive down the road and the latch breaks when it slams. Sigh - learned that one the hard way.
We made our checklist a really obnoxious color so we wouldn't ever fail to see it hanging there on the shifter. So far, it's been really successful in keeping us on track when we pull out of a campground. Can you think of anything we forgot to add? Do you have a cool way that you designed your checklist that you want to share? (maybe you wrote a song with your checklist in it and you want us to feature it here on our site?)
Do you know a place that sells a similar product for less?
Feel free to use the comments area below to add your thoughts and suggestions too!
