fragrant sleeping bags

dylanwinter said:
so do you put that inside another sleeping bag?

of course curry/beer farts do not recognise the barriers

Dylan
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The sheet sleeping bag goes inside the main sleeping bag and you go inside the sheet sleeping bag. Curry/beer farts being gaseous discharges are managed by airing the main sleeping bag on occasion, daily at times. Follow through is an entirely different matter which may require both bags to be disposed of as solid matter is not known to be dispersed by a good airing.

The futility of airing solid matter from sheets
 
Blueboatman said:
I used duvets even in a Corribee, hang em on the boom for airing... machine wash, easy, prob as inexpensive as cheap sleeping bags too but this is not an attempt to convince anyone....
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Yes, you don't need to convince me. I have a couple of good sleeping bags but on a boat I find they are too restrictive - wake me up every time I need to turn. I use a sleeping bag liner and then a duvet on top of that.
 
I use a TF Gear X-Tuff sleeping bag available in Go Outdoors for £54 and its the warmest most spacious sleeping bag iv ever had. Im over six foot and its got plenty of room, and i slept in just my thermal baselayer last week and was toasty, even took my heat holders off as i was too warm. As for keeping it fragrant.........:eek:
 
70's sleeping bag

My sleeping bag is over 36 yrs old. Got it from a Freemans book to go on my first sailing holiday. Thought I'd buy one that can be zipped onto another to make a double, I had a lot of hope in those days.
After a week in the forecabin it took on a special odour, seasickness, beer, wine, cooking fumes, dampness and salt, oh and not washing for a week. It has been washed many times (before anybody asks) and it still retains a hint of the smells I recall as being one of my best weeks in my life.
It's had varied use over the years but spent years on weekly trips on a boat, and has been a godsend in the last few years as our heating was taken out of the house and not replaced. Last year the zip came off, but it is still used unzipped, actually it was never normally zipped up before.
It's a trendy brown on the outside and bright orange inside and is full of synthetic stuff. The tag with the make and model has long gone but it is still in great condition.

For a present a couple of years ago my wife bought an expensive down one, which I did like until my daughter left it in front of a fan heater and it melted...
Cost of repair was close to a new bag!

Both bags have been warm enough on their own, but using the down one last year I noticed that condensation would cause a wet patch that would create a cold area, so I slept in it under a picnic rug. Also had to use a spare rug to cover the dog - the major cause of the condensation I think.
 
The buffalo sleeping bags are definately out of mines and hubbies price range, so we settle for reasonably priced ones from Argos and replace them every so often. i do wash them on whatever degree the factory recommends but I add lots and lots of conditioner which just results in making it smell pleasant for a short lived time period after.. Hub destroys his usually first from salt water,or tears it in his sleep (yep - i don't even know how he manages it!).
 
The sleeping bag I use on the boat is hollow fibre and gets washed and hung out to dry. The one I use for camping is down. The instructions say it can be machine washed but it MUST be tumble dried. As we don't have a drier, it just gets aired at home until the smell goes. The down bag is about a third of the volume of the synthetic one when packed.

I've not used a liner since I was hostelling many years ago, I hated the way it wrapped around your legs.

The hard core campers recommend that you shouldn't put anything on top of the bag (such as a blanket or another bag) as it compresses the insulation and makes it less effective. They concentrate on more insulation underneath to prevent your warmth going into the ground. They also suggest getting the bag warm with body heat before putting on pyjamas etc.
 
Sleeping bags are spawn of the devil. Stuffy, cramped, smelly and inconvenient.

Spread a blanket on the bunk and put a high TOG single duvet over it. Job done.

Store it in a compression sack if you are really tight for space.

No bigger storage requirement than a sleeping bag.
Take the cover home to wash every so often.

I think I did use a sleeping bag once in the seventies, but that was more than enough.
 
Dylan, I have been giving considerable thought to your sleeping problems, and for once I am going to give you a serious answer.

I have a few reindeer skins that we use when sleeping in our tent. They are undoubtedly the warmest, snuggest, cosiest thing to sleep on or under. I have actually slept on them on snow and ice and they are awesome.

Ours are over ten years old and still going strong.

You have many subscribers in Scandinavia I expect. Get some sent over. They roll up small, look fantastic, aren't expensive and don't ever need washing.
 
Ex-SolentBoy said:
Dylan, I have been giving considerable thought to your sleeping problems, and for once I am going to give you a serious answer.

I have a few reindeer skins that we use when sleeping in our tent. They are undoubtedly the warmest, snuggest, cosiest thing to sleep on or under. I have actually slept on them on snow and ice and they are awesome.

Ours are over ten years old and still going strong.

You have many subscribers in Scandinavia I expect. Get some sent over. They roll up small, look fantastic, aren't expensive and don't ever need washing.
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Excellent advice but...Wouldn't that upset Rudolph though, y'know, for Christmas deliveries 'n all?
 
will five be enough

Ex-SolentBoy said:
Dylan, I have been giving considerable thought to your sleeping problems, and for once I am going to give you a serious answer.

I have a few reindeer skins that we use when sleeping in our tent. They are undoubtedly the warmest, snuggest, cosiest thing to sleep on or under. I have actually slept on them on snow and ice and they are awesome.

Ours are over ten years old and still going strong.

You have many subscribers in Scandinavia I expect. Get some sent over. They roll up small, look fantastic, aren't expensive and don't ever need washing.
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I have ordered half a dozen of these

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Soft-Rein..._Garden_Rugs_Runners_Mats&hash=item3f1ffc36f5
 
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