Storing the (Slightly Large) mess of a Family of 7- Part 2

For storing all our food, we were very glad to have our kitchen renovated. I don’t have a previous picture of our kitchen, but it was simply a cupboard, that looked like it was about to collapse. The original wood had rotted, and plain and simply, it stank. This new kitchen we got, installed in Darwin, had plenty more storage, and it is nice and new (quite a contrast to the rest of the caravan). The new bench also provides a lot of space for preparing food and cleaning up afterwards. Our fridge, which was also a new one, is a 100L bar fridge, and we do find it hard to store all our cold groceries, but we manage.

Under the lounges in the caravan, we have everything conceivable. Nerf Guns, Josh's bow, en-suite tent, blankets, camp ovens, our iron, and lots of other things. We tuck all the things we don’t regularly use under there, and it collects dust pretty well!! Sometimes, we find it hard to fit the lid properly, and then we have to do an overhaul and sort it out properly (sadly).

We store the generator, gas bottles, our petrol jerry-can, our water hose and waste hose, and our tarps. This is a really good place for storing stuff that isn’t supposed to go into the caravan, though they all get really dusty. When we have stopped, we chain them to prevent against theft, and then set off again with the chain off and at least 20 (no joke, we've had the tarp off before and things just about to fall) ocky straps holding them down.

While we have been up in the Kimberly, we all manage to sweat profusely and the dirty clothes have to go into the wash after 1 wear. Before, we could get at least 2 wears out of each set of clothes, but nobody wants someone stinky sitting next to them in the caravan. To store all our clothes, we use a garbage bin, that was originally intended for water carrying. We have had some people mistake it for an actual bin, and once someone even put a bin bag in it when we left it in laundry. Another time, someone when having dinner with us, put their food scraps in it.

The back bar that we have on the caravan holds all our bikes (only 2 at the moment, the rest all have broken and been chucked out) our helmets (if we don't lose them) and 2 jerry cans. We also have 2 spare tyres on the back (and we've used them frequently). We have had quite a lot problems with the metal splitting on it, and we can't have too many bike on it, but is is still quite a good upgrade.

To entertain ourselves, we have a cupboard full of DVD's, boardgames, and cards. We picked up most of our DVD's for Christmas, as we like watching a series every night, to put us all to sleep. The boardgames are quite varied, and every now and then we have a board game craze, and the cupboard is tidied, and then the boardgames come trooping out one by one.