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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

What is it for you?

A while ago me sleeping on a bed without a mattress protector was roughing it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’ve slept in some pretty grim places but safe in the knowledge mine was a temporary ordeal unlike the people for who those dreadful conditions were an ongoing reality with little hope of better times ahead.

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

Camping...and anything below 4* in hotels

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"I’ve slept in some pretty grim places but safe in the knowledge mine was a temporary ordeal unlike the people for who those dreadful conditions were an ongoing reality with little hope of better times ahead. "

You are a better person than I. I can't do international aid work because I'm too much of a prissy princess and can't stand the heat.

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Camping...and anything below 4* in hotels"

I know what you mean. Yet we're going to be slumming it at the end of the month.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Waking up face down in a gutter no idea how i got there. Possible alcohol didnt help

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Waking up face down in a gutter no idea how i got there. Possible alcohol didnt help "

Possible alcohol? Was it labelled as fruit juice or something?

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria


"Camping...and anything below 4* in hotels

I know what you mean. Yet we're going to be slumming it at the end of the month."

I don't mind so much for one night/swinging meets, but holidays have to be 4* at the very least...plus I've stayed at that place a coupla times and its not too bad for a chain hotel, least its not a Travelodge

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Camping...and anything below 4* in hotels

I know what you mean. Yet we're going to be slumming it at the end of the month.

I don't mind so much for one night/swinging meets, but holidays have to be 4* at the very least...plus I've stayed at that place a coupla times and its not too bad for a chain hotel, least its not a Travelodge "

Shudders at the very thought.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When we checked into the third hotel in town which had the least bed bug splats on the wall, we were so happy to find only one bird eating spider (they can jump eight foot and are as big as you hand) and a snake and when we turned on the light in the bathroom and the floor went from black to white as the cockroaches scuttled off,!

Saying that we did an illegal trek followng an orang Utah family the week after and that prepared us for the trek, in fact the hotel was way worse than the jungle! That was my best ever holiday so I suppose if you want to see what not many have seen you have to grin and bare it!

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By *ucsparkMan
over a year ago

dudley

Never got the whole camping thing, I like a real bed. Roughing it for me is a hotel with a crap bar now days

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"When we checked into the third hotel in town which had the least bed bug splats on the wall, we were so happy to find only one bird eating spider (they can jump eight foot and are as big as you hand) and a snake and when we turned on the light in the bathroom and the floor went from black to white as the cockroaches scuttled off,!

Saying that we did an illegal trek followng an orang Utah family the week after and that prepared us for the trek, in fact the hotel was way worse than the jungle! That was my best ever holiday so I suppose if you want to see what not many have seen you have to grin and bare it!"

I like the idea of seeing Orang Utans in the wild but I couldn't do the rest just yet. Maybe one day...

The nearest I have come to that is travelling around New Zealand and staying at hostels. Urggh!

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

some cant afford such luxuries. have to make do with an old blanket or sleeping bag thrown over them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Being homeless

Ive done that

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"some cant afford such luxuries. have to make do with an old blanket or sleeping bag thrown over them"

I know. I'm not saying I don't know others don't have it easy. I am saying I'm a prissy princess and asking what others consider roughing it for themselves.

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Being homeless

Ive done that"

Sorry to hear that. I am sure you appreciate what you have now all the more.

I remember when we were homeless when I was a child. We got moved into B&B hostel for 6 months with all of us in one room with two beds.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

well i lived on the streets and it makes me grateful for what ive got

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By *eareenaCouple
over a year ago

Rockford

My festival days are over... no flushing toilet... no hot water. ..no Seareena

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Being homeless

Ive done that

Sorry to hear that. I am sure you appreciate what you have now all the more.

I remember when we were homeless when I was a child. We got moved into B&B hostel for 6 months with all of us in one room with two beds.

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Oh I do .. very much so

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"well i lived on the streets and it makes me grateful for what ive got"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well I'm another prissy princess and consider budget hotels and flying economy are roughing it. I've just got back from a business trip in India and i saw poverty we can't even imagine over here.

However for me if there is no 24x7 room service and the sheets aren't at least 300 thread count, I'm not a happy girl. I'm very lucky to have what I have and I know I'm a lot more fortunate then some.

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By *ampWithABrainWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

Worst for me was a dodgy bedsit/hostel in my younger days when I was skint after losing my job. But being a military brat I generally cope ok. Been camping loads n love it, even an Easter scout camp in the pouring rain was fantastic fun. But yes it is different when you know you're going home to a hot shower n warm bed. I've friends who've been homeless n my uncles worked with poor and refugees in Africa so hope I do appreciate how lucky I am to have a proper roof over my head

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By *ilandlarryCouple
over a year ago

more north lincs than mids!

I don't even rough it while camping. We always have electric hook up. I have a double height airbed with a king size duvet

Hairdryer and straighteners go with me, as does a kettle and toaster for the morning

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By *ammyDodgaMan
over a year ago

Nottingham/and everywhere my location says i am ;)

Tbf, like several of the posters. I ended up in hostels, living rough and stuffing newspaper under my clothes to keep warm on the streets.. So now most things are luxury..

Unless I stay at me Grans and she has that sand paper Medical toilet roll

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London


"When we checked into the third hotel in town which had the least bed bug splats on the wall, we were so happy to find only one bird eating spider (they can jump eight foot and are as big as you hand) and a snake and when we turned on the light in the bathroom and the floor went from black to white as the cockroaches scuttled off,!

Saying that we did an illegal trek followng an orang Utah family the week after and that prepared us for the trek, in fact the hotel was way worse than the jungle! That was my best ever holiday so I suppose if you want to see what not many have seen you have to grin and bare it!"

I feel faint!

I thought the flies in Marrakech and dragonflies in Florida were wild life enough!

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By *oulou45Woman
over a year ago

Bucks

I had to leave my flat after i split with my ex. I couldnt afford another flat so had to rent a room. The landlord was my old school teacher , his wife an alcoholic. It was a nightmare the house was dirty. I had to grin and bear it while trying to save to move. One day i walked through the front door went flying and banged my head

The wife had got d*unk puked al over the floor thats what i had slipped on.within 2 days i was out of there.

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"I had to leave my flat after i split with my ex. I couldnt afford another flat so had to rent a room. The landlord was my old school teacher , his wife an alcoholic. It was a nightmare the house was dirty. I had to grin and bear it while trying to save to move. One day i walked through the front door went flying and banged my head

The wife had got d*unk puked al over the floor thats what i had slipped on.within 2 days i was out of there."

That is so awful. You have my sympathies.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"What is it for you?

A while ago me sleeping on a bed without a mattress protector was roughing it."

sleeping in my local park in london when I was 14 to 16... its sounds like you have a hard life!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have always been very fortunate, however I am very fussy and hate "roughing" it but I think of myself as a chameleon and although I hate camping I can without fuss.

I do think for anyone taking this thread or the sentiment out of context, just because some have more than others in a "comfortable" way, you do not know what other hardships or sorrow they may have suffered in their life.

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"What is it for you?

A while ago me sleeping on a bed without a mattress protector was roughing it.

sleeping in my local park in london when I was 14 to 16... its sounds like you have a hard life!"

I had a hard life when I was younger. I choose not to now. I have things so even though I have very little money now I had more once and I can choose to continue to live well with my mattress protectors.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

either living in council flats for a few months, for if us in a one bed.

when I moved out of Winchester and three last night everything has been packed and moved out so I slept on the floor with a coat as a blanket in the living room. Just had the carpets cleaned so was a bit soggy.

Or when I moved into my new house and for two weeks slept on a mattress on the floor as I didn't see the point in setting up my bed till the carpets were in.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"What is it for you?

A while ago me sleeping on a bed without a mattress protector was roughing it.

sleeping in my local park in london when I was 14 to 16... its sounds like you have a hard life!

I had a hard life when I was younger. I choose not to now. I have things so even though I have very little money now I had more once and I can choose to continue to live well with my mattress protectors. "

aw hug?

I think at some point we all go through hard times, but making it out of the hard times and making something good is awesome... enjoy your mattress protectors :P

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By *ampWithABrainWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow


"I have always been very fortunate, however I am very fussy and hate "roughing" it but I think of myself as a chameleon and although I hate camping I can without fuss.

I do think for anyone taking this thread or the sentiment out of context, just because some have more than others in a "comfortable" way, you do not know what other hardships or sorrow they may have suffered in their life."

So true...I have friends who APPEAR to others to have had it easy but I know things they've gone thru. No such thing as an easy life IMHO we all go thru shit at some stage.

Just one eg

My aunt had someone make a snotty comment when her eldest started school about single mums. (70's when it weren't so common), how awful they must have felt when someone who knew my aunt told this woman aunt was a widow and THAT'S why she was a single mum

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"What is it for you?

A while ago me sleeping on a bed without a mattress protector was roughing it."

Slept in a tent with just a thin blanket to cover the floor and had one sleeping bag over me and one flat pillow. It was in my back garden that's full of concrete. All I could hear was constant wind and rain was thinking at the time. The tent could come off the floor here. Still stayed out all night though

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"What is it for you?

A while ago me sleeping on a bed without a mattress protector was roughing it.

Slept in a tent with just a thin blanket to cover the floor and had one sleeping bag over me and one flat pillow. It was in my back garden that's full of concrete. All I could hear was constant wind and rain was thinking at the time. The tent could come off the floor here. Still stayed out all night though "

Why?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"What is it for you?

A while ago me sleeping on a bed without a mattress protector was roughing it.

Slept in a tent with just a thin blanket to cover the floor and had one sleeping bag over me and one flat pillow. It was in my back garden that's full of concrete. All I could hear was constant wind and rain was thinking at the time. The tent could come off the floor here. Still stayed out all night though

Why?"

Just loved camping outdoors in those days. Weather or surface wasn't an issue.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Camping...and anything below 4* in hotels"

That is the wife all over, what wrong with sleeping in a tent, it is fun.

For me roughing it is going to the dragon rally, held in Wales in the third weekend in feb. It was so cold I slept in my biking leathers, now I know why the organisers handed out a small bottle of whisky.

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By *opping_candyWoman
over a year ago

West Yorkshire

When my sister was being treated for leukemia when we were kids, my parents took it in turns to be at the hospital with her in Leeds, 3 day stints. They had this accommodation for families to stay over, bedrooms, communal kitchen and bathrooms etc. Sometimes I'd stay there too when my mum was there, sometimes at home with my dad, sometimes with other relatives. The not knowing where I was going or where I'd be sleeping that night was what bothered me the most (aside from my big sister being ill of course), that was from age 7 to 11 or so.

So I guess roughing it for me is not having a place to belong.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Travelodge was alright. Guess im easily pleased, was my first hotel meet, Holiday Inn was nice, Ibis ok - snotty receptionist

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"When my sister was being treated for leukemia when we were kids, my parents took it in turns to be at the hospital with her in Leeds, 3 day stints. They had this accommodation for families to stay over, bedrooms, communal kitchen and bathrooms etc. Sometimes I'd stay there too when my mum was there, sometimes at home with my dad, sometimes with other relatives. The not knowing where I was going or where I'd be sleeping that night was what bothered me the most (aside from my big sister being ill of course), that was from age 7 to 11 or so.

So I guess roughing it for me is not having a place to belong."

I totally understand that.

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By *icketysplits OP   Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"Travelodge was alright. Guess im easily pleased, was my first hotel meet, Holiday Inn was nice, Ibis ok - snotty receptionist"

I never sleep at the Ibis and the beds creak but it's handy for afternoons.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Camping deffo

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I’ve slept in some pretty grim places but safe in the knowledge mine was a temporary ordeal unlike the people for who those dreadful conditions were an ongoing reality with little hope of better times ahead. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I’ve slept in some pretty grim places but safe in the knowledge mine was a temporary ordeal unlike the people for who those dreadful conditions were an ongoing reality with little hope of better times ahead. "

One of our daughters spent time in india, helping to build a school, I take my hat off to all of you. Xxx

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By *reelove1969Couple
over a year ago

bristol

As long as a hotel is clean I've never really been into how many stars it has to be honest. At the end of the day, I'm normally asleep, so not really in a position to notice anyway

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Taking the kids to London to see their dad for a week and having to take it in turns in the bed one night, on the floor the following night. Aside from both being very uncomfortable, it was also incredibly noisy as the block of flats was on top of a co-op and the milk was delivered at 6 am every morning. Scary too as the window fitment was the length of the flat

Staying in a caravan with one of my exes as the bed wasn't wide enough and he snored so loud that I used to wander off and sleep in the lounge.

Staying in an old bedford camper van that only had 2ft 6in beds at Dungeoness with a chemical bin, huge thunderstorm arrived in the middle of the night and no lights around so had to wait until lightening struck to go to the beach where my kids dad, his girlfriend and my son were in a tent to make sure they hadn't be swept away by the sea.

Not having a mattress protector is no big deal as I never had one for years, used to put an old sheet over it first.

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