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staycamp

Home camping kits

Camp in.
Lights optional.

A camping kit concept that lives in your hall closet. On an ordinary weekend it is a living-room campout. When the power takes a long break, it helps you plan for water, warmth, light, supper and routine.

See the kitsRead the Field Book

The idea

Your house is the campsite.

In a long outage the house stays put and the systems wander off. Staycamp packs the small jobs the city usually does for you. Home can be the campsite while it is safe to stay; a plan to leave belongs in the kit too.

Most preparedness gear is sold with a siren in the background. Staycamp is sold with a kettle. It is the same practical list, framed as what it really is for most households: a trip you take without leaving home.

01 · The four that matter

Water, warmth, the loo, and your medicine.

Everything else is logistics. These four are where the kit spends its money.

Water

The Canteen

At least a gallon a person a day, stored before you need it.

  • Food-grade 5-gallon jugs with spigots (five person-days each at the baseline)
  • A storage checklist: fill with safe water before an outage and date each jug
  • A printed copy of current CDC water-treatment instructions, matched to the product label
  • A household water plan that adds capacity for heat, illness, pregnancy and pets

Use safe bottled or stored water. Household tanks are not part of the baseline supply. Follow local water advisories; boiling or bleach cannot remove fuel or toxic chemicals.

Warmth and cool

The Den

A warm place to rest, and somewhere cooler to go.

  • A freestanding indoor tent that pitches on a rug, no stakes needed
  • Sleeping bags chosen for your actual climate
  • Warm layers and socks, with exits and required ventilation kept clear
  • Cooling towels and a battery fan for indoor temperatures below 90°F
  • A battery-powered or battery-backed carbon-monoxide alarm

A tent is not a heater or a heat shelter. Keep flames outside it. Plan a safe warm or air-conditioned place to go if your home becomes unsafe, and follow evacuation advice.

Sanitation

The Little House

The camp loo, done properly, before day four asks for it.

  • A 5-gallon bucket with a snap-on seat and lid
  • A divider insert that keeps liquid and solid apart, which keeps it civilised
  • A roll of heavy liners and a sack of pine shavings for covering
  • A spigot hand-wash station and a bar of soap that does not get skipped

Wash hands with soap and safe water. Use a temporary toilet only with your local emergency sanitation instructions, including how to contain and dispose of waste.

Medicine

The Pocket

Your routine, kept on paper and kept cool.

  • A water-resistant folio for prescription copies and a written medication list
  • An insulated pouch to support the storage plan agreed with your pharmacist; it does not guarantee temperature control
  • A refill calendar for an emergency supply agreed with your pharmacist or clinician
  • A one-page question sheet to take to your own clinician

Some things need power: CPAP, oxygen concentrators, nebulisers. Staycamp does not guess at those. The question sheet is there so your clinician can tell you what your household needs.

02 · The rest of camp

Sorted by what it depends on.

Pumps need power, card readers need the network, towers need fuel. Each piece of gear stands in for one of those quiet dependencies.

Cooking

Camp Kitchen

Ready-to-eat food for indoors. Portable gas camp stoves and charcoal grills are outdoors only, away from openings; an open window or CO alarm does not make indoor use safe. An indoor-rated electric appliance needs safe power.

Light

Lantern Shelf

A headlamp for everyone, because two free hands beat a torch. LED lanterns for the table. No candles in the box, on purpose.

News

Camp Radio

A battery or hand-crank radio tuned to local emergency broadcasts, and walkie-talkies legal for your area. Mobile service may be interrupted; write down a backup way to reach people.

Cash

The Biscuit Tin

An actual tin, with room for small bills. Nobody can make change for a twenty when the till is a biscuit tin.

Food

Cool Box Kit

Two fridge thermometers and a magnet card with the timings, so nobody has to guess what is still good.

Food

Pantry Rotation

Shelf labels and a monthly reminder for rice, pulses, tins, oil, salt and sugar, so the stock gets eaten before it becomes archaeology.

Fuel

Power Notes

Staycamp does not sell fuel or generators. It does include a card on what to know if you own one, and the one rule that never bends.

Getting around

Road Card

Check local road instructions during an outage. An electric car only supplies home backup when the vehicle and installed equipment support it; check the manuals and a qualified installer.

03 · The kits

Start with a weekend. Grow into a fortnight.

Prices are concept pricing for the brand study. The Fortnight is a starting kit: its six jugs are not a two-week water supply for four people. Use the planner for the extra capacity.

3 days

The Weekender

Two people, or a first try

  • Canteen (2 jugs)
  • Lantern Shelf
  • Camp Radio
  • Biscuit Tin
  • Camp Days deck

$149

14 days

The Fortnight

A household of four, with water capacity added

  • Canteen starter (6 jugs): 30 gallons; four people for 14 days need at least 56 gallons, so add 6 more 5-gallon jugs
  • The Den
  • The Little House
  • The Pocket
  • Camp Kitchen
  • Lantern Shelf, Camp Radio, Biscuit Tin
  • Cool Box Kit and Pantry Rotation
  • Porch Cards and Camp Days deck

$689

Every 6 months

The Refill

Anyone who already has a kit

  • Water-treatment supplies checked against their labels
  • Batteries
  • Liners and shavings
  • A new pantry list

$39

04 · Camp days

Days three to fourteen are about people.

Gear runs the first few days. After that, it is neighbours, a rhythm, and having packed for the whole trip.

Porch Cards

A few cards to swap with trusted neighbours: name, number and who would welcome a check-in. Neighbours can help with everyday tasks; emergency and medical needs still need qualified help.

Camp Days deck

Fifty-two cards for days three through fourteen: a morning job, a supper plan, a game, a walk. A routine is not the same as waiting, and morale runs down like anything else.

The Long Trip rule

Try to build a two-week water supply where possible. Plan safe places to go and people to contact as well as supplies to keep at home.

When the lights went out across the northeastern US and Ontario on 14 August 2003, the thing most people remembered afterwards was strangers directing traffic at dark intersections. That is the camp Staycamp is packing for.

05 · The Field Book

The numbers, printed inside every lid.

General guidance, plainly stated. Your local emergency office and your own clinician come first.

TopicFigureWhat it means
Water to storeAt least 1 gal / person / dayStore at least three days; try for two weeks. Four people for 14 days need 56 gallons: twelve 5-gallon jugs. Allow extra for heat, illness, pregnancy and pets. CDC: emergency water storage
Water treatmentFollow the current instructionsUse safe bottled water when available. Match any treatment to the product label and CDC instructions. Boiling or disinfecting does not remove fuel or toxic chemicals. CDC: making water safe
Fridge, door shutUp to 4 hoursAfter four hours without power, discard refrigerated perishables unless a safe temperature was maintained. Use the linked food-by-food chart; do not taste-test. FoodSafety.gov: food during an outage
Freezer, door shutAbout 48 h full · 24 h halfFood with ice crystals or at 40°F (4°C) or below can generally be refrozen. Discard thawed perishables held above 40°F for more than two hours. Check the chart for each food. FoodSafety.gov: food during an outage
Insulin storageCheck your exact productStorage times and temperatures vary by product and device. Follow its label and your clinician or pharmacist; protect from heat and sunlight. Do not use insulin that has frozen. FDA: insulin storage in an emergency
Camp stoves and grillsOutdoors onlyNever use portable gas camp stoves or charcoal grills indoors, in a tent or by an open window. A CO alarm is a backup warning, not permission to burn fuel indoors. CDC: carbon monoxide and generators
GeneratorsMore than 20 feet awayOperate outdoors, more than 20 feet from doors, windows and vents, never in a garage. Use a battery-powered or battery-backed CO alarm indoors and follow the manufacturer’s instructions. CDC: carbon monoxide and generators
Hot weatherHave a cooling planUse indoor fans only below 90°F. Find an air-conditioned place if home becomes too hot; check on people at higher risk. An indoor tent is not a heat shelter. CDC: heat and your health

06 · Voice and look

Calm, warm, useful.

The brand is a good camp counsellor: knows the rules, never raises their voice.

We say

  • camp
  • cosy
  • the long trip
  • supper
  • neighbours
  • just in case
  • kit
  • two calm weeks

We never say

  • survival
  • doomsday
  • bug-out
  • SHTF
  • when it all collapses
  • countdowns
  • fear of strangers
  • tactical anything

House rules

  1. Explain, do not sell. Every number on a box is one a household can act on.
  2. Lead with the ordinary weekend. The outage is the second use, not the first.
  3. Warmth over drama: no black packaging, no camouflage, no red alert banners.
  4. Portable gas stoves and grills stay outdoors. Indoor scenes use LED light and no combustion; a CO alarm never makes indoor fuel-burning safe.
  5. Medicine copy always ends with "ask your clinician". We never stand in for one.
  6. Neighbours are the best part of camp. Nothing we make treats them as a threat.
Canvas#F3ECDFGround, boxes, labels
Pine#2F4A3AWordmark, type
Ember#D7643AOne accent per surface
Dusk#27324BNight scenes, the Den
Lantern#E9B84CLight, the Lantern Shelf

Packaging

A canvas duffel for the Weekender and a pine-slatted crate for the Fortnight, built to sit in a hall closet without looking like a bunker. Each pouch is labelled like a cabin bunk: The Canteen, The Den, The Little House.

Photography

Real living rooms at dusk. Kids in sleeping bags, LED lanterns and a ready-to-eat supper. No indoor combustion. Any portable gas cooking scene is outdoors, away from doors, windows and vents.

What we will not sell

Fear, weapons, countdown timers or candles. This is a concept, with nothing for sale. Portable gas camp stoves, charcoal grills and generators must never be used indoors, even with an open window or a CO alarm.

07 · More from camp

Take it further.

Planner

Pack your camp

Household size and trip length in; water, jugs and gear out.

52 cards

Camp Days deck

A morning job, a supper, something to play and something for the street.

Printable

Porch Card

A neighbour card and two window signs: all well, or please knock.

Campaign

Launch kit

Posters, pouch labels, welcome emails and the FAQ.