Abandoned Tents

[Venod]

I find this mind blowing, why not take them home and reuse them, its a good thing homeless charities and such organisations are benefitting from people with more money than sense.

https://thetab.com/uk/2021/08/31/tents-left-at-festivals-leeds-reading-creamfields-221131

 

[classic33]

Often, but not always, cheaper single skin tents, around the £20 - £30 mark. Nearly always with a mess left inside, for someone else to clean up.

 

[winjim]

Have you ever tried to pack away a pop up tent after spending four days off your tits?

 

[Venod]

Have you ever tried to pack away a pop up tent after spending four days off your tits?

Not a pop up, but packed up many a tent while not really capable of doing so.

 

[PeteXXX]

'Festival Tents' are so cheap, a lot of people don't bother! Looking at all the dumped stuff at these gatherings, I do wonder about the green credentials!

Do the organisers collect and donate the tents to worthy causes or just shovel them into skips along with the rest of the garbage?

 

[HMS_Dave]

Have you ever tried to pack away a pop up tent after spending four days off your tits?

Tents? Natures own for me. As a younger man, it was ale, memory loss and waking up early morning under a hedge.

I know a friend of mine at a festival somehow forgot his tent and kipped in the field, under the stars.

 

[craigwend]

'Festival Tents' are so cheap, a lot of people don't bother! Looking at all the dumped stuff at these gatherings, I do wonder about the green credentials!

Do the organisers collect and donate the tents to worthy causes or just shovel them into skips along with the rest of the garbage?

If you read the article linked...

 

[Drago]

Pete cant read, not since he tripped over in the dark at Glasto while high on Irn Bru and poked both eyes out on tent poles.

 

[Beebo]

When you are struggling with a hangover it’s very easy to write off a £40 tent as collateral damage. When you have to get it into a tiny bag and carry it across a field. Then have to clean and dry it at home.

 

[PeteXXX]

Pete cant read, not since he tripped over in the dark at Glasto while high on Irn Bru and poked both eyes out on tent poles.

I went to the festival that was the forerunner to Glasto. Pop up tents had not been invented. Nor had pop up events

 

[PeteXXX]

If you read the article linked...

Nah... Grossly overrated idea

 

[oldwheels]

Have you ever tried to pack away a pop up tent after spending four days

Have you ever tried to pack away a pop up tent after spending four days off your tits?

I have tried to do it while stone cold sober and can understand why they get abandoned.

 

[craigwend]

A) it's been going on for years, 20 years ago had my stag do at a festival - lots of abandoned tents then - we from failing 'memory' had bought (£30 ASDA) tents which we may have left? (apart from the one that perhaps got set on fire for some reason, it had apparently been destroyed by some drunk person high jumping into it. It was not one the 'quality £30' tents - it was one that someone had borrowed
B) - even back then there was a charity that 'recycled' them - we left the tent bags and everything useful in the tents.
C) The 'festival crowd' has changed - when I did go regularly (mainly Reading, though Glast and Phoenix) most people went for the music primarily and go each year or multiple festivals, so keeping your tent made sense - now it's a place to be seen - dress up / down regardless of the music - my 18 year old went to 'Leeds Fest' & stayed in a hotel

 

[Cycleops]

Pete cant read, not since he tripped over in the dark at Glasto while high on Irn Bru and poked both eyes out on tent poles.

Don’t you mean ‘Keith Can’t Read’ and their track ‘Green on Red’. Might even have played at Reading.

View: https://youtu.be/-fwTsULVgzw

 

[MontyVeda]

'Festival Tents' are so cheap, a lot of people don't bother! ...

They'll leave decent tents too, not just cheap fezzy tents. A friend often comes back from the festivals with a good clean tent or two that've been left behind and dishes them out to anyone who wants/needs one. They also leave mats, stoves, sleeping bags, crates of cider, unopened bottles of vodka, wine, etc...