All excellent advice from our esteemed members.
The trick is to make sure things are not able to jiggle or slide around. Your RV has a earthquake everytime you go down the road...
One time we arrive at the campsite to find the cabinet above the sink had flown open and the container of vegetable oil had fallen down and and was hanging out over the edge. Thankfully the cap had stayed on!
Make sure things are packed tightly in the fridge too. I always open the door SLO-O-O-WLY after arriving, just in case of flying objects trying to break your toes.
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Pringler wrote: All excellent advice from our esteemed members.
The trick is to make sure things are not able to jiggle or slide around. Your RV has a earthquake everytime you go down the road...
One time we arrive at the campsite to find the cabinet above the sink had flown open and the container of vegetable oil had fallen down and and was hanging out over the edge. Thankfully the cap had stayed on!
Make sure things are packed tightly in the fridge too. I always open the door SLO-O-O-WLY after arriving, just in case of flying objects trying to break your toes.
That's funny since our current trailer likes to dump two of the metal band aid boxes that are in our medicine cabinet into the bathroom sink and shut itself again. Everything is fine at the start of the day and when we get to our destination the two band aid boxes are in the sink and the cabinet is closed. I can't put one of the spring bars on that shelf since we have the boxes on their sides and it's the top two boxes not on the rubber stuff that always gets dumped. What has me puzzled is why after about this happening 10x the cabinet door is still shut and secure.
We leave everything in cabinets. If wheels are balanced (most TT's do NOT come with them balanced) everything should ride fine. We've had no issues in over 180,000 towing miles.
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We are going to use child locks. Since 1 we have a kid and 2 they do a good job of keeping everything in...lol. We are also going to use plastic dishes except for a few coffee mugs.
First, line all cabinets, drawers, etc. with the cushy rubber stuff.
I have a 2 tiered wire corner shelf for plates/bowls/saucer in one small overhead cabinet. I cut out some round spacers from the cushy liner stuff and put one between each stacked plate, bowl, saucer. The have never moved.
For glasses (breakable ones) I use 2 of those cardboard drink holders that you get with take out at fast food places. They hold the glasses firmly in place and prevent them from knocking against each other. Who knows, they may be stackable too. Haven't tried it.
Pots and pans - under the sink in an organized, jumble of unbreakable stuff.
Medicine cabinet - a piece of thin plexiglass about 2" high, hot glued or otherwise adhered to the inside of the cabinet on the inside near the bottom front of each shelf. Nothing ever falls out.
Canned goods/ staples. Wire baskets on the shelf liner in overhead cupboard, in a shelved slide out pantry or in drawers. However, I keep all canned goods out of overhead cabinets.
Paper plates - I use a double sided wire paper napkin holder and stand the plates on edge, edges facing the opening. Takes up NO room.
The only time things will shift is when there is space to do so. Beach towels, paper towels, whatever, get shoved in the not so tight spots.
TV, PC, etc go on the bed, under the covers with pillows around them.
Most of our dishes, plates, bowls, glasses and cups are non-breakable material. However, my wife usually has a layer or that non-skid rubber like material between each of them to keep them from sliding around. Some smaller items she has in plastic containers when on the road. Trailers with rear kitchens usually have more problems with dishes bouncing around, and keep cupboard doors closed when traveling. Although, I don't think it's a significant problem.
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Plastic bins and IKEA folding fabric bins, kept full, keep most items in place. We use melmac dishes, plastic glasses, acrylic wine glasses and stainless steel . Just like home, heavy stuff is kept low, light weight high. Canned goods low.Pot and pan (I only carry one of each) in a drawer, wedged with other stuff. We don't use a lot of paper goods.
The key to stuff not moving around is keeping everything packed tight... in the bins. Or, in the refrigerator. Before we leave a campsite, I move everything to a few shelves in the refrigerator, and pack it all tight. No leaks or foamy beer or soda.
Do open doors slowly. As they say on the airplane, contents of the bins may have shifted during motion....
I have more problems with stuff shifting around in the front of the trailer (bathroom) than the back (kitchen) where it's bumpier. Maybe I'm just more careful in the kitchen (my bailiwick).
Have fun!
As for dinnerware ours are of the unbreakble type. We have a lazy susan in one cabinet where our ceramic cups travel packed in tightly and so far haven't lost a one. One cabinet beside the entertainment center is where all glass items, liquor bottles, wine bottles, glass mugs, etc. are stored and during travel they are placed tightly against each other and a blanket is then placed between them and the door. Lamps are wrapped in blankets or towels and placed in cabinets. Again no problems with breakage or movement. Flatscreen TV in living room is removed and placed face down on the bed. In the basement items are stored in different size plastic containers. Since we live in our 5vr and while not moving we have a lot of stuff just sitting on countertops, etc. but when it's time to move on everything has it's storage space and it really takes very little time to put everything away and be on the move again. It just takes a little thought and planning to ensure safety of your things while traveling.
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Our Longerberger cups stay just fine in the cupboard, the wine glasses travel in their inverted rack, the Longerberger bakeware is in the lower shelves. Only thing bad that has hit is is a bedroom cupboard that opened up (back latch and I knew it). Several towels tossed about.
Wife uses the sticky rubber stuff to line the cupboards, a wife rack for the plates, and that's all.
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We leave everything in its place. heavy pots and pans get a cabinet down low to the floor. plastic plates cups and so on in upper cabinets. we also will use paper plates and disposable utensils alot as well, but silverware, knives and things of the sort get a drawer. Anything that you may think is breakable, i would just store lower, so if by slim chance it makes its way loose, it should be ok. knock on wood, we've yet to go into the trailer after a trip and found anything rolling around. actually, i take that back, we once had one thing fall. we usually store stuff on the top bunk in the back, and we had a open 12 pack of pop, and a can fell from there and exploded, kinda messy, but our own fault. nothing to do with the tt's storage. otherwise, we store everything as it's meant to be stored. have never had issues with spillages in the fridge either. i would get kind of annoyed if i had to pack and unpack and pack again for every trip. that's why we have a seperate set of everything for the TT to avoid the packing and unpacking. Just tell him you're leaving everything where it goes, and if there's a mess when you get back from a trip, you'll clean it up, and maybe continue with his method, but let him do the packing and unpacking a few times, he'll quickly be singing another tune.
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