{"id":507,"date":"2019-09-25T07:09:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T12:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/?p=507"},"modified":"2019-09-25T07:09:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T12:09:06","slug":"camp-kit-coverings-part-3-7-coolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2019\/09\/25\/camp-kit-coverings-part-3-7-coolers\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Kit Coverings – Part 3\/7: Coolers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is the third post in a series on improving your camping\/dayshade kit. The first was about chairs<\/a>, and <\/em>the second was about tables<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether you’re just hanging out field-side for the day or camping for the weekend, coolers are necessary if you want to keep\/serve cold beverages or food. But a standard blue\/red Igloo\/Coleman cooler can be unsightly in an SCA encampment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, you can make a box cushion\/cover for it, but then every time you go to open the cooler, you have to take the cover off. You could paint it<\/a>, but it’s still going to look like a cooler (though there are some really neat ones out there!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve seen boxes build around coolers, or boxes built and lined with polystyrene to act like coolers, but that takes a level of woodworking\/crafting skill that<\/a>, as I’ve said throughout this series of posts, might be outside the scope\/skillset\/resources of folk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I’ve readied for Meridian Grand Tournament this year, I stumbled on this idea – hiding your cooler inside a basket<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That’s a BYHOLMA chest from Ikea, with two standard styrofoam coolers tucked inside. I didn’t want to use styrofoam, because styrofoam<\/em>, and found that Igloo is now making a biodegradable cooler<\/a>, and it’s gotten decent reviews (I got mine at Target for $8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I already have a chest-type basket that I thought would be big enough, but it is too shallow by an inch or so. (The BYHOLMA measures 72 x 50 x 50 centimeters.) I’m not sure if I want to try and find a big enough chest (do I need another basket chest?), or if the cooler will be fine tucked under the table as is. I think eventually I’ll upgrade my basket, but given that the BYHOLMA (which is no longer available from IKEA<\/a>) sold for $70, I think I might wait until baskets go on sale at Michaels or Home Goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I might <\/em>go by Home Goods before this weekend to see what they have. Baskets are one of those things<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the third post in a series on improving your camping\/dayshade kit. The first was about chairs, and the second was about tables. Whether you’re just hanging out field-side for the day or camping for the weekend, coolers are necessary if you want to keep\/serve cold beverages or food. But a standard blue\/red Igloo\/Coleman … Continue reading “Camp Kit Coverings – Part 3\/7: Coolers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[99,96],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eTPU-8b","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}