I Spent $500 on Walmart Camping Gear.. and this it what i'm going to do with it.

What does $500 worth of camping gear from Walmart look like? Scott doesn't want to know. Let's find out. 10 items ordered from Walmart.com in Canada equaling almost 500 bucks. First let me give you a rundown of my ideas, what I plan on doing. So this isn't just like, oh look what I can buy at Walmart and then that's it. I'm gonna go out and use this stuff. I'm gonna go camp either one night or two nights, either with the dog or without. And I plan on doing that within the month. It won't be my next video because I have a lot of things already planned and in the works, but definitely within the month we'll be doing this. Excuse me. So in all honesty, I only spent about $450 because I still have to buy food and I didn't want to buy food before I go so it can ruin or perish or whatever. That's something I want you guys to help me with. So like I said, I spent $450. This is going to be the $500 Walmart challenge or whatever. I want your help deciding if I need to spend that full $50 on food, or if there's other things that I could buy to make my life easier while I'm out there. I did pick the items to the best of my knowledge, but I'm sure you guys will have lots of ideas on things that I forgot. Keep in mind, this is the basics. And the premise of this is not just like, oh, I spent $500 at Walmart and I go camping one time. The premise of this is, I'm on a budget I want to go camping not just once but I want to start camping this start to start to be my hobby but I don't have a lot of money and I'm not going to have a lot of money for a while so I bought my gear at Walmart and seeing how it lasts seeing how it does seeing if it's able to last it's able to be used more than once which I'm sure it will be because when I first started I used Walmart gear and I used Canadian Tire gear and I used um you know just department store, hardware store stuff because that's all we had. Okay, let's get into it. I bought 10 things. Let me show you online as well as I go. I'll show you the list of them and what they cost. Yeah, because I think you'd like to know. And once again, like I said, this is Walmart in Canada, not Walmart in the States. So I don't know about you guys or how many people have done this, but for Canadians or Americans who have gone to each other countries and shopped, bought things, the prices are way different, right, in America the prices are way down, in Canada the prices are way up, and that's only America and Canada, I'm sure there's Walmart in the UK, I'm almost 100% sure on that, and I don't know about you guys, ah, Scoob, you're knocking the camera, is your money is worth more than mine, for sure, pounds, Great Britain pounds are worth more than Canadian dollars, I think they're worth more than American dollars too anyway something to keep in mind this is Canadian dollars first up is a backpack let's go with that one first because that's an integral part of it right you're not carrying any of this stuff without a backpack a little silica gel packet do not eat throw away put my pocket for now so Mr. Scooter doesn't get at it okay so off the top this is a Coleman backpack Coleman's of a company that's been around for a long time I don't believe it's quality that is as good as it used to be Oh another thing I want to show you guys oh I got it finally I got the zero tolerance flick down and I had a couple people email me and message me and tips and tricks on how to do that apparently I was pushing too much in and up like hard when I just had to go up flick look at the wrist look at the wrist okay right look at the flick of the wrist yeah just working on part two of that white tarp camping video which shall be up on Friday in a couple days all right we'll just go through this like this in order that it's here real quick so I got a water bottle for 2.97 I got a Camillus folding titanium folding knife for $14.97 I got a magnesium fire starter for $6.89 sleeping bag for 85 bucks a backpack for 95 bucks a sleeping pad for 40 bucks a hatchet for 40 bucks a cook set for 50 bucks headlamp with batteries for 14 bucks and a tent for 50 bucks so you can see the price was 3.98 but with shipping or sorry no no shipping with HST which is 13% that's what we pay in Canada or at least in Ontario, $450 on the dot. This one's called the Coleman Elite 65. It's an internal frame backpack. 65 meaning 65 liters, which is a decent size backpack. I think the biggest bag I have in a normal backpack style is like a 55 liter, and then I have like a 70 liter in a dry bag style. But yeah, this will be fine. This will work, and it actually seems like it'll work after the case for other trips with bigger loads. But we shall see after this trip I plan on hiking around for about an hour or two before I get to my like camping site just so I can really test the backpack carry the stuff around it's got bottom bottom straps where I can connect my tent or my sleeping bag to the bottom which would be ideal because the sleeping bag and tent and all that stuff is pretty bulky considering it's from Walmart I might be able to fit it all in but if not that's gonna be very helpful on the bottom for me It's got waist belt, chest belt, all that stuff, removable lid, so that's kind of cool. We're going to pack all this stuff up before this video is done, we'll pack it all up together. Okay next up, next up which was very, very hard for me to find in store, which is part of the reason I didn't purchase these things in store and I went ahead and did online because it had such more options. This sleeping bag is a 20 to 40 degree Fahrenheit sleeping bag, which is a huge rating, like difference in the rating, 20 to 40, which is also negative 6.7 to negative 4.4 Celsius. Again, a big difference in that fluctuation of rating, but whatever. So ideally we're going to say this one goes down to like probably negative 3 comfort wise and then negative 5 dying wise. This is another Coleman, they call it their backpacking line. Oh okay and then it says up in the corner negative 1 degree Celsius or 30 degrees Fahrenheit. So tell me if this makes sense to you guys. here where it says 30 degrees Fahrenheit or negative 1.1 degrees Celsius and then down here it's telling you comfort Coleman comfort ranges and it's saying negative six points oh no it is saying negative six point seven it's saying negative six point seven to four point four degrees that's a bit wonky of a rating we're gonna go that this is good around to about zero or negative one degrees um yeah which I'll probably be cold then if I'm being honest if I'm going camping in the wintertime it normally gets down to below negative one and even if it does turn to the first day of spring before that we shall see anyways I'm not going to not go because of it I might if I'm being honest bring like a sleeping bag liner from home which could also or a thin sheet a thin sheet from home because then you could potentially just bring something from home in this exercise um yeah I might bring a thin sheet to line inside it don't don't uh don't roast me over the spit for that one okay that's the second thing up okay we might as well continue on the line of sleeping and stuff like that uh gear gear geared toward that so this is a Therm-a-Rest no it's not it's a Coleman it's a Coleman self inflating inflating pad and it says 2.3 pounds or a kilogram it's literally giving me no r-value it's not offering an r-value rating on here oh man it says the thickness is 1.5 inches or 3.8 centimeters when it's inflated heavy duty including storage it includes storage straps who needs a rating when you have storage straps anyways i assume this will be like my first self-inflating uh sleeping pad where it's decent yeah decent oh you know what there's a little little piece of paper in here maybe it says something about the rating you'd think it'd be a selling point they'd want it on the outside unless it's like a negative r rating no it's just telling you how to inflate the pad you know you know how to inflate a self-inflating pad do you guys know Walmart okay so that's backpack sleeping bag sleeping pad all very important things again this isn't a bushcraft or a survival exercise this is somebody wanting to get into camping, I'm buying camping gear from Walmart. So I could have really went without a sleeping pad and used spruce boughs and just did it that way. But again, this is not that kind of thing. This is a camping thing, like I just said. So in that same thought, I could have went without a tent. I mean, I could have got just a tarp. I could have got no tarp or no tent at all and just built a natural shelter. But again, for the purposes of this, I wanted to be camping. This This is an Ozark Trail dome tent. It's saying it's a four-person tent. Lightweight, compact. Weighs, like, maybe four pounds or something along those lines. I'll most likely take it out of here. I am going to take it out of here before we go. Set it all up in the tent. Sorry, in the backpack properly. Yeah, it's in a box and everything. We don't need that. We don't need the box. In all honesty, I really should set it up before I go out because it's from Walmart. who knows if it's going to even work but I think that's more part of the actual video like try and find out if it works and and and fixing things that don't work you know what I mean like if one poles broken or if a tab doesn't poke through or something seeing how I can fix it in the field so I think that is what I'm going to end up doing I'll take it over the box and stuff like I said but just I'm not gonna set it up beforehand my water bottle I've got a a water bottle now jeans are like $15 isn't that insane like literally anywhere from 10 to 20 dollars I've seen now jeans for so I'm not spending that much on a water bottle this one's fine it's BPA free it's one liter it's got a spout on it it has a smaller bottom so it nests in a cup holder or in your cook kit and stuff like that so yeah I'm gonna wash that out before I use that but that's my my water bottle pretty straightforward uh my cutting tools okay so it was all up in the air on what to get like normally i like to have a saw and an axe and a knife but i'm trying to conserve money and i'm trying to buy things that work well and none of the bow saws or buck saws or folding saws that i saw were decent that's a lie there was one there was a corona there was a Corona folding saw, a pruning saw that I thought was pretty decent, but it was like 50 bucks, 40 bucks, a lot of money anyway, and that would have almost ate up my whole, the rest of my money that I'm allotted to spend on this thing, and I would have only $10 for food. So, spending money where I think it's wise, I got this Fiskars X7, pretty decent axe, it's got its own sheath here, a little locking mechanism, comes out, it's a different axe me a different kind of axe than normal but I've told you guys for a long time that these are decent axes for someone looking to get into buying an axe if they don't know what they want or whatever they don't have a lot of money this is a good alternative, a good good option so the handle is hollow at least so there it's like this composite handle the head's pretty pretty pretty a wedge shaped but she's sharp and yeah it'll work, for splitting it'll work for chopping, it'll work for cutting, bucking, limbing, all that stuff. So I'm not saying it'll be easy. This will be a little bit more work using this thing for everything, for wood processing, but it's going to work and I am allowing myself money for food. So that was my thoughts behind it. This was the best option I saw for axes as well. Getting it back in kind of sucks, but oh, it's not so bad. Okay, cutting tool. My next cutting tool, which I thought was important to get because this is going to be hard for working intricate things. If I want to make a pot hanger or if I want to do anything like finesse work, it's going to be hard. And I don't have a saw, so I splurged. I splurged, guys. Look at that big beast of a knife. I didn't realize how small it was. I guess I should have read the dimensions online. But, again, I bought it online and I didn't realize. But that's okay. It'll work. It was cheaper of the knife. This is a knife, man. You can't eat it. You can't eat it cheaper of the knives, and I think it'll still work I didn't want some big thank you some big gaudy knife. I didn't want like a big buck knife or actually they had a Bear Grylls knife, the one that like the normal belt knife you have and I've used one of those and it actually works pretty decent But again, it was like 60 bucks. I didn't have it in the budget. So oh Check this bad boy out. Oh, let's go. This is a knife homie What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Get that gunk out your eyes. Get that gunk out your eyes, boy. All right, so look at this bad boy. I don't want to get pulled over with this one. Not that I have any arm hair. Let's go. Can you stop looking at me? Oh, yeah, she shaves. So that's my powerful cutting tool. So that's going to just go in my belt pocket. Like, oh, it hangs upside down. Look at that. That's just going to go in my belt like my normal knife does, and I'll use it. I'll use it like a normal knife. I'm not going to be batoning. no batoning for that guy all right next up excuse me scoots what are you doing you just want to be in the video hey next up i got a headlamp this is a another Ozark Trail piece of kit i assume Ozark Trail has a lot to do with Walmart but it came with three batteries it's a headlamp okay i know you want to be part of this you need to lay down you need to lay down good boy you want your bone i'm gonna go get him his bone so he's not so uh all of him on grill i got him this one yesterday I've been getting them like raw beef bones lately, but they didn't have a big one. So I went with the the smoked It's a Benko. I believe it's called Benko bones. So they're marrow. They're smoked marrow bones They got the big old knuckle on the bottom and this is like 10 bucks or something. All right, here you go big guy There you go. You might hear a little bit of chomping noises now Don't tell me you don't want it. Go outside, holler when you want to come back in. Sold my red Jeep had that 99 Cherokee XJ it was my my dream dream vehicle for a long time I bought it last year anyways we sold it a little sad about that because I'm never gonna find one in that condition again MCQ bushcraft is fixing his up right now and yeah make me want to do the same but anyway she's gone back to this I just said that because I went outside to let the dog out I noticed my Jeep was struck a chord one single tear you know okay so last I think up oh no sorry I was talking about the headlamp so the headlamp is 200 lumens it's got three batteries with it the part of the reason I bought it was because the batteries came with it I didn't have to spend extra money on batteries because I'm trying to do everything as legit as I can right I'm trying to only use things that I bought at Walmart right like you heard me say about the sheet with the sleeping bag I might bring I'm not gonna wear Walmart clothes I originally tried to do that at least like outerwear but it would have been way too much money so wear clothes I already have because people don't really have clothes even if they're outside clothes or not you can still wear them trying to double up on things layer up that's what I used to do all the time still layer up but that's decent don't that your face with the floodlight you dim it by holding it okay there's a red on there somewhere to it Oh headlamp I love a headlamp guys flashlight just does not cut it for me not the same deal okay illumination and then this oh two things left how many of you have used one of these pieces of garbage the magnesium striker with the little thing the little striker on the side so the thing is this little ferro rod part where you get the sparks from it's it's tiny and that's really not what you're starting the fire with you're starting the fire with this magnesium block you're actually shaving down a bunch of like shavings as funny as that sounds um like the size of a quarter or a nickel and then you would spark the spark onto that and it just like a white flash of like fire very very very hot and then it just goes out like real quick i can't snap i can't snap my middle finger because my burner it takes a little bit more prep beforehand once before you get your fire going And then the reason I bought that was because I always use a normal fire steel. They had normal fire steels, but something different. If you use it, I said it's a piece of garbage because it's really time consuming and it's not necessary if you know how to use an actual fire steel. But this is a good thing to learn how to use as well, especially if you're just starting out. Last up is my cook kit. And this is one of the things I actually looked at when I got it before this video. I'm very impressed with it. Very impressed with it. This is a North 49 two-person camping set made with stainless steel. Believe it or not. Now, the stainless steel is very thin, but it's not aluminum. And I'm extremely stoked about that. Because a lot of these things, these low-end things, not high-end priced gear would be aluminum like this. But, again, let's check it out. So this is $50, $49.99. It comes with a fry pan with handles. and obviously the rubber grip on the handles will get melted off but there's still metal underneath and that's fine use a glove whatever you got a lid i've got a stuff sack for it all which is pretty decent two little plastic crappy cups but they have measurements on the side of them so that's kind of handy and also this is my kit right i have a water bottle but if i wanted to make like like a spruce needle tea or something like that while i'm out there boil it up and put myself a cup of instead of trying to sip out of here. So I got a pot, and this pot has a lid, a decent lid. The pot also has a little pour spout, and it's decently deep, like you can do stuff with it. What it does have that I don't like is this plastic handle, which is no problem because it's just on with a screw, and you can always, even when you're in the woods, man, with your knife, just get a little piece of green wood or whatever, make a little square and screw that screw onto there, it'll be fine the plastic might work for a couple trips anyways too before it gets too hot and melts off, it's fine, it's totally work, doable, so you got a pot there with the lid, you've got a bigger pot with the lid, both have handles then you have this frying pan that doesn't have a lid, but that's okay so two pots with lids, frying pan with no lid, two cups pretty decent honestly, more stuff than I would need for myself I probably won't even bring it all but to melt snow if there is still snow when I'm there or to boil water for to make it safe for drinking these pots will do the job obviously this is even concave on the top so later on when I fix the handle or get rid of the handle you can even put coals up on here so you could you can sit this in the coals and then you put the coals on top of here and use it like a Dutch oven because it literally has a big lip inside so it's kind of decent, i'm excited for this, i'm excited to go do this, excuse me, what i need from you guys like i said originally was ideas on what i haven't got here that i actually really really need, what's a necessity for a night or two nights i haven't decided yet, um, with or without the dog, whatever i have to bring for the dog i'm going to bring extra, okay, this isn't five hundred dollars worth of camping gear for me and my dog it's just not going to happen if I can get away with getting his food for the same amount of money as mine or included in that money then I'll do that because he doesn't need much you have a piece of meat and some stuff only again depending on if it's one day or two so yeah pretty excited pretty happy to go do it I'm happy that I actually got the gear I've had this idea for a little while and when I mentioned it on a video some of you guys were like order online because you have much more options which is a great call thank you very much for that so let me know if there's anything in this kit that i'm missing big time that i absolutely need for a night or two in the woods um let me know what kind of food you guys would buy from walmart to do this with the gear that i have now remember i have a pot a pan and a fire i have no grill i can still make things i can still make a grill i can use i can make whatever i want over there out of wood i can use a skewer i can use a green wood grill. So keep that in mind when you're giving suggestions. Scout's out there barking up a storm. Maybe I will bring it all because Scout can use one for a bowl too. Makes sense to me. Bag works. Stuff sack work. If I can get that on the inside, I will. If not, I'll strap it to the outside. Oh, you know what? That's using the old noggin, Joseph. Put it back in its bag. Put it back in its stuff sack. I guarantee when I come out of there from camping. I'm not going to have it back in this stuff sack. It's a pretty decent pocket on the front of this backpack too. You can tell the rope that they're using for drawstrings is inferior quality. We'll put the sleeping bag in first because that's going to take up a ton of room. If I can get it sideways in there, I'd like to, but it might not go. Oh yeah, she goes sideways. That's not so bad then. Next up, we'll put the sleeping pad because that's quite big too. Yeah, this tent is going to have to get strapped to the bottom, but that's okay. Water bottle can go on the side, axle going inside, even though it can probably go on the side. Cook kit down in there too. What else do we have left? We have our headlamp, water bottle, fire starter, and knife. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Yep. Okay. So I guess to keep track of this stuff. I'll just end up putting it in the front pocket here. It's really big. I've got a lot of room in this backpack actually. I have a ton of room in the top here for a little bit of extra clothes and my food and then whatever I need for the dog. I probably will bring them considering how much room I have. Let's get this thing strapped to the bottom. Look at that. It's a tight fit. It's coming up warmer. Strapped too. Inside side pocket. That's pretty decent. I did not know with that shoulder pads are these these are very padded extremely padded so that i'm used to it's got the cool sideways pulls too pull to the outside big enough it's too big on me old joe skinny boy loosen this and that drops it some loosen the load lifters that drops it some and fits better on too skinny not so bad guys another piece of red gear for some reason i hate the color red and almost all of my gear was red. So was that Jeep. That was the reason I sold the Jeep, because it was red. I just went and looked in the mirror. I was wrong. These aren't the load lifters. This is just a strap. These are the load lifters up here. So this backpack, for being Coleman and for being like, you know, Walmart special, it's got a lot of good functions. It's got a lot of the same functions that I would look for high-end. There she is. Well, thank you very much for watching this video. I appreciate it. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you learned something. hope you got some ideas from it what I do need from you is the same thing I've been telling you I need some ideas to go with the last $50 no more than 50 bucks can I spend on food and gear if you think I need anything else gear wise for me and possibly the dog alright guys thanks again please hit me up with those suggestions I'll see you on Friday for part two of last week's video take care