The stuff at a camp is so expensive. Before going camping, I stop at the Dollar tree, and let kids get small items and blow up items.  They stay in the bag until going to be used. Then when they are done using them, they deflate, or small to start with and go back into the bag, to go home.

I use a cooler for extra sodas and candy and snacks and such. If you put a frozen gallon of water or two in a cooler, the night before, when you add ice, when you get where your going, it will hold for a much longer period of time.

I bought one of those 5 day coolers, waste of money!  All coolers will last longer, if they are cold in advance. Just fill the cooler the night before with frozen water, as many jugs that will fit in your cooler, and next day, its ready to keep ice.

I didnt know this when i bought the 5 day cooler.  When i bought ice, i went thru 5 bags, first day!!!!! Next day, when i added another bag, then it lasted the rest of our trip.

2 years ago at the koa, and im sure nothing changed, but increased maybe, the candy bars, for regular size were 2 dollars each. They said, they are ordered to mark up, by koa, products, by adding 40 percent to retail value. That its company policy.

The dollar tree has all those ten snack size packs for 1 dollar, bags of chips, sodas, everything you could need, that you dont have at home already ready for the trip.

That is why I stock up on items like that, so the kids arent tempted to spend what they have on that, instead of a rememberance of the trip.

I went to walmart, and went to their travel size department. They sell empty new bottles for 50 cents each and less, and spray bottles in travel size for 1 dollar. This was awesome!  I filled them with almost everything we used on the road, from what i had at home, and had enough for our trip. I filled them with dish soap, laundry soap, softener,  all our condiments, our shampoos/conditioners/body soap, aspirins, comet and made my own freshener by adding 1/3 of the size of the bottle with fabric softener and filling with water, to spritz in camper. You know you need air freshener, when someone has to use the potty, or changing all the wet clothes, or pets even.