Whew
| Ticket | $390 |
| Vehicle Pass | $50 |
| Donation (optional, of course) | $30 |
| Service Fee | $21 |
| Delivery Fee (many options here) | $12 |
| TOTAL | $503 |
| Item | Used? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Camp chair | Yes! | I used it, my campmates used it, visitors used it. Places to sit are good. |
| 5-gallon water jug | Yes | We had communal water, so I didn't finish this, but it was nice to have. (The rule is 1.5 gallons per person per day. You don't need the jug necessarily, but you do need to bring water!) |
| Pool noodles | Didn't Bring | Purpose was to cover rebar pieces; unnecessary here. (Bet you were wondering about those...) |
| Books (in box) | No | I had a total of five minutes where I thought I'd stop and read during Burning Man. |
| Manga (in box) | Yes | They were for our camp's "Comic Book Reading Room". |
| Air pump (in box) | Yes | A campmate and I both pumped up our air mattresses so very quickly using this. |
| Tent | Yes! | I got myself a 5-person. Plenty of space. But I could have done a smaller one. |
| Air mattress | Yes | Worked for me |
| Backup tent | Didn't Bring | Were bringing for an emergency, but ran out of space |
| Tarp | No | This seemed like a good idea at the time, but I don't know what I would have used it for. It didn't rain. |
| 9-inch spikes | Yes | My tent did not blow away in the wind, so I'll call that a success. |
| Wool blanket | No | The blanket, sleeping bag, and PJs were sufficient. One cold night, I almost used it. |
| Sleeping bag and blanket | Yes! | Kept me warm on cold nights. |
| Sheets | Yes | Made my air mattress feel like home. |
| Extra sheet | Yes! | I covered up my toiletries in my tent. Everything NOT covered with a sheet got covered in dust instead! |
| Sleeping pad (not pictured) | Yes | I put the pad between me and the air mattress for warmth. |
| Pillow | Yes! | So easy to forget, but so important. |
| Item | Used? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bucket (with lid) | Yes! | I used this for trash and nearly filled it by the end! (It could also have been used as an emergency toilet.) |
| Work gloves | Yes | I mostly used these when helping set up the theme camp. |
| Rebar | Yes | I donated this to my camp and it was used, but it was not as heavy duty as what they already brought. |
| Garbage bags | Yes! | My camp made good use of these for trash and recycling. (Most trash is carry out, but some can be recycled.) |
| Pack of N95 dust masks | No | I'd brought these as backup or if anyone needed them, but I was set. |
| Mallet | Yes | For pounding in tent stakes. |
| Hammer | A bit | Rarely, while helping set up theme camp. |
| Long matches | Yes | These were used a bit to help start the camp stove, but we had a lighter, too. |
| Fold-up shovel | Yes! | This was amazingly handy at the end of the week to scoop up MOOP (broken glass, ash, car tracks, etc.) |
| Various tools | A bit | Measuring tape was used. I used the pliers, etc, a bit while setting up theme camp. Not much. |
| Chain and padlock | No | I never bothered locking up my bike. It wasn't a fancy bike and it seemed unnecessary. |
| Bright-colored Lanyard | Yes! | I attached the rent-a-car keys to this. Dramatically reduced the chance of these getting misplaced or buried in the sand. Recommended. |
| Duct and masking tape | Yes | Mostly for taping down sheets inside the car to protect it. |
| Plates and plasticware | Yes | I didn't need both sets, but this was super handy. |
| Mini funnel | No | But it was cute and didn't take up much room. |
| Metal cups | Yes | Necessary if you want to partake of drinks from theme camps, who do not provide cups. |
| Camp pot | Yes | Mainly for boiling water. |
| Cameras (count 'em three!) | Yes! | I'm obsessed. One old one, one cheap one, and my primary one. All three survived the dust, though just barely (and I kept them in ziplocks when not in use). |
| Solar charger and cord | A couple times | I didn't really use the solar aspect of my charger, but I was able to hold a full charge within it, which I used to charge a camera later. Only needed to once. |
| FM radio + ear buds | Yes | I didn't use this much. The times the radio was the most useful, we were in the car so used the car radio. |
| Journal and pens | Yes! | I am a blogger, hear me roar. |
| Labels and a marker | Yes | Useful for labeling theme camp items like community food and recycling. |
| Gas can and funnel | Didn't bring | We decided to leave these behind. Would not have needed them. We were never close to running out of gas. |
| Para-cord | No | Though other people's paracord was used in setting up the theme camp. Useful for guy wires or general rope. |
| Spray bottle with fan | Yes | Had it been brutally hot, this would have been awesome. I sprayed myself a couple times for fun. |
| Smaller bucket | Didn't bring | Ran out of room. Buckets are always nice to have, but didn't miss it. |
| Item | Used? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Floppy hat | Yes! | Loved having this, especially for long, sunny walks, so I didn't have to slather my face with sunscreen. |
| Underwear (14 pair) | 9-10 pairs | If the weather had been hotter/sweatier, I would potentially have used them all. |
| Socks (13 pair) | 9-10 pairs | Ditto on the above. Wearing socks overnight, after lotioning feet, is a good idea. |
| Tights (3 short, one long) | Yes, all | Nice to have under a skirt so reduce friction. |
| Bras (3) | Yes, all | Two were sports bras |
| Scarf with bling | Yep | A fun accessory. On that cold night, I used it as an actual scarf. |
| Jingly waist / wrist accessories | Yep | Another fun accessory. I got it at the Renaissance Faire. |
| Outfit in a bag | Yes! | A sealed jumpo ziplock contained: socks, underwear, bra, shirt, and jeans for the drive home. |
| Towels (2) | Yes | I only attempted to wash my hair once, but they were nice to have. |
| Tutu | Yes! | Tutu Tuesday! |
| Bathing Suit | No | I suppose if I had attempted to shower or bathe outdoors, I would have appreciated this.(Yes, it's Burning Man, I should bathe nude, shut up.) |
| Pajamas (one cool, one warm) | Yes | I always wear PJs, but these were extra appreciated on the cold nights |
| Short-sleeved shirts (6) | Yes, most of them | |
| Tank tops (4) | Yes | |
| Long-sleeved shirts (3) | Yes | But I generally brought more clothes than I needed |
| Sweaters / jackets (3) | Yes | Used almost every night. Brrr. |
| Pants (2 pair jeans, 3 pair capris) | Yes | Not sure I wore all the capris. I wore the jeans nearly every night, though. |
| Casual pants (2 pair yoga, 2 pj pants) | Yes | The PJ pants were awesome. Not only did they have wacky designs, but they were oh-so-light. |
| Skirt and PJ dress | Yes, both | Like above, the PJ-style dress was light, comfortable, and fun to wear around town. |
| Shorts | Yes | They went well with my tutu. |
| Sneakers (old) | Yes | |
| Sandals | Yes | (Though, make sure you do foot care after a day of exposing them to the elements. |
| Hiking Boots | Yes | I wore these once or twice. |
| Sunglasses (2) | Yes | Except they were cheap, crappy sunglasses and I ended up taking them off half the time. (That or I was already wearing dust goggles.) |
| Wrist-band ID holder | Yes! | This zippered pocket on your wrist is an awesome place to put your ID (for alcohol) or cash (for ice and coffee) |
| Jewelry | Some | I'm not much of a jewelry person, but it was nice to have something available. |
| Item | Used? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hand sanitizer | Yes | I only needed 1.5 of the small bottles. |
| Chapstick | Yes | I only needed one extra tube for my lip balm needs. |
| Lotion | Yes | I used several squirts, but not enough to justify the whole bottle. |
| Eye drops | Yes | I loved having this. Dust gets in the eyes! |
| Nasal spray | Yes! | Great thing to bring! Breathing the dust made me stuffed up. I'm so glad I brought this. |
| Ibuprofen | No | (But never hurts to have...) |
| Band-aids | Once? | Again, doesn't hurt to have. |
| Neti-stiks | Yes | Not necessary, but nice to sniff them and refresh your nose with peppermint and other essential oils. |
| Pee funnel | Yes! | Ladies, get one of these. Best thing ever, especially if you wake up in the middle of the night needing to pee. No porta-potty necessary, just aim the funnel at a spare water jug. Google it; I bought mine at REI. |
| Air deoderizing spray | No | The porta-potties never smelled that bad. |
| Bug spray, bug-repelling bracelet | No | The bugs that "infested" the playa during city setup had all but vanished before the actual festival. |
| Dry shampoo | No | Sounded like a good idea. But the one time I washed my hair, I used regular shampoo. |
| Sunscreen (2 bottles + spray) | Yes | I brought way more than needed. The spray was not as useful as I'd anticipated. |
| Aloe vera (gel + spray) | No | I didn't get a sunburn. |
| Toilet paper (4-pack, 1-ply) | Yes | I went through just over one roll. And I'm one of those people who only touches any surface of the potty when there's toilet paper as a buffer. So an average person might only need half a roll. |
| Tums | No | No heartburn. |
| Floss | Yes | Used, but didn't need both packages. |
| Q-tips | Yes | Dust got everywhere. |
| Toothbrush and toothpaste | Yes | |
| Nail files / clippers | No | The shellac manicure I got prior to leaving held up amazingly well. |
| Bio-freeze patches | No | |
| Tweezers | No | But didn't take up much room |
| Hairbrush, hair ties, barettes | Yes | Two braids worked for me. My hair was full of dust, but I could still brush through and braid. |
| Mini bottle of shampoo | Once | My hair, usually greasy, stayed dry most of the week, so I only washed it (over the evap pool) once. |
| Mini bottle of soap | Yes | A few times, I wanted to wash my hands properly so badly, that I got this soap and a bottle of water and washed over the evap pool. |
| Bar soap | No | |
| Sinus medicine | No | But I could have. |
| Cold wrap | No | Had it been hotter, I may have tried. |
| Condoms & lube | No | I didn't get lucky this time. |
| Birth control pills | Yes | I brought them simply so I did not get my period during Burning Man. Worked great! I know, I'm cheating. |
| Anti-bacterial ointment | No | Or maybe once? Useful for small cuts. |
| 5-HTP | No | Some site recommended this. I never felt that out of sorts / depressed. |
| Witch hazel | Yes! | I soaked my feet in this to reduce the affect of the alkali dust. My feet were happy, so it must have worked! I used almost all of it. |
| Bactine | No | No cuts or scrapes for me |
| Wet-wipes | Yes | I only used a single pack, maybe dug into the second one. A nice wet-wipe "bath" is great on those dusty nights. |
| Plastic squeezy containers | No | I don't even remember why I brought these. |
| Yeast infection cream | No | I was infection-free. |
| Ear plugs | DEAR GOD YES | I may not have gotten any sleep without these. I used several. While they are re-usable, they get dusty. |
| Allergy medicine | No? | I don't think so, but my sinuses struggled a bit. |
| Pads / Menstrual cup | No | Not needed. The pill did its job. But never hurts to have! |
| Deoderant | Yes | |
| Athletic tape | No | |
| Foot oil | Yes | A special olive oil and lime concoction that I think, along with the witch hazel, helped make for happy feet. |
| Item | Used? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| "O2 Cool" battery-powered fan (big & small) | No | Again, it wasn't that hot. |
| Batteries (24 D-size) | Yes | I used 4 batteries for the air pump. Mostly brought for the fans I didn't use. |
| Batteries (24 AA-size) | Yes | Used a couple for one camera, maybe the alarm clock. Can't remember what else. |
| Batteries (6 AAA-size) | Yes! | Strangely, everything I used needed these. Tent lantern, FM radio, other camera. Should have brought more! |
| Batteries (10 CR927 3V) | No | None of the lights that needed these for (mainly Nite Ize) ran out. |
| Batteries (4 CR2016 3V) | No | Ditto |
| Alarm Clock | Yes | It was handy a couple times, though got covered in dust. |
| Glow bracelets | Yes | But probably only a quarter of the 100 in the tube. They were easy to accidentally "break" and get the glow started. |
| Big flashlight | Yes | Nice to have near the door of my tent for quick light needs. |
| Medium flashlight | Yes | Maybe once? Mostly carried as backup. |
| Small flashlight | No | Not that I recall, but it didn't take up much room. |
| Tent lantern (green) | Yes! | Used just about every night, getting ready for bed. |
| Solar lights (6) | Yes | Used two outside my tent to mark guy wires. One arrived broken. |
| Bike light | Yes | Handy and bright on my bike |
| "ShoeLit" lights | Yes! | Loved these on my shoes! |
| "ClipLit" lights | Yes! | Clipped these on my zipper, backpack, etc, very handy at night. |
| "GetLit" caribiner light" | Yes | Had this on my backpack. This one almost needed a battery replacement at the end. |
| "SeeEm" lights | Yes | Cool to have on my bicycle spokes on my one or two nighttime rides. |
| Headlamp | Yes! | A requirement for nighttime potty runs! Didn't use otherwise much except to light myself up on the way to the potty. |
| EL Wire (green) | Yes | I wrapped this around my bike frame. Once I figured out how to turn it on, it was pretty cool. |
| Hair lights | Yes | These were my favorite light accessory. They look like white pony tails in the photo. They blinked in multicolor. I got complimented on these. I only used two or three. |
| Item | Used? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Paper towels | Yes | |
| Cheez Whiz | Yes | Yummy on crackers! (And weirdly hard to find in the supermarket; it was near the chips not the cheese) |
| Natural coconut water | Yes | Perfect hydration! Make them tastier with Emergen-C packets or Crystal Light |
| V8 mini-cans | Yes | More tasty electrolyte goodness |
| Fruit cups | Yes | Yummy for breakfast |
| Cheese | Yes | But not toward the end as I got paranoid about (lack of) refrigeration. |
| Hard-boiled eggs | Yes | Really good breakfast the first few days. The shells were a bit MOOPy, so was careful when peeling. |
| Peanut butter | Yes | Tasty, salty snack, especially on crackers |
| Cheese spread | No | I ate the Cheez Whiz instead. |
| Hazelnut spread | Yes | Delicious on crackers! Did not finish it, though. |
| Pop tarts | No | |
| Breakfast tea | Yes | |
| Marshmallows | No | Not much of the whole sitting-around-a-campfire thing. |
| Trail mix (various) | Yes | But I only finished one bag I think. I didn't even open the third. |
| Cup Noodles | Yes | Made for a good hot dinner on that cold night. |
| Mini Vegemite packets | Yes | Salty snack ahoy! Good on crackers. |
| Power wraps | Yes | Another tasty, salty snack, slightly healthier than the others. |
| Fruit-and-grain breakfast bars | Yes | A good breakfast side snack |
| Kind fruit-and-nut bars | Yes | Easy snack to go |
| Electrolyte water | Yes | I like having multiple hydration strategies |
| Water | Yes | We had communal water, but the jugs were handy to use as pee jugs in your tent. (Recommend a screw-top, though) |
| Water bottle | Yes | Nalgenes with their handles are handy to attach to caribiners on your backpack. |
| Gatorade | Yes | Mostly drank by attendees to our camp convention. |
| Dried fruit | Yes | Yum! Loved having handfuls of these over the course of the day, though had plenty left over. |
| Meal-in-a-bag (2) | Yes | Just add boiling water! Decent, though not quite as tasty as I was hoping, |
| Granola | Yes | I didn't eat much of this, but it made my breakfast feel more breakfasty. |
| Pretzel pieces | No | I might have snacked on these if a campmate hadn't donated a bag of something similar. |
| Dried apples | Yes | The bag was huge, though. Even with all my campmates sharing, I'm not sure we finished it all. |
| Wooden mug | Yes | The wooden mug was kind of a camp thing. Not necessary, but classy. |
| Beef jerky (pork jerky, buffalo jerky) | Yes | This was a great snack! I liked the tender varieties more than the original regular beef jerky. |
| Beans | No | |
| Soup in a can (2) | Yes | Made for an easy to eat and surprisingly tasty meal. Didn't even heat it, though I could have. |
| Saltines | Yes | A great carrier for peanut butter, cheese spread, hazelnut spread, and vegemite. |
| Cough drops | No | |
| Emergen-C | Yes | Great to add to water / coconut water for both taste and electrolytes/minerals. |
| Pickles | Yes! | PICKLES! |
| Garbage Bags | Yes | Mostly by the camp. |
| Ziplocks | Yes? | I mostly used these to put stuff in to bring, not as much while there. |
| Juice boxes | Yes | Great with breakfast |
| Sponge and dish soap | Yes | Washing my (and occasionally the camp's) dishes |
| Item | Used? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Toilet paper (1-ply) | Yes | (In my "toilet bag") |
| Camera | Yes | I always had cameras on me, though tried to enjoy the moment as much as take photos |
| Mirror | Yes | Though I mostly brought it for an emergency. |
| Mini-journal | Yes | Though I did most of my journaling at camp in my big journal. |
| Spare dust masks | No | |
| Plate and cutlery | No | I never ended up eating anything from another camp |
| Caribiners (5) | Yes | Handy! |
| Metal cups (big and small) | Yes | A few times, but I did not drink as much as I thought I would |
| Sunglasses | Yes | A few times |
| Lighter | No | But doesn't hurt to have in an emergency |
| Ziplock with bleach wipes | No | |
| Mini-nalgene | Yes! | Great size for carrying around |
| Plastic bags | No | But could have been handy? |
| Bug spray | No | Even in this, the "bug scare" year, I counted less than three bugs my entire week. |
| Headlamp | Yes | (In my "toilet bag". Indispensible) |
| Goggles | Yes! | It was a stormy, dusty year! |
| Crystal Light | Yes | I did not need to carry this on me |
| Mini funnel | No | But isn't it cute? |
| Neti-stik (2) | Yes | Nice to sniff, but did not need to carry them around. |
| Spray sunscreen | No | I tended to sunscreen up before I left and was rarely gone for more than an hour. |
| First-aid kit | No | Luckily |
| Hand-sanitizer | Yes | (in my "toilet bag") |
| Dust mask (pink) | Yes! | Definitely required when it got dusty out. |
| Washcloth | No | |
| Poncho | No | Luckily, not a drop of rain this year |
| Backpack with water tube | Yes! | I wore this everyday and loved having a water straw to sip from, especially when riding a bike. |