BLUE LID 1 - kitchen
3 bottle openers
7 knives
7 forks
3 spoons
3 wooden spoons
frying pan
saucepan
sieve
9 plates
washing up liquid
tupperware pot
scrubbing brush
coffee pot
kettle
chopping board
4-pint water bottle
stove
2 crisp bag top clips
3 litres vodka
1 litre tanqueray gin
1 litre jack daniel's
1 silver dish

RED LID 1 - camping misc
5 blue ground sheets
2 plastic drop cloths
2 flags
3 pairs heavy duty gloves
2 pairs mid duty gloves
1 pair warm gloves
bells
light bulbs
braces
4 goggles
11 dust masks
string
4 clamps
filament
3 polar shield emergency blankets
lots of tape
glitter spray/gel
feathers
brown and red spray paint
light stick
2 poor sprays
gold tape
wd40
mallet
rope
ski goggles
permanent markers
sunglasses
emergency poncho
4 steel 9 inch pegs

RED LID 2 - electrics & misc
3 5-gangs
toolkit
tons of fairy lights
5 power extentions
bike inner tube
hookup speaker wire
fairy light blinker
phono splitter
male-male stereo miniplug lead
2 small clamps
2 outside bare lights
3 night lights with handles & hooks
1 really long extension cable
spare fairy bulbs
cable ties
baling wire
vaseline
9 pocket kleenex
eye drops (2004)
firestarter
burn relief spray
cards & dice
suntan lotion
4 novels, low quality
1 idler, summer 2002 issue
2 frisbees
4 9v sguare batteries
4 C batteries
13 AAA batteries

BLUE COOLER 1 - food
salt
ziploc bags
freezer bags (no zips)
black bin bags
gatorade mix, orange
gatorade mix, fruit punch
spaghetti
angostura bitters
lea & perrin's original worcestershire sauce
popping corn
brown sugar
english tea bags
camomile tea bags
lime cordial
1 litre pimm's
4 tins tuna
1 bag Peet's french roast ground coffee
1 bag raisins
4 toilet rolls

RED LID 3
2 parachutes
2 good sprays
2 small speakers
tupperware
2 Virgin blankets

2 x 28 qt coolers
2 x 36
1 x 100
4 speakers in the coolers

NOT IN BOXES:
3 roll mats
1 glitterball in blanket
1 large lamp
1 small pink chair
2 deckchairs
2 hard folding chairs
4 camp chairs
1 5-gal water cooler
2-bulb black light
2 long lamp poles
4 large pieces of white card
2 bikes
2 blankets
1 megaphone plus 2 sets batteries
1 spare tatty yoz hat

pvc poles, hubs and rebar

TO BUY FOR NEXT TIME:
clothes pegs
crockery drainer
hanging shelves/organiser
adjustable spanner
kitchen knives
strong bin bags
shower water
AA batteries
music tapes

DON'T BUY NEXT YEAR:
ziploc bags
loo rolls
gatorade
salt
sugar
washing up liquid
weak bin bags

OTHER NOTES
Carson lockup has landfill/recycling one mile away

Mary (only slightly censored!)
James
Yoz - to come

The inventory follows....

Clue #1 (Danny's first clue to the Stash Of The Gods) and Clue #2 (Lara's Directions) follow.....

2. A few extra plastic tubes as some of them looked the worse for wear. Probably easier to get them in Carson City than in SF right before BM though...

3. Crockery, cutlery, mugs

4. MORE WATER SPRAYS!

5. Inflatable furniture is good. And those armchairs with the cup holders!

6. don't put carpet down

7. food - buy snack foods, stuff to cook for one (so we don't have to all eat together), and fruit, and vegetables that can be eaten raw (carrots) maybe a couple of pastas and sauces - more salty stuff. Bagels and spreads!

8. shopping: super-k is at the First McCarran Boulevard junction in reno artcar/bar- happiness

9. the hub needs welding - not actually true.

10. costumes. The village theme this year is "tides".... ideas?

- make a machine that explains how the tides work.
- do live demonstrations, using two plates, two pieces of string, and a fried egg. this is my party trick.
- cheapo inflatable dinghies as furniture. two birds, one stone
- And extra string/rope to tie them down with
- lilos
- whistles. occasionally running to the edge of the playa, and screaming 'get out of the water! get out of the water!'
- those "no heavy petting" posters that they have in public swimming baths
- one of those chairs on stilts

and finally... according to Stef, "this is about the best list I've seen anywhere".

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