r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 10h ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/crowhouse 10h ago

Why do so many people abandon tents?

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u/Adventurous_Emotion9 10h ago

There’s a belief that the tents left behind are taken by charities and given to homeless or those who need them. This has been debunked by organisers time and time again as not being true.

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u/Ancient-Emu-8293 9h ago

Would be pretty convenient to pretend believing that.

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u/aardvarkbjones 9h ago

Is it? Tents cost money. 

Seems insanely wasteful, both environmentally and fiscally.

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u/MokitFall 8h ago

Right? Especially those big ones. I think I've found my next side hustle.

Come on down to my new and slightly used tent store !

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u/AdventurousAbility30 8h ago

I recently stayed at a hotel that was filled with wedding guests that had a camping night as part of the 3 day wedding, and I got so many tents it paid for my new Blackstone flat top & grill lol.

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u/flatgreyrust 6h ago

how did you sell them?

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u/Snuzzlebuns 5h ago

I've been going to festivals since 2002. As a broke kid, I got a bunch of cool equipment for free like that. But when my tent was on its way out in the late 2010s, I "shopped" for a new one for several years, I would say I searched at about ten festivals. Couldn't find one I would have taken. They were all either broken in some way, or the super cheap garbage type.