r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 9h ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/Koffeeboy 7h ago edited 7h ago

I bet a fair amount of people fly in. They get there without a tent, purchase the cheapest one they can find and then leave it behind. Why would they want to try and repack and pay to check a filthy, cheap, potentially damaged tent that they have no intention of reusing. it's a symptom of a disposable lifestyle.

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u/Aiken_Drumn 6h ago

It's all UK teens. Noone is flying to this

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u/Sovarius 5h ago

Yes exactly. I think a lot of people in this thread do not realize tents are as cheap as $20-$35.

$35 is a lot for some people. I would not leave trash/tents behind, but you bet i'm not wasting a couple hours + energy for $35 at the end of a long weekend.

I got to Magic (card game) events and ditch free stuff i get thats too large to fly with. What am i gonna do, stress myself so i can sell a $20 box i don't want? That's a freebie for someone else or i trash it

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u/Throwawayyyygold 5h ago

Same thing happens on Catalina Island. I did get a $200 REI sleeping pad that has a pin prick sized leak that I was able to fix when I got home. The tents that were abandoned were abandoned because they were crappy. We did use the ground covers as extra shade at our campsite.

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u/IDoStuff100 6h ago

Yeah, exactly this. You can get a tent for less than 50 bucks at any Walmart. A small additional cost for what they're already paying to attend

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u/gsfgf 3h ago

It sounds like part of the issue is that they don't have Walmart tents. Ozark Trail (Walmart brand) tents are solid tents, so people in the US don't abandon tents because those are our regular car camping tents.