You don't want to know how many hours I've spent looking at stuff on the Campmor and REI websites.

Yes, I'll be camping in less than a month. And somehow I feel like I need to buy gear. Even though I survived (and had a great time) last year with the gear I have. And had a great time the year before that with very little gear (and what I had was borrowed).

Money is tight, so I'm managing to resist buying stuff. But oh the temptation . . .

(Anyone have any good or bad experiences with particular tents or brands of tents? If I purchase anything, it'll be a new tent and I'm going crazy trying to figure out which one I want).

The only bad tent experience I've had is with the kind of tent that falls on you when you're inside it and you're all smushed underneath trying to figure out which way is up.

But then the blame could have been my father, the one who was trying to put it up alone in all his unassisted male pride :)