Comfort & Furniture

This is the category that decides whether people stay outside after dark. A picnic bench with no back sends everyone into the tent by eight. A chair with a back keeps the conversation going until ten — and that hour is the reason most people camp in the first place.

None of this is essential, which is exactly why it is worth being deliberate about. Buy the chair before the table, the table before anything else, and skip the rest until a specific trip has annoyed you into it.