Complete caravan virgins

We picked our first caravan up in September last year and the list of things we needed is......

1) fuses - we seem to use a lot

2) watering can to fill up the toilet pink flusher bit

3) good cutlery....lightweight knives and forks are pants!!!!

4) patience for when you are reversing the caravan into the pitch

5) A cordless drill to wind the steadies up and down.

No doubt there is more....

Thanks everyone, we survived and thoroughly enjoyed our first weekend, bickering kept to a minimum, unlike one poor couple who were also new and were having a proper humdinger of a row regarding their awning. Watering can is on the list.  We did find a lot of people watched us as we attempted to pitch up first time, apparently tickets can be sold for this spectacle.  Absolutely loved it and even though we were only a few miles from home it felt like a holiday.  Caravanners R us from now on. 

Henzy it is true I think those tickets sell well!  Recently a friend and I were pitching up on next door pitches.  After we had finished one of the neighbours strolled over and said "you and your friend were no fun to watch you were far too efficient!"  It's nice to get some compliments after years of practice!  

So glad you enjoyed the first outing.

I, got fed up with watering can, I use a plastic milk bottle now, touch wood in over 30 years of caravanning, I have not replaced a single fuse.

My advice is use from your cutlery etc from home until you sure what you really do need and buy from other than dealer shops they are expensive.

I, got fed up with watering can, I use a plastic milk bottle now, 

Same here takes up much less room and cheap to replace

I never tried a watering can but find an old 5 lt water bottle perfectly OK.  Spiders and other creepy crawlers can make their home in a watering can but a bottle you can keep the top on!

Another vote for a 2Ltr milk bottle. Ideal size for adding water to the loo as well.

Watering can idea abandoned and replaced with plastic milk bottle.  Many thanks.  I did wonder why a lot of people had them at the weekend and were filling them up!  Still lots to learn, but thoroughly enjoying it  thus far.  

We use a cheap Ikea PS2002 watering can, in pink to fill the toilet flush. It has a long spout that saves spillage. We store a small bottle of flush fluid in it and travel with it in the front locker next to the waste container. Costs 80p

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/10308264/

How many trips to the tap does it take to fill the tank with a 2ltr bottle? My tank seems to take almost a full watering can, about 6 gallons.