I only live 3 miles from my grandkids so that makes it easy for me. They keep their gear together alot better than I thought they would. We do inventory checks all the time. They have a special place to keep their backpacks and playing the what if game does help alot. They have a pretty big back yard so we camp out in it alot and it's opened to all the neighborhood kids too. Needless to say my daughters house is the cool house in the neighborhood. At first I think our bug outs to the back yard was just looked at as me being the babysitter for the neighborhood, but I guess the kids went home with such good stories that at our last one most of the parents went home and got their tents too. It looked like tent city and everyone had a great time. We are preparing the neighborhood 1 kid at a time.