One of the best camping tips I have ever gotten is from my sister-in-law and it is to use clothespins to attach lights to the camping awning.

When I first started camping I bought rolls of twist tie material and spent what seemed like hours cutting lengths of it and using it to attach lights to the support bars of the awning. I stopped putting lights up for a while because I decided it wasn’t worth the work.

Then I tried winding the lights around the support bars but that only worked with the small Christmas tree lights I had and not my bigger lantern type lights. Plus it didn’t look good and it wrecked some of the lights.

Finally, my sister-in-law, who loves to put lots of lights up at her campsite, told me to use clothespins and attach the lights to the awning canvas instead. It was really good advice.

The clothespins work great, are inexpensive, are something I keep in the camper anyway to hang up wet towels and clothing, and make putting up and taking down lights fast and easy.

Give them a try.