Necessity is …

 ... the mother of invention (quote often attributed to Plato).

“So what!”  you say.  Well, I have come into my own creative, inventive mode here in RV living.  That’s right, me!  Here are a few things I “invented” out of necessity to help us overcome some annoyances:

Annoyance #1 – While traveling in the RV, one of the sliding shower doors would often slide open especially around sharp curves.  This would cause it to knock around, back-and-forth on curvy roads.  Not a major trauma, but it was bugging me.  Solution:  I bought a large plastic c-clamp (you can't imagine how happy I was when I discovered they had PLASTIC c-clamps) and now we clamp the roving shower door to the one that is fastened down and stationary.  Now, when we're on the road,  the moving door is fastened to the stationary door and the door no longer has the freedom to travel back-and-forth.  Annoying banging solved!

Annoyance #2 – While traveling in the RV, sometimes one of the closet doors in the bedroom would swing open (maybe because we have it packed with too many clothes?  I don’t know).  Anyway, when we went around sharp curves (sharp curves help you discover what isn’t really locked down!) they would sometimes swing open and bang around.  Not a big deal, but, again, annoying.  Solution:  I bought a child-proof door lock that holds both doors together when we are traveling so even if they “crack” open, at least they don’t swing wide and our shoes don’t come flying out.  Annoying swinging door solved!

Annoyance #3 – RV shelving is … well … undesirable to say the least (in our rig anyway, which is 10 years old).  We have white wire shelves in a number of the cabinets to give us more storage space.  There was, however, this one kitchen cabinet that had no shelves at all (yikes!!!) and the white wire shelf was too low to provide additional space.  Solution:  So, I had this idea that we could make our own shelf (that was not good news to Gary!).  We went to Home Depot and bought a small piece of ¼” plywood and some 12” high square dowels.  We had them cut the plywood to size and then we nailed the dowels into each corner of the plywood.  We then covered the plywood with a non-slip mat and … VOILA!  A perfect additional shelf in this one kitchen cabinet where storage space was REALLY needed!

So, you see, necessity REALLY is the mother of invention!  I have proven that as so many others have and will continue to do so.