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What is the advantage of buying a tent-specific footprint as opposed to making your own footprint out of an ordinary tarp? I figure I could make a decent footprint by taking an ordinary tarp, setting up my tent on top of it, outlining the tent onto the tarp using a marker, and cutting the tarp on the marker lines. Would this be sufficient? Should I just buy the footprint that's made for my tent?


The storemade one is lighter - since you have less cash in your wallet to weigh you down after you buy it <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Just cut out the right sized piece of poly painters tarp, or tyvek.
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