Ooohhh, the possibilities.....

Car camping means you can bring things like this:

This is the Woods Camping Kitchen Stand. I have been coveting this ever since I started surfing the Canadian Tire website for car camping equipment. This stand holds your stove, dish washing equipment, and cooking stuff, so that the picnic table is just for eating. It also has a telescoping lantern hook so you can hang your light source up over the stand for cooking and cleaning at night. And it means you can stand upright while cooking and cleaning, and not leaning over the picnic table bench. It retails for $80, and it really is a secondary, if not tertiary, level of camping equipment that I know I shouldn't buy until I know that my family will actually accompany me to the woods again, but it just makes so much sense. It has also received excellent reviews on the CT website. This photo is actually someone else's photo that they posted in the reviews, showing the stand at work. The reviews said that people sometimes snort or scoff at this stand, but that they were just jealous.