It is essential that members properly store/winterize their gear at the end of each season and during long breaks between events. Here are some helpful ideas you can use:

Jackets, trousers, greatcoats, blankets and all other woolen items you might have should be stored in a garment bag with cedar planks. Cedar is a great repellant of moths (out wools worst enemy!). It’s also natural and smells a lot better than mothballs.

Give your musket and bayonet a good cleaning and oil them up well, then store it in a non-damp area of your house. This goes for the officers too, oil those swords and pistols.

Tinware should be cleaned well inside (leave the black on the outside) and lightly coat in and out with mineral oil or vegetable oil.

Leather gear should be cleaned of mud and debris, and then oiled with pure neetsfoot oil.

A hat stretcher is a good idea so your hat and/or Kepi doesn’t shrink over the winter from not being worn

Shoetrees are a good idea for you Brogans so the toes don’t curl up through the winter, very uncomfortable the next year. Your first event out, your feet will hurt so shoetrees are HIGHLY recommended.