Clothing / Gear at the End of the Camino

[lookingforward]

So I am wondering if what I had heard is true and if anyone out there has done it or does do it regularly (you all seem like multiple time pilgrims).

My question is: do people burn the clothing they wore on the Camino once they reach the end?

My follow up question, what do you save (or have saved) that is now referred to as "my Camino X" for example, I imagine my $200 shoes would not be burned but would forever more be "my Camino Boots" - I purchased them for the Camino and while training in them, I think of them as my Camino boots. LOL, when I go walking with my friends I say, "I need to wear my Camino boots so I can wear them in. Anyone else do that/this with anything?

 

[SYates]

... My question is: do people burn the clothing they wore on the Camino once they reach the end?

Never have and hopefully never will, burning modern fabric just creates a lot of toxic air pollution imo.

... my Camino boots...

Plant a nice plant/shrub in them and display them proudly like this in your front garden! SY

 

[koknesis]

a couple of pilgrims indeed burned something at cape Fisterra. I did not like the smoke and smell. it would be a total inferno there if everyone would do this.

 

[pudgypilgrim]

It's another of those modern urban legends, like the idea that the botafumiero swings to cover up the odor of the pilgrims. Folks in the Middle Ages would never have wasted good rags like that.

 

[domigee]

My follow up question, what do you save (or have saved) that is now referred to as "my Camino X" for example, I imagine my $200 shoes would not be burned but would forever more be "my Camino Boots" - I purchased them for the Camino and while training in them, I think of them as my Camino boots. LOL, when I go walking with my friends I say, "I need to wear my Camino boots so I can wear them in. Anyone else do that/this with anything?

I have been known to wear my new camino boots everywhere lol to 'wear them in'... My old ones I now wear when gardening on my allotment ...as long at it isn't raining as they let the water in now .
I couldn't bring myself to part from the very old trekking trousers (which I bought as gardening trousers) I wore on my 1st camino so they will be coming back with me this year yet again. My excuse is that they are very light (because quite worn) .

 

[lookingforward]

It's another of those modern urban legends, like the idea that the botafumiero swings to cover up the odor of the pilgrims. Folks in the Middle Ages would never have wasted good rags like that.

Now this makes total sense!

 

[SuperPilgrim]

So I am wondering if what I had heard is true and if anyone out there has done it or does do it regularly (you all seem like multiple time pilgrims).

My question is: do people burn the clothing they wore on the Camino once they reach the end?

My follow up question, what do you save (or have saved) that is now referred to as "my Camino X" for example, I imagine my $200 shoes would not be burned but would forever more be "my Camino Boots" - I purchased them for the Camino and while training in them, I think of them as my Camino boots. LOL, when I go walking with my friends I say, "I need to wear my Camino boots so I can wear them in. Anyone else do that/this with anything?

It is probably a better idea to just give them a really good washing.

 

[whariwharangi]

The entire slope below the lighthouse is scarred with burn pits.

If you do burn anything may I suggest you build your fire on the sand below the high tide line?

Take only photos. Leave only footprints.

 

[SYates]

... Take only photos. Leave only footprints.

Should be printed into every pilgrims credencial! Buen Camino! SY