I'm literally laughing out loud right now with that visual......
I had been VERY anal and meticulous about keeping the tent zipped up, and no shoes allowed inside. Had my shade tent set up over the sleeping tent, so I first broke down the air mattress and sleeping bags while zipped up inside the sleeping tent, took them to the car, then scanned the inside for ticks, packed up that tent, while still zipped up inside the shade tent, which was the very last thing to get broken down and packed.
All my camping stuff is stored in a friend's very large storage place - the way I was feeling, no way was any of that staying inside my apartment.
When I left the campsite on Tuesday I drove straight to the storage place and dropped it all off.