Police say the items missing Marokopa dad Tom Phillips bought at two Waikato Bunnings stores this month suggest he and his children are camping out.
Tom was seen in the early afternoon of August 2 at Bunnings South on Kahikatea Drive where he bought equipment.
At 4pm that same afternoon he used a large amount of cash to buy more items at Bunnings in Te Rapa.
The items he bought included headlamps, batteries, seedlings, buckets and gumboots.