Pyewackette

Damp cupboards and fabrics perhaps? 

Have you considered standard camera tripods with added cellphone holders that screw on to the tripod in the manner of old time cameras?

If you already own a regular tripod, the cell phone adaptor is a great option. 
For flexible or gooseneck styles, there’s a whole amazon search page of results here:  https://www.amazon.ca/Flexible-Tripod/s?k=Flexible+Tripod
I have seen a LOT of folks just stick their cellphone (IN A CASE) into a handful of clay as well. Not glamorous, and you need to watch the microphone openings and clean it after, but it’s usually readily available for quick and dirty (heh) pottery videos.

@Bam2015, @Babs Sorry - just saw this.  It didn't, because of dental implosions.  I spent nearly the entire class hopped up on painkillers (I can only take a 1/4th dose or they make me sick) and bouncing from one root canal to the next. All in all I think it was 2 or 3 months. But she says I can do the readings and videos at my leisure.  Likely won't happen until after the upcoming move which looks like it'll be sometime around May/June.  Or July.  Or whenever they find a house they like.  The plan is to keep gramma in the basement LOL!  Or equivalent.
Once I get a safe space set up for it I'll give it another go.

@Callie Beller Diesel Turns out I've been watching that video this past week but mostly this one about pulling up the walls.  Centering the wet ball I've got pretty well down.  Coning, not too bad.  Where I'm failing most often is to keep the work centered over the base.  I'll be going along fine and then all of a sudden the cylinder isn't centered any more but the base still is.  I've seen people "fix" that but so far I (a) don't know how to avoid it because I don't know what I did to cause it and (b) don't know how to fix it once I've done it. 
I'm also still working on pulling up the walls in general.  I have to fight the urge to just make everything a bowl.  I have to consciously think "cylinder NOT bowl" as I'm pulling or it comes out away from the center and wants to be a bowl.  I like Florian Gadsby's video on this because I think his method of pulling up towards center would help me to overcome my overwhelming subconscious effort to turn everything into a bowl.  I have yet to succeed in pulling a wall straight up let alone in towards the center like that.
But I keep on trying ...
I must admit to turning the speed up on most videos to 2x, 1.5 if they talk fast enough that I can't understand at double speed. Most people just taaaaaalk soooo sloooooow on those things.  I'm a speed reader.  I apparently need to be a speed listener as well.
I have turned it down to .25x to try to see things better, but then I have to turn off the sound.  Just toooo weird with the sound on.  It doesn't usually help that much but .... I keep on trying.  LOL!
Day before yesterday I wedged up about 13 lbs of the B mix.  This is, btw, a "special" b mix that isn't supposed to have the problems with glazes that other B mixes seem to have.  Anyway.  I've still got about half of that left.  Didn't go in today to work (just to check my bagged stuff) because its yoga day for me.  Trying not to overdo it.  But tomorrow I'll have 2 day old wedged B mix.  We'll see how that goes.

Is there no way to get any money for your kiln? Even if you managed to get 50% that seems like enough for a small pug mill.
 
Such a shame that they are putting up barriers for you instead of trying to help. In the end we are all trying to get to the fired ceramics and whatever way that is done doesn't really matter.
I found wedging to be a bit of a showoff game with some people "oh look how much I can wedge at once to get rid of bubbles" I can understand that he likes the consistency one way but why force that onto everybody? The only other idea I have is adding some grog into the clay, that should give it more working strength.
 

great news that you will be close to bailey.   maybe you can then change your location below your avatar to a real place.
to learn to throw a cylinder by pulling toward the center, think you are making a flower pot upside down.   always complete every pull without changing the pressure.  do not lift your hand until you reach the very top of the clay and then hold a finger down on top for at least a few revolutions.  your hands are made of steel, rigid, not floppy.
unless you are not opening at the very center, pulling walls toward the center should become easier with practice.   remember, you are learning a skill, not producing work.
if you smack down  and stretch the wet clay onto a piece of 5/8 drywall, you might dry it out enough to use the same day.  

What weight are you throwing?
Make up your balls of clay, slap onto wheel and centre without coning up and down.
Did a lot of years of pottery without coning well prepared clay.
If using straight out of bag,drop the bag a few times, ( @oldlady tip), get that young person to pick it up for you, then open, slice in cubes, ball  up and throw.
I'm guessing you can't leave to rest overnight before throwing.
Use metal ribs to shape after opening and raising the clay.
Worth a try. 

I thought you had already moved but from reading a bit more it seems you are still waiting to move? Hopefully your new location will have a better studio.
 
I wonder if there's problems with the pug mill which is why they mix it up wet. Seems like others are finding it too wet if they are making arches and trying to dry it out. I wish there was a better answer than leaving it out to dry and wedging it. I did wonder if you could dry it enough and get them to send it back through the pug mill. Do they make the clay from scratch or does it arrive this wet from the suppliers or it it when they recycle the clay?

Those free, flimsy grocery bags @Pyewackette has been using are few and far between here in So California and other conscientious states these days, replaced by stiffer, reusable bags. Some other kinds of stores still use them, I acquire a few every month somehow. I also like the thinner grocery vegetable bags for smaller things, but I am glad to occasionally need dry cleaning services (the objectionable chemicals are not legal here anymore, don’t know what they use - not always ’dry’). Nothing better for lots or large work. In my hippie potter days I hadn’t the money or clothes for dry cleaning so I begged the bags from my mom and other “office people”. 

@Pyewacketteit sounds like you've been going through a lot. Hopefully we can help you find a resting spot with your clay work. 
It’s been a while since I’ve worked with B mix, but I recall it being very thixotropic. Although water is a factor, some of the softness and tendency to flop comes from movement and kinetic energy transfer, such as any form of wedging, including cut/slam. 
I had better luck with b mix when I wedged it up the day before I planned to throw it, If you do your clay prep a day or so ahead it’s got time to settle out a bit, It’ll re-soften quickly as soon as you smack it down on the wheel. Bonus, you can just come in and start working as soon as your water bucket is full. I also found throwing with a metal or wooden rib helpful: it scrapes the water and the slurry off the surface, again buying you more working time.
I’ve found that cut/slam reduces the amount of wedging you have to do by a lot, but you still need to polish it off with a little bit of spiral. As few as 10-20 pushes should do it if all the bubbles are out and everything is the same consistency.
Re coning: most of it is applying pressure in the right place, and it’s about leverage, not strength. Most videos do emphasize anchoring your elbow into your torso/hip, but it’s also important to brace your feet for maximum stability. 
I really, really like the first half of this video from Florian Gadsby for centring and coning. The centering info is handy, but coning specifically begins at 4:25 with relevant bits up until about 7:30. He’s got multiple unimpeded camera angles, and shows how to use less water. He’s also got good descriptions of where he’s applying pressure at what point. 
Pro tip for the “neurospicy” amongst us: the little gear at the bottom of the YouTube screen has a dropdown that allows you to adjust the playback speed. As an ADHD’er, I can’t take in video tutorials unless they’re sped up, but in this case, you could slow the video down to 1/4 speed to really take in details.
 

I believe her courses are lifetime access, and she’s very approachable on social media and via email. 

Well maybe if we ever actually had any that weren't short strips I'd feel differently.  I'm not sure about the marks issue, but then I generally stick a piece of damp newspaper on top and usually under my work before I bag it.  Also I was paying attention today and I tend to try to sort of blow it up like a balloon when I bag stuff.  Sort of swirl it around to fill the bag before I swoop it down over my work.  I guess that cuts down on the chance of leaving marks on wetware, maybe?  If any get on there I must be trimming them off or burnishing them away.  I do like me some smooth surfaces - I notice when I don't achieve that.
Today I marked a bowl up significantly but it wasn't from bagging it.  It was from the lugs I was using while throwing a foot ring.  Thunk I, why remove the bowl from the wheel - it's too wet to trim yet but I'll be here for hours and it might be dry enough to trim before I leave.  Supremely bad idea.  3 hours later it was still too damp to trim and the rim had somehow sucked the moisture out of the lugs and melded with them.  I was trying to smooth those out with my finger.
What I learned today ... is I need to learn how to center better and also how to keep my work centered over the base while throwing so I'm not doing stupid things trying to avoid re-centering, LOL!

@neilestrick I counted today.  There are exactly THREE of these strips of filmy plastic, two of which are the size of a neck scarf and one of which is a double width neck scarf LOL!  Now I have no idea where he even came up with the wherewithal for even making the comment to start with. If it weren't for the donated grocery bags he was dissing, we wouldn't have ANYTHING to cover our stuff with LOL!

@irenepots Yeah I tape over holes with cheap packing tape from Harbor Freight LOL!  I figure the more use we get out of the plastic crap that's already here before it ends up as microscopic particles in our brain, the better.
I have stopped using Teflon tape to improve the seal on bottles and things though.  I don't know how eco that actually is, given that means I then turn around and buy more expensive plastic squirt bottles that don't leak.  I've found mustard bottles with squirt thingies work great without leaking for liquids.  I just don't eat that much mustard.

Marks?  I've never had a single mark on any of my work.  I don't make big stuff mind you - everything I've ever made so far will fit in one or two bags or a larger shopping bag, say from Target. When I do start making bigger stuff I'll just use trash bags.  I NEVER do dry cleaning (better for the environment). Even at the studio they don't have a lot of this stuff - if any of us were actually using it it'd be gone already.
The stoneware here is still uber soft.  I have more trouble working the stoneware than I do the B-mix.  I've switched to B-mix because it is actually easier for me to work than the stoneware is.  It's REALLY soft - and WET. But I have no trouble getting it in the bag without damaging it. Maybe covering soft clay in grocery bags is my secret super power!  It would figure I have a stupid secret super power LOL!
After the move I'll just have damp boxes - which will also require plastic in the form of a big box and lid.  Ya can't win!  Or wait - an old defunct fridge!  If I can find one and if I can move it by myself.
This stuff in the studio isn't dry cleaner bags - its torn up sheets from dry cleaner wraps.  You have to wrap it around your work like a scarf.  *I* can't do it without it touching the work AND leaving gaps.  He THOUGHT he could do it (and it did look better than my efforts) but still it dried out overnight.  I'd say the stuff is about 8" wide at most.  Really.  Like a scarf.
I also happen to think that making fun of people who donate bags for this purpose was uncalled for, but whatever.

@Bam2015 You and me both!

@Hulk So you are already undergoing what we are still anticipating.
Boy do I hate moving!
The thing about the wet stoneware is it is REALLY wet.  I've seen people roll it into an arch and leave it to sit to dry out a bit and its still not that much improved by the end of class (3 hours).  It is SOPPING.  I've never seen such wet stoneware.  It is MUCH MUCH worse to work with than what I remember of the one time I worked with actual porcelain. However other people seem to be managing, more or less.  For me, it thins out too fast in spots and not enough in others - when trying to raise it.  This doesn't happen much with the B-mix.  It nearly always happens with the stoneware, and right quickly.  I can't seem to work it easily or evenly and I have to work it FAST before it collapses on me, so I don't have time to finesse it at all.
Plus it is pugged and de-aired and if I have to re-wedge it anyway, might as well put all that physical labor into wedging the B-mix, which I have found to be much preferable to working with the current version of the stoneware.  That said, I'm not sure I've been successful with my strategy for wedging the B-mix without really wedging it and I'm not physically capable of wedging it in any great amount on my own.  I REALLY wish I'd bought the Pete Pugger first - I could move that and I'd have it to use in the meantime.  Oh well.
So yesterday I had one of my psuedo-wedged blobs actually keep twisting off while I was trying to cone it up.  THREE times (same blob). So I'm not sure what I did wrong there.  
I've also noticed that there are weird lumpy feelings as I work the stuff, not always, but sometimes, and from the same batch that I just sorta wedged. So not all the clay from a given wedge-batch.  I'm wondering how much of my stuff is going to blow up in the kiln.
I stack 'n slam until I don't see bubbles when I wire cut it.  The problem seems to be when I try to form it into a cone-blob for the wheel.  I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong and youtube is no help because people "demonstrating" that, sort of do it blocked by other things and really fast so it looks like it magically forms up for them.
As usual for me, bowls come easily.  But I keep forcing myself to think "cylinders".  Or else how will I ever learn ...

Well several things, sort of more or less simultaneously.  This is probably TMI, but here goes.
Around the time Tejas went totally off the deep end with the removal of reproductive rights and on-going threats to access to birth control, my son and DIL discovered that the much-vaunted (by people who live here) "excellence" of public schools is more like excrement.  BTW, after he discovered how bad the "program" is here, people started admitting to how bad schools are in general around here, which is not the song they'd been singing. Anyway.
My grandson is neuro-atypical - not the full on rainman thing, just atypical. Nonetheless he needs a supportive environment until his outward development catches up to his inward development.  He's been in a VERY good and supportive program but he is going to age out next school year.  Not sure why, but public schools here want 4 year olds in their program - preK.  And their program for neuro-atypical kids is le suckage.  Which my son and DIL didn't find out until they went to some kind of meeting to prepare for the switch.
So between threats to my DIL's health (she had a problematic pregnancy and is in her late 30s) and imminent threats to my grandson's development, we're moving OUT of Texhell. Not to mention the whole racism situation.
Because of all this my son quit his tenured teaching position which he loved to get a remote job with a large tech firm (just started a couple of weeks ago) so he could move wherever in the country he felt he could get decent services for my grandson, and where my DILs life won't be endangered by restrictions on her access to necessary health care. Before all this stuff blew up in our faces, my son was SURE we would live here FOREVER. So he assured me I should go ahead and buy the kiln and then - KABLOOEY. 
It seemed silly to spend a ton of money to make the electrical changes to a house I wasn't going to be in that much longer, and then not be able to move the kiln, it was apparently too late to stop the kiln being completed and shipped, my son didn't want to mess with moving it, I was getting advice not to TRY to move it (from Tejas to somewhere around Albany) - it turned into a huge hassle and finally it ended up at the local studio - where it has not even been hooked up yet and likely won't be for a significant length of time (they have electrical issues apparently courtesy of the former studio manager dating back to the opening of the studio - shortcuts taken that shouldn't have been taken). 
So it all seems sort of a waste.  And depressing.  Took me awhile to "get over it", not helped by an onslaught of dental issues all at once, 3 root canals, and a history of me having a lot of dental work in the past (40 years, including 2 wisdom tooth extractions) with little or no anesthesia because my nerves are in a weird place and dentists act like Torquemada when you tell them you're not numb. Lots of stress on top of the physical aspects, and a worsening of my Addison's disease consequential to all the stress.  So I'm just now back in the studio.
Sorry.  I don't know how to be concise any more.  *sigh*

Another free source of plastic I use is -----
I use market Banana boxes to store ,move, sell amd deliver orders of pottery in. I usually have 60-80 of them at any given time. Those usually come withg plastic sheets in them. Those are just a tad heavier than the dry cleaner bags. We use them to cover freshy handled pots like mugs that need to even out as well as dry a little.  They are perfect for doing both. They are free when I get the boxes from the produce sections.I can go thru 6-8 boxes a month dropping off ware in them via. dolly . Right now I'm working on a 20 banana box order so that 20 going away in a few more weeks.I have never bought a bag for covering pots as folks always bring them to me.Same way with packing materials-all free.

Well several things, sort of more or less simultaneously.  This is probably TMI, but here goes.
Around the time Tejas went totally off the deep end with the removal of reproductive rights and on-going threats to access to birth control, my son and DIL discovered that the much-vaunted (by people who live here) "excellence" of public schools is more like excrement.  BTW, after he discovered how bad the "program" is here, people started admitting to how bad schools are in general around here, which is not the song they'd been singing. Anyway.
My grandson is neuro-atypical - not the full on rainman thing, just atypical. Nonetheless he needs a supportive environment until his outward development catches up to his inward development.  He's been in a VERY good and supportive program but he is going to age out next school year.  Not sure why, but public schools here want 4 year olds in their program - preK.  And their program for neuro-atypical kids is le suckage.  Which my son and DIL didn't find out until they went to some kind of meeting to prepare for the switch.
So between threats to my DIL's health (she had a problematic pregnancy and is in her late 30s) and imminent threats to my grandson's development, we're moving OUT of Texhell. Not to mention the whole racism situation.
Because of all this my son quit his tenured teaching position which he loved to get a remote job with a large tech firm (just started a couple of weeks ago) so he could move wherever in the country he felt he could get decent services for my grandson, and where my DILs life won't be endangered by restrictions on her access to necessary health care. Before all this stuff blew up in our faces, my son was SURE we would live here FOREVER. So he assured me I should go ahead and buy the kiln and then - KABLOOEY. 
It seemed silly to spend a ton of money to make the electrical changes to a house I wasn't going to be in that much longer, and then not be able to move the kiln, it was apparently too late to stop the kiln being completed and shipped, my son didn't want to mess with moving it, I was getting advice not to TRY to move it (from Tejas to somewhere around Albany) - it turned into a huge hassle and finally it ended up at the local studio - where it has not even been hooked up yet and likely won't be for a significant length of time (they have electrical issues apparently courtesy of the former studio manager dating back to the opening of the studio - shortcuts taken that shouldn't have been taken). 
So it all seems sort of a waste.  And depressing.  Took me awhile to "get over it", not helped by an onslaught of dental issues all at once, 3 root canals, and a history of me having a lot of dental work in the past (40 years, including 2 wisdom tooth extractions) with little or no anesthesia because my nerves are in a weird place and dentists act like Torquemada when you tell them you're not numb. Lots of stress on top of the physical aspects, and a worsening of my Addison's disease consequential to all the stress.  So I'm just now back in the studio.
Sorry.  I don't know how to be concise any more.  *sigh*

So after the huge disappointment of having to literally give away a $6500 brand new kiln I'd been waiting for for 40 years, and a round of multiple root canals due to a broken filling and two broken crowns, I'm finally back in the (shared public) studio.
Some of you may remember that studio is under new management which brought along with it a change in the quality of the clay.  Well its been at least a year now and I'm pretty sure the clay is as it is going to be by now.  The stoneware is now extremely wet and soft - there does not appear to be any interest on the part of management to rectify that.  And they've stopped pugging and de-airing the B-mix altogether.  That means that has to be wedged before you can use it.  Which is (obviously) fine for the strong healthy young man now running the studio, but not so great for a broken down old lady with 2 bad shoulders, a bad elbow, and a bad back.  (I'm working on the back but there's not much to be done about shoulders ripped up due to hauling my 185lb father up the stairs to the house we rented because the landlord wouldn't let me build a ramp).
I struggle with the stoneware.  Turns out I can use the B-mix more easily than the stoneware, but then I have to wedge it.  I messed up my shoulders again this past summer trying to work with that stash of red clay I got from the studio, but I have to give it a try.
I can't stand at a wedging table long enough to actually wedge to completion so I've been partially wedging and then finishing on the wheel (cone UP, cone Down, x3).  It hasn't been trouble free yet but I've only given it one day so far.  I had some trouble stack 'n slamming because there isn't an installed cutting wire and I was cutting horizontally instead of perpendicular to the table but now that I realize what I was doing wrong (ended up with flat rectangles instead of a squarish block I could easily turn into cones ready for the wheel) I think I can "fix" that enough so that I don't end up re-introducing air when I shape it for the wheel.  I'll be going in a little later today to see how it goes.
I've switched to the B-mix because the stoneware has been frustratingly difficult for me.  I can't get the walls up evenly and end up with a lot of collapsed/twisted stuff.  Weirdly, because I always thought B-mix was closer to porcelain, I have a much easier time with it.  Its firmer and easier for me to work with, but it also absorbs water like a sponge.  I'm a pretty dry thrower but it drinks water.
I'm thinking that if I scrape the surface each time I cone up then down I would be introducing less water into the clay (I go up and down 3 times to wheel wedge) so I have a little more time to work it.  The stuff I've turned out does look a LOT better than what I could manage with the very wet stoneware, but I don't feel like I have enough control yet.  Should I be treating this more like porcelain and scrape it more often? 
Any tips would be most appreciated.

@neilestrick I counted today.  There are exactly THREE of these strips of filmy plastic, two of which are the size of a neck scarf and one of which is a double width neck scarf LOL!  Now I have no idea where he even came up with the wherewithal for even making the comment to start with. If it weren't for the donated grocery bags he was dissing, we wouldn't have ANYTHING to cover our stuff with LOL!

I just want to add, if its not been said already, that its not just drying fast you should be concerned with.  More, drying EVENLY.  Its worth it to take an extra day or two for something to dry to make sure it dries evenly.  Hardiebacker ware boards help me a lot with that - I can wet them down to slow drying down or leave them dry when that's not necessary.  I like to spritz the hardiebacker ware boards a little even so, so it doesn't immediately suck all the moisture out of my base. 
I still use bags when drying so I can control the drying process.  Yes it slows it down - but it guarantees that I don't get something drying too fast or on one side faster than the other.  I'm working in a studio in dry Tejas that has fans going all the time in the room where things sit to dry.  NOT covering something that is nearly leather hard is a great way to mess your stuff up at the very last minute.
One way to handle the impatience is to simply work on something else all the time, so you have a continuous stream of stuff that is drying and stuff that is new and stuff that is ready to move to the greenware area awaiting the next kiln load.

Hey, that's a great idea!  If I want a wet box I can dampen my hardiebacker ware board and partially wrap with plastic, set my piece or pieces on it, and cover them with an upside down tote!  If I want a dry box, dispense with the dampening and the plastic!
Great!  No heavy damp/dry boxes to tote around!
I've got a big roll of heavy duty clear plastic that I'll be using to solarize my new garden beds wherever we end up.  I can just recycle that.