To ask for your most unhinged packing lists?

Another few:
. c. a quarter of a loo roll in a zip lock bag. The number of toilets without loo rolls, here and abroad is bad.
. paper napkins. Some countries’ paper napkins are tiny and not absorbent. Especially those that come in those metal dispensers on tables

if you dislike your husband this much why not divorce him? he seems like an absolutely useless parent

I have similar. Plus two of mine have interchangeable plug plates https://amzn.eu/d/0dt1XpnG One of them looks like this but has UK and Europe plug plates.

English breakfast tea bags.

Extension cable, I have a lot of things to charge, some important medical stuff (it’s the one with trip for the fuse I think it is so it’s as safe as possible and quite new, recently replaced), there’s never enough electrical points for my stuff.

oh and edited to add plastic fold up clothes hangers, especially if it’s more than a weeks holiday.

I was once coming home from Greece and the older couple infront (age relevant as she’d accumulated many expensive items that were extremely good quality that you can hardly get now) of me at the scanner had a full roll of hairdressing scissors and paraphernalia confiscated. She was so upset. Her husband had packed and hadn’t put them in the hold luggage as he’d forgotten the rules had change. I really felt for her and she did explain why she’d taken it all to me but I’ve forgotten why now.

They are actually very useful. I have a similar one ( well if DS doesn't lose it) that also has a 3 point plug socket on

I honestly did not know something like this existed! Thank you

This

Think the PP meant something more like this

I also take a first aid kit and spare outfit/swimwear + small beach towel each in hand luggage just incase since a family on our holiday in Greece had booked for a week and their cases turned up on day 6. Beach towel as our friends got to there hotel and the tour operators had ballsed up and they had to sleep in reception for the night until a room became available.

I also take a block of cheese as I’m vegetarian and don’t want to be eating rennet. It’s pissing me off now that restaurants abroad keep putting Parmesan in vegetarian meals.

Magnetic hooks on a cruise, the cabin walls are metal and it provides so much more storage for bags and coats.

Im not saying theres never any other socket, but they're often not where they need to be, so extension needed. I did stay in one place in Mallorca where the only sockets were already occupied by the tv and some lamps, no other sockets whatsoever!

Im not sure my laptop or phone uses that sort of cable to be fair, not sure Ive tried it

Also the socket for that could be somewhere really inconvenient where you have to balance the station on something else and then balance your laptop/phone on something else. My OH only likes using the laptop if he has it plugged in, not sure why but he likes it plugged in.

This video shows the sort of thing I’m talking about.

edit: if the time stamp hasn’t saved properly it’s at 5m 55s

The one that we take on holidays can charge 8 different devices at once and only occupies one socket. That’s the whole point of them. That way you don’t need a socket for each device or a whole load of adapters/extension leads. One socket covers us for our cameras, phones, tablets, watches, headphones etc. I’ve never yet been in a hotel where there wasn’t at least one more socket to plug the hairdryer, iron or whatever into.

We have them at home precisely so that we never need to faff around unplugging anything to use the vacuum cleaner or iron. One behind the sofa, one by our bed, one in the home office. All of them have cables plugged in and accessible at all times. Life’s too short to be hunting around for a charger and plugging and unplugging things.

They're plugged into electric sockets though one would assume yes?

So what happens if you need several things charged and you need more sockets because you find out the iron needs to be plugged in and then you need to dry your hair and so you haeve to keep moving over to the socket area, pulling things in and out all the time

I always take pegs. So many uses!

Same here. UK and abroad

I bought one home from holiday once. They sometimes have those shitty wire fence things that hardly dry anything and fall over without provocation.

Have a solar collapsible lantern in the car lives on parcel shelf most of the time. Used it multiple times. Especially in village with no street lights and no pavements. Ditto high Vis jacket and reflective snap bands.

Small sewing kit.

Three first aid kits (large for car/holiday house) small for rucksack. Smallest for dry bag.
Half a pharmacy. (Single parent not wanting to walk to a pharmacy if ill on holiday.) (Ibuprofen, paracetamol, decongestants, diarrhoea tablets, prescription meds, antihistamines, hydrocortisone cream, sudocrem, plasters,, dressings, throat lozenges, cough syrup.

We got through several packs of ibuprofen on holiday this year.

Careful when choosing CO alarms. Some state that they are suitable for travel but when you look at the actual instructions it says they must be screwed to the ceiling. Hotels and holiday lets tend not to like people doing that.

Washing up bowl. They disappeared with covid.

My packing list is six columns of tiny writing on A4 paper. I just got back and need to.update it. I will be adding Carbon monoxide alarms to it!

Clearly our set up at home isn’t as typical as I thought. We have three charging stations dotted around the house so we just change the plug over and take one of those with us when we travel. I’d assumed that was becoming the norm now.

I’m sure when I bought my phone it didn’t even come with anything to plug the charger into the wall, just a UBC C cable.

One of those lives in the charger in the car. Don't want it flung round the car and inaccessible if I'm upside down in a pond!

Ours doesn’t sit on the wall. It sits on the desk/table.

It’s not this exact one but similar to this. https://uk.ugreen.com/products/nexode-100w-charging-station-6-in-1

We just swap the power cable for a US/Japan or EU one before we leave and that’s all we need for all our devices… and we take quite a lot of tech. We both take a phone, tablet, smart watch and camera each, plus battery packs, wireless headphones and other assorted bits and bobs.

I do also have a tiny two port brick that you plug straight into the wall with folding US/Japan prongs. That one just goes in my handbag specifically for our trips to Japan and gets used on trains and planes.