To ask for your most unhinged packing lists?

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Trying to cover all bases.

I’m not talking the “oh yeah I whack a teabag in my baggage”, i’m talking the type of stuff most people would never dream of taking.

My husband once took some unripened tomatoes to Portugal to ripen them. also brought washing line(for me to use)

Think it’s ala the royals, to fly back in black?

When/what for?!!

This is a great idea - can you tell us the brand, or give a link to the one you use?
Thanks!

My grandad used to go to Tenerife for a month every January. He always took 2 or 3 large blocks of Cathedral City cheese & his brother took a large cooked gammon joint !
He tried to bring the cheese on holiday with us in the summer but my mum made him bin it at the airport 😂

Well, I live about 200 miles from my parents, so if the worst happened while I was away, I wouldn't want to divert home to pick up clothes. I do keep a packed suitcase at home anyway (including funeral clothes) for that eventuality. If I were on holiday I would want to get to my parents' town ASAP, not go home first, and I certainly wouldn't have the time or inclination to go shopping for suitable clothes, but nor would I want to be wearing beach clothes.

What's with the juvenile rolling of eyes to potentially saving £15?

Who would have planned the funeral while you were away and how long do you go on holidays for?

I take a small torch after staying in a cottage in Cornwall where it was pitch black at night.

The first night, we walked to the village pub in the early evening light, and the walk back in absolute darkness was challenging, to say the least.

I do this whenever I stay in a hotel (I travel for work) regardless of location. On my last work trip my colleague woke up in the middle of the night to find a man entering her room when we staying in a very nice hotel in Hamburg. Thankfully he was as horrified as her and immediately exited the room. He had checked in late at night and due to some mix-up we never got to the bottom of, the receptionist put him into the same room as my friend.

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Either but take the batteries out and carry them separately so the test button isnt accidentally pushed!

Two weeks usually and my sister and I will be arranging the already-planned funeral. There is unlikely to be a long gap between death and funeral as we expect them to die of their illnesses, though obviously if something else happened then it might be different.

No. We stay in villas. I dress out of my bag every day. And clean laundry goes back into the bag to be worn next time!

I dress off the dressing room floor at home 😂

• stretchy clothes line
• clothes washing leaves
• sink/bath plug
• condoms
• mini sudocrem

My DH does this and we really needed it last time.

I pre-grind coffee and take it in a little tupperware container, plus the cafetière because the place may say there is one but there isn’t. I take our favourite glasses/mugs too. We went to an airbnb and the only cups really were cups, delicate little things with saucers. We hoofed off to the supermarket and bought mugs. We like a good amount of coffee in the morning.

The carbon monoxide alarm is genius! I'm going to start doing that

I've just realised I often bring a washing line and a universal plug, are those unhinged things to holiday with? I think they're practical!

Never been on holiday without canesten since a memorable episode that involved visiting multiple pharmacies in Turkey and trying to explain the problem to the male pharmacists. I was offered toothpaste, shaving cream, deodorant and hairspray before I found a female pharmacist who, with the help of Google, figured out what I needed. Never had it since but never want to go through that again.

I always take fluncanazole, clomitrazole and canesten cream as holidays often give me thrush and require a triple approach.

I always take an aeropress and PACT coffee, full caf and decaf.

When we stay anywhere with crap mugs such as hotels, we go and buy decent but cheap mugs and leave them.

None of those are odd though.

We take an extension lead ! My husband uses a cpap machine and we’ve discovered you can’t rely on there being a suitable socket by the bed.

Extension lead
Gluten free crackers
Small jigsaws
Telescopic fan - even with air con it’s often needed
Small Lego kits

Blimey. I'm staying at home - that all sounds very stressful!
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An ultra long phone charging lead is far more compact than an extension lead.

Actually this is genius, because this always winds me up too and I would never think of taking one

For self catering, I always pack rubber gloves, a flat clothes peg airer from pound shop (for drying hand washed underwear), ice cube bags, travel type hotel slippers, big reusable bags for shopping and also a larger IKEA type bag for keeping all beach stuff/sandy stuff in the car so it doesn't go everywhere.