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.

Argh why hadnt i thought about an aeropress!
Ive been taking an old bodum travel press for years and its leaky. Time to replace it 🙂

You could always just replace the metal part on your press as that's the bit that leaks.

But yes, otherwise aeropress!!

We have one at work and keep one at home for holidays.

Most phones have a torch built in.

My paetner carries a tiny, micro fibre towel on his key ring

We have used it multiple times

Think of Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

You have always got to be ptepared

One of my pet hates is tiled floors in hotel rooms and there being no broom to sweep up. There’s always hair and bits on the floor and a once a day sweep doesn’t do it for me. The answer, that was blindingly obvious to all but me, is to take some lightweight hotel style slippers. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I have a couple of blue cotton draw string bags that I paid 50 pence for a few years ago.
Use these to put dirty laundry in

I pack 3 bikinis, 3 pairs of shorts, 7 vest tops,7 pairs of knickers, 2 dresses, 2 pairs of sandals, 3 pairs of sunglasses, 1 hat, 2 books,2 travel plugs. I buy anything else i'll need when I get there.

That’s a good idea, It's so annoying when there isn’t an accessible power socket/USB socket by the bed. Or there’s no power socket close to a mirror for hair drying/styling.

Hahahaha 😆 That's absolutely hilarious 😂

That has happened several times with travel lodge

I took some lightweight hanging shelves,
hangers and those hooks that fit over the door when we went to Spain this winter, having realised that the reason our booked apartment looked so clean and minimal from the photos was that there was no storage there aside from a hanging rail in the bedroom.

I also take a folding fan if there’s no aircon, and if we have the car we take one of Meaco fans as well.

I’m in Ireland like pp and funerals usually happen a few days after death as she said. Often there will be a wake/removal on the second day with a funeral mass followed by burial or cremation on the third. Families do wait for family members who are abroad to get home, but you really wouldn’t have time for detours!

I have the fan that you recommended in a previous thread a year or so back. Going to a UK hotel by coach next week and it’s the first thing I’ll be packing.

I guess if someone is without power for electric light, they don’t want to run their phone battery down.

Does it work on planes? Even though I travel flatbed, the noise drives me crazy

I also have a little square travel fan. It charges via USB and has been a godsend. It's much better than most of those handheld fans.

I take a head torch.

For planes I have one of these and play white noise from spotify https://www.amazon.co.uk/MUSICOZY-Headphones-Bluetooth-Ultra-Silent-Relaxation/dp/B0G8JYQY7G/ref=sr_1_7?crid=1UHQKEPFYBZ3K&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.NDUfenmImX5c4pYQmYktVNoxW3wd0xe3zoNIr3Jw1e0awFcoopg7lvCuQ-mdoho4rqgkrSy4JxBBWJgntLNFNCOoJBdFnXEmLVSVd9aO3TqfoDRpfh3Iacs3k5fEJIe40j4J3FWtQThTamd_jDxTh21ZQo12gaWi-tayaMjb282_GEcqqSIV5qxNEdH9IU7m4kQpzwHS3l_XTaUPjb44iD0zBB2p-ALSdCPH_t4UeDU.kZUTsnlXhcI4pC2o7vIoT6-GAqoNu9touHKCbEMzE0w&dib_tag=se&keywords=snoozeband&qid=1786014176&sprefix=snoozeban%2Caps%2C150&sr=8-7

If going to an Airbnb by car, I'd always take my own pillow and maybe bedding. I've had a too many migraines from foul fabric conditioner.

I have a radar key for toilets too, has saved us a few times. I consider the occasional use (five times in three years, Inc by my mum who actually needs one) to not be excessive.

😂😂 that's amazing!

Yes to the mugs. Spend ages looking at tripadvisor photos to see how big the cups are, then usually pack our larger mugs. Most people post endless photos of the view etc on review sites, all I want is a photo of the tea and coffee making tray, and inside the wardrobe for hangers!

If it was raw beef, you are lucky not to have been stopped by customs. Raw foods and dairy cannot lawfully be imported into the EU from UK.

If driving, I bring a clothes airer. Lots of places have washing machines but absolutely no drying facilities. It drives me mad.

I have been on holidays and realised DM had been prepared for us all to go direct to DGPs house and not via home…DGF died while we were on holidays and she had to ensure 6 DGCs (from primary school to late teens), and herself/DH were respectable for the 3 days there, and she stayed on longer alone. So she had decent outfits for us all squirreled away (we were driving).

I also have to travel a lot for work and currently live away from home for work - so I always have my overnight and my bigger washbags packed and ready as I sometimes have very short notice of trips…and now have elderly DPs/ILs to consider so I have a full funeral outfit at home that DH could bring, and I have a cabin bag packed ready to drop and go (overnight gear, 1 dark outfit that could work in an emergency, and a trousers and 2 tops/jumpers depending on season for non-funeral wear, wash bag).

No, as in one long pillow that we had to share 🤣