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.

Realistically how many survive a plane crash? Losing your shoes is the least of your worries!

Not quite a holiday but I went to Sydney from the UK for 3 months and packed my Nespresso machine. I then had to go to NZ for 2 months and brought it. Then when we came to live in Aus it came in the luggage we travelled with than in the Shipping container. When we moved back to the UK it came with us too.
At over 60,000 miles flown its the most well travelled coffee machine ever I reckon

Pretty sure the safety aspect is remove shoes especially if you have to exit the plane in an emergency using the slide that turns into a raft

God in heaven why bother going away?!

I am also gluten free but just take the whole box down. What are they going to say?

I’ve only read up to your post but this is a really good idea for women on a night out. Just in case getting locked in a taxi/uber/dodgy dates car etc.

I always take my coffee machine!

A phone torch wont last as long and is no where near as practical as an actual torch, if you holiday in the countryside and like walks over pathways you need a proper torch. Also in general you need a proper torch for the strength and direction, we always take one on holiday

We always self cater, both home and abroad and Ive learnt over the years that a sponge, ttowels, washing up liquid, ice cube bags, sandwich bags are all necessary, it was such a revelation when we started travelling with these things how vital they were!!

Love this thread

For me it’s as many medications as possible

I also pack in multiples so if one suitcase goes missing the other has more or less the exact or similar stuff

also tea bags and oat milk!

cleaning stuff, washing up gloves and toilet paper

I remember on at least two holidays in the 90s people had a vanity case of sauces, jams etc which they took down to the dining room with them.

I always pack loads of medicines. Eg. Paracetamol, ibuprofen, diho tablets, gaviscon, antihistamines, rehydration sachets, antibiotics in each suitcase and lso a set in hand luggage. We run out when we all got sick a few years ago. I also take an extension cable, washing line and pegs. My newest holiday purchase (after 2 kids getting food poisoning) is a collapsable bucket just in case anyone is sick. Trying to catch your childs sick in your hands is not fun.

Your probably the 4th person to say that. It's my unhinged packing item....in many years of travelling for work and pleasure I've only been in one hotel fire...caused by the management of the hotel. I have been in about 50 hotels that were decidedly dodgy.

It's not rammed under the door so you can kick it out from inside

My mum is in a care home and it would confuse my dad if I left stuff in the house, it is likely he would 'put it away' somewhere or think it was my mum's and take it to her and then forget what he had done. It's all a bit chaotic.

Carbon monoxide detector and smoke alarm. We stayed in an air bnb and one of the lights in the kids’ room was smouldering. The room filled with smoke and the only reason we knew is because we heard one of the kids coughing on the baby monitor. Never travel without the detectors now

Well if I don’t survive it won’t matter, but there have been crashes where people have survived and had to climb over glass and debris to leave the plane in a panic, the OP asked for ‘unhinged’.

I think you’ll find you don’t !

I always take one of the 4 socket extensions as some places have limited sockets. I've also got an extendable usb cable with different ends (I know most things are usb-c these days, but my toothbrush isn't!).
I always pack a reusable shopping bag, a plastic camping spoon/fork/knife and a silicone pint glass (because I CBA with tiny glasses or plastic cups in hotels!).
I always over pack. I'm on my last day in Crete and I will be taking back 6 unworn bikinis (just wore and washed two favourites - I always pack travel wash!), 2 pairs of unworn shorts, several tops and a load of underwear! I like to have options 🙈😂

Instant Pot and Dyson - tbf, I usually travel in my van and take the dogs.

I have a swiss army knife type thingy which I pack in my wash bag, flipping amazing how many times we've needed the different attachments!

Isn’t it stilettos that they show people removing on the safety video/booklet? Flat shoes are fine

When I went on my first ever holiday I packed a bikini, shorts, two boob tubes, mascara and 5 packs of ciggies. No sunscreen, no hairbrush, just me, hardly any clothes and 100 benson and hedges ciggies… oh to be so carefree. Didn’t even bring pants I just went commando 🤦‍♀️

I always take a 4 gang extension lead with a one metre lead.
Plug it into the travel plug and put all the devices into the extension sockets.
Some travel plugs (US) won’t stay in the socket with the weight of the multi device chargers.
When the kids were small, and we used to go away to resorts, I brought a small bicycle lock and, while we were out, all the devices we weren’t taking with us, were put in a locked suitcase & it was attached to a fixture (often the room safe wouldn’t hold a laptop, multiple iPad’s etc)

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Same!!! Also always have one camping