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.

Me too!!

I plan to take my feather pillow to Spain this year, last year at the same hotel the pillows were incredibly uncomfortable (in an otherwise brilliant hotel).

Ooh now that’s a good one I’m adding it to my luggage (along with my car window hammer thing)

Also will be taking a box of my son’s favourite gluten free cereal which you can’t buy abroad and some washable zip lock bags. Plan is to take a portion secretly in my bag to breakfast and slip it into his bowl.

I'm currently on holiday, having been away for 10 days so far.

I've got a handful of washing line pegs in my case and a chest torch.

I've used both already.

She can just get long cables, no? That’s what I have for by the bed!

We take cotton tea towels , not for their usual use but to lay on the pillows .
Cant abide the thought of laying our heads on pillows / cases used by hundreds of people . Also take face cloths to dry our faces with as don't want their towels around our faces .

Why not just take another pillow case and slip it over? Be more comfortable?

Dh takes his bedside table extension lead.
I take my pillow and heat pad!! And knitting supplies because I have fidgety hands.
And probably way too many books because I don't want to run out.
The most unhinged I think is taking a coat to colorado in August. You can take the brit out of Britain......!

Is it unhinged to take an extension lead? One adaptor and we have four plug sockets to use... Was great, one plug adapter and one extension per hotel room did all of us earlier in the year. I went with friends a few months ago, forgot the extension and it was quite annoying waiting for a turn to use the socket.

A family member always packs a roll of that thick electrical tape. We all laugh at them but on group trips most of us have borrowed some for one reason or another over the years!

Do you also take your own glasses and cutlery etc??

Also you must sleep like a corpse if that teatowel is still in place in the morning.

I take an extension lead abroad. You can just one adapter and plug in loads of stuff.

This is actually a brilliant idea! Off to Amazon I go….

Me too! It makes life so much easier

This is me too. I listen to audio books on my phone overnight to help me sleep, and if I have to have the phone over the other side of the room (because I also have it on charge at night) then I have to have the volume turned up too loud. But it's amazing how many places don't have sockets anywhere near the bed.

I have two “kitchen boxes”.

One contains mini salt and pepper, a corkscrew/knife combo, sachets of sugar, sauces, jams etc. from previous trips, a two former ice-cream tubs (the kind you get instead of a cone) for small things in case the accommodation is light on such things, a few zip seal bags, a few bag clips, Yorkshire tea and a plastic knife and fork.

The other contains washing leaves, colour catcher, small washing net, dishwasher tablets and a few first aid type items.

Also, KP dry roasted peanuts, and nut-free muesli or granola. And a foldable insulated bag.

We always do self catering and hiking and move around a couple of times on a long trip, so all of this is not quite as mad as it seems.

A small toolkit. Comes in surprisingly handy, especially when self-catering.
I’m adopting the extension lead suggestion too.

This is the kind of eccentricity I can get on board with.

Me too. Bit of a trip hazard sometimes though…

Green Tabasco sauce is new addition this year

not niche - but citronella incense sticks & pancake mix

Oh rubber gloves for self catering too! But thats just sensible.

Isn’t this a fire risk? So if there was a fire someone wouldn’t be able to get in to save you?

What if you became very unwell in the room, or a fire and they needed to get you out?

Smoke detector and carbon monoxide alarm