To ask for your most unhinged packing lists?

[badhabitsleadtolate]

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.

I pack on hangers.

Get to the hotel. Pull out the clothes on hangers put in the wardrobe.
Job done. Unpacked in 3 mins.

Does everyone else do this?

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A full size foam roller. I usually travel light so it's gone in my hold luggage got foreign trips.

I do a lot of activity holidays and other members of the holiday group often laugh when they hear about my foam roller - but it's surprising how often I've had to loan it out to achy fellow travellers!

I take tea towels to wipe my hands on after applying suncream.

Also a miniature screwdriver as I once had to remove the extending handle from my suitcase that got damaged in transit.

I once went to Paris for a few days with hubby and took a roast dinner. Beef in gravy, mash, tinned carrots, tinned potatoes, tinned peas and some Yorkshire pudding mix. WTAF was I thinking!!!!!!! My husband still laughs about it today. He ate it though 😂😂

A surprisingly large icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. She goes in cabin bless her.

Im usually a minimalist packer. But this year on my self catering UK holiday, I took the airfryer.....

Ok this one is amazing and I’m desperate to know your reasoning.

On UK self catering holidays, I always bring a draining rack, proper sharp vegetable knife and a dustpan and brush. So many places don't have these items and it irritates me not to have them.

I didn’t, but I will from here for evening clothes at least!

I always take my pillows

LOVE this thread, @badhabitsleadtolate👍

My partner and I wobble along the line of preppers, his parents too and as we holiday with them we end up taking quite a lot but we drive rather than fly as it's only 1h between where the in-laws are and the Euro tunnel

Toilet roll, kitchen roll, washing powder. dishwasher tablets, bin bags, coffee, tea bags, olive oil, tin foil, cling film, tupperware/lunchbox, reusable coffee cups and water bottle.
My daughter has a lot of food allergies so we also bring oat milk, oat yoghurt, vegan mayo, margarine, baking block and stock cubes. We had a birthday whilst a way so we also brought a cake tin this year as well as vanilla essence - flour & sugar etc we bought here

Medical stuff- 3 first aid kits 1 in each car plus one in a rucksack. Paracetamol, ibuprofen and antihistamines, treatment for diarrhoea, glucose and oral dehydration tablets, insect repellents and bite treatments.

Car stuff - spare bulbs, fuses. oil, washer fluid and water, decent jack and socket set, hi Vis jackets.

Portable cupboard light in case of poorly positioned light switches in bedrooms, baby monitors in case we are further from bedrooms than at home.

Bluetooth speaker for my daughter to have audiobooks in the evening.

My hot water bottle. I always take one. We were driving and camping all the way from where I live, nearer the Canadian border, down into Mexico. Traveling through places like Death Valley.
Oh how they laughed at me, until it was so cold one night at the Grand Canyon, our outside water iced over. I was a snug as a bug.

We did this....next time we will bring 2 one for daughters room and one for our room! It's made life so much easier not just not needing as many plugs but also being able to have the plugs where you want them rather than where they are

Where sells these-looks great!

If I go self catering, I take freezer packs and my kids lunch boxes. I can then bring any food that needs refrigeration (like open jam and mayo) home with me in the hold. I literally take everything I buy abroad home.

I do.

I'm a knitter. This sounds perfectly normal to me. Current project and another easy one in case of problems (one year I lost a knitting needle, luckily I managed to get a pair from a handy charity shop).

Oh, pp just reminded me, also for UK holidays I always take my Tassimo coffee machine and the Ninja Air Fryer. And cleaning supplies actually... I've had a few years being a cleaner and although I know they will have a cleaner (obviously,) I enjoy cleaning and like to give it a good clean before we go so hopefully it makes the cleaners day a little better 😅 sometimes even leave a bar of chocolate/cold can of Coke if I won't have time to give it a good clean 😅

I have no idea????? I think I thought we’d save some money by eating in one evening but we ate then went out on the lash and spent a fortune 😂😂😂😂

Special glasses to watch the solar eclipse.

Yeah, quite a good idea. On our first ever weekend away/night together the hotel had a glass walled bathroom and there wasn’t even a door. I had an extremely upset stomach 🤣 it was like being in one of those 4D experience cinemas

I am simultaneously grateful for this knowledge and deeply resentful as now I have to take one!

Pop up laundry hamper stick it in the corner everyone can strip into it. Changed my life on holidays with kids.

Also take 2 extension leads.

We bought a Solar Buddie last yr for Florida. Absolutely love it. It applies and rubs in the sun cream so your hands don't get sticky. So helpful when you can't easily wash your hands after applying it to yourself/kids.

Stopped using fancy/pretty toiletry bags. All liquids/powders go in a Ikea food bag that has a double seal and then that bag goes in a bigger Ikea food bag. Double bagged to hopefully catch any leaks or spills.

Buggy lock with a long retractable chain/wire like LittleLife. Use it to attach floaties to sun lounger while we hit the buffet. To stop them blowing away (windy Portugal holiday) and/or stolen.

I take a little pack of stickers to put on TV power lights etc in the bedroom.