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.

I don’t bring my coffee machine but I do bring my kettle 🤣

I once took two cat feeding stations that open with a connected blue tooth thingy on the cats collars.

I also took, different times, ten tubes of fixodents, 20 of those silver blankets that you see at the end of marathons and 20 energy bars.

In my defence, I used to spend two months on a tiny island in Greece every year, and locals used to ask me to bring various items that they found hard to get.

Wtaf? I'm baffled my most responses but this had me falling of the chair! You do what?! Why?

I encouraged my son, then aged 9, to pack his own bag for the year 5 sleepover at the museum. Upon checking, his bag contained : 1 pair of clean underpants, a football, 2 light sabers and a pair of Hulk hands.

Great idea. Small cups on holiday is a pet hate

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I always take a couple of knives from home, because holiday cottages always have such crappy knives. I also take my own potato peeler, because it's the only sort I can use!

My friend packs twice as many outfits as she plans to wear, just in case. Just in case of what, I'm not sure.

I'm a light packer and I'm reading this thread with my jaw firmly on the ground.

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A cheap toaster. We go to the Greek islands a lot and stay self catering. Even if there’s an oven, it never toasts well. So we take a cheap toaster and ditch it if we want to bring anything extra back.

Will be popping one of ours in my case now DH will definitely think I’ve lost the plot

My DH took our portable Aircon unit when we had the heatwave in July. Absolute lifesaver in 36 degree heat. I moaned about all the space in the car it took up.

My DM takes loads of first aid and medications. As the stuff abroad is so expensive. She packs all her dressings from various surgeries and injuries she had, This proved to be useful for me on the past two holidays with my parents. This year I had abscess on the bottom of my neck which could have easily ruptured.

Then 2,5 years previously, I was left with a nasty grazed bottom of hand after a woman slipped on some steps then flew into me.

I take loads of charging cables now as one holiday, my iPhone cable stopped charging. Was charged €13 for a poxy cable which I could bought for £3 on Amazon.

Just a tip. Im sure you all know this but....dont make a cup of tea in a hotel room.. Staff say (apparently ) ppl boil knickers in the kettles and boil eggs and stuff,....yuck. And the rooms are covered in all sorts of bodily stains that never get properly cleaned. It might be worth packjng a large sack and living inside it.

I take spares too, ever since I forgot my Fitbit charger. The cruise line didn't have one, so I had to buy one for £40!!!

That is steep.

I was baffled, too!

Surely if the worst happened to a parent, you’d go home and be involved in planning a future funeral. You wouldn’t drive or fly back straight to the funeral ?!

That's what my DH said. Especially as he bought it!

My DM is the same.

Been in self catering places where they provided one wine glass and nothing but a saucepan to cook in. Thank you Boyes and charity shops. We took them home afterwards.

I bet breakages etc happen and previous guests haven't owned up to them or the owner/whoever doesn't go round checking inventory.

One of my relatives has a couple of SC flats in Scotland and in the cupboard under the stairs which is locked, she has spares of everything in there. So when she does the changeover clean, she checks the number of plates etc and puts replacements if seen damaged or missing. One couple from South Africa left £10 to cover the cost of a broken mug....

My ex was the same because he knew someone who’d died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

A flint and steel tool. In case the plane crashes in the middle of nowhere, and I happen to survive and need fire.

Love the CO detector idea, mine’s arriving tomorrow. My unhinged packing items are many many more pairs of knickers than i could possibly use on one holiday despite never having been anywhere I couldn’t buy more if needed nor anywhere without laundry facilities. I just don’t feel safe without at least 40 pairs (i go on holiday for about a week at a time)

Oh this reminds me of a trip I took where I had to scour the airport for a kindle charger because I had left mine at home!

My partner always takes at least a multi tool and some superglue, loads of cable ties, insulation tape, climbing rope- we have used all more than once,so I don't know how unhinged it is.