What's the absolute minimum to take for a one night trip?

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I am catching a train, one night in a hotel, checking out and will spend the day at a conference then train home. I will be carrying everything with me.

I am terrible at travelling light. What's the absolute minimum you've ever taken on an over night trip to survive?!

I recently realised that rather than PJs it's much easier to pack a 'nightie'. In my case just a very lightweight t-shirt dress.

Spare pair of pants, toothbrush /toothpaste.

I think it's because you asked about the absolute minimum people would take.

Would I pack a spare pair of trousers for a standard overnight work trip away? Yes, I usually do.

If I could only take the absolute minimum, then no I wouldn't.

It's also quite gendered, isn't it? I don't think anyone would be surprised by a man wearing the same suit two days in a row, on a work trip and only changing a shirt.

I've been evacuated a few times from hotels (false alarms but full evacuation) in the middle of the night.

I normally travel for work with a small cabin wheely bag for all my clothes (tiny Primark one) and my work things in my Samsonite backpack. I only had the backpack for this weekend trip. The wheely is often only half full.

Plenty of gents just have a clean shirt and wear the same suit - and as I generally wear a different vibrant colour top under my jacket, and different jewellery, I also don't need a full change of trousers and jacket and shoes.

My travel toiletries are honed from years of travelling, a lot by air, so using small sizes. Muji do good small bottles and tubes - I tend to use 30ml rather than 100ml ones for overnights.

I should have added - bed attire is important because I have been evacuated in a hurry a few times and standing on streets for 30 minutes before returning to my room.

And usually, for conferences or regular meetings, there is somewhere to leave a wheely bag securely for the day, separate to my work papers/laptop bag carried with me.

This is what I take I used to take more but got less over the years

Plus a nightie, if there is a fire I won't care what I wear