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> Checklists to pack for vacation. A thousand times yes. Here's an older version of mine: https://honeypot.net/2023/01/13/my-travel-project.html https://honey

> Checklists to pack for vacation. A thousand times yes. Here's an older version of mine: https://honeypot.net/2023/01/13/my-travel-project.html https://honeypot.net/2023/01/13/my-travel-project.html While I'm on vacation, I make notes about things I've forgotten. Near the bottom of that list is a reminder to add those notes to the template so I'll do them the next time I travel. My wife thinks I'm nuts. OTOH, I'm so much more relaxed before we depart because I know that I have everything I'll need for a fun, comfortable trip. And if I don't, it's going to be some relatively minor long-tail thing that's never come up before, not something basic like "pack underwear".

joncrocks 1y ago
For your 'Dopp kit' - do you have duplicates for things that you use on a daily (or more frequent) basis? e.g. Toothbruth, hair gel While I follow this approach generally pre-travel, I find that on occasion I can end up taking the 'regulars' out of my travel kit for use and absentmindedly place them back in their 'normal' locations when using them as part of my regular routine.
- kstrauser 1y ago
  Not completely. I buy little travel toothpastes that inevitably aren’t the one I like using. I use a hot brush and soap for shaving with a safety razor at home, but pack a little travel shave cream and disposable razor for the road. When it’s packing time, I treat that travel kit part as its own separate list and validate that each item is still in there, or temporarily borrow it from my normal setup. It’s also one of the first things I unpack when I get home so that I can brush my teeth that night.
  - ramses0 1y ago
    Cheat code: it's not illegal to rinse out the little toothpaste tubes and fill it with your favorite brand! :-P
- ramses0 1y ago
  I have found that a tech organizer bag/pouch works great for dopp kit. It is stocked and ready to go basically all the time, with duplicates or near-discards (or specialty travel sized things). I go even a step farther and some unique items I store in the travel kit. Not sexy, but my manual (rotating) nose-hair trimmer is small and lives in that travel kit b/c at least it has a home for when I need it, and doubles that I'd have it "just in case" when traveling. Small tweezers, a flat nail file, small nail clippers, little comb, tide pen, folding travel toothbrush, extra tray of razor blades (in a zip-loc bag), sliver of bar shampoo (also in that ziploc bag), some hair-care products that I've transferred into tiny plastic screwtop containers from Daiso (search for "5 gram cosmetic containers"), a refillable travel perfume atomizer, etc. etc. etc. Cork Puller (two thin strips of metal that slide down the edges of a cork) since that usually doesn't draw the ire of TSA, little round hair brush that folds up and has a sewing/button repair kit built into it. Also: some minimal medicines! Tylenol, Benadryl (runny nose), couple blister packs of DayQuil/NyQuil, anything that'll hold me over until I can walk/taxi to a convenience store. All that stuff is in a little pouch that I keep next to my socks (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017SKRWL4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017SKRWL4 - bagsmart electronics travel organizer case). Grab 5 socks, 5 underwear, that pouch, into a packing cube and I'm 99% ready to go. Worst case: buy shirts and pants at your destination, but brush, shave, groom, bathe are all taken care of.
pydry 1y ago
Wow. I independently came up with something almost identical for identical reasons, including the checklists for months out, weeks out, day before, etc. It was mostly a coping mechanism for ADHD - before I did this I would reliably forget to do at least some of the things on my list or do them too late and become massively stressed as a result. I also have job interview checklists, beginning / ending job checklists, repetitive admin checklists (beginning/end of month, beginning end of year, beginning/end of financial year etc...). For all of these the checklist template is something I edit after one of these events after thinking "man, I wish I'd thought to do X" or "I wish Id thought of doing X a bit earlier than I did".
- kstrauser 1y ago
  That’s exactly how I ended up doing this. Otherwise I’d be all stressed that my excitement-addled brain was forgetting something, which it inevitably was. Now I have more concrete work to do before a trip, but it’s easier and far less stressful. OMG. I showed my friends the wiki I made for a recent job hunt with details about every job, every person I talked to, a status page for “initial contact”/“recruiter screen”/“tech screw”/… etc companies, and a timeline of events. Some responded in horror. Others started taking notes. I’ve never been a PM, but I PMed the “get a job” to the extreme.
michael1999 1y ago
My wife uses tabs on a google sheet for packing lists. Different destinations and trips have different needs. But starting with history, and editing is much more reliable. Then a post-review for things not used, things missed, etc.

joncrocks 1y ago

For your 'Dopp kit' - do you have duplicates for things that you use on a daily (or more frequent) basis? e.g. Toothbruth, hair gel While I follow this approach generally pre-travel, I find that on occasion I can end up taking the 'regulars' out of my travel kit for use and absentmindedly place them back in their 'normal' locations when using them as part of my regular routine.

kstrauser 1y ago
Not completely. I buy little travel toothpastes that inevitably aren’t the one I like using. I use a hot brush and soap for shaving with a safety razor at home, but pack a little travel shave cream and disposable razor for the road. When it’s packing time, I treat that travel kit part as its own separate list and validate that each item is still in there, or temporarily borrow it from my normal setup. It’s also one of the first things I unpack when I get home so that I can brush my teeth that night.
- ramses0 1y ago
  Cheat code: it's not illegal to rinse out the little toothpaste tubes and fill it with your favorite brand! :-P
ramses0 1y ago
I have found that a tech organizer bag/pouch works great for dopp kit. It is stocked and ready to go basically all the time, with duplicates or near-discards (or specialty travel sized things). I go even a step farther and some unique items I store in the travel kit. Not sexy, but my manual (rotating) nose-hair trimmer is small and lives in that travel kit b/c at least it has a home for when I need it, and doubles that I'd have it "just in case" when traveling. Small tweezers, a flat nail file, small nail clippers, little comb, tide pen, folding travel toothbrush, extra tray of razor blades (in a zip-loc bag), sliver of bar shampoo (also in that ziploc bag), some hair-care products that I've transferred into tiny plastic screwtop containers from Daiso (search for "5 gram cosmetic containers"), a refillable travel perfume atomizer, etc. etc. etc. Cork Puller (two thin strips of metal that slide down the edges of a cork) since that usually doesn't draw the ire of TSA, little round hair brush that folds up and has a sewing/button repair kit built into it. Also: some minimal medicines! Tylenol, Benadryl (runny nose), couple blister packs of DayQuil/NyQuil, anything that'll hold me over until I can walk/taxi to a convenience store. All that stuff is in a little pouch that I keep next to my socks (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017SKRWL4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017SKRWL4 - bagsmart electronics travel organizer case). Grab 5 socks, 5 underwear, that pouch, into a packing cube and I'm 99% ready to go. Worst case: buy shirts and pants at your destination, but brush, shave, groom, bathe are all taken care of.

pydry 1y ago

Wow. I independently came up with something almost identical for identical reasons, including the checklists for months out, weeks out, day before, etc. It was mostly a coping mechanism for ADHD - before I did this I would reliably forget to do at least some of the things on my list or do them too late and become massively stressed as a result. I also have job interview checklists, beginning / ending job checklists, repetitive admin checklists (beginning/end of month, beginning end of year, beginning/end of financial year etc...). For all of these the checklist template is something I edit after one of these events after thinking "man, I wish I'd thought to do X" or "I wish Id thought of doing X a bit earlier than I did".

kstrauser 1y ago
That’s exactly how I ended up doing this. Otherwise I’d be all stressed that my excitement-addled brain was forgetting something, which it inevitably was. Now I have more concrete work to do before a trip, but it’s easier and far less stressful. OMG. I showed my friends the wiki I made for a recent job hunt with details about every job, every person I talked to, a status page for “initial contact”/“recruiter screen”/“tech screw”/… etc companies, and a timeline of events. Some responded in horror. Others started taking notes. I’ve never been a PM, but I PMed the “get a job” to the extreme.

michael1999 1y ago

My wife uses tabs on a google sheet for packing lists. Different destinations and trips have different needs. But starting with history, and editing is much more reliable. Then a post-review for things not used, things missed, etc.