Why the Guardian is going down the pan!
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Colin Hunt
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It reads more as a guide to overthinking things and ruining all enjoyment of your holiday.
But at least once you're done vacuum-packing two outfits for each day and meticulously weighing and photographing everything before packing it, you can use the cyanide capsule you handily stashed away in an old film canister to put yourself out of your misery.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
‘Leave your knickers at home’: Guardian readers’ top holiday packing hacks
Whether you’re off to the Balearics or Bournemouth, here’s how to keep your luggage as light as possible – while still taking everything you’ll needwww.theguardian.com
There are many worse pieces than this, but I’m having it anyway.
one and a half sound pieces of advice (duct tape - excellent idea, rolling up clothes/ sound but already well known) but far more awful ones, going knickerless seems awfully popular.
I think the dumbest is the ‘vacuum pack’ one, who recommends you decide what you are going to wear every day, then put each days wear into a labelled ziplock bag after being spritzed with an appropriate perfume. If I had the time and money (and wardrobe) to do that I wouldn’t need to go on holiday.
The packing cubes are useful. I only have a couple (including one for dirty clothing) but they do make life easier. And doing laundry on holiday saves tons of packing.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I use them in my underwear drawer, for which they are quite handy. But if I go on holiday I unpack.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
I unpack too, but they're useful for that, and especially for the dirty laundry. I hate having dirty clothes next to clean clothes in my luggage.
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
Or added to landfill more likely
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
What is packing? I just shove a week’s worth of clothes in a case and get on the bus
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
They're suggesting swapping knickers for bikini bottoms as you can go for a swim more easily and they dry quicker.‘Leave your knickers at home’: Guardian readers’ top holiday packing hacks
Whether you’re off to the Balearics or Bournemouth, here’s how to keep your luggage as light as possible – while still taking everything you’ll need
There are many worse pieces than this, but I’m having it anyway.
one and a half sound pieces of advice (duct tape - excellent idea, rolling up clothes/ sound but already well known) but far more awful ones, going knickerless seems awfully popular.
I think the dumbest is the ‘vacuum pack’ one, who recommends you decide what you are going to wear every day, then put each days wear into a labelled ziplock bag after being spritzed with an appropriate perfume. If I had the time and money (and wardrobe) to do that I wouldn’t need to go on holiday.
One person suggests using old 35mm film canisters to store imodium and salt/pepper sachets along with a tiny can opener. That's far odder.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Yes, I always separate my clean and dirty laundry too.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
The cleaning staff don't want your nasty used towels you knob.
So do I. Hence I usually pack a plastic bag to fill with dirty laundry.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Really? the last one said thank you
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
I imagine they’re asked not to be rude to the guests.
If you want to tip them, some leftover currency is probably the best option, it’s generally seen worldwide as more convertible than a damp towel.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Always do
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Doesn't it just mean the staff have an extra towel to throw out if they want to, or put in with the cleaning? Possibly not even an extra one if MickiQ isn't using one of the towels instead. I'm puzzled why this would be a problem. The only risk I can see would be if everyone did it there'd be no room for guests to get into the bathrooms.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Beach towels not bath towels, they're quite bulky and take up a lot of space in a suitcase so it is more efficient if we buy them there. When we leave we just leave them in the room (along with a tip and in my pre Kindle days any paperbacks I had finished) at about 10 Euros apiece they are a trivial extra cost on top of the holiday.
I mostly don't know what the staff do with them afterwards whether it's throw them, sell them to the next tourist or take them home. (The sole feedback from the nice lady in Menorca was the latter)
Don't care that much to be truthful, I am both surprised and entertained that my behaviour is so controversial though. I must be more of a latte sipping Guardiansta than I gave myself credit for.
I mostly don't know what the staff do with them afterwards whether it's throw them, sell them to the next tourist or take them home. (The sole feedback from the nice lady in Menorca was the latter)
Don't care that much to be truthful, I am both surprised and entertained that my behaviour is so controversial though. I must be more of a latte sipping Guardiansta than I gave myself credit for.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
They are actually really handy for storing small quantities of things in, given that they're air/water tight. There's a homeless shelter in the East End that takes them as donations so they can give out shampoo etc in them. Not really something everybody has lying around these days though (apart from me).
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Hadley Freeman's friends think she has shit opinions so this is of course a general social problem, rather than due to her having shit opinions.
www.theguardian.com
Obviously it's a very important point that she is legally allowed to have these opinions. Perhaps she could sue her friends.
People have told me I’m on the wrong side of history, but I still want to be their friend | Hadley Freeman
I don’t drop people I disagree with from my life – but for many liberals, differences of opinion have become unacceptable
Obviously it's a very important point that she is legally allowed to have these opinions. Perhaps she could sue her friends.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Because I am middle aged now I use them to store paperclips. (They do make good portable ashtrays as well.)Were also favoured for carrying 'teenths in back in the day
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
In my primary school we kept them in the inkwells of our desks to hold glue 
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
‘Leave your knickers at home’: Guardian readers’ top holiday packing hacks
Whether you’re off to the Balearics or Bournemouth, here’s how to keep your luggage as light as possible – while still taking everything you’ll need
There are many worse pieces than this, but I’m having it anyway.
one and a half sound pieces of advice (duct tape - excellent idea, rolling up clothes/ sound but already well known) but far more awful ones, going knickerless seems awfully popular.
I think the dumbest is the ‘vacuum pack’ one, who recommends you decide what you are going to wear every day, then put each days wear into a labelled ziplock bag after being spritzed with an appropriate perfume. If I had the time and money (and wardrobe) to do that I wouldn’t need to go on holiday.
They forgot the main one:
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
It was the fact that they're not that common these days that irritated me - they are excellent storage containers, just not that easy to find necessarily.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
at the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, suggesting uses for 35mm film canisters was a bit of a standing joke in the letters page of the guardian some time ago (and for all i know may still be)
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I see they keep up their shitty typos
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Not familiar half time grub.
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