Never Forget Anything on Your Next Trip With a Packing List
A packing list doesn’t just have to be a list of things to take with you when traveling, it can also be a checklist for what you need to do before you go.
I print out my pre-packing and packing lists and cross off each item as I complete them. This way, I can go to the airport without worrying that I’ve forgotten something.
Here is my complete packing checklist. Feel free to use it as a template to start your own.
Pre-packing Checklist:
- Charge laptop
- Charge and sync iPod
- Charge mobile phone
- Charge batteries
- Backup files
- Print boarding pass for flight
- Print hotel address, phone number, confirmation number
- Empty wallet of unnecessary cards
- Remove unnecessary keys from keychain
- If flying, remove leatherman from keychain
- Set out travel clothes for the next day
- Find out emergency number for new countries and put it in wallet
- Put list of emergency contact information in wallet
- Purchase any necessary travel insurance
- Research public photography laws in destination
- Print route to the airport / train station
Packing Checklist
- Boarding pass on clipboard
- Hotel information on clipboard
- Route to airport / train station on clipboard
- Toiletries: deodorant, razor, toothbrush, toothpaste
- Foreign cash (if applicable)
- Emergency money
- Passport (if applicable)
- Laptop
- Laptop power converter
- Ethernet wire and USB adaptor
- Mobile phone
- Mobile phone charger
- Inflatable sleeping pillow
- iPod
- iPod wire
- Camera
- Camera wire
- Camera batteries / USB battery charger
- GPS tracker
- Eyeshade
- Sunglasses
- Sunblock
- Flip-flops
- Vitamins (only as many as necessary, not the whole bottle)
- Contact lenses
- Book
- Minimum number of clothes possible
- Food / water
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Vitamins?
What on earth for?
Do you have a terrible diet?
The quack supplement industry must be delighted with this list.
Vitamins are for improving my diet and for dealing with some vitamin deficiencies I have.