It’s going to vary depending on the type of trip - I travel frequently for work but it’s just domestic, so it’d be different for overseas or longer trips. I have been reducing my basic ‘grab and go necessity’ bag from having too many things I don’t use, but having a small packing cube with all of my gadget needs…

My Alarm clock.... TSA still does not find it funny....

A laptop, until I stopped packing it. An iPad gets me through just fine. If I know I’m going to be doing a lot of email I toss in a small bluetooth keyboard.

When we travel internationally, we stopped packing shampoo, soap, and conditioner. We dont travel often, so when we do it is a 2 week trip. The little bottles can run out by then, and if you are Air BNB’ing the soap isnt always there to fall back on.

Maybe so, but not emptying your bladder in more than 12 hours can help bring on a really unpleasant UTI...something you do not want to deal with while traveling halfway around the world...or, hell, just going to California, as I discovered yesterday.

It’s understandable when you’re younger and in debt (or embarrassed by bad decisions) but the conversation still has to happen if you are going to get serious with someone. Spender v saver can be a show stopper - like kids or no kids.

Gizzards: Yea or nay?

Love this. As I travel to Japan at decent intervals and need to bring gifts for friends/acquaintances, Trader Joe’s is a great go-to. During the Himalayan salt craze, Trader Joe’s pink Himalayan salt bailed me out quite a bit.

Suggestion: If you make your own bagels because none in Tokyo or the Midwest is up to one’s…

I use a cooling grid over my baking sheet for the cooling period, I think the paper towels can take away from the crispness of the breading.

I saw a video recipe for Deep-Fried Stuffing Balls around the holidays and I thought, “That sounds cool. Let’s give it a go.” The first thing the host said was, “Take some leftover stuffing...” Aaaaaand I shut the video off. Leftover stuffing. Ask me to find some unicorn milk in my fridge while you’re at it.

ding...ding...ding we have a winner

I just read this and threw a cup of lentis into my cast iron dutch oven with a quartered onion (skin on) a few cloves of garlic, three cups of water and a smoked ham hock and just chucked it all into a 250 oven (no soaking). Am I a psychopath?

Claire, I don’t know if you know of my love of lentils (I have some soaking right now), but you are now my hero.

Does your boyfriend know that messaging with him puts you in a sleep mindset?

Dude, shut the fuck up. Don’t you ever fucking tell a woman it’s shitty to call the cops when they feel unsafe. This literally the exact thing that was discussed about protecting the fragility of men at the expense of the safety of women. Every woman reading this is thinking “jfc she’s so close to being killed by this…

No people don’t. I’ve met too many doms who think it’s all about them and wind up hurting the people they’re topping. I’ve had to comfort subs who didn’t realize they GET to have an opinion and desire.

My GF suffered from this. She’s into BDSM, but experienced previous doms who pushed her, ignored her and mistreated…

Same here. Trust me letter writer, you’re vanilla to me so don’t fret about your fetishes :D

The other one that I noticed is pretty embarrassing for me to discuss and I have had it for a while like since i was a kid. But I have to get this off my chest and tell someone before I lose it. Here it goes. I have a fetish for cosplay bondage stuff. To be perfectly clear I’m talking like Batgirl or Wonder Woman or…