Millions of unfortunate travellers come home with all their belongings intact. Here are a handful of tips that will help you avoid such a fate.
1. Carry lots of bags. Why limit yourself to a backpack and daypack? Take along shopping bags, supermarket bags, any sort of carrier. This will increase your chances of losing one. Airline check-in counters will love you too.
2. Store things at random places in your luggage. For example, your passport can go into your toiletry bag, and your credit cards in the mobile phone pouch. While you may not lose things this way, they will be as good as lost when you need them.
3. Use all the storage locations provided by your accommodation. Why do hotel rooms provide so many cupboards and drawers? To store your things in, silly. Don't disappoint them. This will increase your chances of forgetting to collect some things when it's time to leave. Also see tip 5.
4. Stick things in outside pockets on your backpack or luggage. This will make it easier for them to fall out and for some lucky local to benefit.
5. When you leave your accommodation don't bother to do a final check of your room to see that you have everything. Of course you have. They are somewhere in your bags. You hope.
1. Carry lots of bags. Why limit yourself to a backpack and daypack? Take along shopping bags, supermarket bags, any sort of carrier. This will increase your chances of losing one. Airline check-in counters will love you too.
2. Store things at random places in your luggage. For example, your passport can go into your toiletry bag, and your credit cards in the mobile phone pouch. While you may not lose things this way, they will be as good as lost when you need them.
3. Use all the storage locations provided by your accommodation. Why do hotel rooms provide so many cupboards and drawers? To store your things in, silly. Don't disappoint them. This will increase your chances of forgetting to collect some things when it's time to leave. Also see tip 5.
4. Stick things in outside pockets on your backpack or luggage. This will make it easier for them to fall out and for some lucky local to benefit.
5. When you leave your accommodation don't bother to do a final check of your room to see that you have everything. Of course you have. They are somewhere in your bags. You hope.
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