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Tuna, some of those are really good.

My advice is to always have aloe vera with you. A plant is excellent, but if you can't be afforded that luxury some 100% aloe gel will do. The stuff is amazingly effective at healing sunburn overnight with no peeling, closing deep cuts overnight with no scarring, ridding you of rashes, killing atheletes foot, and even getting rid of warts (may be a placebo, but hey it worked for me). I mean seriously, this plant is amazing. When operating on patients, a doctor can put a completely detached organ in a tub of aloe vera gel and it will continue working full capacity for several minutes.

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Originally posted by Libby:
Use cheap craft foam and make yourself a pair of shower flip-flops. Just trace your foot and put a bit of thread through a whole to make a toe hold.

hmmmmmm
I know is late here in Buenos Aires, and I'm sleepy and... I cannot imagine shower flops made of foam
Anyone made it?
can you post a picture, please?

Thanks in advance

Gabriela

Neosporin on a bandaid helps work a splinter out, when you forget the tweezers.

Not sure about what a brand equivelant would be outside the US, I take a tube... but tend to forget the tweezers!

A small bottle of hand sanitizer is worth its weight in gold.

So is moleskin for all of those posts above about shoes, socks, and blisters.

There is also this stuff that comes in a tube (Can't think of the name right now, and no it is not glue) that you squeeze right into a small cut and it works just like a bandaid. It is usually right next to the bandaids in the drug store.

Luck

Super glue works on cuts as well...

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Originally posted by Libby:
I've got a couple.

Buy a zippered pillow cover to use at the hostel. That way you can put your moneybelt in and zip it shut.

Fabulous suggestion!

Are there no more stupid travel tricks?

Well, here. This is a similar thread with different ideas....


Little Tricks For The Traveller

That should give trick lovers a few more tricks.....

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That thread is tricked out...

This is so much a stupid travel trick as a recommendation, but if you're going anywhere tropical, bring "Deep Woods Off" bug spray. I seem to attract insects infintely more than anyone I've ever met and seriously paid for it in Costa Rica. I bought some bug spray down there, but it was watermelon scented and poor quality. I would have killed for Deep Woods. Since the previous nasty foot picture seemed to be so popular, enjoy my poor foot after less than a week in Costa Rica (there are more on the sides of the foot, too):


Oh yes. Fun times.

I also put money in my bra when going out in a foreign country, which cuts down on the hassle (and danger) of carrying a purse.

Shot glasses also work really well as a makeshift contact case, and if you just lose a case, plastic pop bottle caps (like from a 16 oz or 2liter) fit PERFECTLY.

I'm just glad there's no pictures of the latter.

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Originally posted by jedimasterbooboo:
I'm just glad there's no pictures of the latter.

The contact case?

When traveling to a place where I will not be able to wash my clothes often, I always bring Febreze. This takes some of the cigarette, etc. stink out of my otherwise not dirty clothes, allowing me to go longer without washing the clothes.

When you arrive on that crowded beach for a day of swimming, find a spot to lay your towel down next to a young family with a baby. Someone will always be there to look after the babay. Say hi, introduce yourself, be nice. and when its time to swim, politely ask if they will keep an eye on your stuff!
Good luck

That's a good trick....Except you have to listen a a pewling baby and adults making oochie koochie noises. I'm not sure which is worse.....

instead of talc try 'St Lukes' a prickly heat treatment thats is talc with camphor and menthol. so soothing and refreshing. especailly when applied to all thosse hard to get at spots, on hot and sweaty days of jungle treking. Pure Bliss! some days you apply it just for fun!

welcome to BnA trevor. oh and thanx for the tip.

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Originally posted by Tortuga_traveller:
1. Those moisture wicking hiking socks DO work.

2. Gold Bond Medicated Powder. I'll say it again. Gold Bond Medicated Powder. Its like baby powder only better.

Say it a few hundred more times. I'll just add that I am personally VERY glad that said powder now comes in very small travel sized bottles. Even fits in your pocket to take along on a hike, or long plane ride where you can't get to your pack, etc. (WARNING: Make sure the lid is secure. I wish I had a picture of my seatmate's face when I reached into my pocket for some gum and "pooof!" a small little explosion of Gold Bond Powder fills the immediate area....., or the face of the dude at the hostel who figured out that I was silently denying that a gold bond bottle had exploded in my backpack....maybe it's time for an "embarasssing Gold Bond issues" thread....) I'll buy two or three and dispose as I go. Store-brand versions--just as good but only cheaper---are coming in smaller more packable sizes as well. It's always at or near the top of my list.

A couple of strange-sounding tricks I've done that have worked well:

I set my "packing deadline" a couple of days BEFORE my trip. Yep, that's right, be totally packed & ready to go a couple of days before the trip. Then, you'll still have a couple of days to put out any last-minute fires.

If I'm driving myself to the airport: for about the same price as extended airport parking, I'll stay the night before the flight at an airport hotel. Most airport hotels have "park & fly" deals that include plenty of days of parking, a great rate on a good room, usually a fitness center for working those legs off before sitting them on a long haul flight, often a nice breakfast thrown in (the one I use gives me a breakfast buffet in the morning, a drink at the bar the night before), travel supplies for the snagging in the bathroom or from the front desk--the hotel front desk will usually have a few travel goodies ready to give to guests who forget something, etc. This may sound silly, but having this kind of obligation really helps make sure I'm packed by the night before, by when leave for the hotel (even if I'm just driving 20 minutes)---If I honestly forget something, I'm still in town. AND, it saves all the early-morning-get-to-the-airport frantics, and saves time in the morning from a long drive to the airport. Again, I do this only when the cost of airport parking is comporable to a "park & fly" rate at a hotel, (which also usually means when I'm taking a trip of more than a couple of days).

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Originally posted by Skyehiker:

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Originally posted by Tortuga_traveller:
1. Those moisture wicking hiking socks DO work.

2. Gold Bond Medicated Powder. I'll say it again. Gold Bond Medicated Powder. Its like baby powder only better.

Say it a few hundred more times.

Is this like Talcum Powder? Don't think we can get Gold Bond over here.. unless someone would like to prove me wrong? I would be most grateful!