Three day vacation, 9 pairs of underwear. You never know when you'll shit yourself
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Absolutely. You have to be prepared to shit yourself at LEAST 5 times a day every day.
It might just be really exciting.
Who are you? Trump?
This, but in case of period instead, because somehow every single vacation I'm on it. Literally one vacation it was late 2 weeks and started right when my vacation started 😒
Because they don’t sell underwear where you travel to? N+1 is the right answer.
And people wonder why we Americans are so weird when we bring our huge suitcases, packed full of clothes will probably never wear…
N+1 is right for you. I've been low on underwear from needing to change after a shower from the pool or beach to know I can comfortably pack 9 pairs for a 3 day trip. I dont go on vacation planning to buy underwear. Thats weird you probably only take one shower per day while on vacation
Well you also don't plan on shitting yourself do you?
I don’t plan on buying it. I just know I can if there is an emergency. And I take showers as needed, but at least once a day - what a silly accusation to jump to.
But hey, you do you.
Surely you can wear some of them multiple time. At worst you wash a few in the sink.
You never need more than 4-5
Wrong. A pair per day of boxer briefs for comfort, a few backups for shitting yourself, etc. A different thong for each day at the beach. Briefs for any tasks you need to handle. Something sexy for each night. A few edible pairs. If we're talking a week, that's minimum like 30 pairs.
For 3 days I packed two extra pairs. Was also going to two concerts though, back to back. So, I was kinda gross and sweaty when I came back to the hotel, so it got used. But, I also do this when I'm bot going to a concert.
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I do a lot more walking, sweat more, and need to change more. Go out during the day, come back dress nicer for dinner.
I can't wear a shirt for more than two days without getting smelly. Antitranspirant helps, but I just got noticeable BO. A week in the same shirt is not happening even if I'm home alone and not leaving the house
I think they meant that everyday they only wear one shirt for that day. Not the same shirt one day after another
Read the post again, it's unambiguously the same single shirt for all the days of a week
No. Maybe grammatically, but that doesn't take into account that the poster is human and that part of the post wasn't the focus of it. People make grammatical mistakes all the time especially if they don't take time to consider what they're saying. I could easily see myself phrasing it this way if I didn't take the time to figure out how to say "each day this week I put on a shirt and did not change it for that day"
Fair enough, they could have meant something other than what they wrote. I still disagree though - it seems more likely they exaggerated intentionally for dramatic/comedic effect. The joke works better with the straightforward, grammatical interpretation.
I can smell this tweet
My goal in life is to someday go on an international journey with only a wallet and a phone. Maybe a compute bag. But no accoutrement.
Not even a towel? 🤨
Hotels have towels. This ain't no galactic hitchhike. 👍
Technically I’ve done this, I even went without a wallet and nearly forgot my passport. Then again, I live in Denmark, so driving south for a couple of hours lands me in Germany. Technically an international journey, but not what you meant I think 😀
Take two empty suitcases and fill them up there
Bought a suitcase and filled it up there 😅
Can you explain to me why doing laundry is not a thing for many people on vacation? Why hurl a giant suitcase of clothing instead of a few pieces you wash every couple of days? Never made sense to me.
Because vacation is often camping or staying in a hotel. And there aren't reasonably-priced laundry facilities in either place
But sure, if you have a washing machine in the place you're staying... Even then, washing every couple of days feels excessive.
But I'm not the one packing 32 shirts either
My last trip was to a foreign country, 2nd world country. I brought enough clothes for half the trip, and did laundry in the sink with locally sourced soap. Hung them in the room to dry 🤷♂️
Hotel laundry was prohibitively expensive, though I suppose I could've found a Laundromat 🤔
At any rate, the towards the end of the trip we stayed somewhere with a washing machine, so we all did a load and hung them on the drying rack.
Clean clothes are important. Sometimes, MAYBE, I'll go three days on a shirt. But only for work, because I work mostly alone and don't sweat much or at all most days. But if I do? Or it gets dirty? New shirt.
In my normal life it's similar, I can MAYBE get two days from a shirt in the spring fall winter, but not summer. One and done.
Same with showers, MAYBE two days, I've done three in a pinch but it's gross. Gotta wash yourself every day. Can't believe people who don't.
Thank you for the sink-washing idea, that might have just saved my bacon, and was easier than the shower wash I was planning
i bring clothesline and sheets of laundry detergent that pack very light just need a sink or tub
Longer trips, yes. A week? You don't want to spend all that money just to spend half a day near a public Laundromat.
You also don't know the area, don't know the laundry places, gamble on a lot of things not even knowing it works like how you think it does there.
I'm busy doing shit I don't wanna wait around for laundry. Plus I've only once had access to a laundry room I trusted to not have stuff stolen out of it; we specifically planned for it because it was three weeks and we needed somewhere to do laundry at the halfway mark
Currently on a longer vacay, was able to do laundry at a friend's near the beginning as planned, but two countries later I'm currently in a laundromat desert at a hotel near an airport.
So it's not really something you can rely on being able to do, unfortunately.
Edit: Just sink washed some things that should get me through the rest of the week after seeing that idea in the responses. Now it just rained, so fingers-crossed the clothes dry faster than they get the wet-mold smell
Costs? In most hotels, doing laundry is really expensive per piece. In some apartments having a washing machine, you have to pay per load and sometimes the washer/energy, too.
So, packing for a few days extra mostly is just question of cost vs. comfort?
But yeah, asked myself the same question packing a big suitcase for the last vacation...
Seeking out a nearby laundry sounds awful.
I do laundry on travel when the location has it as an option.
Because these people evidently don't onebag.
I'll go on a trip over 2½ days in autumn, and for dietary reasons, I can't really expect to find food there. So, my current plan is genuinely to just bring my own food for the whole trip.
And yeah, it's just 7 meals, a bag of food is probably enough. But in my head, I'm already trying to work out the logistics of transporting a shopping cart's worth of food there. 🫠
Am I the only one... Who does the inverse?
Plenty of casual wear to cycle through everyday at home but I only take my best clothes while travelling.
Like everyone else says, there's a higher chance of needing to change.
But mostly, even if I don't need to change my shirt, I know I have the option to change my shirt when at home. So packing extra shirts to preserve the option.
Though I do change shirts daily normally. Depending on their state at end of day, they might get rotated into reuse without going through the machine.
I mean personally I usually end up sweatier than a Call of Duty match when I go on vacation so I bring 2 shirts for every day