In packing up the contents of our apartment, I came upon my travel drawer. In one huge drawer, I had tossed countless travel kits – the kind handed out by the airlines when you travel business class or have a long-haul flight and that include eyeshades, socks, earplugs, toothbrush and toothpaste and sometimes a comb, shoe bag, mints, lip balm and lotion.
Obviously, I had been stashing these little kits in the drawer after each trip and promptly forgetting about them. The size of the collection was astounding. It was also embarrassing. I had become a travel pack rat. There were at least 30 pairs of eyeshades in there. I don’t know what I was planning to do with them all.
So I did the only thing I could do: I pitched everything. Well, almost everything. I did keep two or three eyeshades and my favorite kits from Qantas and Singapore Airlines. I may need them the next time I travel, you know.
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