Every morning I collect all the soap, shampoo, and sewing kits and toss them in my luggage. Every 6 months or so, I take it all to a local battered women's shelter and donate it. This means that every week I fly with at least 3 or 4 of the "pre-threaded needle" sewing kits, in the plastic laundry bag along with the soap, shampoo, lotion, etc.

I've yet to be stopped. I've also yet to be stopped about the nail clippers that are in my laptop bag, every week since the 11th.

They always want to frisk me and look at the batteries in my cell phone, but don't seem to care about my real "weapons".