Carry-on-only FT women- what "luxury" item do you bring?
May 20, 2010, 10:30 am
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Pashmina too. Even in the summer. I hate plane blankets. I also get them drycleaned after a few flights.
May 20, 2010, 5:29 pm
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I'm an electronics freak so I take my Kindle, my iPad, my iPhone, my iPod but since I got the iPad I don't need my computer so I've cut the load considerably. See how I rationalize. Its the wires that take up so much room. I can never travel with only a carryon. It wouldn't work so I check all that I can and then fly with only my electronics, meds and a magazine.
Why would you buy, or take books out of libraries, when you have alternatives like the Kindle-- and now the iPad?
Why would you buy, or take books out of libraries, when you have alternatives like the Kindle-- and now the iPad?
May 20, 2010, 8:34 pm
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I'm an electronics freak so I take my Kindle, my iPad, my iPhone, my iPod but since I got the iPad I don't need my computer so I've cut the load considerably. See how I rationalize. Its the wires that take up so much room. I can never travel with only a carryon. It wouldn't work so I check all that I can and then fly with only my electronics, meds and a magazine.
Why would you buy, or take books out of libraries, when you have alternatives like the Kindle-- and now the iPad?
Why would you buy, or take books out of libraries, when you have alternatives like the Kindle-- and now the iPad?
You check so that you can carry-on the electronics. Others check so they can carry on paperback/hard cover books. To each their own. @:-)Speaking only for myself, I find the electronic holier than thou thing a bit boring. I own a Kindle. I still read paper books, listen to audiobooks, and also read books on my Kindle. There's room for all 3!
Re: the ipad. I have a laptop. I don't need another boat anchor
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May 25, 2010, 12:05 pm
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Jun 3, 2010, 11:10 am
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Some of us sometimes travel to places where electricity is not a "given," and I don't want to be worried about charging some piece of equipment. I've enjoyed watching chargers blow out all over the world. Plus I don't want to worry about keeping track of another piece of equipment, when my neighborhood library often sells books for 25cents and my used book places also has 25c and 75c bins. So I do buy books and leave 'em after I've read them. And if I do misplace a book, I'm not so annoyed as I would be if I'd misplaced a piece of equipment. The savings in time, money, and irritation by bringing physical books, to me, makes them far more practical IN MY SITUATION than using Kindle or another device.
However, I can't fairly count a 25 cent item as a "luxury." The biggest luxury items in my carry-on is usually jewelry. No one is going to think you're a bum, even if you wear the same clothes every day, if you're strolling around in mega-bucks worth of gold or even well-crafted silver.
My Swarovski binoculars would not, of course, be considered a "luxury," as they are simply a necessity of life, or my life anyway.
However, I can't fairly count a 25 cent item as a "luxury." The biggest luxury items in my carry-on is usually jewelry. No one is going to think you're a bum, even if you wear the same clothes every day, if you're strolling around in mega-bucks worth of gold or even well-crafted silver.
My Swarovski binoculars would not, of course, be considered a "luxury," as they are simply a necessity of life, or my life anyway.
I'm an electronics freak so I take my Kindle, my iPad, my iPhone, my iPod but since I got the iPad I don't need my computer so I've cut the load considerably. See how I rationalize. Its the wires that take up so much room. I can never travel with only a carryon. It wouldn't work so I check all that I can and then fly with only my electronics, meds and a magazine.
Why would you buy, or take books out of libraries, when you have alternatives like the Kindle-- and now the iPad?
Why would you buy, or take books out of libraries, when you have alternatives like the Kindle-- and now the iPad?
Jun 3, 2010, 11:24 am
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Uh - see your own rationalization You check so that you can carry-on the electronics. Others check so they can carry on paperback/hard cover books. To each their own. @:-)
Speaking only for myself, I find the electronic holier than thou thing a bit boring. I own a Kindle. I still read paper books, listen to audiobooks, and also read books on my Kindle. There's room for all 3!
Re: the ipad. I have a laptop. I don't need another boat anchor OVMV.
Cheers.
You check so that you can carry-on the electronics. Others check so they can carry on paperback/hard cover books. To each their own. @:-)Speaking only for myself, I find the electronic holier than thou thing a bit boring. I own a Kindle. I still read paper books, listen to audiobooks, and also read books on my Kindle. There's room for all 3!
Re: the ipad. I have a laptop. I don't need another boat anchor
OVMV.Cheers.
Jun 4, 2010, 6:36 am
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Jun 9, 2010, 9:45 pm
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Jun 10, 2010, 7:34 am
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I'm torn on the luxury item. I haven't traveled as much in the past couple of years as before (I am SO looking forward to getting back into travel again!), but I have a backpack that I keep filled with essentials: laptop, chewing gum, Bose headphones, ipod, chargers, dual-voltage flat iron...I suppose the things I wouldn't like being without would be my iPod and my laptop (EEE PC).
When I travel overseas, I've learned not to bring my "smart" phone, as it starts costing me a fortune if I just turn it on. Better that I use a cheap, $9.99 rechargeable phone that I purchase in my destination country and e-mail the particulars back home for emergencies.
Oh, and btw, on this note:
I, for one, don't want my entire library to eventually become obsolete and then have to re-purchase every book I love. So far, the only medium that doesn't have that "feature" is the printed medium. Plus, I adore the feel of a book in my hands.
GG
When I travel overseas, I've learned not to bring my "smart" phone, as it starts costing me a fortune if I just turn it on. Better that I use a cheap, $9.99 rechargeable phone that I purchase in my destination country and e-mail the particulars back home for emergencies.
Oh, and btw, on this note:
GG
Jun 10, 2010, 9:10 pm
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