I travel a lot so I'm down to like 30 minutes per any kind of trip. This is the list I follow.
- 🆔Wallet & Passport
- 💧Travel water bottle
- 💳Travel credit cards (don't pay foreign currency fees!)
- 💳Insurance cards
- 💵Local currency you have
- 🚎Local public transport cards
- 📖A book
- 💊Melatonin/Benadryl to sleep on planes
- 🕶Sunglasses
This is the list of must-haves. If you forget something from the other lists, you should be fine, but if you forget something from this list you might be hosed.
- 📱Your phone
- 💻iPad
- 📖Kindle
- 🎮Switch
- 💻Laptop
- ⚡️Wires for charging
- 🔌Adapters
- 🔋External battery
- 📸Camera
- 👀Contacts & Contact solution
- 👅Toothbrush, toothpaste, floss
- 👃Deodorant & Perfume
- 💇♀️Hair brush
- 🛁Shampoo, conditioner
- 💤Sleeping eye mask
- ☀️Sunscreen
- ✨Moisturizers, serums
- 💄Makeup
- 🎀Straighteners/Curlers
- 💊 Allergy pills/Ibuprofen/Cold medicine/Your custom medication
If you travel a lot, it helps if you have a ready-to-go version of this bag somewhere so you don't have to always reassemble it. I also have a bag of travelling medication I always bring along because it turns out trying to get cold medicine in Dutch or Japanese is not worth it. Bring your own.
- 🍑Underwear x days
- 🧦Socks x days
- 👗Bottoms: skirts, trousers, etc
- 👕Tops: shirts, etc
- 👔Sweater/Hoodie (you're going to be cold at least once)
- 🧤Jacket
- 👟Shoes
- 🌂Umbrella or another rain solution
- 👙Bathing suit (just in case)
- 🧢Hat
Packing cubes are amazing because you get to separate all your clothes in compartments, so that you don't have to mess up your entire suitcase looking for a sock. I have these ones because they're pretty.