# Is a Dopp kit a thing to you **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-dopp-kit-a-thing-to-you/944668 "2021-06-20T03:28:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-dopp-kit-a-thing-to-you/944668/81 "2023-05-09T19:26:43Z")
When I’ve traveled with rose water facial toner I’ve either bought a small liquid bottle empty from my pharmacy or gotten an empty small dropper glass bottle from my local health foods store. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-dopp-kit-a-thing-to-you/944668/82 "2023-05-09T20:40:10Z")
I’m on my second. My first was the traditional black one my parents got me. It had some liquid spill in it and the zipper started oxidizing and gumming up. My wife bought me my last one and it’s still going strong. It’s more upright and triangular like a doctors bag. They’ve always been called Dopp kits in my family. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-dopp-kit-a-thing-to-you/944668/83 "2023-05-09T22:29:13Z")
Yep, I’ve heard of the “Dopp” kit before. It’s that half-shoebox sized duffel where old farts keep their Brylkreem, Burma Shave, Gleem, other unguents, salves, pomades to include the errant, faded-yet-crusty Dapper Dan tin from 1952 that never gets thrown away. I don’t use/need that crap, so mine is a half-sandwich-sized piece of Tupperware. Small, compact, and boxy, so it fits in my carry-on way easier. I never understood the need for the ‘mini-duffel’ sized Dopp kit. Lots of extra material to fold, store, carry, etc.–just a waste of space. But I recognize most men don’t travel as often as I do, so _all_ needs fall under ‘YMMV’. Tripler If I desperately need something, I can buy it along the way. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-dopp-kit-a-thing-to-you/944668/84 "2023-05-09T22:30:26Z")
What can I say? I was a Boy Scout. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-dopp-kit-a-thing-to-you/944668/85 "2023-05-10T00:39:13Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > I never understood the need for the ‘mini-duffel’ sized Dopp kit. Lots of extra material to fold, store, carry, etc.–just a waste of space. But I recognize most men don’t travel as often as I do, so _all_ needs fall under ‘YMMV’ As a fellow pro traveler I agree that smaller is better. I think some of the 1950s large Dopp kit came from the fact that “travel size” hadn’t been invented yet. Every grooming product came in a large container. And in some ways back then men had more types of that crap than today. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-dopp-kit-a-thing-to-you/944668/86 "2023-05-10T14:55:26Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I think some of the 1950s large Dopp kit came from the fact that “travel size” hadn’t been invented yet. Every grooming product came in a large container. Valid point: Dopp kit sizing evolved _before_ TSA’s “fun size” requirements. Tripler My hair’s too short for “product.” ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-dopp-kit-a-thing-to-you/944668/87 "2023-05-10T15:05:12Z")
A little over 20 years ago, I replaced mine for a quart size ziploc bag. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-dopp-kit-a-thing-to-you/944668.md?page=4)