Overnight Bag for the car

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Having just recently acquired a car for personal use, I find myself out later and later with friends and so I’m putting together a bag to just leave in the car in case I end up crashing at a friend’s house and needing to go to work or something the next day without coming home.

So far the bag is going to have:

  • 1x underwear
  • 2x pair of socks
  • 1x plain t-shirt
  • 1x button up shirt (folded)
  • Deoderant
  • Shaving cream
  • Disposable razor
  • toothbrush
  • toothpaste
  • travel shampoo
  • towel

Am I missing anything? I skipped pants because in truth I can wear the same pair of jeans for 2 weeks and no one notices ;). Does anyone else have a bag like this? What’s in yours?

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Looks like you got it pretty much covered. Just in case, I’d throw a few bottles of water and some chips or something in there.

I’d also rethink not packing emergency pants.

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Good start. I’d only add a very small flashlight, a collapsible umbrella, brush/comb, maybe a small sample of your favorite perfume/cologne/aftershave and your favorite low-volume snacks (like peanuts, beef jerky, Slim Jims, Tootsie Pops, Lifesavers, etc.)

I’d also second Hal Briston’s suggestion about an emergency pair of pants.

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Pair of sweat pants or PJ bottoms or something when you have to get up in the night and stumble to the bathroom. Sleep in em.

Makes mornings a little easer too.

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Eye drops, aspirin/Tylenol/hangover relief. Small mouthwash.

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Can you leave out the towel? It’ll take up a lot of room, and I’m sure your friends won’t mind letting you use one of theirs.

And though I very much admire your forethought, please tell me you’ll try to experience the walk of shame at some point. I’m of the mind that standing in the elevator of a strange apartment building, wearing clothes and makeup (well, not makeup in your case) from the night before, with bedhead and the odor of someone else’s cologne covering up your own faint reek of booze, while some horrified fellow elevator passenger doesn’t even try to hide his or her disdain, is truly part of growing up.

But not going to work like that is a good plan.

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Thanks for the input guys. But keep in mind this isn’t Armageddon Cometh Survival pack, it’s just so that I don’t have to stumble home at 3am after movie night.

As for the towel, it was a nod to Douglas Adams, but yeah I guess I don’t need it after all :wink:

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Q-tips, alka-seltzer, excedrin, and the darkest pair of sunglasses you can find.

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Dump one pair of socks. Add a pair of old Levis. No snacks. One phone card. $20 in ones. Condoms.

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My baby brother’s emergency kit also included an aerobed. So when he had to spend the night on someone’s floor, he actually had his own air mattress to sleep on. He started doing that in high school, and ten years later I’d bet he still has one in his trunk, just in case.