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[nomad-ish]

a lot of people will bash me for this, but 2 things i always pack from now on and have yet to regret.... (1) mattress sheet and (2) towel.

either you're going to get dumped into your school-provided apartment, jetlagged and disoriented, and perhaps too late to go shopping for those items OR you stay in a hotel for a while and then move into the apartment that you've rented. i don't know about you, but after i've spent days apartment hunting while jetlagged and moved my crap into the new place, i'm probably not going to have time to go running out to buy sheets and a towel that day.

[johnslat]

Always throw in a towel

TOWEL
"Just about the most massively useful thing any interstellar Hitchhiker can carry. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course you can dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch hiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."

Regards,
John

[Deats]

Never carry a towel; it is heavy, takes up a lot of space and dries slowly.

Take a sarong.

[scot47]

Cyanide tablets in case you end up working with some really crazy people.

[Deats]

[godmachine12]

[Trina Marlow]

Your list is very much detailed thank you I just bring clothes of course, travel documents with extra copies, identification with extra copies and MONEY