My aunt told me to pack a sarong for hostels and it saved me on three trips

She used to travel through Southeast Asia on a shoestring and said a sarong can do everything... be a towel, a blanket, a curtain, even a skirt. I scoffed at first but tossed one into my bag before a 10 day trip through Costa Rica last year. First hostel had no shower curtain, so I used it as a privacy screen. Then at the beach in Manuel Antonio, it doubled as a picnic blanket. Has anyone else found a random item that pulls triple duty like that?

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the_matthew1mo ago

And this is exactly why I've started noticing that the most useful things in life are the ones that can adapt, not the ones built for a single purpose. It's like how a good pair of jeans can be for hiking or a night out, or how a bandana can be a head wrap, a napkin, or a bag tie. Once you start looking for things that shape-shift like that, you realize how much simpler packing and problem solving can get.

lane.cameron1mo ago

Nah, that's just extra weight taking up space for something you could've bought for a few bucks there.