SeaUrchin

After reading the posts here on the pink purse decision I remembered the tacky things I take to make life easier and might make other people cringe but I do it anyway.

I take diaper pins to keep my purses zipped shut! Altho you can't see them until I open the flap, there they are.

I wrap unsightly ribbons on my luggage to spot it easily.

I carry a water bottle.

If you all haven't fainted do you do the same? Or am I just plain ole tacky?

Intrepid1

What is "tacky" about any of this? Totally practical. "Tacky" is people shoving other people out of the way like pigs at a trough and manhandling every piece of luggage that rolls by because they haven't marked theirs!

Cato

I've been known to take a roll or piece of fruit from a breakfast buffet line if its a 5* hotel (business travel). Never at a mom and pop place.

g33kgrl

I wash out undergarments in the bathroom even in hotels which specify that it's not allowed. quot;>

WillTravel

Yes, I carry a water bottle too.
I also wrap yarn or ribbons on my luggage.
I sometimes use a plastic grocery bag to carry stuff around in (preferably a local one, though)!

BabsB

SeaUrchin, I do the diaper pin trick on my purse also. I don't think it's tacky, OK maybe a little bit. I also have a small compass hanging off the side of my purse. That maybe a little tacky also, but it is very convenient and we don't get turned around as much as we used to. Barb

Balenciaga

I wear my mink to the breakfast buffet, even on a hot August day, just so the other hotel guests will think I'm posh.

I pour gin in my cereral to make it taste better.

I sleep with guys behind the front desk with very large hands.

I shoplift at Hermes, never Marks & Spencer.

degas

You people don't know the meaning of tacky!

Okay, I confess to the following travel sins:

wore socks two days in a row

did not shave one day

did not wear a coat and tie to dinner

took a bottle of water off an airplane

swiped a newspaper off an empty table at a cafe

wore shorts into a church
Good to get that off my hairy, heavily muscled and very manly chest

P_M

I still use my ratty old suitcase. It's not literally infested with rats, but one would think so by looking at it. Why do I keep this suitcase, you ask? Because: 1. It still works 2. It's easy to spot on the baggage carousel and 3. Who would steal a ratty looking suitcase? If I were an airport thief, I'd go for the designer luggage.

Balenciaga, you're too much!! LOL!!

MelissaHI

I also take a fruit from the breakfast buffet.....sometimes I take a roll and make a sandwich, and put it in a ziplock bag into my purse!

I didn't know that carrying a water bottle is tacky, tho.

Once at a restaurant in Venice, the table next to us was given a basket of those "S" shaped cookies at the end of their meal, but we did not. the table left without eating the cookies, so my niece & I swiped the cookies for ourselves.

Not sure if this is tacky, but my friend just told me that in lieu of a lock on her suitcase at the airport, she uses dental floss to keep it zipped shut. Since she started this, she finds that no one ever opens her suitcase. Maybe they don't want to touch it for fear that it's used???

h0b0

When my kids are with me I steal the airplane barf bags to bring along if we have a car ride after deplaning. (learned this the hard way)

luveurop

I wash my feet in the bidet.

laclaire

If there is a huge line in the ladies room, I will use the men's (always shouting a warning beforehand, though).

I carry a flask of rum into bars (only in the States) and only order coke.

I steal towels from really nice hotels.

But I never lose my composure in public. . .

Claire

harzer

g33kgrl

I don't wear 'undergarments' - how tacky is that?

P M

Brilliant! My 'suitcase' is a floppy old 'carpet bag' with no label and no lock. It folds up and goes in my bottom drawer at home.

luveurop

I carry a little spade wrapped in airline toilet paper for when I get caught short in a public park or at the beach.

Harzer

icithecat

An onion freshly sliced and chopped with a blunt plastic knife goes a long way to enhance airline food.

peeky

I put my hair in a scrunchy and I use bobby pins - my hare is wild as a March hair.

I wear flip up sun shades on my glasses during the week.

Now I get it - I am a nerd - that explains alot.

AnaBelen

So we have Fodorites stealing towels, adding onion (please tell me I misunderstood and that the onoin is not raw) to airline food, and wearing flip up sun shades.
I am impressed and horrified all at the same time.

P_M

You forgot the ratty luggage!!

Not much is beneath me. The only thing I find truly shocking here is washing the feet in the bidet. UGH.... amp;

tedgale

Someone recently said: "You say you're cheap -- how cheap is that?"

I responded: "I re-use dental floss" (true).

Madison

I know the fashion police are going to carry me away for this one but on my flight back home from Paris to Los Angeles last May I wore a black jogging suit on the plane. Because I was in Coach, not first, I knew comfort had to come first.

I figure if it's good enough for Madonna, then it's good enough for me.