Comments on: Travelling with Less Clothes and Dumpster Diving

By: The Family Voyage

The Family Voyage — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:44:55 +0000

Great post and such a good reminder not to get caught up in the stuff! We’re going to slowly clear house in preparation for a year of RTW travel, though we do anticipate eventual “re-entry” into the typical working professional lifestyle in the US so I don’t think we can get rid of everything. On our travels we have always packed fairly light but packing for a year will definitely be a challenge!

By: alyson@worldtravelfamily

alyson@worldtravelfamily — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 06:18:15 +0000

In reply to Travelling Coral. Are you over in Australia again Coral?

By: Travelling Coral

Travelling Coral — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 01:36:14 +0000

Hi – love this. Currently wearing a t shirt I bought for $5 in NZ from TUI in 2011. Wear it constantly all seasons both home and away. It has holes under the arms, basically on its last legs but I wore it every day whilst travelling for 12 days in the Northern Territory. We dumped our too big bags we stupidly brought to OZ with us, got 40l backpacks and travelled carry on to Tassie and NT. Managed with minimum clothes but jolly glad didn’t have jeans but linen trousers due to an unfortunate rash. Also discovered that the t shirt from TUI had a hidden message in the design that no one has noticed for 5 years when you get a photo at night with a flash. Hmm amused all the tour. Now back housesitting and collected big bags and could not believe how much we brought with us. After 2 weeks living with less it overwhelmed us. Not even the smart hotel we treated ourselves to in Alice Springs batted an eyelid when we walked in with red sand on our trainers, dishevelled clothes and battered backpacks. But then, that’s Alice for you. Using this house sit to cull all the clothes and for me that means dumping the jeans and sweatshirts and embracing lightweight merino and hiking trousers as they turned out to be clothes I can carry in a pack. By the way, clambering over rocks at Jim Jim and scaling Kings Canyon may not be the same trek as Katmandu – but for me they were the most challenging, limb aching hikes I have done in a long time that reduced me to tears. However, as I said at the end of both, like childbirth, painful and hard work but worth it in the end.

By: alyson@worldtravelfamily

alyson@worldtravelfamily — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 11:13:43 +0000

In reply to Kate. Yep, we have those too Kate! My dad put my best suede platforms in the bin once, they were gorgeous and VERY expensive. He thought I didn't want them because I'd put them in a weird place. I was normal once, I bought those things! I bet I'd still have them in the attiic gathering dust had he not done that.

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 09:45:07 +0000

I once accidentally helped throw my oldest son’s girlfriend’s (now wife:) entire “trash” bag of shoes into a charity pick up place when they were moving apartments. She had one pair of flip flops to her name and since she plays in orchestras that was tricky! She’s forgiven us thankfully. I’d be devastated at losing shoes as I can only wear certain ones comfortably and more so when they are worn in (birks). We do have those travel outfits though — what makes me smile are the ones with little pieces of colored thread tied on them from Asia (used to mark groups in laundry).