tsargood
beach masseuse
Posts: 85

#1 Posted: 6/9/2006 - 18:22


Hello!
I’m looking for a list of items you hated while travelling.
What was the Most Useless Thing you ever carried around?
(Lets call it the M.U.T.).
My MUT was a decent heavy pair of hiking boots that never made it to my feet but were too valuable to throw away….
and, not to forget to mention a rock I found in a cave in Libya that I thought was a pre-history stone axe head that I carried for 9 months back to Australia before finding out it was just a plain old rock! I now have it as a paperweight as a silly reminder.

What was yours?

Or, if you never had one, what on the other hand do you consider to be a "must have" item to carry?

steviej
tuk tuk driver
Posts: 219

#2 Posted: 6/9/2006 - 18:37


My MUT is the PacSafe™. I only seem to ever use it when my rucksack has to go in the cargo hold. The last trip I went on it never made an appearance.

Most Useful (MU) is without doubt a Passport................. ;)~

marianwarren
adventurer
Posts: 270

#3 Posted: 6/9/2006 - 19:13


Hi guys

Most useless thing - definitely the swimming pouch-thing (as if you want to take your cash and passport for a dip). Many more secure options available.

Regards

Marian

Enrico_Gatti
backpacker
Posts: 17

#4 Posted: 6/9/2006 - 21:03


Hmm, looks like this could be a useful thread, hiking boots and pacsafe crossed off list :-p

somtam2000
admin
mahout
Posts: 2968

Located in:
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#5 Posted: 7/9/2006 - 07:54


MUT -- a chunk of lava from Lanzarote in the canary islands
MU -- a ball of string and a stapler!

Laura_B
tourist
Posts: 54

#6 Posted: 7/9/2006 - 18:21


A guide book to Singapore when I went on a 3 month trip to SE Asia, we decided to skip Singapore. Couldn't give the book away as it was my mum's. Other then that, people couldn't believe how light I started to travel. Generally your weight limit on a plane is 20kg, I think? I started with around 7kg, came back with 15kg, which I still think is fairly light.

princessdisaster
flashpacker
Posts: 35

#7 Posted: 19/12/2006 - 06:56


Last time I went to SEAsia I put all my MUT's in the post to my mother

In my defence I was leaving England in the middle of winter heading back to Oz stopping off in SEAsia for a couple of months

MUT's:
Sleeping bag (what was I thinking?!?)
runners, jersey socks & jeans - I wore these to Heathrow Airport
My Backpack - yes this is a necessary thing but It really didn't need to be so big 50ltr + 15ltr daypack - I never filled it, it was half empty the entire trip.

travelsalone
motodop
Posts: 24

#8 Posted: 15/2/2007 - 12:59


MUT-swim goggles that leaked!
MU-duct tape, and a flat rubber sink stopper (if you have contacts to clean)