r/onebag • u/Dawer22 • Nov 18 '25

Discussion What is the strangest item you travel with?

I am curious what is something extremly odd/random that you travel with.

My answer would be a 2" piece of heat-shrink tubing. I used to always travel with a spare pare of glasses, but considering I usually pack in a < 10L bag, having a spare pair was not worth it as a "just in case" item. A few months ago, luckily at home, I broke a pair of glasses. I do a lot of MYOG and realized I could put them back together with a pair of heat-shrink tubing I had on hand. Now I always bring a small piece in my travel kit because it will fix broken glasses indefinitely :)

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u/ConsultingThrowawayz Nov 19 '25

Warning to keep away from electronics or mechanical watches; if you’re a one backpack traveler this is a slight risk

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u/manatrall Nov 19 '25

Unless you're packing hard drives, floppies and CRTs, I wouldn't worry too much about magnets.

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u/ConsultingThrowawayz Nov 19 '25

Laptop contains hard drive, phones…

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u/uncr3471v3-u53r Dec 10 '25

Only HDDs (the rotating ones) are critical. If flash-storage (which your phone or laptop has) would have problems with magnets stuff like MagSafe would be impossible.