shampoo

[knile]

Do you ever get wrapped up in your head, thinking about idioeconomics? (If I may use such a term, which might have an ill-formed prefix. Discuss lightly.) Just now I was showering at my parents' house using my travel shampoo. It came from a Ramada, possibly the one in Hazleton, PA. It appears that my stash will run out soon. I wondered about my

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[drucat]

My family has developed this weird tradition of giving each other hotel toiletries in our Christmas stockings. This is pretty much due to my father, who travels a lot and is also the kind of person who goes to CVS on Christmas Eve to get stocking stuffers. For some reason he started giving us his hotel shampoos etc. in our stockings, which means everyone in my family now has a huge stockpile of all such things, and thus have no desire for any more, ever, since they're just taking up large amount of space in our bathrooms. I think my sister has started retaliating by putting her nicer ones back in other people's stockings, but of course this just perpetuates the problem, and on it goes. Someday I'll wish I had a really small bottle of shampoo and regret wasting mine, but in the meantime I can never find tiny bottles of conditioner, which is the only thing I ever actually need when I'm travelling, since hotels don't give me enough or give that horrible shampoo-conditioner mix that leaves my hair feeling awful.

[drucat]

...the "idioeconomics" thing is really bugging me now. I don't think that prefix is going to catch on - at least not in my brain. Arrgh.

[quantumelf]

Do business travelers (or others) who almost exclusively stay at hotels not bother to carry their own small containers of liquids & gels, knowing that certain ones will be provided?

I used to pack my own, in case I didn't like the hotel kind, but ever since the TSA 3-oz containers in a ziplock bag ridiculousness has been in place, I just leave the liquids & gels at home and hope that the hotel has something nice.

[my_sihaya]

Do business travelers (or others) who almost exclusively stay at hotels not bother to carry their own small containers of liquids & gels, knowing that certain ones will be provided?

If I am staying in a decent hotel, I use their shampoo/conditioner; if I'm staying in a crappy hotel then I bring my own. I try not to pack too many liquid-y things in my checked luggage since I figure that more of them means a higher chance of one (or more) explosions. Ewww.

I used to be picky about it and pack my own stuff, and then realized, hey, I'm almost never there for more than 6 nights anyways, my hair will survive a different kind of shampoo for a week. If the toiletries in the hotel are truly awful, I just go to a drugstore and buy trial sizes of shampoo and conditioner and a small bar of soap.

And yes, I too have spent waaaaaay too much time thinking about this.