it's holiday time again time for festivities and family and friends and gifts which means gift
ideas i don't know about you but i love getting suggestions of gift ideas so in this video i'm
going to give you my tried and true experienced list of what international travelers would love
to have so let's get started oh this list isn't in order it's just by how i thought of them
and said i need to make sure they know these are awesome gift ideas okay my first one is
if you've got anybody that's a traveler and a coffee lover this aeropress is what they need
this little gem that's the size of my hand it works like a french press and it will keep
your coffee lover slash international traveler sane so recommend for anybody who needs coffee
first thing in the morning like me my next gift idea is a lowly toiletry bag but i can tell you
over the last few years once i got this beauty it has saved so many bathroom resort fights because
bathrooms in resorts and in international places have small cabinet space and no drawers and i
have bathroom stuff i just have stuff and hubby cannot stand when i fill the counter with all
of my stuff that he just doesn't understand well what makes this gem great is one that's durable
two this little thing right here this little hook i hooked this bugger on towel hooks on
on sides of little shelves you are amazed how many places you can find to hook something in a
bathroom so it hooks up and then all of the pockets are clear so we have a designated
hubby space and a designated me space and between those this hung up the counter is
clear things aren't getting knocked over and we don't fight about the clutter in the bathroom
my next suggestion is a lifesaver also these are called packing cubes and they come in about six
different sizes and they'll hold everything from your laundry and a small one to your dresses and
the big one and i do recommend rolling when you use them and the reason i like the set that i have
is because one that they had the mesh so with mesh two things happen one you can see inside what is
in there the other thing is that it's not unusual if you live in a place like i do here in texas
that i pack in humidity and then i fly and it's with things in a suitcase and if this did not
have the mesh then many times when i get some place my things might be a little damp because
of the humidity when i packed it the other thing i love about this is that they come in multiple
colors these are the two that we have this is mine this is hubby's there's like 10 different
color choices and so therefore if it fits in this set of cubes you can pack it if it doesn't fit in
the side cubes you can't pack it the other thing i do is always make sure that there's at least one
cube of necessities that in case that goes in each suitcase in case the luggage gets separated and
one bag doesn't make it to us everybody has at least some of the stuff that they need finally
what i like also is the set comes with a little um a little laundry bag so that as the stinky stuff
gets finished it goes in the bag the bag closes up nice and tight and goes a suitcase and doesn't
make everything doesn't make everything else it's in the cube stinky so this is a sanity maker
gift idea that anybody going gonna love now this side gift idea is not gonna sound real
glamorous but when it comes to traveling and stuff there's many places that i'd go
that i can do a week to ten days in a roller bag and a a weekend bag that i'm going to show you
and but the reason i can do that is because of this little gem right here this is called a
scrubba and it's a portable washing machine do you get a portable wash machine what you do is you put
your clothes in it you put some water in it and the thing that makes this technology so awesome
is that there's actually these little making them out there's these pointy things at the bottom
that when you fill up this with your clothes and the water and you seal it up it goes you
can take your squishies you go squishy squishy squishy squishy squishy squishy
they say for 30 seconds i have a hubby we do about three or four minutes you dump out the dirty water
you rense stuff up you hang it up and this is what makes it so i don't have to have checked
baggage and pay 30 to 50 dollars every time i'm flying now the thing that makes this work
is you got to have special um detergent and these are sheets that are straight so that's all they
are so if you're buying this be nice and buy this too because between these two your your
gift receiver who used to travel with two big 50 pound bags can now go in two carry-ons trust me
i have another one of my great gift ideas is this cord holder because when you travel international
you need a cord for so many things for everybody's cell phone and camera and sd card and you name it
i usually have 10 15 different courts but what i do is this thing has all these great little
expanders and pockets and i actually put flash cards here um sd card sorry not flash cards sd
cards all these different little gadgets in here and when i do i just zip it up and it slides down
in my backpack and it's all right there together and i'm not digging out trying to find somebody's
you know cable charger for this or cable charger for that it's all in here organized this is a good
idea this is something i picked up a couple trips ago and i really was kind of impressed with it
i didn't think about that i needed this until i had it and i know you really can't look
at it and figure out what it is so i'm gonna kind of give you an understanding
what this does is that when you've got a roller bag and your putter along in the airport
you put this around the metal poles of the handle it closes like this around the handles
it will hold two water bottles or a coffee usually that's when i honestly use it in the morning more
than anything it'll hold a water bottle and coffee it'll hold whatever you want in these two things
and then the other great part is in the back is there's this pocket so when i'm trying to talk to
people as we're going down the terminal and have hands and deal with passports and all that stuff
i got my coffee okay i got somebody else's water bottle um and i got my cell phone and it's just
putter along with me all at easy access so this is a cup cell phone holder and this has changed our
mornings in the airport this was another aha gift for me um we got this a couple years ago we do do
a lot of trips where we are around sand and water and things like that and what this is and it comes
this little bee space so it goes on a suitcase really well is this is a towel it's a microfiber
towel kind of the shammy they you draw your cars up with but it's a lot softer and they come in
dozens of colors um but what i love about it is that it's super let's see i'm gonna show you it's
it's super super thin so what i love about it is that it works as well as the shammy things
in your car that if you wrap it around your wet it's just gonna suck the water right off you
the other thing i like is that i like to sit on the beach and a lot of times the places we
go there really isn't like lounge chairs and stuff and so i can put this on the beach
and it doesn't grab sand like a normal towel does so there's none of this picking up and
shaking off and covering people saying you pick it up and it's done and then also if it gets wet
it dries like that so it makes it where if you go to the beach the day and you gotta
fly the next day it's gonna be dry the next day and you're not dealing with a wet towel
so i love this towel and it's a great idea for somebody who goes to tropical places as a gift
another one of my gift ideas are these bose sports wireless earphones now the reason i enjoy them is
that okay they're bose which means they're great sound the travel case charge itself but this is
the most important part is the design i have tried the true headphones that have the big things out
here and when you sleep they hurt your ears then i went to ear buds you know there will be white
things that hang here well the problem with those is that when you sleep you bump them and they fall
off so imagine me being on all fours in economy fanny in the air searching around on the floor
for that little thing that fell off my ear no so i only had to do that once not doing that again
that's how i ended up here is that i love the fact that they both go into ears and then they work
like the gloves you give little kids in the winter the cable keeps them together so if one falls out
i'm not on all fours on the floor looking for where it went great gift idea now this gift idea
is going to be a shocker and it has saved me so many times can you imagine this little bitty thing
is a backpack and it comes in a dozen two different dozen different colors choose
whichever one you like but i like buying souvenirs and it never fails that i just don't have enough
room when it's time to come home so this little fella which i just keep stored in the bottom of my
suitcase when i need more space i just pull it out unzip it and there you go it's got great straps
so i can use it as a carry-on and it's got tons of space so i can recommend this as a great gift idea
this weekend bagger is what keeps me be able to do all carry-on bags on the trips that we
choose to go that way i love it because it has the little strap and it's big and wide down here
so it slides over the handle of my roller bag the other thing is that's way big but it actually
fits underneath my seat just fine and even though it's a big old space it has pockets in here that
allows me to be able to find things okay it comes with a shoulder strap i never use a shoulder strap
finally it does have a space in the bottom that allows you to segregate shoes and stuff it fits
my flip-flops and sandals i can't get heels to go in here but i do put other things i want to
segregate down there the last thing is that even though it's cute and looks leathery it's vegan
so your leather get recipients don't have to worry about you giving them part of a cow love this
watch when these next videos that has more to do with travelers and it gives you stocking stuffer
ideas and find out more ideas for gifts now that you're on kind of a role in finding out gift ideas