Travel Kits

Lifestyle expert Maria Calleia offers simple and inexpensive ways to ensure that a family vacation is stress-free. She explains how to creates a travel kit that includes both the necessities and small luxuries that make being on the road more comfortable.

Travel Kit Ingredients

• sleep mask for napping and avoiding annoying neighbors

• pre-moistened towelettes and baby wipes for a quick refresher and stain removal

• pocket-size packet of tissues and cotton swabs

• waterless hand sanitizer

• mini-mist bottle of water for unexpected heat, layovers and stress

• rubber-soled bootie socks are the perfect antidote to swelling feet

• moisturizer for hands and face

• talc and sample-size fragrance to feel and smell fresh

• travel toothbrush, paste or "tooth towels"

• 6" x 2" snack baggies

Mini-Travel Kit Essentials

• mini-teeth care tin of gum, mints, floss and toothpicks

• health and beauty tin that includes a small mirror, bandages, aspirin, medications and eyedrops

• fill a prescription bottle with quarters for phone booths that don't take calling cards

• mini-sewing kit--wrap colored thread around a square of heavy paper, then insert needles and safety pins

• memory kit that includes a pen, pad of paper and mini-framed picture of a loved one

Also in this Episode

Smart Solutions : Episode SSL-218
•	Raw Chicken Safety
•	Fit for Fried Chicken
•	Travel Kits
•	Kitchen Science Lab
•	Smart Solutions of the Day