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   * **Share your packing space.** Traveling as a couple? Split your clothes between two suitcases on the off chance one of them gets lost during the flight.
   * **Make photocopies before leaving home.** If you’re traveling out of the country, make two photocopies of your passport. Use your smartphone to take pictures of your car in the airport’s parking garage and do the same for your luggage and its contents in case it gets lost.
+  * Put a dryer sheet in your luggage, keeps things smelling fresh.
+  * [[http://upl.codeq.info/|Universal packing list]] You select what you want to bring, it'll create a checklist
+  * [[https://snapguide.com/guides/fold-socks-military-style/|Roll pair of socks into a ball for easy packing]]
+  * [[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/business/06PACK.html|Heck, roll up all of your clothing rather than folding]]
+====Avoid catching something on an airplane====
+From [[https://lifehacker.com/how-to-avoid-getting-the-flu-on-an-airplane-1822265077]]
+  * Pick a window seat. (else get germs from all walking down the aisles.
+  * Wait to board. (Avoid large, tightly packed together groups.)
+  * Stay Hydrated.
+  * Turn on overhead vent. (moves germs in your vicinity away from you.)
+  * Wipe everything down.
+You can get early access to the plane by saying you have a peanut allergy and need time to wipe down the seat area.
+====Surviving a plane crash====
+Very unlikely it'll happen, but just in case.\\
+[[https://lifehacker.com/how-to-survive-a-plane-crash-1820981125|How to survive a plane crash]]\\
+In brief:
+  * Sit in the back of the plane.  Within 5 rows of an exit door.  Count rows to the exit.
+  * Wear cotton and wool.  Tie-on shoes, long pants/jeans.
+  * Wet a hankerchief, put over your face, is temporary breathing mask
+  * Be wary within: 3 mins of takeoff, and 8 mins before landing. No sleeping or music; wear your shoes.
+  * Crash imminent: tighten seatbelt; cross hands on seat in front, rest head on hands (prevents whiplash & head injuries), wet hankerchief.
+  * After crash, get out!  Get away from the plane!
+====Hiding Money====
+[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is7KetXtJIQ|Youtube video]]\\ In short:
+  * 	Under the insert in your gym shoes
+  * 	Inside an empty dental floss container
+  * 	rolled up in a partially used toothpaste tube
+  * 	Inside a deck of cards (remove inside of 3-4 cards)
+  * 	In a chapstick
+  * 	rolled around the ink in a ball point pen
+====Security Tips====
+You're in a hotel or a room somewhere and you want a cheap way to securely keep the door closed so even those with a key can't get in.
+[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lNFJt10w1E|Door lock out of a dinner fork ]]\\
+[[https://amazon.com/gp/product/B00186URTY |Commercial door lock on Amazon abt $22 ]]