{"id":21077,"date":"2025-08-12T23:07:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21077"},"modified":"2025-08-29T23:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:24:00","slug":"daily_3815_-_packing_for_the_unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/08\/12\/daily_3815_-_packing_for_the_unexpected\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3815 – packing for the unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"

I pack like a boy scout. Or maybe I pack like a mum. In any case, I’m prepared for all sorts of eventualities.<\/p>\n

You name it – I have it. During my archipelago hike with Ingrid, every time she asked if, by any chance, I happened to have [thing], my answer was always yes. Plasters? Of course. Scissors? Yes, here you go. Paper towel? Salt? Trash bag? Yes, yes, yes.<\/p>\n

Almost all these extras are tiny and light. Even taken all together, they can’t weigh much more than a hundred grams or so, with my pocket knife accounting for half that weight, and my first aid kit being the largest by volume.<\/p>\n

My approach to packing has been validated many times in many satisfying ways. Case in point: discovering at the hostel in Finnhamn that every single saucepan had its handle hanging on by the last thread of the screw. They were so loose that I barely trusted the handle enough to actually lift a saucepan with water and eggs in it, for fear of it all falling apart. Out came my trusty twenty-seven-year-old Swiss Army knife with its screwdriver. I fixed the saucepan I used for boiling my eggs, and then fixed three more, as well as a frying pan. Nobody’s going to thank me for it, but the next person looking to use the kitchen will find utensils they can actually work with, and that felt good.<\/p>\n

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I pack like a boy scout. Or maybe I pack like a mum. In any case, I’m prepared for all sorts of eventualities. You name it – I have it. During my archipelago hike with Ingrid, every time she asked if, by any chance, I happened to have [thing], my answer was always yes. Plasters? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21079,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21077\/revisions\/21079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}