Quick Repairs For Anywhere

You can be ready to handle just about any type of repair by packing a few household items. It you are heading outdoors, just add these to your repair kit.

Roll of Duct Tape This stuff can hold anything together until the end of the trip: straps on bags, shoes, holes in tents, boots separating from their soles, backpacks and duffle bags. It will even hold your bag closed for the rough handling of the airlines on the trip home.

Tube of Shoe Goo This stuff will repair anything. When used with duct tape you can keep going without any worries. This is a great glue, plugs holes in pneumatic gear and holdsbroken pack frames when reinforced with duct tape. You can even bonded broken cast aluminum parts, fixed leaks in canteens and holes in torn tents, packs, pants or whatever. It will plug punctured oil lines, restore insulation on electrical wires, mend your umbrella, and it's even good for a hole in a shoe.

Dental Floss Carry a couple of small boxes of dental floss on your journey and you won't have to hunt for string. It can be used to mend holes in mosquito netting or your backpack. It's even durable enough to serve as a temporary shoelace. Use it to hang up clothes to dry by threading it through straps, buckles, etc. And, of course, it keep your gums healthy, too!

Zip Lock Bags The inventor of these things is a genius. Toss extras of different sizes into your pack. Take 3 sizes, toss them into a largeer zip lock, roll them up and stuff them into a side zip pocket of any bag. Use them for really soiled items you want to separate from you clean clothes, wet items you need to hold until you get to your hotel or even camping garbage you want to carry to the next dump site.

Joyce Jackson travels and writes offering simple and easy travel tips for real travlers. See more on her information packed website: http://travel-packing-tips.com . . . travel like a Pro!

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