cutting the cheese (and other flossful tips)
I had no idea. None. Dental floss has about a thousand uses for the backpackin’, hostel-stayin’, clever-like-MacGyver traveler. To save you a scroll through the comments, here are a few of the most ingenious ones.
I’ve used it as a clothes line. Seriously. - Anna
Plain floss is excellent for things like cutting cheese. - Shanna
Joining my sandals back together after they broke one hour in to a 15 hour bus trip.
Holding a fan’s electrical up out of a pool of rising water on the floor in the monsoon in East Timor…. - Louise
Two things and now very clear to me. One, I need to add about 100 yards of floss to my travel kit. And two, I have got to interview Louise. Because she has been to East Timor. And, hello, do I even know where East Timor is?
Further proof I’d die without Google.
hehehe not many people (especially out of the Oceanic/Australasian region) know where East Timor is, so don’t feel bad! However I’d love to talk to you about it if you are interested. I was there two times (about a month each time) in 2000 doing volunteer work for various aid organisations. It is a beautiful place, albeit with an incredibly turbulent history, and has some of the nicest people I have met in all my travels.
Drop me a line if you want to know more (I’m afraid my email address form the last comment was incorrect… I shouldn’t comment before coffee) but it’s fixed now.
Cheers,
Louise