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.

One Response to “cutting the cheese (and other flossful tips)”

  1. 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

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