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Sending a box of non approved carry on items - help
So my family and I are going to Hawaii in a few weeks and the hotel we are staying at said it was okay to send a box ahead of time since we are doing carry on only. It will be my parents, my brother, and my 5 year old and I.
I am planning on filling the box with stuff that we can't take on our carry ons. This is what I have so far:
- a spray can of sunscreen per person, plus one bottle of lotion since the actual lotion goes further.
- a bottle of aloe vera
- a bottle for everyone to share of shampoo and conditioner
- a reg. size tube of toothpaste, plus training toothpase for DS
- a jar of peanut butter and a squeezy thing of jam (for DS, he's constantly hungry)
- several of those tube things of squeeze applesauce
- regular bottle of lotion
- can of shaving cream
Anything else anyone can think of that wouldn't be allowed on carry ons that I should be packing? Essential wise or helpful wise. I don't care so much about not being able to bring it back, it is what it is.
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Re: Sending a box of non approved carry on items - help
If I didn't already have it at home and had to go out and buy it, I'd just buy all that stuff when I got there. When you factor in the trip to the store, and the shipping cost, how much are you really saving? Now, if you already have all this stuff at home, I'd go ahead and ship it.
Depending on how large a package they will accept, I'd throw in a few juice boxes, 8 oz bottles of water, wine, alcohol, etc.
Why carry on only?
I'm assuming this stuff is all full sized (read: not light) so wouldn't 1 checked bag be cheaper than shipping all this stuff? Or even buying it once you got there (at probably 50% more than the price on the mainland).
Granted I don't know the price of 1 checked bag or shipping a box.
Just buy it out there. I would be very nervous to send all that could potentially leak everywhere, it would be a nightmare. Just go to a store when you first get there, I assume you would to get bread for the pb&J and buy it all.
Edit: Or, order it online through amazon and have it sent to your hotel. I wouldn't pack it yourself.
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How much is it going to cost to send everything there?
We live in a somewhat HCOL area so we didn't find things to be that more expensive in Hawaii. My suggestion is to just go to a grocery store (Safeway, etc) and buy those items there. If you don't have a discount card for that particular chain, just sign up there and see if any of those items are on sale.
Another option is to just check those items in a box. We checked our wine from Napa and it made it home safely. We just had to pay the baggage fee of $25.
Agree w/pp, I would just buy stuff when you get there or check one bag that you can put everything into.
When I went to Hawaii, we bought a lot of stuff at the ABC stores. They are everywhere and had reasonable prices.
Well, it's only $5 to ship a box, and yes between us, we already have ALL that stuff, so we are just taking it from our bathrooms and throwing it in a box and sending it for $5, not buying it all.
A checked bag is $20 each way, so that would be $40 even if we used everything while we are there, we would still have to pay $20 to send back an empty suitcase. Plus, in my experience the baggage carriers are much worse than USPS would be.
It's only $5 and because we already HAVE all that stuff, it's an obvious choice to me. If we carry on only and then buy all that there, we are still:
1) paying more over there vs. here in my past experiences as everything is considerably more expensive, even at those cheapy ABC stores, and 2) we would have to leave any left over behind regardless because we are carry on only, and could not bring it back.
Hope that validates what I am doing, not that I feel like I need to or anything but just explaining.
Thanks anyways. I guess I am covered with what I already came up with on my own. Especially since no one even suggested anything other than why in the world would I be doing THAT?
So you are going to take the stuff you have, and leave it all there when you leave? And have to buy it new when you get home? Also, I would be worried, as I said before, about it all leaking.
That seems like a lot of things to fit into one of the small pre-paid shipping boxes. Are you sure all of that will fit? (It seems like the PB jar would be too wide on it's own.)
If you are going this route I'd pack everything in ziplock bags to contain the mess if they leak. I'd probably also make sure that none of the items were brand new (i.e., open them and use an ounce or so first) so that there is less chance of them leaking all over everything.
I'd also pack a second box flat in my carry-on and a bunch more ziplock bags so that I could ship stuff home.
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Well, FWIW, I have one of the small boxes and have so far fit 3 spray sunscreens, 8 applesauce squeezers from TJ, an 18 ox plastic jar of PB, 1/2 tube full of the kid sized toothpaste, a bottle of lotion, a small can of shaving cream, 1/2 tube full of toothpaste, and still have lots of room left in the small box that is $5.95 to ship. It's priority mail and should be there in 3 days.
HTH for anyone considering saving some money that also wants to just do carry-on and not deal with the possibilites of lost luggage (happened to me TWICE) or pay the $40+ that it seems to be costing these days.
So you didn't actually want any opinions other than what to put in the box, correct? Just double checking.
I would take my chances and check a bag. Or buy it there. But I also have no interest in receiving a box filled with exploded liquids.
Also, I am pretty sure the post office asks if you have liquids in it when you mail it, and it has to be packaged a certain way. And if it leaks it may not arrive at all.