power at austin airport

southwest airlines had really comfy chairs and these power stations at their gates. i wasn't flying southwest but i sure hung out there!

Conserving while travelling

I travel a lot. With that I probably spend 50 or 60 nights a year in hotels. One of the things that I started thinking about was the toiletries in the hotel rooms.

Because I tend only to spend one or two nights in each hotel at at time, I started to wonder about all the soap and shampoo I left behind, partially used. I wondered what happened to it. Did it simply get thrown away?

If you have ever spent a night in a hotel, you know that you probably leave a good amount of soap and shampoo behind, barely used. Well I decided to start taking the partially used toiletries with me and using them from hotel to hotel. Then I simply don’t use the new stuff at the next hotel.

When I worked at Microsoft many years ago they used to have baskets on the receptionist desks for travelers to drop off unused toiletries and then they were donated to shelters and other needy recipients. But I guess some sort of lawsuit occurred and that stopped.

So if you travel, think about taking the shampoo from one hotel and finishing it so you don’t have to open a new one, and leave a whole bunch behind. I bought one of those little plastic soap box things and it works great.

I don’t know if anyone has ever tried to figure out the amount of toiletries that could be saved by doing this, but it has got to be a LOT.