Flight Attendant Shopping: Pocket-Sized Beach Towel

With all the emphasis on packing light, whether it’s so you can avoid checking your luggage (if you’re traveling by air) or to just have a little more room (if you’re traveling by car). here’s a handy way to pack a beach towel in very little room — the Lightload Towel.

The “towels” are compressed so that they fit into a pocket, and at about 3 1/2 inches in diameter, you can toss several inside a tote, backpack or purse.  They weigh about 6 ounces, so packing several won’t take much effort or space at all.

The container is waterproof, so your towel is always dry, and when opened it  expands into a nice sized 3 foot X 5 foot.  The material is both absorbent and biodegradable, so you can use and throwaway while still being eco-friendly.  Of course, they are also washable (recommended that they be washed in a mesh bag), but will not stand up to dozens of machine washes.

The obvious use for the towels would be as a beach towel, but they could come in handy in a number of different ways while traveling — as a makeshift tablecloth, a clean up rag, something to sit on, or a layer of warmth if caught without one. 

Towels can be purchased online, and run $6.50/piece when ordering up to 11, and drop to $3.50 a piece when ordering a dozen or more.  A smaller sized towel ( 1 foot X 2 foot) is also available.  The Lightload Towel can also be purchased at various retail locations.

With all the traveling that I do, I’m going to stock up on a few of these.  I can think of many times that they would have come in handy, and now there’s no reason to be caught short.

Photo credit:  Lightload Towel

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