First world problem, raise your right hand. Flying business so much you don't know what to do with those amenity kits once they've been used?
Though some of the following suggestions may seem fairly obvious, amenity kits can serve all sorts of useful purposes from functioning as a tablet case to buying yourself an extra lunch with the money you've saved.
The whole purpose is to continually make them useful on the road, even after all of that Molton Brown lotion has been used up.
Donating them is also a practical use, but, short of making a trip to the thrift store, here are a couple of ways to reuse an amenity kit.
Airline amenity kits have a hot resale market.
It looks like amenity kits sell from anywhere from $10 to $20 on eBay, so that can certainly add up if there is a stack of them sitting in the room.
Be sure to cover those shipping costs, though.
Sell them for real dollars on eBay.(Placeit)
There's a chance you can use it as a tablet case.
Repurposing an amenity bag in to an electronics case can be a no-brainer (or not), but some toiletry bags actually fit tablets. It's the perfect tablet case!
Even if it doesn't, this is the place to keep it centralized with all of those finicky items like charging cords, battery packs and AirPods.
Let it double as a medicine or first-aid kit.
This is pretty self-explanatory, but a first-aid or a medicine kit should be mandatory in anybody's book on the road. No need to go buy one, just fill up a bag with first-aid supplies already available at home.
New emergency kit (hook-up kit) in town.
I'm not talking about being stuck overnight at an airport. I'm talking about when you are single and ready to mingle, and things have the potential to get a little saucy. This keeps it discreet.
Fresh change of underwear, condom, toothbrush, toothpaste, face wash, lipstick to touch up in the morning, compact brush, things like that. Transform the walk of shame into something dignified.
Stuff dirty socks or undies into the amenity kit.
Tuck the smelliest and loosest items away in the suitcase.
Use the amenity pouch as a make up bag.
Ladies, we all know this one.
Turn it into a Polaroid snapshot case.
Polaroid case. (Angie Muldowney / Flickr)
Because this site obviously caters to the millennial set-raise both hands if you're a big kid (30+) and have an Instax somewhere-this isn't a suggestion that should be far too out of line.
Some professional photographers we know have admitted a Polaroid-type camera is sometimes their favorite camera to bring traveling, because it creates a connection with strangers around them (plus, they make great gifts).
Those snapshots do eventually collect. Plus, they also can be an ingenious way to store film and other camera accessories.
They make easy pencil cases.
Enough said.
It's a bag o' business receipts.
Flying for work? Though phones technically have the ability scan things like receipts (Scannable for iOS is one of my favorites, haven't bothered to find one for Android), there are many times when a receipt gets hastily smashed into a coat pocket, a credit card holder or finds the deep black apocalypse of my purse.
I end up completely drowning in tiny pieces of paper.
Enter the unused amenity bag, great for stashing those tiny pieces of paper once you've actually sat down to clean out those pockets and bags.
All purposefully stored away so that you can later die at one hundred million expense line items at a time, all sorted by trip.
Receipt origami. (Matt Baume / Flickr)
