As Mr. Dimes and I are going out of town in a few days, I went to Target and purchased our airplane toiletries. We're only going to be away for about a week so there's not much point in bringing a full-sized shampoo, conditioner, body/face washes, lotion, contact lens solution, and toothpaste. Target has a little aisle full of "trial and travel-sized" toiletries, which is convenient, most of which are priced right at $.97 apiece. Doesn't seem like too much, does it?
Well, as luck would have it I also needed to buy a regular bottle of conditioner and a family size tube of toothpaste, both of which were considerably larger than one ounce, and each of which cost about $3.00. For my money, the bigger bottles provided a much greater value. I spent around $12 on our toiletry needs for a single week in travel-sized containers in order to be compliant with FAA requirements.
A lot of people advocate buying once and reusing your containers, which is not a bad idea when they are something that can actually be reused. Toothpaste tubes, for example, aren't refillable, and even though our current tube has less than three ounces in it, because it was originally a six-ounce tube, it would be confiscated by TSA officials. Same thing with contact lens bottles and lotion tubes.
It seems to be a necessary evil of modern travel that you either have to drop a small fortune on toiletries or pack them in your checked luggage, adding heft and increasing the risk of an in-flight bottle explosion. I'm sure the manufacturers of these small containers and their contents love these new regulations, as they are able to sell more product. But I am unimpressed.
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