I get asked this question a lot. When you click on a travel blog, you probably want to find out how your favorite creator affords all those trips. Or maybe you are wondering if you can still make a living writing about your adventures today.

We’ve all been there: your vacation or holiday is booked, your flight leaves tomorrow, and you find yourself staring blankly at an open suitcase. Packing for a trip is a delicate balancing act, and it’s easy to forget the things you use every single day.

I don’t care about clothes. However, I tend to spend money on one specific piece of clothing. As a guy, I think it is essential to have plenty of underwear, specifically, comfortable underpants. But the question that haunts me with every trip is: how much underwear to pack?

We’ve all been there: a 4-day city trip is on the horizon, the flight is booked, but you find yourself staring at an open suitcase an hour before you need to leave for the airport. Packing for a long weekend is a delicate balancing act. 

Packing for a trip is already a balancing act of “what if” scenarios. But when you add contact lenses into the mix, that “what if” list grows: What if I run out of solution? What if a lens tears in a cramped airplane bathroom? What if security takes my bottles?

Packing for a trip is one of those things that we’ve done hundreds of times. And it still causes a lot of stress: Did we pack everything? Will I have enough? Wait, did I put it in my bag or just put it next to it?

Going on a city trip is so much fun, but packing always seems challenging. Do I have everything? Why isn’t it all going in my suitcase or bag? Do I really need that much underwear?