Travel Wise | Those tiny hotel toiletry bottles are on their way out

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Travel Wise | Those tiny hotel toiletry bottles are on their way out - Seattle Times

In a decade of travel, Robin Brinn accumulated dozens of small toiletry bottles from hotel bathrooms, bringing them home to her New York apartment and storing them in bags. But when she recently moved, she discarded most of them.

“I just really wanted to pare down,” said Brinn, 67, a retired clinical social worker. “I had bags of stuff that I had taken over the years. A couple of things had the name of a lovely hotel on the bottle. But I threw most of it out.”

Like Brinn, many travelers collect the tiny containers as souvenirs or to use when they return home, home organizers say.

“It is the rare home that does not have at least a small if not very large collection of hotel bottles,” said Karin Socci, a KonMari practitioner and home organizer at the Serene Home who worked with Brinn during her relocation. “I can’t tell you how many pounds and pounds of those things I have discarded.”
 
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