Happy Wednesday friends! I hope you are having a lovely week so far! Today I wanted to share with y'all my top five affordable cozy luxury travel items to purchase for the travel lover in your life! These are items that are things that I have specifically used and loved and can't recommend enough. I hope that these are helpful!
2024 has been a busy and fun year for travel in different places and I am so excited to share more about some upcoming trips in the upcoming months and year with y'all very soon! There were several incredibly special trips this year that started in the New Year with a trip to Georgia and with seeing one of my nieces get married, followed by a beautiful time in Florida for a couple of days followed by the sweetest cruise with my sister and my mom in March, day trips to some new to us places in Vermont and upstate New York and several trips to New York City in the Spring, a trip to Georgia in early July, a few trips to Montreal in the Summer, a trip to Texas at the end of July, a trip to Pennsylvania in August, an extended trip to DC, Pennyslvania, and NYC in September, and a few other things coming up. Some of the things I blogged about this year, some I shared on instagram, and some... were just private and personal times that are precious to my heart.
At the end of the day though, after more than a decade of blogging here about travel, I am always excited to find and share a few travel items that help with trips and that I use not only in my travels but throughout the year. These are truly 100% worth the investment (many are cheap and under $20!!). I hope that y'all love these five affordable items to purchase for the travel lover in your life (or yourself)!
1. Sleep Mask
If you have been around this blog for any amount of time then you know I have spoken about eye masks for all different occasions of travel, but this one is my new favorite! It is perfect if you are a side sleeper and it is perfect if you are wanting to block out light without putting pressure on your eyes! There are more than 13,000 positive reviews so you know that I am not the only one loving this! *smiles*
And y'all, the best thing is that it is SUPER affordable. It is typically under $16 but is currently on sale for less than $5.50!! Run and go purchase this TODAY. You will NOT regret it!
Over the last 11 (almost 12 years) of blogging I have done a LOT of traveling - and a lot of it has been MAJOR road trips. Starting in 2017 (and with the exception of the pandemic) I collaborated with some amazing brands to travel each year to some of the most unique and beautiful places around the world- in a car!
These included road trips to and through New England, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia in 2017, an Alaskan Road Trip Adventure in 2018, an Alaskan Road Trip in 2019, a New England Winter Road Trip through New Hampshire and Maine in 2020 , a 2020 Virginia Road Trip, a 2022 Pennsylvania Holiday Road Trip, and a Eastern (New York, Canada, Ohio, and Pennsylvania Road Trip) in the Fall of 2023 and a 2023 Holiday Road Trip in South Carolina and Georgia.
There were other trips not shared on the blog, but in each of these trips people have commented to me that they dislike how the seatbelt digs into your shoulder or neck. Years ago my grandmother found a cover for the seatbelt but I never thought much about it. SO I found one that I absolutely love and it is a great price at less than $10! Y'all it has over 17,000 reviews so you know it is also well loved and for $8 it is a perfect gift for those who love road trips!
Click HERE to purchase!
I purchased this Carry On from Delsey in 2018 and it held up for SIX years! Honestly the only thing that happened was that mine was sadly damaged in the luggage carosoul at Newark airport (and Delta kindly replaced it immediately). Here is the thing... even when it was damaged- NOTHING was ruined inside- it just couldn't wheel anymore so that is why it had to be replaced. I still hands down recommend it to everyone as an investment piece. I am including it in this list today because I recently purchased this for a loved one and they absolutely LOVE it.
I have had many carry-on suitcases over the years but can't recommend this one enough. Back in 2017/2018 I had seen several bloggers that I follow recommend this luggage and was a bit shell-shocked at the price. Starting in 2014 I tried several other cheaper carry-on luggage options and was disappointed with each of them for various reasons and the fact that they would eventually fall apart after only a couple of months or a year or two. Finally, I found this carry-on on sale on Amazon and purchased it.
Friends, save your money on the cheaper options and purchase this carry-on. It is worth every. single. penny. For the six years I had my first one- I was shocked at how it still looked brand new, the quality of it, the durability, and the way it cleans up so easily and looks brand new even though it is white. It holds tons of items and you will be amazed at all you are able to pack in it. (I traveled for more than 10 days on trips and it all fit!)
It typically runs about $325 but is currently on sale for less than $225. NOW that is still a lot of money to me, but I purchased mine on sale and I paid about $250. I had it for six years and would have had it for many more if the luggage carousel incident hadn't happened haha. Even at 6 years it is like I paid only $42 a year (which is less than what I had been paying for the cheaper ones)! It is WORTH the investment. Trust me!
4. Sturdy Purse Organizer
This is another product that I have mentioned before but recently just purchased a new one (after nearly 5 years!). It is so good that it is worth mentioning again in this post! I first read about this organizer years ago, but was a bit skeptical of how well it would work. I was also getting tired of needing to search my purse for items and feeling desperate to organize my purse- not just for the trip but in general. hahaha! And then once I got it and used it... I started talking about non-stop and telling everyone about. Just the other day I was telling two friends that they needed to get one! Hahaha!
This is another product that I have mentioned before but recently just purchased a new one (after nearly 5 years!). It is so good that it is worth mentioning again in this post! I first read about this organizer years ago, but was a bit skeptical of how well it would work. I was also getting tired of needing to search my purse for items and feeling desperate to organize my purse- not just for the trip but in general. hahaha! And then once I got it and used it... I started talking about non-stop and telling everyone about. Just the other day I was telling two friends that they needed to get one! Hahaha!
This felt organizer (I chose the beige color so that it will go with any of my purses!) comes in 11 different colors and is less than $12 on Amazon (you can find it HERE). I love that I can easily switch purses now just by taking this out and changing it from one purse to another. SO simple and easy! Even if you don't travel a lot you will love it for daily life (for size reference I chose a medium)! For traveling mine was loaded up with tons of items and it was the easiest trip in the airports because of how organized it kept things in my purse! If you are interested in it you can find it HERE and it comes in so many different sizes!!
Y'all. This sound machine has been the answer to the lugging/packing/unpacking of a fan in many different places! Haha I am laughing out loud as I remember the way that Sue, Emily and I even dragged a large fan into the outback of Alaska... and how it would have been SO much easier if only we had had this! haha!
I discovered this sound machine in 2021 and finally purchased one and it is AMAZING. Y'all. It is a perfect size for travel (it fits right into your carry on) and is incredibly light weight at 1.2 pounds. It is only 4.4 x4.4 x 2 inches wide and hide so it is the tiniest little thing, that is absolutely perfect. You can set it to a white noise type level or you can put it really high if you are wanting to have a very loud noise machine. There are 10 different fan noises and 10 different volumes to match so you have lots of choices!
There are nearly 6,000 positive reviews on this product and it is currently priced at $50 dollars! To be honest, I haven't seen this item go on sale very often, so that is the typical price. We have had ours for three years (my mom uses it every night) and it still works perfectly! Run and go purchase one now y'all! You won't regret it!
Click HERE to purchase!
I hope that these five items are as helpful for you as they have been for me! 2024 was a beautiful year of travel and I am so excited to share with y'all the beautiful adventures coming in the next few months and year!! Let me know if there are any travel items you have found helpful in the last year that I should check out for this coming year!
Happy Wednesday friends! Have a wonderful day!
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