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Getting ready to hit the road or just in need of some gifting inspo for your travel-minded friends or family members? We’ve been getting a lot of use out of these items and they’re all compact, perfect for stocking stuffers or gift exchanges.

Pack-It Specter Tech™ Clean/Dirty Cube Medium

With hotels trending towards becoming more environmentally-friendly and doing away with plastic laundry bags, Eagle Creek’s Clean/Dirty Cube offers the ideal solution: a packable cube containing a center divider for storing clean clothes up front and dirty in back.

The divider is both sealed and water-repellent so your dirty laundry doesn’t add moisture to the clean stuff. During your trip, the clean side starts to dwindle in size as the dirty side begins to fill up. It’s brilliant!

The Specter’s self-correcting zipper pulls zip around smartly colour-coded zippers, too: green for clean, grey for dirty.

Capacity: 12 L (730 cu in)
Dimensions: 25 x 34.5 x 10 cm (10” x 13.5” x 4”)
Weight: 0.12g (4.2 oz)
Material: 30D Ripstop Nylon

It’s available in White/Strobe and Black/White; CAD $38.95/USD $20.97 (currently on sale)

Herschel Supply Travel Wallet

The stylish, well-organized Herschel Supply Travel Wallet will protect your credit cards, passport and cash with an integrated RFID-blocking layer.

It’s got six credit card slots, a mesh zippered compartment for cash and coins, a pen loop, passport sleeve and exterior slot for boarding passes.

Made of 70D polyester ripstock fabric (with a 100% polyurethane foam interior), the wallet measures 8.25″ x 4.75″ (20.95 cm x 12 cm) and comes in Black, Woodland Camo and Navy/Red. CAD $29.99/USD $24.99

Manfrotto PIXI Mini Tripod

For a tripod of its size, the cute Manfrotto PIXI feels solid in the hand. Its legs pull out to reveal a stand suitable for compact cameras, action video cameras and DSLRs with standard kit lenses (in terms of weight).

Any camera that uses the 1/4” universal screw thread will work, provided the camera’s body isn’t heavier than 650 grams (1.4 lbs). It will accommodate a max weight of 1 kg (2.2 lbs).

Tech Specs

Length: 18.5 cm (7.3”)
Weight: 190 grams (6.7 oz.)
Panoramic Rotation: 360°
Front Tilt: -35°/+35°
Lateral Tilt: -35°/+35°

Its feet contain a textured grip material underneath to help avoid slippage. When folded, it makes an ideal handheld monopod.

Manfrotto’s PIXI Mini Tripod comes with a five-year warranty (via online registration) and retails for CDN $44.95 and US $24.99.

Travalo Perfume Atomizers

Thanks to Travalo, I can take my fave scents on my travels in ultra-compact, TSA-friendly style without risking the chance that one of my bottles will leak in my luggage!

Simply remove your perfume bottle’s atomizer cap and pump the scent into the Travalo atomizer via a tiny hole in the bottom. When filled, its 5 ml bottle will disperse up to 65 sprays.

[Black, White, Red, Blue]

The Milano is finished in a superior, durable and tactile leatherette containing finely crafted metal parts and is perfectly weighted. The innovative Genie-S ‘pump to fill’ system transfers your fragrance without spills or exposure to air.

[Aqua, Orange, Hot Pink, Pink]

Travalo’s Milano is available in eight cool colours (Orange, Hot Pink, Aqua, Pink, Red, Blue, Black, White), packaged in a pretty box ready for gifting. CAD $49.99/USD $38

Travalo products are available across Canada at London Drugs and Shopper’s Drug Mart.

Winter Rescue Kit

And last but not least, L’Occitane’s budget-stretching Winter Rescue Kit makes a fab stocking stuffer to help skin survive winter.

Inside a cute holiday-themed box is our favourite 20% shea butter cream in a handy 30 ml tube plus a tin of Le Petite Remedy — a cosmetic balm that helps nourish, protect and sooth dry skin. Both are unscented for those sensitive to scent. CAD/USD $20