What items to bring to use in villas?

What Kitchen items do you find handy to bring from home? paper towels, dish soap?

We have 3 children and usually stay for 2 weeks. So I bring a sponge for washing dishes, extra towels, pancake griddle and big dutch oven for frying. These items all stay in a rubbermade tote marked Cancun so we are ready to pack every summer. I think we also have plastic cereal bowls and plates, shot glasses, cheese grater.

I usually take a variety of sizes of Ziplock bags, plastic wrap, foil, and some plastic storage containers.

Kathy

items to bring

lots of zip lock bags - large and medium, and plastic wrap.
sponge, small squirt bottle of dish detergent.
extra dish towels.
plastic leftover containers that we don't bring back home.
small containers of a few spices.
instant oatmeal, granola bars, mac'n'cheese, microwave popcorn.
small jar of favorite instant coffee.
toothbrush to clean can opener blade just-in-case.
insulated lunch totes - small, foldable - and a few freezer packs.
insulated water (etc) bottle holders with over-the-shoulder straps

not for the kitchen, but six BRIGHT 2-3" fabric squares, with our name on them in indelible marker, and large safety pins, to pin to our pool/beach towels so they don't "walk" when we're in the water.

not much for Cancun. Ziplocs, paper plates, paper napkins, (small quantities of the paper products), 2 solo cups each. and a key chain bottle opener. There's usually only 2 of us so it's easier to pack a few things rather than buy a whole package down there.

other places I usually bring my coffee mug. I hate when there's wimpy coffee mugs in the cupboard.

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