There is something about making gift baskets that I absolutely love. I love searching for a multitude of small items for the giftee to open like a little treasure box. While Christmas is still months away, I’m already thinking about gifts for my friends and family. For a few of my friends this year, I’m assembling a travel essentials restock box.

The thought behind this travel essentials restock box is that prior to each trip, my friends can use the box to restock their toiletry bag or carry-on with however many of each items they need for the trip. While some items, such as the floss picks might need to be restocked each trip, others such as the anti-chafe bar can last a few trips.

The box I’m using has 16 compartments so I started hunting for the perfect 16 travel essentials that might need to be replenished each trip.

I didn’t necessarily completely fill each compartment with the travel essential because I wanted to ensure that the item’s expiration date wouldn’t pass before it could be consumed, and also think practically about how many of each item they might use for about a year’s worth of trips.

Next came the fun part – finding the perfect travel essentials. For this, I thought about what items I had packed along for my recent trip, and also which items I liked to include in my flight crew thank you bags.

All of the items below (along with the 16-compartment bin) are shared in an Amazon storefront list for easy access.

This gift works best if you are making multiple boxes as many of the items come in higher quantities than are needed for a single restock box.