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I'm always trying to carry as little stuff as possible.
The hardest part is determing what's useful and what's not, for instance, plug socket for charging my device.
What I could have done is simply find out which countries support which plugs, if the countries I'm going through use the same plug system (Spain and France for example), I'll ditch the travel plug for a simple 2 pin USB plug, such as this;
It's much smaller, lighter and a very simple design.
Along a similar train of thinking, I narrow down to the USB cables, if I have more than one device that have different port, I simply get a single micro-USB cable, and a micro-to-mini USB adaptor plugged in (or other port);
It would also help choosing device that have the same USB plug, especially camera that can be charged via USB rather than requiring a battery chargers that made the tiny compact size of the camera redundant.
Really thinking this through will reduced the volume size and weight enough to only go bikepacking with a saddlebag and framebag.