During daily life losing personal objects are quite a disturbing thing. Especially if you are a person with attention deficit, each day may become another hassle that you search for your keys at home or tossing your bag upside down in the middle of the restaurant to find your debit card.

For business trips, the cost of losing valuables may be harsher. Since company-owned items are mostly technological devices, losing your phone or laptop given by the company may cause bigger problems. Because those devices also include confidential information that may harm business relations besides their monetary value.

For your next trip, you may consider following tips on the business trip checklist to avoid wasting your time at lost and found offices. 

Focus on what you lost most

If you tend to lose small valuables like keys, credit cards, and ID cards, then try to apply a routine that you will check the same objects when you are leaving from a place. Create a mental checklist and tick each item whenever you change location. Also, putting these items to the same place every time will create a habit, and the memorization process becomes easier. For example, you make sure that you put your Business cell phone to your bag’s inner pocket, or your VPN device to the front pocket of your laptop bag. These precautions will help you to maintain a routine and reduce the risk of lost and found objects.

Do not bring your valuables with you

Even you plan to go on a business trip with a small suitcase, you may end up with overstuffing your baggage or carrying multiple bags. This would increase the likelihood of losing personal belonging. To carry your personal cell phone and business mobile, or 2 laptops along with other things will stress you and as well as distract you. So, try to reduce your personal items and especially valuable belongings for business trips.

Choose your accommodation location wisely

Yes, due to budget limitations, you may not choose the best hotel for your business trip. However, do not forget that this for business purpose. So, rather than a landscape view of your room, your safety matters. Check the visitor comments on the safety of the neighborhood and the reliability of hotel staff. Losing a personal belonging at a hotel may become too stressful if they do not have cameras or poor understanding of service quality.

Use ID tag stickers for your valuable belongings

One of the most effective ways for ensuring your belongings is to use ID tags to avoid spending time at lost and found services and waiting for their return in exceedingly long lists. This practical solution provides tags for your valuables to attach on them with the information of lost and found company’s contact info. There are also rewards offered to your future finder if s/he returns the lost and found item to the owner. This motivates most people who find missing objects. While providing only mediator company information, the owner’s contact information stays confidential. 

Waiting for the return of lost and found objects is a desperate process and owners mostly think they will never reach their belonging again. However, the ID tags for belongings can be used for life-long and always stay on your goods. This solution increases the return rate of missing personal belongings. While you carry valuable technological devices on your business trips, and if you are a frequent traveler, using these ID tags for personal items may become a beneficial tool for you and also for your colleagues.…