Carry-On Packing List Generator by Trip Type

First, plainly: this ‘generator’ is a selector workbook, not software. Nothing is generated by an app or a website — you type a trip type, and the workbook surfaces that type’s pre-built checklist. That is all ‘generator’ means here, and it is stated up front so you know exactly what you are buying.

There are five pre-built lists — Beach, City, Business, Hiking and Winter — covering 30 items. Quantities scale from the trip length you type, by rules printed on the checklist tab: ‘Fixed’ items stay at their listed quantity, ‘Per day’ items multiply by your days, and ‘Days + 1’ items pack your days plus one spare (5 days = 6 tops). Every quantity is explicit arithmetic you can audit, and every item weight is your own entry.

The sample shows both directions honestly. The same 5 days as a Beach trip packs 5.72 kg and fits comfortably under the sample’s typed 7.00 kg limit. The Winter list, with everything packed and nothing worn, weighs 7.76 kg — OVER the limit by 0.76 kg — until the insulated jacket and the winter boots are moved to ‘worn instead’, which takes 2.05 kg out of the bag and lands it at 5.31 kg. One item (the rain shell) is listed but deliberately left unticked, so the packed count (14) is honestly not the listed count (15).

HOW IT WORKS
– ‘Checklists by Trip Type’: the five pre-built lists — item, category, quantity rule, rule quantity, weight each, and a marker per trip type. Edit anything in yellow and the packing list follows.
– ‘Your Packing List’: type the trip type and days on Start Here and the selected list surfaces with scaled quantities. Tick Packed? as items go in; mark Worn instead? for travel-day clothing — worn weight is shown separately and never counted in the bag.
– The weight block prints your packed total against YOUR typed carry-on limit with an OVER/UNDER verdict, plus a comparison of all five trip types at your days, everything packed, nothing worn.

WHAT’S INSIDE
– Five pre-built checklists (Beach, City, Business, Hiking, Winter) over 30 items
– Day-scaled quantities with the scaling rules printed on the sheet
– A weight check against your own typed limit — no airline’s real limit is stated anywhere in this workbook
– Worn-vs-packed split: wearing the two heaviest items is what makes the sample’s Winter list fit
– Plus the standard Expense Log, zero-based Monthly Budget, Dashboard and Monthly Summary tabs

Your gear, your weights, your limit — the sample’s numbers are example settings throughout.

How it works: the seven tabs are Start Here (your settings + step-by-step), the two feature tabs, Expense Log, Monthly Budget (zero-based), Dashboard and Monthly Summary. Yellow cells are the only places you type — every yellow value is your own entry. Formula cells are locked (password: sheetdaily, disclosed on the Start Here tab) and every formula is error-wrapped, so an untouched sheet reads blank instead of showing error codes. Instant download, ready for Excel and Google Sheets.

A note on the sample data: every price and date in this workbook is example data, typed in by hand to show you how the sheet behaves. Replace it with your own.