Things not to bring to Taiwan

10. This bottle of Tide is just too big for one year's stay. I bet I did laundry once a week or so. How am I gonna use it all?
9. Plastic Halloween Pumpkin. It's not that it's totally useless; you could get a night or even stretch it out into a weekend. But a cost-benefit analysis shows you can probably leave this home.
8. Magic boots. You really won't need these here as it rains quite a bit. Actually it turns out you never really need magic boots.
7. 7-11 or Starbucks. There is no need to bring either of these to Taipei; they've got that covered pretty well.
...to be continued...