Grandma Duty Over—Packing Begins
May 3rd, 2008
It has been great being on ‘grandma duty’ for the past two weeks, but now it is time to pack up to go home. Grandma duty is holding the new baby, probably spoiling her rotten and playing cars, trucks and trains with her two year old brother.
I don’t know about you but packing to go on vacation is a whole lot more fun than packing to leave. Part of me wants to stay and part of me wants to go home to my family and three cats. Here are some tips on making it less painful:
•Start packing one to two days before flying. You will have less chance of forgetting something you need to take home with you.
•Pack everything in the jumbo size zip lock bags. This is wonderful when you get home and unpack as like things are together and it makes unpacking faster. Dirty clothes can be tossed in the washer, clothes are all together and can be hung up, and cosmetics are all together and can go back to where they belong without having to search for them throughout the suitcases.
•Weigh the bags on a scale to make sure you are under the 50 pounds airlines allow.
•In your carry on make sure you don’t pack any liquid or gel over 3 ozs.
With just a little forethought packing can be less stressful, you’ll take everything home with you that you want and it can be done quickly both coming and going.
What experience have you had packing that has make it easy and pain free?
May 4th, 2008 at 6:34 am
The small ziplock zipper baggies are great for little electronic chargers, when you never really need a posh charger bag.
I’d also suggest you pack shoes in the large zipper ziplocks. If you do that, put an “X” or the words “shoes” on the ziplock baggie, so you remember which bags are shoe bags. Avoids any possible “contamination!”
John