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What's your method for packing a suitcase?
Oh this is good! As hubby and I have very very different ways to do this so travelling together becomes a nightmare...
I first get out everything I am going to take....and normallly if it is a holiday/vacation then I don't want to have to do laundry so I take at least one outfit a day - for me and the kids - that is something Mr laundry-no-idea Hubby doesn't get. I fold everything - put socks in shoes or cosmetics in shoes and pack all them first - pack the major folded things on the middle and have books, cosmetics on the outside.
I admit I over pack. I often have to sit on suitcases to close them. I have never once been charged for excess weight - unlike hubby.......he prefers to take just one big bag where as I will take a few. Also he would rather be shot than have plastic bags used anywhere (did I mention he is a snob). I also rarely use the nice hard cases we have as there is limited ability to stuff more stuff in. Bee (9) also overpacks....she's got it from me. She has already started packing for Mexico (mid March) and here is what she was planning to take for one night in the mountains (where she already has books. toys and other clothes)
When travelling to/from UK I bring back things that I then have to unpack in secret - nothing illegal but just things that drive hubby mad about me even considering to bring here - deodrants, Strepsils, books CDs. I once even brought back a load of Le Creuset pans in my cases......
I always pack for us as a family. Then I know what we are taking and I can hide bit and pieces I know he will scoff at.
Funny story :-
Our honeymoon was a surprise. Well hubby had given me loads of hints that we were going camping in a National Park - he had bought guide books he would read and secretly hide if I came in a room - maps he would put under the sofa - of course I would go there and look as soon as he was gone so I thought it was a camping trip in CA. He told me to pack warm clothes, sensible shoes and some pots and pans and cans of soup. We were apparently going to be on the road a lot - need I say, I was really quite dreading it?
The next day, we woke up in our hotel room and he videoed me opening the envelope with out vacation details in - tickets to Maui and Kauai (Hawaii) - I am there on film going 'But we can't drive there can we? Do we still have to camp?" That's how brainwashed I had been...
He had secretly packed a case for me. Can you imagine your husband packing your case for your honeymoon? He didn't do too bad but i would certainly have taken way more stuff and loads of nicer things if it had been down to me!!
