When you travel, you you pack too much or too little?
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Usually, a little too much. I have traveled a lot, though, so I am relatively good about not over-doing it. But when traveling with little kids, you kind of have to be a little more prepared.
For the vacation we just went on, we left on the 31st and got back on the 8th. For myself and my kids (total), I packed 2 suitcases and 3 small carry-ons. That included a bunch of birthday presents for my daughter. And my work computer, of course.
My packing is, “Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.”
I’m an over packer.
When I was a kid, I’d go on road trips with my parents. Often, they were two weeks or more. There were three of us in the car (a 4-door sedan, but not a big one), and we always had a 5-man cabin tent and two large coolers, one for “cold” stuff and one for “dry” stuff, as well as our cook-kit/washing stuff/drinking jug. So those things had their allotted space. After that, came mom and dad’s suitcases. Dad once took me out to the car a couple days before, with the stuff in there (coolers and suitcases not packed yet), pointed to a small space and said, “see that spot? That’s how much space you have. If what you bring doesn’t fit in that space, it doesn’t go.”
I learned to pack VERY light.
I pack lots!!
I pack for one extra day but as a good scout I pack it very tightly!
I crack up with the way my girl scouts pack! You would think they are going away for a month instead of a weekend. I have told them all the next person who brings a suitcase camping, I am going to make them repack their stuff into their pillowcase!
If I can get away with it, I try to pack into a carry-on only, especially for work.
But I’m the type to pack every ‘just-in-case’ item, so it becomes hard.
I WAY over pack. I could probably stay a month for what I pack for a week (providing there’s a laundromat) and I’m CRAZY about gift shops so I always take more clothes home than I went with.
That’s the thing about clothes – I should just assume that we’re going to buy some clothes if we’re going to a tourist destination. On our cruise, I didn’t buy anything, but the aunties bought the girls each at least 2 dresses and 2 t-shirts. Besides, they spent a lot of the time in bathing suits. So although I packed relatively light, we had a couple of extra outfits that we didn’t need to pack.
On the other hand, I had only brought for myself 2 pairs of jeans (including the one I was wearing), 1 pair of “nice” pants, and 1 pair of shorts. On the plane ride to San Juan, Miss E spilled her juice on both of us. So I changed to the other jeans in San Juan, but then something else got spilled on them, so I never had any really clean jeans the whole time.
If I have the room, I way over pack. On purpose! You never know!
WAY over pack then I end up never wearing half the clothes I brought.