Packing to go on holiday

I have not yet booked my holiday but have already bought a shampoo (special offer) two head bands for when washing my face and two pretty half price hair ornaments and placed in my case. I always buy small things from the date I book and so this latest wheeze is very forward looking.!

List maker too. I have a notebook with items I think I may need and transfer details to my actual list as soon as I start planning.

I have a folder of lists on my computer. Different ones for short breaks or long, winter and summer, UK or abroad.
I start a couple of weeks before.
I could never travel with just hand luggage, my medication nearly fills it! Plus I don't see the pleasure in wearing the same couple of things on holiday and having to wash your underwear. I take a lot of stuff but I am well travelled and very little is unused or unworn.

We often went to Rothesay on Isle of Bute on.holiday. Our clothes were packed in a wicker trunk and sent on ahead to our BnB . So for the week before the holiday there was very little choice of clothes to wear

Living on a holiday island meant no holidays away. No point.
I have always been a big fan of lists. Clothes, earmarked for time away from home won't be worn in the days before travelling and I start packing the day before I go. I have found that rolling clothes helps them not to crease.

I agree about the lists! I have a master list which is quite a few years old. From this I compile a list for a specific holiday. I don’t write down individual pieces of clothing. I put evening clothes, dresses, tops, shoes etc. My suitcase is laid out on the spare bed and I pack over a few days. Each time I put something in the case it gets crossed off the list. It works for me!

No, as a last minute Annie I don’t get the suitcase out or pack until the night before, or the morning I’m going, if later that day. As long as I’ve got my passport, phone and charger and cards I’m not too worried, anything I’ve forgotten I’ll just buy when I get there, although I haven’t had to yet. I keep a preprinted list (and a corkscrew) in my empty case, so it’s really easy. My washing is always kept up to date anyway, it’s one thing that I hate getting behind on, I don’t know why but it bothers me otherwise.

Lists are your friends Folks… I start a list, weeks before, with everything I need to take for a winter or summer holiday and find I can leave it until the last day before actually packing.

All washing is done a few days before so no surprises like no clean undies to put in!

Another friend 50 years ago was an "air hostess" as they were called and I can picture her touching her head (for her hat), then shoulders (jacket) and then down her body to remind her what she needed.

I sometimes do that and it makes me smile. I wonder where she is now. We lost touch a long time back.

No, we only travel with hand luggage - takes me about five minutes to pack.

I am going away for 2 nights from tomorrow. I bought a new small case on wheels and am as delighted with it as I was with a suitcase I had for my 12th birthday.

I am packed apart from a final dress which I want to stay as uncreased as possible. Summer packing is easier than winter which is so much more bulky. With the expected 32 deg I will need as little as possible. I can't remember much about packing or being packed for as a child. We lived by the sea so didnt holiday much. And not having many clothes like most in those days packing took very little time I expect.
My grandmother would come to stay with us from her home in London and she bought the smallest of cases. I think she must have just had a wash bag, change of underwear and night dress and maybe wore pretty much the same tbings every day. Maybe she brought a change of blouse and a pair of slippers. Nothing else would fit in the case. She did of course have a large handbag as well?

DD1 is a very organised packer. DD2 the complete opposite. I am in between. DH has a very small bag and when we went on holiday would take so few clothes. But always managed with what he had. Whereas I alway come home with unworn things....as I will this week.

I have a very well travelled friend and she leaves her packing till the last minute. Butt she has had lots of practice!

I can’t remember what my Dm did - we had so few summer things anyway.
Nowadays I pack the day before, having made sure anything I will want is clean and ironed.

Having said that, I did once completely forget to pack any knickers when we were going to a wedding in the Czech Republic. First morning in Prague, I had to go knicker-hunting - I’ve never been so happy to see an M&S in my life!

However long he’s going away for, dh will only take hand luggage and packs within half an hour. It’s leftover from many business trips, when he was used to sending any dirties off to the hotel laundry first thing every day - all very well when it’s on expenses!

So it came as a nasty shock when we were in Darwin, and they were charging 12 or 15 Aussie $ to wash a pair of socks!!

We never had a holiday as children but now I don't wear holiday stuff for a few weeks before we go.

We're going away in three weeks and the only reason the suitcases aren't already in the spare bedroom is that our grandkids are stopping over next weekend. It's all part of the holiday ritual. DH has also asked if we were taking the two medium cases, or the large ones? What a stupid question!!

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I told my DH not to wear the two polo shirts and favourite shorts that he wanted to take away with him . . . So why did I have to run the washing machine the night before we left?