Usually packing for a trip is a slow gathering followed by the concerted counting of shirts, pants, etc, and then an hour of so of into the suitcase. I had started the slow gathering as normal, and then did the counting step a few days ago. Today I got to the into the suitcase step, even though I don’t leave until early morning Thursday.
This into the suitcase was different because I decided to try using packing cubes. These had been gifted to me for retirement, but I had not tried them out yet. I finally really looked at them and realized they had a regular zipper plus a compression zipper.
Three are in use, in the suitcase, although one was too full of socks to compress. I decided to take another to use for dirty clothes segregation, just because it was handy.
I will still need to do the last minute items, at the last minute.
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