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Bon Voyage to Wrinkles: Ten Easy Rules for Perfect Packing
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13144 |
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LIFE
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11 / 1987 |
1,443 Words |
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Adrianne Marcus
Adrianne Marcus has published in Food & Wine, Menus, Travel &
Leisure, Good Food, Cooking Light, and other magazines. |
The last time I left London I was wearing three coats: the one I bought, the one I brought, and the one that wouldn't fit in my luggage. I had learned the traveler's lesson: Clothing expands and luggage shrinks.
At that precise moment I vowed that no matter how good a bargain I might find, if it didn't fit into my luggage or it couldn't be shipped, I wouldn't buy it. This vow embellished an earlier pledge: to take only as many pieces as I could carry.
Of course my pledge hadn't prevented me from overpacking. Upon arriving I opened a suitcase of wrinkles; it looked as if King Kong had danced on my clothing. At that moment I determined I would revise the roll-toss-and-pray school of packing I practiced and learn the how and why of scientific packing.
It doesn't matter who you are: a corporate executive capable of million-dollar decisions; a parent attempting to pack the children's entire wardrobe; or a professional traveler. Everyone comes to that moment when you stand there, clothing heaped about you, paralyzed by indecision: what shall I take or leave behind? Will the weather change? Will I need casual or dressy clothes? Did I pack enough?
Finally, you know what you're going to take, but the question now is how to shoehorn it in. So you roll, toss and pray it will arrive on the luggage carousel intact, even though the contents will resemble nothing a human being could wear.
When I got home, I unraveled myself from my cocoon of coats and
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