My husband and I travel to locations and during the times of year that often require coats, hats, gloves and multiple layers, making packing a challenge. I am perpetually attempting not to overpack (click here for Packing Light Just Ain’t Right), but am thwarted by ensuring we have everything we need. Unless our destination is somewhere remote, which it never is, we can always buy anything I didn’t anticipate or forgot (the horror!). However, right or wrong thinking, to me, a planner and an organizer, this doesn’t make a lot of sense when preparing for a trip.
When I worked as a corporate meeting manager, I was always having to pack last minute things required for business. This occurred on both outbound and inbound legs of the event. Though I didn’t internationally take too many clothes, should I exceed the airline’s checked baggage weight limit, the charge would be expensed. Now such an infraction is mine to pay. I think that this has only happened once to me on a vacation, well over 20 years ago, when going on a Caribbean cruise. Back then, you had to dress up for dinners, you were changing several times a day from bathing suit to shorts to pants to formal wear, so I can understand it. Or, should I say, JUSTIFY it.
Despite the two decades that have passed since my suitcase broke the bank, every single time we check our suitcases, I am concerned that they will weigh more than 50 pounds. And every single time my husband tells me not to worry. “If we have to pay extra, we have to pay extra.”
This last Christmas he gave me a luggage scale. I don’t know whether this gift was meant to allay my worries or to eliminate him having to listen to me stress from the moment I close the suitcase until we lift it onto the scale at the airport baggage drop-off. Sort of like how he, out of the goodness of his heart, bought a new larger TV so I, his visually impaired wife, could see it better, and certainly not because most men I know would put an IMAX in their home if they could.
What a travel partner, what a guy.
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