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This is my wife and me. Also, she loves to plan trips and I love to be spontaneous. The compromise is she plans everything for the trip and doesn't tell me anything. That way she gets her organization and I get my surprises.

I swear it's easier to get a toddler out the door than my wife.

Last trip I went on I packed six days before, but on the night of the trip lay in bed awake, anxiously worrying that I'd chosen the wrong luggage and wanted to use my other stuff instead, so I had to get up and start repacking everything at 2AM and I was destroyed with tiredness the day of the flight.

So I'm not sure what that makes me.

There's a third, who starts packing on the day of departure and is ready after half an hour.

I'm usually a night-before kind of packer. But I usually over-pack and over-prepare. I'll bring everything from sunscreen, to rain coats, extras of every piece of apparel, even extra toiletries when I can.

I go from being totally unprepared two days prior, to basically ready to go on a month-long trip for a week vacation, in less than 4 hours.

I'm the sort of procrastinator who avoids tasks because I will obsess over them until I am consumed by them. I have a trip in three weeks, and I want to start packing right now so that there's time to shop for anything we might need but don't realize we don't have, but I also know that I'll be doing laundry the night before we are set to leave because I always forget that one thing.

My wife will pack a few days in advance, and will pack the clothes she has clean. Maybe there will be one load of laundry to wash the one thing she knows she wants to bring but she knows it is dirty and knows exactly where it is. She will do that load of laundry three days before we leave. She's like some kind of sorcerer.

What I don’t get is when I was a yoof I was a disorganised, impulsive, random mess. So how is it me that’s the organised one who has everything planned and packed and my wife who’s literally doing her laundry the night before. Life is very odd.

I am panicking right now about how I will be packing the night before my flight in a month and a half. Fuck you brain! I have a system. ^what if that system fails?^

Peter Moore, The Full Montezuma: Around Central America with The Girl Next Door (2001) – six months of intensive traveling together will let you know if you were meant for each other (yeah, his next book was called Swahili for the Broken-Hearted …)

I'm somehow both of these people. I hate it

Who tf has enough clothes to pack for a trip and still go through a week of work and laundry

Is this some kind of privileged meme I’m too working class to understand

I day before and have a list on my phone for the things that can't be packed until the day of (cpap, meds, etc.). I mark them off as they get packed. Then I reset the list to use on the next trip.

My wife talks about packing early, but always ends up putting it off to the last night before the trip. Then she gets stressed out that she is missing something because she refuses to write down a list.

Outside of trips I can't keep track of most things because of ADHD and she is the reverse, not needing lists for most things. Our travel habits are the opposite of the rest of iur lives!

I travel two different ways. Either with kids, or for work.

Either way I try to travel as light as possible. I don't want to pack more than 2 days worth of clothes if I can avoid it. Having kids means they are going to bed early at least every other night and most hotels have a laundry room.

I just don't want to deal with it.

Plus wherever I'm traveling probably has a store where I could buy a shirt if I really needed to. Hell, casual wear is my usual souvenir when I travel anyway. Trucker hats especially, but hoodies and T-shirts as well.

Those are my parents.