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How do people do this by the seat of their pants?
I am a planner. I don't mean occasionally I mean ALL the time! I can't go shopping without a plan of attack. So any time I take a trip whether it be 3 days or 3 weeks I plan so far in advance and start packing so far in advance that I leave nothing to chance. Now I have known about this conference this weekend for 3 months. Yes three months. Did I make any of my normal lists? Did I get all my luggage ready? Have I packed a single solitary thing before tonight? Now I am scrambling! Well not at this exact moment I am ranting to y'all! I didn't even have everything purchased for the trip! I had to go shopping right after work. So that killed two hours with the drive and all. Now I am also doing laundry so I can wear my favorite pair of jeans tomorrow but I just HAD to wear to work today also. So the laundry is going the van is sitting right out the back door and ready for Kevin to take out an extra seat for all the luggage because another couple is riding with us. I have the bags partially packed. I did get my list done today while at work . But I can't even focus long enough to get everything done and we leave in a little over 12 hours and I still have to sleep.
How do people just throw things together? How do they go anywhere without planning? My husband has always said if they had put me in charge of the two wars they would already be done everything cleaned and polished and the thank you cards would have been mailed by now.
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I don't know. I am a chronic planner too. My DH is the opposite. He'll throw stuff in a suitcase 10 minutes before we leave. His philosophy is "if I don't have it and I need it, I'll buy it there." Mine is more like "if I haven't packed it in somewhere, we can live without it for six months."
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I have no idea how people do it. I would panic that I forgot something. I write list after list of what I need to bring me whenever I travel. My best friend is one of those people who can just throw things in a bag, but usually she ends up forgetting something. That is why I plan!
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Well my story gets even better. No sooner than I had posted that Debbie (over our lodge) texts me and ask me where I am at. I said home. She said you know you were to be down here for a meeting 10 minutes ago Crap I tell her (well worse than crap) I am in my gown give me a few. Well it's a 30 minute drive. I got dressed and out the door and down there in 25 minutes flat. *whew*
So I am on my way home about 8:30 and call son to tell him to re-tumble the dryer load and Kevin answers. He got home early so I set him to getting stuff done for me while I am still on the road dodging deer and texting. Well I get home and Kevin helps with with 80% of the rest. Giving me grief the whole time like he ALWAYS does when I am packing. Snide comments like.....
"Honey you really don't have to take all this stuff they do have hospitals in the area."
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"I didn't know we were borrowing a semi should we get a 48 or 52 foot trailer"
and the last....
"Are you sure we can fit Debbie and David in there with their luggage to?"
All those comedians out of work and he decides to be funny.
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Springfield---but they have-------------what do they have in Springfield???
Corruption, no wait the majority of that is in Chicago! What was I thinking? For me it is a convention. Every where you turn this weekend there, there will be Elks!
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Did I get all my luggage ready? 
I didn't even have everything purchased for the trip! 
I had to go shopping right after work. So that killed two hours with the drive and all. Now I am also doing laundry so I can wear my favorite pair of jeans tomorrow but I just HAD to wear to work today also. 
So the laundry is going the van is sitting right out the back door and ready for Kevin to take out an extra seat for all the luggage because another couple is riding with us. I have the bags partially packed. I did get my list done today while at work 
. But I can't even focus long enough to get everything done and we leave in a little over 12 hours and I still have to sleep.
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He got home early so I set him to getting stuff done for me while I am still on the road dodging deer and texting. Well I get home and Kevin helps with with 80% of the rest. Giving me grief the whole time like he ALWAYS does when I am packing. Snide comments like.....
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