The Intricacies of Luggage Date Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 05:44 PM PST Topic Experiences My husband and I are going to France in June. Its an anniversary present. Just think, Paris! 10 days and nights and me with only one suitcase! I searched and scrambled all over the net looking for guides on what to pack, how to minimize, how to live out of a carry on, and so forth. If you are a backpacker, there is help for you. If you are a business traveler, there is help for you. If you are a goth with 3 favorite skirts, 2 favorite dresses, 2 favorite pairs of pants, a corsette that goes everywhere with you, and a husband who's makeup kit is almost as big as yours, there is no help. Did I mention that I fall into the catagory of "big hair goth"? At least I can be rational about shoes..... These articles talk about rinsing out your clothes in the sink and hanging them to dry. Velvet doesnt LIKE getting wet. These helpful pages also recommend that you rinse your bras in the sink every night. Leather doesnt LIKE water either! "Take a good pair of walking shoes, but leave the high heels behind" says one authoritative article. What if, as a mere exercise of the mind, what if your comfy boots are high heeled AND all your long skirts are the right length if, and only if, you wear said high-heeled boots? What then, i ask myself? My loving, and somewhat vain husband and I stared into our closet. A wall of black stared back, lightened only by my horrible green stuff and splashes of purple here and there. We looked in the bathroom. The counters are invisible under the, well, stuff. We looked at our luggage: 1 leather satchel, 1 nylon satchel, 1 medium duffel bag, and 1 strange carry on size suitcase in tweed that has been used as a kitty scratching post for years. You are asking yourself something like "why doesnt she shut up and go buy another suitcase?". The answer is because we have tried that before. We seem to only buy suicidal, masochistic luggage. Whatever new piece of luggage that we buy gets eaten by baggage check ( 1 large, wheeled brochade piece), the taxi drives off with it(1 large black thingy with lots of pockets), or my cats pee in it(3 seperate bags. I love 'em, i just don't know what they have again my luggage). All of these are, im sure you agree, bad. Everything that we want to take wont fit. We know that. Now we have to somehow figure out which favoite outfits are less favorite than others. Anyone out there that has been in a "meaningful" relationship knows that her "favorite" skirt is rarely the one that looks the best on her and that his favorite pants are often the ones that she can barely stand the sight of any more. But neither lover will EVER say that out loud. And that the skirt that does look the best on her, or pants on him, (or vice versa as the case maybe) doesn't quite go with anything that either partner already has. This means more shopping and even more stuff that won't fit in the afore mentioned luggage. We are thinking of becomeing Krishnas and giving away all our earthly goods. Except my corsette. This article comes from Shmeng http://www.shmeng.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.shmeng.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=21