Oky Doky,

Things are rolling right along with the trip preparation.  I am down to one the critical strategy on how to pack for this trip.  We are torn between the “pack it” or the “pitch it” strategy.  Now the pack it strategy is pretty straight forward.  You just pack all your new good stuff and as it gets worn or dirty, you put it in the plastic trash bags in the back of the truck until we stop long enough to throw it in the laundry or cleaners.  Then you pack it all back in the suitcase and start all over again.

The “pitch it” strategy, on the other hand, requires that you pack only your worst, wornout underwear and socks with the elastic broken and full of holes.  As you use them along the way, you just pitch them in the trash!  When you run out, you just stop at Target and buy yourself some new ones!  This not only lightens your suitcase everyday but it also helps clean out your underwear and sock drawers at home.  Pretty neat, huh?  The one flaw with this strategy is the way I was raised.  Everytime my mother couldn’t get me to change my clothes as a kid, she would always say, “What if you got in a wreck and they took you to the hospital and you had on those old dirty underwear with holes in them!  That would be awful!  So I guess if we decide to go with the “Pitch It!” strategy, I will have to drive extra careful so as not to end up in a wreck!

If you can help by giving me some idea which strategy is best, please post in and say so.  I got to go and start getting my suitcases out of the attic.