13-09-2013, 06:40 PM
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Driving on holiday - do you overpack and take everything but the kitchen sink?
I always always ALWAYS overpack when I'm driving to a holiday destination (usually when caravanning)
Taken on this 4 night trip and not used:
2 books
2 computing magazines, still in subscriber address wrapper
Sunday's Mirror and magazines, plus MoS mags
puzzle book
a bag of vegetables
food - tin of baked beans, bacon, eggs, cereals, stuffing mix, small jars of jams and marmalades (used 1 only), marmite, 4 yorkshire puds, butter, several tins of soft drinks and several small bottles of same, several packets of crisps, bag of peanuts, 2 lemons, 2 limes, 1 orange
kitchenware - micro saucepan, oven dish, small tin dish, can opener, jar opener
one spare hand towel, 1 spare dishcloth, 1 washing up sponge (found on the last day, as couldn't work out where it was - so used rubber glove instead!)
thesaurus, as didn't use puzzle book
hot water bottle (enough heating there, but usually have been very cold in other vans)
electrical extension lead
a camping chair (no, the list hasn't finished yet!)
about 3 changes of tops
a pair of trousers (used 2)
a pair of shorts
13-09-2013, 06:45 PM
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Re: Driving on holiday - do you overpack and take everything but the kitchen sink?
...the contents of two toiletry bags (meds, spare bathroom stuff etc)
the contents of a bathroom box
about 4 toilet rolls
2 kitchen rolls
several soup sachets
several mini packs of biscuits (as found in a 99p shop)
TBC (most probably)
13-09-2013, 07:04 PM
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Re: Driving on holiday - do you overpack and take everything but the kitchen sink?
Waiting at the end of our hall to be taken down to the car for our one week holiday is a large suitcase (mine) a large holdall (dogs) a small suitcase (my husband's) and I can guarantee I will use about half of mine and he will use all of his LOL
13-09-2013, 11:01 PM
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Re: Driving on holiday - do you overpack and take everything but the kitchen sink?
Jazzi
I am the same taking everything but the house 
I have to have my favourite knife/ saute pan/coffee pot two cakes one chocolate one cherry and almond/gingerbread men and numerous meals for most days.
Even a small sewing kit in case anyone loses a button
14-09-2013, 09:22 AM
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Re: Driving on holiday - do you overpack and take everything but the kitchen sink?
Yes, I would seriously overpack much to my husband's annoyance - he'd have one small case and I'd ram stuff into that as well (on the basis that as it's his, it doesn't count as mine
) - well, you don't know what you'll need so what's the point of leaving stuff behind!
14-09-2013, 07:51 PM
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Exactly!(I have even remembered one or two more things I'd taken and not used, one being a backscratcher! My arms just cannot reach and I do get itchy. Oh, and did I mention nearly a dozen CDs?)
I always think I'm going to need every single item, and of course there are no supermarkets or shops in this country, are there?! Oooh, I think I may have forgotten the sewing kit this time round.
And though caravans have a full inventory of kitchen stuff, I take my own -frying pan and egg slice, micro saucepan, micro splatter guard plate, sharp knive, veg peeler, roasting tins. Unfortunately this time round I bought a portion of nice chips in the Chinese takeaway right next door, and they did me for two dinners, and even one breakfast (reheated for 2 meals), Then I cooked a bolog sauce and had spaghetti with that, and on Tuesday ate a big meal for lunch in a restaurant, probably having just toast that evening for my tablets, so didn't bother with all the vegetables I'd taken away.
My car felt very heavy with all that stuff. I even took my own duvet, which I used to put on the bed to lie on. They are usually a big uncomfy.
I can't do minimalist. It's not in my vocabulary. If I don't take all those things away with me, no matter for how many nights, I'd fret!!
I really think next time I will have to leave all that food behind, including the vegetables.
I wish...
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