Have you seen Up in the Air? This is me.
Ryan: You know how much time you lose by checking in?
Natalie: I don't know. Five, ten minutes?
Ryan: 35 minutes a flight. I travel 270 days a year. That's 157 hours. That makes seven days. You're willing to throw away an entire week on that?
I've fully established that I am not a light packer (here's just one of many packing posts to prove my point). I need a lot of items when I travel, and so many of them are liquid that I can't even fit what I need for a quick 2 day trip in to a TSA approved 3-1-1 bag. So I check. Always. I'm not quite Natalie Keener (who even packed her own full sized pillow), but I do have shampoo, conditioner, body wash, face wash, face and body moisturizer, toothpaste, concealer, foundation, lip balm.... All in small travel sizes, but still too much to fit into a quart sized bag for TSA approved carry-on travel. So I check it all.
Last week I shared my super high maintenance girl packing of nail polish as part of the Manicure 101 series. I mentioned it mostly because it had come up a few times recently over on the Makeup Alley Nail Board that I like to frequent. Girls over there think nothing of bringing a huge number of colors, all carefully bubble wrapped, for a weekend trip. They're like me, I love this.
A reader, Deb, commented on that post, and I had to know more!
Christine, I think we are twins separated at birth :) I was reading your previous travel posts and we both have the same struggle...so much stuff to bring. I travel constantly for my job and have been slowly getting it together.
Yes! A reader that travels and has gotten this whole thing down! She has a system and it isn't because she needs less stuff than me. It's because she's super smart and has figured out how to work within the system to continue her high maintenance ways. I asked Deb to write me with her tips, and she did. She wrote and she was very detailed, which made me even happier.
Read on to see how Deb travels!
