I know this is another post before actually leaving, but I thought it would interesting to document my packing process. For the last two weeks, i've been telling myself to start packing and get down to business, but I didn't really do anything until maybe a day ago, about two days before I leave. But...I took pictures to show you what it looks like.
First, I started separating almost all of the clothes I owned. In this picture, to the right you see a pile of clothes I planned to take with me. The middle pile closest to the bottom of the picture is the pile of clothes I am leaving here. The left pile is actually clothes I had just washed and hadn't sorted. My chair has clothes I just bought from Salvation Army. And the last pile is actually a pile of just hoodies. I learned I owned over 15 hoodies/college hoodies.
After a lot of decision making, I finally had my two piles done. The one on the right is what I am NOT taking to Israel. On the left, is the pile of clothes I am taking with me. I also had some clothes in the closet I had kept hung up, and some clothes in the basement drying. But now, my room looked like less of a mess.
Here, I'm super happy because my room actually looked manageable. After I narrowed down all my clothes, I had to find an adequate way to get about actually packing them. So, I folded every piece of clothing in the NO pile and put them in my drawers or gave them to my sisters or a charity pile. Now what you see behind me is all the clothes I am taking, folded and separated into other piles by category of clothing.
This is my final picture, because after this, you would just see a happy child with two nicely packed suitcases. Because I only get two suitcases with a 50lb limit, I had to split all my clothes into two piles with relative even weight. That is almost just as exhausting as the initial separations because if I add too much weight to one suitcase then I have to pay an extra fee for the suitcases.
Hopefully I get this right because if I don't, it is a hefty fee at the airport. Plus tomorrow, I need to go shopping for some last minute essentials. But the biggest thing i've noticed while packing is I don't feel like I'm actually leaving for this long because of the restrictions of my luggage. Most college kids have a pretty empty room when they leave for school because they can bring all of their stuff. I am basically only bringing clothes. That leaves my room looking the same but cleaner. I know it'll hit me when i'm there, but right now I just feel like I'm leaving for a vacation. Oh well, I'll figure it out at some point.
Ok, it's 3 am and I still only have, maybe, one suitcase packed. Lila Tov!
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