Travel is a fact of life, whether for business or for pleasure. Here are three steps to make your packing and unpacking much simpler and less time-consuming.
1. Make a list of all the products you use throughout the course of an average day. (shower gel, deodorant, shampoo, moisturizers, hair spray, toothpaste, toothbrush, floss, etc).
2. Take your list with you to the store and purchase one of every product on your list in a trial size. Also buy a small inexpensive hair dryer, a mini shower scrubbie and an extra comb or brush. At the same time, purchase a travel case large enough to accommodate all these new items.
3. When you get home, put a handful of cottonballs, swabs and safety pins into three separate Ziploc baggies. Pack your new toiletries and your baggies into your travel case and then keep it packed this way and stored in your luggage at all times.
4. After you return home from each trip, refill your travel size toiletries then put the bag away into your suitcase until your next trip.
By investing a little time and money to set up this system, you will never have to worry with transferring big bottles back and forth from the shower into your luggage, and no more forgotten toothpaste when you get to your destination. You will never again have to pack toiletries for travel, if you always keep this bag packed and ready to go at a moment's notice!
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Monica Ricci is the founder of Catalyst Organizing Solutions in Atlanta, GA. She speaks to groups and companies about the benefits of choosing a simpler life and how to cut the chaos. She is president of the Georgia chapter of the National Association of
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