Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Preparing for your next trip with an unpacking list

A packing list can help make sure you bring the right things for a trip or a vacation. This week’s tip, shared by nilzwil, goes a step further: refining your list so you have it ready for the next trip too!

What to take on a trip or holiday? Sometimes I take a trip for a specific activity, cross-country skiing in Norway, a Summer cycling trip, sailing, and so forth; at other times it might be more of a general holiday, a cruise, for instance. You pack what you anticipate you need, hopefully you use a Remember The Milk list or create one.

I suggest that the discipline that rewards however is on the return. Use RTM, if you didn’t before, to create a list now: The Unpacking List! What you took, and more importantly what you actually used, or review the packing list if you employed one at the outset.

Was their something it would have been really helpful to take next time? Then in the future, you have what you actually used, and include whatever it made sense to take along – maybe you didn’t use that first aid kit but…! However, you now can dump the unnecessary extras. Furthermore, you don’t find yourself trying to source locally some essential item or other – for future trips your list is now ready made.

Thanks for sharing this tip, nilzwil! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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