What Women Pack

As the IBMer and I popped open our suitcases the first night of our vacation, I realized a more appropriate title for this post would be: what women don’t pack. Left to our own devices (with no weight restrictions or fear of ridicule), this is what gets packed:

• Self help books
• Trashy magazines (as in celebrity trashy, not skanky)
• Sea Vegetables
• Flattening iron
• Curling iron
• Curling iron/hair dryer combo
• Hot Rollers
• Candicin
• Prescription sleeping pills
• Chic lit
• Eater’s Digest herbal tea
• 1 gluten-free pre-packaged sandwich
• 4 pairs of sweats with accompanying (not matching) slobby T-shirts
• 9 toothbrushes
• 5 mascaras
• 17 articles of clothing from Lululemon
• 14 skirts
• 5 different kinds of gum
• 7 different kinds of sun screen
• 1 travel candle
• 1 can of Pringles

Now here’s what we didn’t pack:

• lingerie
• condoms
• chocolate

Crazy, right? Even better than being so indulgent in our packing was throwing our clothing everywhere. It looked like a bomb went off in our room and we didn’t care. We both admitted had it been our spouses who left their underwear lying on the floor (as I did) or took over the dining room table with all their crap (as she did), we’d be pissed. Hmmm. Good thing the huz never reads this blog.

What makes it into your suitcase when nobody is looking?