So, I won’t even kid you that while you’re reading this, I’m mentally still in NY, getting my BlogHer on, eating pizza, talking to people. . It’s true that places can be cool and fun, but I think that most people forget one of the most important things.
Packing and unpacking.
Suitcases would lay half unpacked between trips. On the floor. Never to be put away because we might need them again. So what if those trips were six months apart? So what!!
Chances are the only reason you ever put a suitcase away is because your mother-in-law is coming over and you don’t want to hear about it until she leaves. Even then you may just shove it under your bed.
I’d totally respect you for that.
Whether your suitcase was last at a blogging conference, a family get-together, or a French orgy, we want to hear how long that bad boy sat on the floor. Next to your bed. On your couch. Whatever. We’re not judging. We just want to know.
After you’ve told us about your suitcase love affair you can get squishy with the letters that have come in. You know, because without letters this whole thing is sort of pointless. So, MOAR letters!!!
“You guys look awesome for your age, and your hair is so shiny and well I just swoon…” Sandi K.
We do look awesome for our age. In fact, all the time people will say “I can hardly believe you’re 62!! You don’t look a day over 39.” Which, totally works when you’re 37! See, if you lie about you age and tell people you’re 25, they think,”DAMN, she’s had a hard life. Have we never heard of sunscreen?” Take a tip: lie older about your age.
“You may not know, but who has the great ideas about sneaking drinks in?” Marcy L
OK. This makes me happy because I actually know the answer to your question without going to Google. One of our ferocious writers Heather wrote a post that explained the best ways to smuggle bee lieu drinks into a game called B.Y.O.B. You’re welcome. If nothing else, you can say we’re there for you in a time of emergency.
We are so glad to get your letters after a week of birthday festivities and BlogHer10 fun. We are always glad to get them at LettersFromTheEditer @ gmail(dot)com, maybe your letter will be highlighted too!
–Anissa
About Anissa Mayhew
I moved back from Europe to Canada…and I still have suitcases that are unpacked.
Which makes me wonder why the hell I dragged so much crap all this way back with me.
…Because I moved back in July.
Nope. Not the July that just passed…yeah..the one before that.
Whoops.
Worst part is? When I need to USE that particular suitcase…I just dump all of the crap IN it into a pile on the floor, pile some clean clothes in..and then when I return from where ever I had to be that necessitated a suitcase…I throw the dirty laundry into the laundry basket (okay, into a giant pile on the floor) and I pile all of the crap back into it because I have no idea what it is or what I’m going to do with it.
Score
82739348483one for the lazy gene.Except for the Europe and Canada things, we may have been related in a former life!
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
I’m so smart that I do actually unpack… well eventually (read several months after Christmas which is the only time we go anywhere) and put all the stuff I got specifically for that trip into the suitcase so I’ll know just where to find it next time. Then, after much nagging, the fiance will placed it haphazardly into the storage closet for me. I’m so smart, in fact, that I think of that same idea every year and forget that I thought of it last year. That means that, when shopping for the trip (because EVERY occasion is a shopping occasion) I buy all the same stuff I bought last year but don’t remember that until I’ve already detagged and washed it all in order to fold and pack it. Oh yeah, and I’d be dewrinkling everything in my fiance’s Mom’s drier before I wore it at Christmas if it hadn’t taken me like most of my life to realize I can fit more in the suitcase folded than crumpled. Go ahead, poke away.
They make 12 step programs for people like us!
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
We went to visit family out of state, and came home August 5th. The suitcases are still out. With clothes still in them, even.
I’m only impressed if it’s a different year. Or if there is food involved.
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
The last trip we went on was 3 weeks ago, so the suitcases are still out. To tell the truth, we have gone on a few trips this summer and I actually took the suitcases out of the closet in the middle of June. They have yet to make it back in there . I have just left them on the bedroom floor since then. Three months…wooo whooo!
Twitter Name: mommabird2345
*wiped a tear* can we make it 4, my love?
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
We’ve been back from Disney World since July 15 and our luggage is still piled in the corner of our bedroom. We thought about putting it away but the cats have taken to sleeping on it and we are too lazy to remove the cat hair. We’ll probably just buy new luggage next year.
Twitter Name: jenwales
You buy new luggage and I’m buying you a tiara!
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
The stuff stays in the suitcase if it is not necessary. You know, until you start to realize most of your clothes are missing. Ugh, sucks to unpack! Means the end of the adventure and laundry time.
I bet that’s where my tan bra is!!!
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
I consider myself successful if the suitcases make it to the bedrooms. Right now, I’m a FAIL because I still have 2 suitcases in the living room from BlogHer. Yeah, 2 weeks with suitcases in the living room – I’m just going to call them furniture.
Twitter Name: alotofnothing
I unpack the day we return, or the next day if we got in late at night. I do all the laundry, put the fancy dust cover bags over our suitcases, and have husband lug them back into the basement. Sometimes they sit on the stairs for a day or two until husband takes them down, but never full of stuff.
Apparently when it comes to suitcases I aim high!
WOW! That’s like walking on water or something.
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
I went on a family trip at the end of July, and my suitcase, while unpacked, is still out. The laundry from the trip is another story.
However my suitcase goes in a weird place which is hard to get into- the storage space inside my bed that substitutes for the box spring. It’s hard to open, hard to close, and besides I use my suitcase like every 2 weeks (more like every month) to go visit my boyfriend- for example I have to pack it today for a vacation with HIS family!
Twitter Name: Destiny88faith
Technically, that’s not YOUR fault, right?
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
Last October we went on holiday to Florida – in May we moved house – still got an suitcase not unpacked from the holiday and lets not even get into the moving boxes which may or may not be in the shed…
If I thought I’d get around to it, I’d write for Aiming Low.
We moved 2 years ago (today actually) and we still have 2 full rooms of stuff that although unpacked (read dumped on the floor by the moving company) are still pretty much exactly how they looked 2 days after moving. Well maybe not exactly….on the occaision that I’ve needed something I may have scrambled the different piles! Ok, so apparently I have hoarding/disorganiztional issues…whatever, it’s my junk and I’ll keep it if I want to!
Twitter Name: Giggilinshelle