Your Life in a Bag

Not much you can say about packing. Fold, stuff, repeat. Hope you don't run out of room. I washed every piece of clothing I own in hopes the orphaned socks would find each other. Japan is an A-list socks only destination. The general goal of packing for travel is not to be naked in a different city far from your closet and stay warm if it is cool, and cool if it is hot. Half way through you give up on any fashion statement after you just stuffed your neatly pressed suit into a soft sided rectangle. One does have a few options, you can A: Bring 14 pair of underwear and socks for a 14 day trip accepting as time progresses you're basically toting a dirty laundry hamper with no net gain in space. B: Bring 7 pair of underwear and socks knowing there will be washing sometime in the near future and you may in fact pay more to wash your clothes than they are worth. Or C: bring 7 pairs and 7 pairs you're willing to throw out on the trip, thus, no wash and room to buy more clothes, which you'll need when you get home. To help with C, hotels could leave bags in your room to put your old clothes in for donation to local charities, and you could drop the bags off at the front desk for 10% off coupons at the neighborhood Versace or Armani store around the corner. Yeah, that's good. Somebody have John D. get that idea to Gavin, I know they're close ;)