I went to Wisconsin back at the beginning of June with my grandparents and sisters. We have family that lives there, and a cousin that graduated that weekend. We left early Friday morning and had planned to be back Sunday night. As you know from my last post, that didn't happen. My grandfather is much better now, though. He only stayed in the hospital for just under a week, and has been home ever since. He's doing well in physical therapy and getting stronger all the time. :)
Anyway, back to the point of my post. When I go on a short trip (think 4 days or less) I don't like packing my huge suitcase. There's not really a point to it, know what I mean? I got a new luggage set for Christmas from my parents, and was really glad that it included a small weekend-type bag. So, that's what I packed my clothes and shoes in.
It's hard to tell in the picture, but this bag is actually pretty small. I packed 3 pairs of pants, a few shirts, that pair of TOMS, flip-flops, underwear, and pajamas, and everything fit and the bag zipped with no trouble. My toiletries and make-up did have to be packed separately, but that wasn't a big deal.
This toiletry bag is Ralph Lauren but it's from TJ Maxx. It came as a set with 2 other smaller bags, and I got it for Christmas a few years ago. It's held up nicely, and I'm able to fit all of my full-size toiletry items in it, should I want to.
This make-up bag was a recent purchase for me. I've needed a new travel make-up bag for quite a while, and found this one at Wal-Mart and really liked it. As you can see, even my Urban Decay Naked palette fits inside, along with all of my other make-up products. It was a good purchase, only cost around $10, and I will get a lot of use out of it.
Since this trip involved a drive that was 10+ hours, of course I needed some entertainment.
This is the Victoria's Secret Angels tote that I received as a free gift for spending $75 there. I really love reading, and as you can see I took 4 books with me, plus my Nook. In case anyone's wondering, I took The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, Wither by Lauren DeStefano, The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan, and Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge. I also had Paper Towns by John Green on my Nook. I didn't get to read The Son of Neptune or Fly By Night, but the others I did read and I highly recommend all of them. Besides books, I also took my Nintendo DS and my iPod. Everything fit perfectly into this bag with plenty of room to spare. It's a HUGE tote bag, and is actually going to be my beach bag next week. :)
Speaking of next week, I'd better get off of here now and go to bed...LONG day of cleaning, laundry, and packing ahead of me tomorrow. :\ But I know it'll be worth it in the end. :) I hope this post has helped someone, or you at least had fun reading it, or someone is at least reading it, ha ha. As always, if you do read my posts, tweet me! I would love to hear from you and what you think of my blog. I'm going to try to get a couple of posts up next week while on vacation, and when I return I'll try to post another "how I packed" but for longer trips. Stay tuned for that! ;)
xoxo, Brittany
