AIBU we leave on holiday tomorrow morning and …

Here you go - keep a full set of duplicate toiletries in your washbag, add the correct number of knickers, bras, etc for the number of days you’re going, add a clean top for each day and two pairs of shoes and trousers. Just before you leave add makeup and devices. I keep duplicate hair straighteners in my case. Ten minutes - job done.

This is me!! I desperately need tips from all these 10 minute packers! I feel like it takes me hours! What's wrong with me?? I have a list in an excel spreadsheet and it still takes forever. Admittedly I do not travel light.

I’ve put together snacks and dog stuff for a quick getaway on Friday because I’m busy tomorrow and Thursday night and we’re leaving as soon as I get home from work on Friday. I know my DH will throw some boxers/socks in a bag an hour before we leave. Crazy.

I seriously doubt you’ll be leaving at 8am!

Solidarity @Sundaybananas it must be very frustrating. Good luck!

I start packing about a week before....and then change my mind about what to take a million times.

DH packs the day before.

To be honest this sounded more like why it has happened, there's no way teenagers would be leaving at 8am and would consider getting up early to pack in the morning surely? would they even be up in time? Glad they've got their act together.

I always pack the car the night before to avoid this sort of bullshit, it's adds an incredible amount of stress to what should be a fun time!

Your DH sounds utterly selfish.

My DH would forget something and rather than do without would decide it was so essential he'd ruin a day by driving miles to buy a new whatever at inflated price while rest of family has to wait around.

Really? 🙄

Why did he tell them the afternoon???

We are leaving at 4am later this year. If it’s not in the Stack by 3:30 well it will end up on your lap in the back. Including DH stuff and his the one driving so we won’t be late even if he hasn’t packed. He will just throw clothes in like a mad man then moan he doesn’t have a belt or other shoes.

Not sure if it’s allowed but I do it on mine. I just spin it to off wait a couple minutes then turn it back on and select the new cycle.

For a UK holiday I could pack in about ten minutes. And I’m someone that really bothers about what they wear, I love clothes and fashion and always takes all my toiletries and hair shit. Ten mins is all I would need providing everything had been washed and ironed.

You can only do so much.Pack your stuff and the generic stuff in the car and leave when you said you all had to, to catch the ferry. If they get left behind or they haven’t got things they need then they’ll blame you but you can tell them you don’t give a damn because, surprise, surprise, they are adults !

Actually, if they all miss the departure deadline you might have a lovely restful holiday.... 😊😂

if it's a cottage in the middle of nowhere, probably doesn't matter which tops

You don't care WHICH tops then?

If you have to leave them behind, no late departure. No 'I'll give it a couple of minutes'. Even if you end up spending the week by yourself.

Hope it does not come to that.

I mean how long does it take to pack? I’ve done mine in 20 minutes, about 40 if I need to iron a few bits, but for a uk sc holiday I’d just iron there.

Totally misses the point but what type of washing machine allows you to change the cycle?? I thought that was a big no no.

Nope. I pack the night before I don’t any prep in the weeks before (I might shave my legs the morning of!) I’ve been known to pack in the morning.

I don’t iron ever, on holiday or otherwise.

Obviously passports are essential too for leaving the country!

Me and dh are both extremely last minute packers (or what many people would consider so anyway). For a departure of 8am we would pack at 7am, really doesn’t take long but I’m always on top of the washing and other than clothing/shoes, washbag, some chargers and dds medication nothing else is essential. It doesn’t take very long at all. We are both usually packed in about 15 minutes.
the dc would do it the day before so they didn’t have to get up too early but honestly if they aren’t packed then tough shit, you go without them or they go and accept they are unprepared and it’s on them.

Leave them to it op. The million is that they will forget something important, and learn from the experience. You can’t put an old head on young shoulders and letting dc mess up is a gift to them.

Ime it takes about an hour to get a family out of the house on the morning of a holiday.

Cross posted! Ferry crossing booked so it had to happen!

OP. Your teenagers are not the problem. DH clearly is. And it will absolutely serve him right if he has to wash his undies in the sink all week!
TBF, I can pack in 20 minutes for most trips, so I wouldn't necessarily have seen it as an issue that they hadn't all packed the night before a 8-9 am departure. But your latest update...I'd be cross with him! Is he usually this useless?

Thank God! 😅