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I HATE PACKING

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FillyjonktheFluffy · 15/06/2006 10:43

I hate it so much.

I have a big list

I have lots of bags

I have camping stuff strewn all over the house

I have two mad toddlers

I need to pack NOW

God, I am grumpy

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WelshBoris · 15/06/2006 10:44

Where are you going BillyBonktheBuffy?

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FillyjonktheFluffy · 15/06/2006 10:46

I'm sorry boris I can't tell you, you'd be Envy Envy

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Nemo1977 · 15/06/2006 10:47

pmsl I was like that last week ..good luck it is worth it..although the unpacking is worse.

WelshBoris · 15/06/2006 10:47

Unless it's Llangenith I very much doubt it

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FillyjonktheFluffy · 15/06/2006 10:48

yes.

i'm don't think i'll bother to unpack.

we can live on grass and nettles and wear scaggy clothes all week

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fennel · 15/06/2006 10:51

oh yes i loathe packing since having small children. who unpack as we pack, or who add endless soft toys (each in a separate bag) to the packing pile.

want to go camping quite a bit in the next few weeks but can't face the packing. which is silly.

you need a separate packing room in your house, lockable so toddlers can't get in there, and pack things away in there and keep locking the door so it can't be unpacked by them. we don't have this at the moment but it really helps.

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FillyjonktheFluffy · 15/06/2006 10:52

right have gone to my packing room and have packed

sparkly nail varnish
3 magazines
my fab retro wellies

thats enough surely? 3 of us? For a week?

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fennel · 15/06/2006 11:17

wine box
corkscrew
and lots of warm blankets and waterproof clothes.

KBear · 15/06/2006 11:19

Wait til you have to unpack - that's worse! We got back from Scotland on Saturday and I'm still finding homes for things and putting clothes away and nagging DH to get back in the loft to put away the holdalls etc!

Is that helping? Probably not! Grin

EmmyLou · 15/06/2006 11:23

Packing expands to fit the time you've got.

Paint nails now, then get the kids into the car, start the engine, then pack.

KBear · 15/06/2006 11:29

GREAT advice Emmylou!! I'm going to do that next time.

charliecat · 15/06/2006 11:33

We went camping last week and when dp came in from work (after ringing and asking me to run a bath for him and check id packed everything) I was in the FOULEST mood ranting saying "THIS is not my idea of Fun... remebering, finding packing, double checking searching, forgetting stuff" RaaahhhhAngry I was soo soo mad but once it was done and we were there I was fineGrin

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FillyjonktheFluffy · 15/06/2006 11:58

god it bloody does, doesn't it emmylou?

am calming myself with thought of your namesake on the cd player during 5 fecking hour drive.

Have painted nails. Thats got to be a start.

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SecondhandRose · 15/06/2006 12:12

But won't the unpacking be worse when its all damp, stinky and muddy? Savour the packing.

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FillyjonktheFluffy · 15/06/2006 13:02

I'm not going to unpack. ever. otherwise, what a waste of effort.

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fennel · 15/06/2006 13:04

we have experimented with not unpacking between camping trips (apart from the obvious wet dirty stuff to be washed). you can get quite organised like that. with occasional regrettable mistakes which you find, mouldering, when you next go camping. and occasional happy moments of finding things lost for ages between trips too.

EmmyLou · 15/06/2006 13:11

Hmm. Five hour drive FJ. Have one of those every year (not inlcuding stops) that one year turned into TEN hours. I'd got my mum to come down from Scotland to help me with the drive (dh abroad), large dog, baby and two other dds. When we eventually got there, I still had to unpack to get the bed linen out and the food and then cook tea...only saving grace was we weren't camping or there'd have been the f-ing tent too.

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FillyjonktheFluffy · 15/06/2006 13:33

am dreading it

its why i can't get my act together and pack, tbh.

i am hoping that i will be deemed too naughty to go.

but then I remember that I am, ludicrously, the mummy

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Jaynerae · 15/06/2006 14:09

We are going on our first camping trip this year with DS (7yrs) and DD (2 years), not sure I want to now having read this thread!

Thinking of going to the New Forest - anyone reccomend a campsite there?

LucyCampCat · 15/06/2006 14:47

See call me weird but I quite like packing - I get my super comprehensive list out (I have 2, one for weekends and one for longer breaks!) and then work through it - If it's not on the list it's not coming in.

If I've forgotten something then sod it, we have to live without it (or find a camping shop on holiday Grin)

It's the washing when we get back that I hate - airing sleeping bags that will not go back into their stuff sacks, grrrrr.

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FillyjonktheFluffy · 15/06/2006 14:47

google forest holidays-the forestry commission does nice campsites.

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Jaynerae · 15/06/2006 14:56

Thanks FJ will do.

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FillyjonktheFluffy · 15/06/2006 15:06

still gotta pack for it though...

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sallystrawberry · 15/06/2006 16:47

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FillyjonktheFluffy · 15/06/2006 17:42

I am done!

Except for quite a lot of it.

Now I just need....a new car.

Easy.

Where are you off to, Sal?

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