Packing Stuff

Packing stuff is pretty important. What to pack. What not to pack. I have recently come back from a 2 week business trip and I didn't have any checked luggage at all. How is this possible? I was able to do laundry in Chicago at a laundrymat. I didn't even wear a few of the clothes I had with me, which means I over packed. I also purchased quite a bit of stuff to bring back with me, which brings up the question, "how the hell do we get stuff back here?"

Here are my tips:

- Pack light. Clothes are dirt cheap there, if we need something, we can buy it there.
- Check an empty or semi empty bag. We'll use either the beach house or my Dad's house as a base-of-operations. Every excursion we return from we can drop stuff off in our empty bag and check it when we fly home.
- Toiletries. We can probably bring the bare essentials. From what I remember toothpaste tastes a lot different there, so we might want to bring our own.

Those are all the tips I have for now!