I was digging through the closets looking for the appropriate bag to take on a quick trip home a few weeks ago and was struck by how many travel bags we have. It’s not like we travel a lot these days. Since I had suitcases and bags stuffed in three closets, it was easy to lose sight of just how much we had and easy for things to go unused. So I pulled out all the suitcases, duffel bags and garment bags and put them all together to decide which of them needed to go. In all we had 12 bags – three medium size duffel bags, one large duffel bag, one extra large rolling duffel bag, three garment bags (two of these were recent Christmas gifts), one extra large rolling suitcase (big enough to transport a body in if you had a need for such an item), one overhead-sized rolling suitcase, one kids rolling suitcase, one small carry one suitcase. Twelve bags seems excessive for three people who really don’t travel by air very often. The following items are slated for removal - the garment bag with a busted zipper; the extra large suitcase since I haven’t used it in at least 5 years (and have no need to transport a body); the small carry-on suitcase (I’m pretty sure that my grandmother gave me this 25+ years ago); and the duffel bag that my husband got as a high school graduation gift (20 years ago!). These four go into the yard sale pile. We kept eight bags which still seems like a lot. However, we use all of these bags and they don’t require a ton of space to store. The three duffel bags and the two new garment bags will fit inside the one extra large rolling duffel leaving only one bag and two rolling suitcases needing a home. All of it can be stored in a single closet freeing up the others which were crammed full. Next up the extensive collection of other bags – tote bags, laptop bags, briefcases, make up bags and the like.
The luggage collection before . . .
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