People ask me all the time how I do it. Right now the question is how do I get ready for vacation with 11 people to pack for. The best solution for me is using my organizing gifts with the greatest tool I know to use. That's right; it's a list. Not just one jotted down in pencil on an old envelope or something laying around. It is one created on the computer and printed. Last July our hard drive crashed so I lost last year's list. But I was able to recreate it using one from my ATI mom's list and my list from last year which I had filed away. The picture illustrates just what kind of list I use to get our crew ready to go. We must have clothes to visit Grandma and Grandpa and all the rest of the family. We need to be prepared for our conference after that with all our dress clothes, and cadet uniforms, etc. Then there is the food, and how to feed us all while at a motel and on a tight budget. So, as I pack, I check. That is, check it off my list. As you can see it takes up my whole dresser top with 5 whole pages. Do we leave something home that we need? Usually, but then I just add that to my list for next year. Hey, that's what Walmart is for, right?
