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How to Pack Your Suitcase

Everyone packs in a different way, here is my fool-proof method!

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How to Pack Your Suitcase
Maggie Mae Whittemore
  1. Stare at the pile of clothes that has slowly turned into a mountain in your room.
  2. Text all your friends at once to see what they are up too.
  3. Go on Facebook.
  4. End up in your cousin's bridesmaid's sister's "Wedding 2011" album.
  5. Switch to Instagram.
  6. Look at pictures of "nice cream" and yogurt bowls.
  7. Wonder why these are so popular.
  8. Consider making your own to post and get thousands of likes.
  9. Open up your suitcase.
  10. Coax your pet into the suitcase.
  11. Snapchat a picture of your pet in the suitcase with the caption "Packing Done!" Or "He wants to come too!"
  12. Look around your room and try to decide what you need.
  13. Consult at least 6 websites on what the climate is like in your travel destination.
  14. Search the weather for the next week at your travel destination.
  15. End up somehow looking at the rain patterns of western Ohio.
  16. Start folding and rolling some clothes and putting them in your suitcase.
  17. Spend 20 minutes trying to decide between two similar pairs of shoes.
  18. End up putting them both in.
  19. Try to be organized and plan outfits.
  20. Come to the realization that strategy never works for you and pack five shirts for every pair of pants, skirt, shorts etc.
  21. Get a snack.
  22. (Or two.)
  23. Or make some brownies because you feel they are necessary.
  24. Try to figure out a way to pack underwear neatly.
  25. (Hint: there is no way.)
  26. Snapchat a picture of your suitcase half full and send it to your friends with the scared face emoji.
  27. Watch everyone's Snapchat story plus 6-8 of the "Discover" stories.
  28. See this as the perfect time to practice your instrument of choice.
  29. Realize this isn't the time after you figure out you can't play your song of choice.
  30. Pack more clothes!
  31. "Accidentally" put on your party playlist.
  32. Dance around for a half hour while pretending you are Beyoncé.
  33. Put the last of your clothes into your suitcase.
  34. See that it is overflowing.
  35. Ignore that it is overflowing.
  36. Try to zip it up.
  37. When it doesn't zip up, sit on it.
  38. Try to zip it up again.
  39. Open your suitcase up and question why it won't zip.
  40. Roll clothes even tighter and try to squish them down more.
  41. Get rid of two out of the ten pairs of shoes you packed.
  42. Sit on suitcase again.
  43. Zip it halfway.
  44. Adjust weight to the other side.
  45. Zip it 3/4 of the way.
  46. Try to push clothes into the middle of the suitcase, away from the zipper gap.
  47. Pull zipper as hard as you can and finish zipping.
  48. Lock your suitcase.
  49. Test your lock combination 434219 times to make sure you can get back into your suitcase.
  50. Relax because you are done.
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