As I mentioned in another thread: general, two different days a week, we are in the car headed to the "next" place. Sometimes that's home, sometimes it's not(!). most places, we stay for 3 days/nights. We don't have an RV, it's not a good option. We stay in our home, or hotels, or the house my sister rents from us. Now...the sticky issue has become clothes. I handle my clothes and the kids. What I've done is keep most of our clothes at home. I keep two outfits for each of us at my sister's - one to wear day 1, one to wear the next day (day 2) while I wash everything. We usually go home (from anywhere) day 3. When we go to a hotel (for a standard 3-day/night trip), I take two outfits - same routine. My husband...he doesn't have a system. At least not one I can see. He definitely doesn't have a system that works. Part of the problem is that he must wear suits or sport jackets to work. Suits are expensive, and it's hot here, so he's always switching up what he's wearing to make fewer clothes look like more different outfits. Then, add in the shirts/ties/socks (very natty guy, my DH). So...I get why he needs to do this. But it's starting to make me a little crazy. It's gotten to the point where we need to allocate an hour or so just for him to organize his clothes before we leave anywhere. Okay, I STILL get it. BUT....here's the thing that's making me crazy. He LOSES clothes. One week, he kept telling me he had no underwear. I searched and searched, I even went and BOUGHT him underwear (<cough> NOT in the budget). Turns out he had the "missing" underwear in his gym bag. The last few weeks it has been shorts. His shorts were missing, can't find them, I kept thinking maybe he left them in a hotel...He found them. In the drawer. Of all places. Now, I am not his mother, and he would NOT appreciate me "taking over" for him in this department (he would appreciate the offer, but he is very particular about his personal items). BUT...if anyone has any suggestions how I could help him organize better (and, honestly, reduce some stress on me) or anything I could do to facilitate this for him, I would really appreciate hearing it.
I would just take over, I do my husband and it works great. Doesn't take much more of time to pack his right along with mine and it works great. Less stress and everyone is happy. I know where everything is.
