When do you start packing?

[Dawn68PA]

pop up hamper GREAT IDEA!

I love the pop-up hamper! I use them at home! The local Dollar Store carries them so I'll pick up a couple for the trip too.

 

[aimhi]

Love Love Love the pop up hamper...will be getting one of those. As for the packing well another list person here. I will begin my list most likely this weekend and I do not leave until April. Lucky ones packing already have a wonderful trip. I enjoy the looking forward to the trip almost as much as the trip sometimes it gets me threw the winter dull drums. I believe I will be able to pack early since I will not be needing any shorts here till june it has been so cold.

 

[redshoe]

I've been keeping a bin of things since I booked our trip several months ago. I'd buy a few things along with the groceries, like moleskin, earplugs and dramamine, and I'd bring them home and toss them in the bin. Or I'd find things around the house that wouldn't be needed until Disney World, like unused glow sticks or my son's sunglasses and swim goggles, and I'd toss them in, too. That way, all we'll really have to gather together to pack will be our every day essentials, it's all in one place, and I've had the fun of "packing" as I planned without feeling like I'd gone completely off the deep end!

 

[goofy53073]

We leave in 10 days and I have been "gathering" items for the last few MONTHS, LOL! I have 3 small children 5, 3 and 8 months and they all needed an entire wardrobe of warm weather clothing since nothing from alst year fits. I have been shopping for weeks I have a few bins that I have been using to put items as a purchase them. Luckily we are driving this time because I am bringing so much STUFF!

 

[DisneyDarlings]

I won't pack until the night before we leave. We leave this Friday, so I guess I will pack Thursday night. Everyone in my family pack their own bag. DD(16) says she is starting today. Everyone else is a last minute packer!

 

[ericamcl]

I started packing the toiletry bags about 3 weeks ago....I want to start packing suitcases but DH says it's too early!

I did pre-order our photopass CD a few minutes ago so that's one less thing to do....

 

[The Lion King]

I started packing the toiletry bags about 3 weeks ago....I want to start packing suitcases but DH says it's too early!

I did pre-order our photopass CD a few minutes ago so that's one less thing to do....

Thanks for the reminder-I need to order my photopass.

 

[CapnSparrow]

We leave in 12 days and my wife told me yesterday that she was thinking of packing some of the kids' shorts and t-shirts now to get ready. It is just now starting ot warm up here in Alabama, so they aren't using many spring/summer clothes yet.

I said "go for it". I guess it kinda helps pass the time.

 

[mom2npr]

I start packing at least a week ahead of time and I always seem to pack way too much! I will try to control myself- we have a smaller car and can't take as much as we have in the past.

 

[Shir Kahn]

Our flight doesn't leave until 4:15pm on the 27th, I'll probably start packing around 10am!

 

[poeticdiabetic]

My wife is gathering now. You know, making sure we have the proper shoes and clothes. Plus, she makes sure that she gets that good carrying bag for walking the parks.

Me? We normally leave to drive down there around 10PM. I'll probably start packing around noon and be done my 12:30PM. I'll be laying down, relaxing or sleeping on the sofa by 1PM.

But our final gathering time is our now famous Walmart trip that occurs right before we get on the highway.

 

[CapnSparrow]

My wife is gathering now. You know, making sure we have the proper shoes and clothes. Plus, she makes sure that she gets that good carrying bag for walking the parks.

Me? We normally leave to drive down there around 10PM. I'll probably start packing around noon and be done my 12:30PM. I'll be laying down, relaxing or sleeping on the sofa by 1PM.

But our final gathering time is our now famous Walmart trip that occurs right before we get on the highway.

Where are you leaving from to be starting your drive at 10 PM? We are leaving on a Saturday morning around 6-7 AM from Birmingham, AL. to get there around dinner time or so.

 

[GGOOFY1]

I have my Disney box and always a list. It has things that I use in the Villa. That I start packing a month before we leave. Our clothes I usually pack the week before.

 

[dawz1026]

My wife is gathering now. You know, making sure we have the proper shoes and clothes. Plus, she makes sure that she gets that good carrying bag for walking the parks.

Me? We normally leave to drive down there around 10PM. I'll probably start packing around noon and be done my 12:30PM. I'll be laying down, relaxing or sleeping on the sofa by 1PM.

But our final gathering time is our now famous Walmart trip that occurs right before we get on the highway.

WALMART! I always find it at walmart whenever I need it,no matter what Im looking for! Its the best vacation shopping ever!

 

[poeticdiabetic]

Where are you leaving from to be starting your drive at 10 PM? We are leaving on a Saturday morning around 6-7 AM from Birmingham, AL. to get there around dinner time or so.

Northwest Atlanta suburbs. We leave around 10PM and drive all night the night before. With Walmart, we normally don't get on the highway until 11PM. We'll get there around 7AM or so the next morning. We open up a park when we start!