Suitcase planning

OK here are some tips for those who find themselves in hotel rooms for work trips:

Pack a travel toiletries bag in advance! Yes – do this. Get a second toothbrush, toothpaste, everything else you use as standards body care / cosmetics-wise and keep them in your suitcase. A fave lippy, a necklace. This is a totally foolproof way of trimming your packing time, and making sure you never forget this stuff. Oh so handy. Sample sachets of hand cream and other lotions and potions are very handy and don’t leak – yah.
Tea and coffee – at least herbal teabags (spearmint and chamomile is a good night and day tea, or chai, or rosehip, something cheery, and maybe even plunger coffee and a little plunger.)
Bath stuff – nice vegetable based soap with essential oils, a little bottle of bubblebath.
Music – nothing like a little dance around the room to loud music to get the cobwebs out. This is especially good if you’re staying for more than 2 days, and mostly working.
Healthy snacks – nuts, simple biscuits are small and easy to take. On the first day go fruit shopping and make a fruit (or fruit and veggie) bowl for your room (if there isn’t one). Ever so handy as a snack on the go, or if you miss a meal. I always find fruit is one of those things that I eat if it’s there and forget to eat if it’s not.
At least one fun book – trashy novels have their place, and work travel is possibly one of those. Short stories, graphic novels, fairy tales, mystery novels, inspiring texts, poetry.

This trip – I remembered the first, but not the second or third. The fourth and fifth but not the sixth. Ahh – you teach best the lessons you both need to learn.