While crawling through the stage of raising a boy and a girl middle schooler at the same time, there’s hardly anything a few things I find comical. How they pack a bag is one of those things.
The Boy Bag
This particular time is for a 3-night stay for a baseball tournament. He came out of his room with a half-filled duffle which included: two shirts, one pair of shorts, one pair of joggers, and his baseball pants and socks. His toiletries were included as well. But the boy thought one pair of shorts to be slept in all three nights as well as worn during the night when not in a uniform, would suffice. Changing his mind involved a surprisingly in-depth discussion on hygiene and body odor on the same shirt and shorts after 72 hours.
The Girl Bag
For one overnight stay at a friend’s house to include an early morning basketball game, my precious daughter was determined to only use her Lululemon shopping bag. You know the bag you get when you check out of a Lulu store? These are a thing with middle school girls, as she begged for one of these for Christmas. You can just get the shopping bag itself off Amazon. I’ve never actually shopped at the store. So this is what the girls use for packing things now to show everyone they’ve shopped at Lululemon before. Anywayssssss…… she has the following items crammed into this bag: basketball uniform, pj pants, one shirt, and five facial masks. That’s it. I ask her about her toothbrush and she says she can borrow her friend’s. I ask her about her 12-step skincare routine items and she said she can skip one night. Her basketball shoes? She said she can just carry. So the coolness of carrying this small shopping bag was priority to actually packing everything she needed. Her hundreds of dollars in skincare sitting up in her room, took a backseat to carrying a shopping bag. This conversation also took too much time in my morning routine much like the discussion with the boy moments before. She has a duffle and plenty of room for all the items she needs.
Let’s Review
Boy uses large enough bag, but does not pack near the amount of items needed for the length of the trip. Girl uses tiny ‘cool’ bag forcing her to be super selective in what she packs, even leaving home items she knows she will need (her own toothbrush). Both situations called for an unnecessarily long conversation on common sense, hygiene, and societal pressures to fit in.
This is why I’m never early to work.
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