Canukvic

This is brilliant. I never thought of weighing each top. I’ll target my shopping this way now.

I think those of us in North America do a lot of laundry and wash clothes frequently because we can. We all have washer and dryers. We have gotten the notion that things must be washed after a couple of wearings. People in other countries don’t have our machinery, so they don’t wash stuff as often.

Still a lot, I think. I wore the same outfit to the dining room every night for 14 days and sat with the same people. Some of them were doing the same. All I had to do was not slop my soup.

I was amazed at this 8 outfits a day. Five minutes to run down to your cabin. 10 minutes to change, fix your hair, hang up the previous outfit, five minutes to run on to the next ship event. That’s 20 minutes devoted to changing, and done 8 times a day. That’s 2 1/2 hours a day spent on changing clothes. Wow.

Audition your clothes in the months before the cruise.wear each item for a day. How does it feel, look, any pulling, any rips, anything about it that isn’t perfect, it fails the audition. Once you have reduced your selection to about 20 tops that work, pick two colours. Black and beige, pink and black, blue and yellow. Whatever appeals to you. Eliminate all the tops that don’t have those colours. You should be down to about 6. Pick 2 pairs of pants that work with everything. One to wear on the plane, one packed. Add yoga pants, very useful. Add one sweater for air conditioning. One bra on, one packed. 3 pairs undies, washing in the cabin sink every night. Eliminate formal dress. Reduce shoes to one pair that is waterproof and one that is comfortable casual. Wear the heavier ones on the plane. I travel on 40 day cruises with carry-on luggage only. Nobody cares what you look like. Nobody notices you are wearing the same stuff every day. You only have to convince yourself you can do without all that stuff. Everyone I share this info with says oh, no, I couldn’t possibly…..