Christmas in Detroit w/DaysBefore, w/ Family

Introduction #

Pack for minimal outdoors.

The days before #

• contact cat guardians
• call neighbors to snow shovel
• clean the kitchen sink and counters
• arrange for mail taken in
• vacuum the horse
• get 300USD cash from the ATM
• find magazine: puzzles to do together
• water the indoor plants
• charge that lithium car jumper
• charge that rechargeable headlamp
• check weather
• change the litter box
• make bathroom one immaculate

(laundry?)
(grocer? for cat food?)
(load a travel mix onto the mp3 player? audiobooks?)

foods #

oats
dry milk
tea
ground coffee
raisins
walnuts
apples
sunflower seeds
yogurt
bread equivalent
Asia-Mart snacks
ginger snaps
granola
carrots
peanut butter

clothing #

Listed in order of where everything will be found in our home, east to west, while packing:

• socks, 5 pairs of

• underpants, 4

• 2 button up long sleeve shirts

• pants: jeans or other thing for in town

• pants, carhartt

• pajama bottom

• shirt, black lives matter long sleeve top

• shirt, longsleeve-tee like for sleeping

• slippers

• shirt, corduroy button up

• shirts, tshirts, 4

• shoes, 2 pairs of (one hikish one very light sneaker)

• scarf

• ski hat

• wool mittens

• wool zip up

• cozy hoody

• wool Stormy Cromer viest

• tiny, puffy jacket

• coat, actual winter coat (was not used. bring for Meg, first aid, stranger, or other unexpected thing)

The list above INCLUDES what is worn on the first day of the trip, as you walk out the door.

In other words, don't pack all of it: you're wearing some of these things when you drive the first day.

Non-clothing items #

Listed in order of where everything is found in our home, east to west, while packing:

• the "Mom" composition book
• a calendar
• phone charger cable
• headlamp
• extra flashlight
• pillows, 2
• lint roller!
• necktie
• cash (self fee permits, art shows, gun and knife shows, farmer markets, firewood self pay, canoe concession, etc etc)
• exercises, written on a piece of paper
• bar soap
• Board games
• electric tootbrush
• headphones for hard to sleep times
• mp3 player
• magazine: puzzles to do together
• trident gum
• sinus headache pills
• book: fiction, esp short stories
• book: tiny things: essays or poems or images
• sleeping bags, 2
• coffee AND tea
• self snack capability
• something edible to share (pistachios?)
• things you borrowed from family. currently this is a great courses dvd and a smoke pencil
• clean the car better than usual
• phone hot pack external battery pack (or car lithium batter jumper)

Air BnB #

• Bring a mug to changeout theirs

Index #

This redundant list is an alphabetized list of Every Non-Food Item. THESE ALL APPEAR ON THE LISTS ABOVE.

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