Pre-Pack Your Beach Bag

Trips and excursions are great fun! You look forward to a new and relaxing experience. You get to spend time with your friends, family or significant other. It's wonderful! That is, until you realize you've forgotten something that is essential to your trip. It could be your bathing suit, sun block or the camera. Suddenly, the trip is just not as perfect as it could've been, and you're left with feeling disappointed.

But it doesn't have to be that way. You could make it so you only have to remember one thing: your beach bag (or excursion bag).

Picture by Kamila Czamecka

Find an empty back pack, basket or even just a plastic bag. Make a list of all the stuff you usually require on these occasions. Pack everything you can in the bag already and make a card that includes the stuff you can't pre-pack (food, drinks, certain clothes.)

I suggest including stuff like sunblock, bathing suits, a first aid kit and spare underwear beforehand. They're all objects that tend to be forgotten easily. Also a little something to keep busy in the car (or on the train). It could be an audiotape or a travel game. 

So next time, instead of leaving an hour after the time you'd said you would leave, because you're running all over the place trying to get everything you need and not forget anything, you just grab the bag, check the list of stuff to add, and you're good to go!

 Do you have something you keep pre-packed for this kind of occasion? Is there something you usually forget?
Feel free to comment. I love to hear about your forgetfulness. It always makes me feel included!