Today is "don't eat all day" for me. Won't be looking for those bargains, but am waiting impatiently to have another Girl Scout cookie tomorrow. Caramel deLite, to be exact.
Random Thoughts 17: Here we go again.
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We likely will on a trip later this year but for the short trips we normally do if we can't get everything on in a carryon and personal bag we are packing wrong.
You have younger kids which makes it more difficult in ways and easier in ways. They require more things but their clothes is tiny so it doesn't take up much space.
It's amazing how much less my wife needs now in makeup and other things than before.
As someone that always has to lug a laptop around with them, I can't stand dealing with that bag and a carryon. Last time I tried to fly was for the Alamo Bowl and AA wanted $50 to check a bag which is ridiculous. Of course my flight was cancelled because of rain so I didn't have to deal with it.
Sun country hits you for carry ons also. So when you fly you have to see if the price is only $50 more for delta or American, they are actually cheaper than other. Delta has better seats but American let’s you pick the seat right away.
The airlines have only themselves to blame. When they started charging for luggage they didn't enforce the carryon restrictions so people just started bringing everything as carryon. Then they started gate checking carryon bags for free when there wasn't enough room for all the carryon bags. So people started bringing their luggage as carryon because they knew they could get it checked for free.
I was on a flight once where a young couple had the entire overhead filled with their stuff with more stuffed under the seats in front of them. It took them forever to gather up their stuff and try to get it down the aisle. There is absolutely no way they should have been allowed to carry that much junk on board.
I was on a flight when you could check a bag for free. This dude comes on with the worlds largest duffle bag and throws it into the over head and 40% sticking out. He was the last in. The flight attendant was closing hatches and when she came upon it she was ticked and asked whose it was, like 10 people pointed at him. She chewed him out and made him check it up front and talked about charging him.
Your wife must not pack everything but the kitchen sink like mine. We haven't flown in a few years but the last time our kids could handle their own bag and that was a big difference in how we could pack.
This is exactly my point. I'm to the point where if they say, "Please put your smaller bags under your seat to allow room for the larger roller bags" F'em! Why should I stuff my back pack under my seat then have no legroom while others put two or more items in the overhead compartment?
Used to. Now she has curtailed it back some. Plus as women age, they either feel they need more or less, it doesn’t stay the same. My wife apparently needs less.
We're now in the market for good luggage. As in well-made, sturdy, dependable, and lighter-weight. When packing for grandkid trips we almost always need a checked bag for things that won't come home with us.
Suggestions on luggage brands?
Suggestions on luggage brands?
They are usually the same people that will ram their chair back as soon as they get in their seat
Suggestion for going to the grand kids, UPS it to them if it isnt coming back. That way you have it there and don’t have to handle luggage there and back.
If you are renting a car, I will usually get that done prior to going to the bag area. By the time I get that done, they have the bags on the conveyors. I don't like waiting for a shuttle when I get back to DSM (I usually park at the KECK lot) for stupid people that forget where they parked their cars just to have the shuttle driver spend 5-10 minutes driving around the lot and then the people go, "I must not have parked in this lot". I mean DSM airport parking is not that dang complicated people.
Bought a camera bag for the Nikon and the 200-500mm lens last week. That took up over half of my carry-on backpack and it's not really a full camera bag, just a bag for the camera with that big lens mounted. Didn't even bring other lenses and still not much space left in the pack. I have a little personal bag, call it my "man bag", which is really a man purse for my airplane stuff like ear phones, passport, water, sun glasses, reading glasses, snacks, drugs, cell phone, and misc stuff. Backpack is in the overhead and man bag is with me under the seat. Checked bag is free since I have a Delta card (pretty much only fly them out of MSP anyway).
We have thought about that. Around Christmas I'm not sure I trust delivery dates.
Ship it a week earlier than normal, your kid can just put it under the tree or hide them if needed. It makes life easier.
Just because a crappy person second or third marries into an okay family, does not make that person a non crappy person anymore. People can change, but it’s harder to teach an old dog new tricks.
We have a Delta card (free luggage) and a Sun Country card (half-priced luggage) for our flights. Out of MSP, we really only fly Delta, Sun Country, or Southwest. Southwest includes luggage in the ticket price.
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