Seven tips for how to unpack your bags after a holiday – and if it’s still too hard, hire a consultant (they can pack for your next trip too)
- Are you the type of person that still has half-full bags sitting around the living room two months after getting home from a trip? Then we’ve got you covered
- Experts and regular travellers give their advice on unpacking once you’re back home
You might be the kind of hyper-organised traveller who gets home and immediately unpacks, does laundry and puts away your luggage.
Or you might still have half-full bags sitting around the living room two months after getting home, just waiting for the next trip.
Procrastinators are legion, and who can blame us? We’re wiped out from travelling. We’re bummed the trip is over. We have other clothes, and probably a spare toothbrush. Plus that suitcase looks fine in the corner, right?
“It’s kind of like one of those things where, once you get used to seeing it there, you kind of forget that it’s there,” says Brooke Schoenman, editor and founder of the travel gear and packing site Her Packing List. “It becomes the norm: that suitcase belongs there.”
Organisation and packing experts are not in favour of this luggage-as-furniture approach. But they also recognise that many of us need help to break out of our old ways. “We have many clients who will call our consultants in to help them on both the packing side and with unpacking,” says Mindy Godding, a certified professional organiser and co-founder of Abundance Organising, based in Richmond, in the US state of Virginia.
We asked experts and regular travellers who have it together to find out the best tips for unpacking once you’re back home.
