039/ The In Moda Veritas Packing Primer: Six Weeks in S. Korea and Japan

The questions I ask myself when packing for any trip + a visual breakdown of what I'm actually packing.

Dear readers,

T-minus three days until we leave for Korea/Japan!

To be honest, I haven’t started packing yet because I’ve been busy writing my third newsletter in three days! However, by thinking through and writing this newsletter, 90% of the work is already done. I just need to dump the contents of this newsletter into a suitcase. So, no stress!

(I suppose I need to think about what to pack for the kids, but whatever.)

Since launching In Moda Veritas, every time I’ve gone on a trip, I’ve thought about how to approach a “What I’m Packing” newsletter. And every time I come back to the same issue: that my trips, your trips, they’re all different in the details. And when it comes to packing, it’s the details that determine what makes sense to pack.

I didn’t want to write a “What I’m Packing” piece for my three-day work trip to New York and then qualify the heck out of it and say the advice might not apply in x, y and z situation. Because what I packed for that New York trip will look completely different to what I’m packing for this six-week family trip which looks completely different for what I packed on my solo eight month backpacking trip around the world.

So, for my first “What I’m Packing” newsletter (hereinafter, the In Moda Veritas Packing Primer), I thought it would be most useful to come up with a broad framework of the questions I ask myself when I’m packing for any trip.

For every trip I go on from here on in, I’ll detail my answers to these same questions, and it’s these answers — these details — that will determine what makes sense to pack.

Ready?