Siddity tips for travel II: How not to pack for your vacation

1. Do not bring six pairs of shoes, four different handbags, and only three pairs of underpants, for a four day vacation. Especially if you know you are going to buy more of anything, at any point.

2. Do not take a cocktail dress and sweater for fine dining and swank drunkeration when you know you are a bar and pub kinda gal.

3. The makeup and jewelery you were thinking about taking? Cut it down to half. Then leave even that at home.

4. Just because you can pack all of this extra and unnecessary crap into a single carry-on bag and your backpack, as you are the mighty-pack-mistress, and you can carry an extra fifty pounds around, no problem, for long distances, like through bloody Midway airport to the Orange line, does not mean you should.

5. Try to leave your NYC-attitude/game at home. Else you might find yourself snarling at friendly Midwesterners and threatening-but-not-really-threatening to try to off someone who has just asked you as politely as possible to not be so loud because they couldn't enjoy the concert with all of you party's jibber-jabber.