Chick Essentials
It only takes a missing suitcase with all of your cosmetics and skincare products to realize just how many items are essential in a woman's world.
We left Australia with two firmly packed suitcases that had two empty bags inside ready for our US purchases. However when we hit our first domestic flight we were over the weight limit per bag. Simple. We broke out one of the empty bags and started to redistribute. My husband immediately grabbed my triple-decker toiletry bag - almost a suitcase on its own - his jeans, three of my single shoes (why didn't he grab a pair or two?), some of his shoes and so forth for the third bag.
When the bag didn't turn up at the baggage carousel at our destination we took immediate action. I called our travel insurance company to find out what and how much we were covered for. They said $1000 for basic needs for the first 12 hours. I got the pad of paper out and started itemizing my toiletry bag. Jack too was keen to replace his shoes and jeans as we only had a limited time frame to cover these items.
My list was no quick fix at the local WalMart either. As I wrote everything down I realized I could easily break the $1000 mark with my toiletry bag alone. I had quite a collection which included a Prive hair texture spray and gloss serum, Clinique moisturizers, Kiehls moisturizers, eye creams, skin serums of all sorts, clay packs, hydrating packs, shimmering lotions, special hand creams, exfoliation cream, toner, Elizabeth Arden eight hour lip cream, StriVectin-SD, four tubes of lip gloss, blush, mascara, Booty Parlor dust up, perfume, a US blow dryer and a brush. I usually consider myself natural and fancy free but with a list like this... it confirms it takes an army of products to pull off the "natural I don't do anything look."
The moment I finished my list and felt a bit guilty that I was long over the claim limit, a FEDEX man pulls up to my dad's house to deliver my husband a package. It was a traveler guitar to go with the other seven guitars he owns. I couldn't believe he was this sneaky and had the balls to buy even more guitars. He claims that anything a man truly has a passion for will always require N+1 as the number he wants to own (where N equals the number he currently owns). He has no idea how this will haunt him for life. Imagine if girls used this one all the time? Well, I'm on the loose in the US with N+1 firmly on my mind.
To kick off my shopping, I had to focus first on my replacement items which were half exciting but as I went along it was actually a harder exercise than I realized. After only a few purchases, thankfully I received the call from the airlines saying they located our bag. The drama had ended. Jack could no longer get his hands on a new pair of jeans and shoes but nor did he deserve it with a prearranged traveler guitar delivery! Let's get serious!
It only takes a missing suitcase with all of your cosmetics and skincare products to realize just how many items are essential in a woman's world.
We left Australia with two firmly packed suitcases that had two empty bags inside ready for our US purchases. However when we hit our first domestic flight we were over the weight limit per bag. Simple. We broke out one of the empty bags and started to redistribute. My husband immediately grabbed my triple-decker toiletry bag - almost a suitcase on its own - his jeans, three of my single shoes (why didn't he grab a pair or two?), some of his shoes and so forth for the third bag.
When the bag didn't turn up at the baggage carousel at our destination we took immediate action. I called our travel insurance company to find out what and how much we were covered for. They said $1000 for basic needs for the first 12 hours. I got the pad of paper out and started itemizing my toiletry bag. Jack too was keen to replace his shoes and jeans as we only had a limited time frame to cover these items.
My list was no quick fix at the local WalMart either. As I wrote everything down I realized I could easily break the $1000 mark with my toiletry bag alone. I had quite a collection which included a Prive hair texture spray and gloss serum, Clinique moisturizers, Kiehls moisturizers, eye creams, skin serums of all sorts, clay packs, hydrating packs, shimmering lotions, special hand creams, exfoliation cream, toner, Elizabeth Arden eight hour lip cream, StriVectin-SD, four tubes of lip gloss, blush, mascara, Booty Parlor dust up, perfume, a US blow dryer and a brush. I usually consider myself natural and fancy free but with a list like this... it confirms it takes an army of products to pull off the "natural I don't do anything look."
The moment I finished my list and felt a bit guilty that I was long over the claim limit, a FEDEX man pulls up to my dad's house to deliver my husband a package. It was a traveler guitar to go with the other seven guitars he owns. I couldn't believe he was this sneaky and had the balls to buy even more guitars. He claims that anything a man truly has a passion for will always require N+1 as the number he wants to own (where N equals the number he currently owns). He has no idea how this will haunt him for life. Imagine if girls used this one all the time? Well, I'm on the loose in the US with N+1 firmly on my mind.
To kick off my shopping, I had to focus first on my replacement items which were half exciting but as I went along it was actually a harder exercise than I realized. After only a few purchases, thankfully I received the call from the airlines saying they located our bag. The drama had ended. Jack could no longer get his hands on a new pair of jeans and shoes but nor did he deserve it with a prearranged traveler guitar delivery! Let's get serious!
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