The Boodle makes family traveling SO much easier!
May 3, 2006 by gayla
Filed under Organizing and Clutter Control
As you are pondering your summer vacation plans, consider the pros and cons of the Boodle, the pet name of columnist Peter McKay’s cartop luggage carrier:
I bring a bathing suit, a couple of T-shirts and one pair of boxer shorts for each day (fewer if the house has a laundry room). She brings 11 pairs of shoes, 14 different outfits and enough earrings to open up a pawn shop. If our house burned down while we were gone, she could comfortably start a new life just on the contents of her bag.
After throwing my yearly pointless fit, I pack every square inch of the Boodle, working toward that magic point where it just barely closes but isn’t so packed that it’s impossible to latch. Anything that can’t fit in the Boodle goes under people’s feet or packed behind their heads. Our twin daughters, who sit in the far back, get it the worst. Sometimes they’re packed so tightly with groceries and beach toys that they have to sit up straight, their hands in their laps, unable to turn their heads unless they want to start an avalanche of cereal boxes.
The girls groan, but I tell them to knock it off, as they can use the stuff as pillows when they fall asleep. When I said this last week, one daughter scowled at me and knocked her knuckles against a six-pack of beer, the metal ringing across the car.
“Gee thanks,” she said. “Pleasant dreams!”
Read the rest of Peter’s article – it is a hoot, and even though we just pack the back half of our Suburban to the hilt as an alternative, I empathize with each line of his tale. Funny stuff!
