{"id":808,"date":"2010-12-20T10:36:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T08:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=808"},"modified":"2010-12-20T10:36:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T08:36:17","slug":"holiday-packing-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/holiday-packing-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Packing Checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judging by Twitter, there are a number of us \u2018losers\u2019 who are at the office this week, working whilst the majority of our family and friends are already on holiday and showing off their holiday photos with gusto on Facebook (what the hell were we thinking not taking leave?).\u00a0 If you are like me and stuck at the office, why not get a start on your holiday packing checklist?<\/p>\n<p>Some of my recommended must haves:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/1564\/Luggage\/\" target=\"_blank\"> The suitcase<\/a> \u2013 Preferably Louis Vuitton (a girl can dream hey?). I actually have a strange passion for kitsch luggage so am the first person to spot my bag on the baggage carousel (it\u2019s the zebra print one, duh).<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/185\/Cosmetics\/\" target=\"_blank\">The make up<\/a> \u2013 Nothing like coming home for the holidays and using your mother\u2019s dried up four year old Design (Edgar\u2019s no name brand) nail polish. So these days I make sure all my make up goodies are on my packing list.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/6742\/Travel+Accessories\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Accessories<\/a> \u2013 No you cannot wear one pair of earrings for 15 days. Trust me.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0A beach towel \u2013 Just make sure the towel travels back home with you (my one still lying somewhere on Koh Lanta beach in Thailand).<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Comfortable hiking shoes \u2013 Even if you are not planning on hiking (because what self respectable girl actually plans a holiday with hiking involved); I strongly recommend bringing your sneakers. Otherwise you might end up hiking in your sandals, damaging one of them, throwing it in the bush and hopping on one leg for the rest of the hike. It happened to me.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/83\/Digital+Cameras\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Camera<\/a> \u2013 Helps you bridge the fuzzy border between your memories and what actually happened (yes it was you dancing on that table).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/Koh-Lanta.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-809\" title=\"Koh Lanta\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judging by Twitter, there are a number of us \u2018losers\u2019 who are at the office this week, working whilst the majority of our family and friends are already on holiday and showing off their holiday photos with gusto on Facebook (what the hell were we thinking not taking leave?).\u00a0 If you are like me and<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/holiday-packing-checklist\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}