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Battling Too-Much-Stuff-itis

by Jessica Marsden on June 14, 2010

I’m in the middle of packing up my apartment in Changsha, and I’ve realized a few things about stuff. Namely — and this is a shocking conclusion, I know — we have too much of it. At least, I do. I spent much of Saturday going from our fourth-floor apartment down to the dumpster with [...]

Tagged as: Changsha, moving, packing

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The perfect travel read

by Jessica Marsden on July 24, 2009

If you’ve ever run out of reading material on the road, you’ll sympathize with W. Somerset Maugham on reading-while-traveling, circa 1922: How precious then is the inordinate length of your book (for you are travelling light and you have limited yourself to three) and how jealously you read every word of every page so that [...]

Tagged as: books, packing

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Packing 101: Choosing luggage

by Jessica Marsden on July 22, 2009

This posts begins a series on packing for trips to/in China. I’ll start big (luggage) and go small (toiletries) over the next few weeks. (See all posts in the series.) No matter how long you will be traveling for, your first packing decision will probably be what bag (or bags) to pack. Size will depend [...]

Tagged as: backpacking, luggage, packing, Packing 101

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