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Making a check list before you lock down a series of packing modules is simple; you ask yourself what are you going to actually need every single day.
My list has no option but to centre around the two little beings who need me, my dogs.
They need a walk every single day at least four times because they will, like myself, spend a lot of time in the car. They will have a job to do at night, being watchful on my behalf, they will need rest because they will run a lot on those 'walks' and be wet and tired and hungry and thirsty. So ever single day, they must have food, water, walks.Their bed will need airing daily, they will require drying off if they are wet, looking after in other words and every day, their beds will need checking for fleas (just in case) because that's one thing I don't want on my flesh euwww. An accessible waterproof plastic box will hold their leads, harnesses, coats, brushes,oils,tablets,nail clippers,a towel to dry them with and dry dog food because wet dog food is impracticable on the move.Extra collars, leads and devices for calming like a cuddly toy for Caesar who will lick and love and hug it, a chew for Jake who will gaurd it with his life and Caesars as well if he tries to eat it!
Constant to the looking after the dogs is the looking after me, so an easily accessible set of clean clothes for emergencies is an absolute. Notice 'for emergencies' when you get wet, cold sets in fast, I can't afford to be cold. When you get tired and wet, you get careless because your distracted so that's a definite no no no! each aspect of keeping neat, clean and tidy has to be addressed in the main, by being in the car. A small plastic, waterproof box holds my daily care kit, the wet wipes, for an 'instant wash' the manicure set for clean nails, the makeup in case I am going out into the wide public world, the hair brush and the hair clips/tags/bands and of course a pair of earrings.
Earrings are important, washing and tidying is important but once those earrings are in place,,dangling from your ears they act as a signal and a symbol. Peoples eyes are drawn to sparkle, so sparkle earrings are a bonus. Distracting the eye of the beholder helps to alleviate the sense your being 'stared at, stops the paranoia because living on your own with no one but woofits to talk too..can lead to isolated thinking which causes the deeper over analytical think tank tipping you head first into the drowning fears of paranoid thought.So a little sparkle on the ears helps...a lot.
So two boxes, one for the dogs, one for me...and we have the image making , socially acceptable appearances sorted...good thinking batwoman!
