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Unless you are traveling to Thailand where you can buy shirts for a dollar, negating having to pack anything but toiletries and that money belt your helpful neighbor loaned you, you will have to pack. If you're like a lot of people, this can lead to Packing Paralysis. Here are a few reasons not to fret: 1. You're going on a vacation! Get in the spirit! Put on a tropical shirt if that helps set the mood, or lieder hosen, or something appropriate to where you're going. Maybe a little background music? 2. Know that if you gather the things you can't replace and pack them first, anything you might forget won't matter. 3. Our Research Dept (Sharon) discovered a great website that is loaded with travel info, so go read up. Knowledge is Power! Take their quiz and find out what kind of Packing Personality you are, and receive customized tips to help smooth out that holiday road.
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Packing Tips For That Perfect Vacation
- Lock your checked bags with TSA-approved locks; otherwise, if your bag is selected for random screening, agents will have to break the lock to get inside.
- Do not overpack your bag. Screeners will have a difficult time closing your luggage if selected for inspection, which will only lead to wrinkles and the potential for lost articles. If your bag cannot be easily closed, take something out!
- Placing garments in plastic bags (such as those that come from a dry cleaners) before folding and packing will help to prevent wrinkling.
- Rolling up pants, t-shirts, etc. will lessen wrinkling and give you more space.
- Put cosmetics, shoe polish, nail enamel, perfume, and anything else that might spill, break, and stain your clothing into resealable plastic bags or unbreakable containers.
- Placing rolled up socks and other soft clothing items inside shoes will save space and help the shoes keep their shape.
- Reminder-keep it under 50 pounds. Just one pound over could cost you up to $150.
DO NOT pack the following items in your checked baggage:
Fragile items
Small unruly children
Hungry for more tips? Check out this video.
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The Shadow Project helps kids with disabilities become confident and engaged learners. Partnering with special education teachers, the project helps struggling students turn "I can't" into "I can!"
 Collect Cars for the Shadow Project Kids!
Help us collect 1,000 Match Box and Hot Wheels toy cars for The Shadow Project, a nonprofit that helps kids with disabilities to succeed in school. Bring your donation to the Postal Annex at 6663 S.W. Beaverton Hillsdale Hwy., in the Safeway Shopping Center by Aug. 15th.
It's Shadow Project Awareness Night at the Portland Timbers!
Timbers vs. Crystal Palace Baltimore
Sunday, August 29th @ 6 p.m.
Buy $18 seats through The Shadow Project and $8 of each ticket will help boys and girls with learning challenges succeed in school!
Can't attend? Please consider treating some of the 1,300 hardworking students in The Shadow Project to an evening of world class soccer!
Bonus! Win a private tour of PGE Park and meet Timbers star (and Shadow Project volunteer) Tony McManus! Enter for a chance for you and up to five kids (of all ages) to get an insider's tour of the stadium. Raffle tickets only $5!
FREE raffle ticket with every $90 purchase.
Tickets available beginning 7/16/10 at The Shadow Project
Or call 1-888-747-0005 for more information.
Learn more about The Shadow Project and the amazing 1,350 students it serves at www.shadow-project.org.
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 Don't know what to do with buttons and bows and all those kind of things?
SCRAP does! They are a non-profit dedicated to "inspire and reuse" by providing educational and affordable materials to the community. They sell all kinds of reused materials for arts, crafts, and scrapbooking, plus school, office, and party supplies. They also offer some new convenience items such as glues and brushes. They are accepting new donations constantly so inventory changes
every day. You never know what you're going to find!
Check them out at 2915 NE Martin Luther King Blvd.
Open 7 days a week from 11am to 6pm.
www.scrapaction.org
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Don't keep this news to yourself, be a hero and spread the joy of organization. Feel free to forward this on to anyone who could use a little organizing expertise. Check us out on the web at www.organizersnw.com.
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Happy Organizing,
Missy
Missy Gerber
Organizers Northwest
(503) 245-3564
OrganizersNW.com
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