{"id":28840,"date":"2015-01-11T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28840"},"modified":"2015-01-03T21:51:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T02:51:53","slug":"qotd-always-make-a-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/11\/qotd-always-make-a-list\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Always make a list"},"content":{"rendered":"

The wheel business settled, there arose the ever-lasting luggage question.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe usual list, I suppose,\u201d said George, preparing to write.<\/p>\n

That was wisdom I had taught them; I had learned it myself years ago from my Uncle Podger.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlways before beginning to pack,\u201d my Uncle would say, \u201cmake a list.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was a methodical man.<\/p>\n

\u201cTake a piece of paper\u201d \u2014 he always began at the beginning \u2014 \u201cput down on it everything you can possibly require, then go over it and see that it contains nothing you can possibly do without. Imagine yourself in bed; what have you got on? Very well, put it down \u2014 together with a change. You get up; what do you do? Wash yourself. What do you wash yourself with? Soap; put down soap. Go on till you have finished. Then take your clothes. Begin at your feet; what do you wear on your feet? Boots, shoes, socks; put them down. Work up till you get to your head. What else do you want besides clothes? A little brandy; put it down. A corkscrew, put it down. Put down everything, then you don\u2019t forget anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is the plan he always pursued himself. The list made, he would go over it carefully, as he always advised, to see that he had forgotten nothing. Then he would go over it again, and strike out everything it was possible to dispense with.<\/p>\n

Then he would lose the list.<\/p>\n

Said George: \u201cJust sufficient for a day or two we will take with us on our bikes. The bulk of our luggage we must send on from town to town.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must be careful,\u201d I said; \u201cI knew a man once\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

Harris looked at his watch.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll hear about him on the boat,\u201d said Harris; \u201cI have got to meet Clara at Waterloo Station in half an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt won\u2019t take half an hour,\u201d I said; \u201cit\u2019s a true story, and\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t waste it,\u201d said George: \u201cI am told there are rainy evenings in the Black Forest; we may be glad of it. What we have to do now is to finish this list.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now I come to think of it, I never did get off that story; something always interrupted it. And it really was true.<\/p>\n

Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel<\/em><\/a>, 1914.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The wheel business settled, there arose the ever-lasting luggage question. \u201cThe usual list, I suppose,\u201d said George, preparing to write. That was wisdom I had taught them; I had learned it myself years ago from my Uncle Podger. \u201cAlways before beginning to pack,\u201d my Uncle would say, \u201cmake a list.\u201d He was a methodical man. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,57,41],"tags":[948,202],"class_list":["post-28840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-jkjerome","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7va","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28841,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28840\/revisions\/28841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}