My foolproof method for maximum preparedness.
- Get a big purse.
- If you use something while you're out and about, add it to your purse. If someone gives you something while you're out and about, add it to your purse.1 If you think you might use something while you're out and about --- add it to your purse. Gradually accumulate useful items in this manner until you begin to experience severe shoulder pain.
- Once the shoulder pain sets it, remove the items you've used the least. You will discover that approximately 90% of your items have not been needed once and are thus equally dispensable. Either remove all of them to eliminate 90% of the weight or cherry-pick the biggest items for removal.
- Goto step 1.
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Tell yourself you will remove it when you get home, then forget and carry it around for another four months. Remove it at step 3. <-|