I use a system where I put a box or bag in the corner of a room. It sits there for about a month before leaving on a trip. As I buy things or remember things I need, I throw them in the box. Like one morning I might remember we are going to need flashlights and/or batteries and I’ll throw them in
There has to be a nod to thinking about reintroduction of travel restrictions once the new math gets in. So be prepared for how that might impact you if you are stuck on the wrong side of this.
When the kids were home, we took a beach trip every summer for a week. While we did some grocery shopping upon arrival, I would always take condiments, spices, foil, saran, ziplocs, etc… from home as I didn’t need to buy new of everything. Over the years I kept a pdf on my computer of a grocery list, and a packing list which would include pool floats, pillows, night lights, general packing list. As the years when on, the lists were perfected. Some years not everything would come with us, but we could decided depending on the unit we were staying in.
The list have been a huge help in avoiding leaving something important behind. Hard to ride your road bike when you forget your helmet and cleats!
Great ideas! We are only going 4 hours away for 5 nights. I have the pile of stuff to take started and will finish the grocery order tomorrow. Getting everyone to remember sun glasses (going and returning) is always a challenge.
Remember the kids song:
Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes?
My youngest lad (adult) came to us one day and told us there’s an old folk’s version. It goes:
Wallet, glasses, keys and phone, keys and phone.
We’re supposed to repeat it every time before we go out the door.
We all got a laugh when he told it to us, but TBH, both H and I use it - often.
Not sure what that says about our age (sigh).
@Creekland - That ditty now needs to be adjusted to remember face mask. I walked out the door this morning to pick up DH, locked the door, and then remembered I didn’t have my mask.
We keep ours in our car. We don’t need them at all here on the farm. I figure the heat of the vehicles over summer will also kill anything daring to live in them.
It would be different if we needed them when we walked places.
I live in apt building, so leaving the mask in the car won’t work. I need the mask for the elevator before I ever get to my car, or if I’m walking somewhere.
I keep one in a pocket in my purse. Another one always in the car. Will keep one at my desk when I get back to work. These three places will ensure me a handy mask. Actually I can’t get into work without a mask anyway! 
Do you guys wash your masks? I thought virus could be on the front of it. I wear mine home, take off carefully and wash and hang to dry. It’s becoming a real PITA. Sometimes I even wash my face afterwards.
Even if you bake your masks in the car, it still makes sense to wash cloth face masks, at least periodically. Sun and heat will bake Covid, but you would not want some robust fungus or spore-forming bacteria to settle in the mask.
I just sew more, surely we are at the point where the non sewers can buy cheap enough versions to wash and wear like they do their undies (you don;t put back undies on after taking them off right). I saw old navy had multi packs (5 for 12.50). CC seems unlikely to have people posting here that truly cannot afford to buy enough masks. Frankly masks are a wear once and wash thing if you use them properly. Not a take off and put back on, but that is part of the theater I suppose. On a sunny Texas day a mask on the dashboard for an hour is very likely to kill viable virus (if there ever was any viable on it) though. For those who have to do multiple on and offs. IMO face washing in between is more than sensible, vital maybe if you are highly exposed.
I keep one in my car and one in my purse. When I wear the one in my car, I replace it with the clean one from my purse. And put the one I wore in the laundry and put a clean one in my purse. Rinse and repeat. I have six masks and getting two more from my sister who is ordering a bunch for everyone in our family (minimum 25 to order) from her wedding linen vendor.
Ideally, every time you take mask off, you’re supposed to put fresh one on. That can get onerous, so everyone must just do their best. I have a huge box full (I sewed) and several in my purse.
And we can circle back the point that masks are to protect the them from you, so your own failure to use the masks in any correct manner is of little matter to others. As long as you cover your mouth and nose, this is the bit that probably helps in the way of the physical barrier. Most lay people will be completely unable to use a mask for self protection.
I’ve sewn us each a supply, so I keep a clean one hanging on a key hook next to my keys, and an extra in my car. We are still only leaving the house once every 7-10 days. I do take one on my wrist when I go walking or hiking so I can put it on when I come across other people.
We just booked our summer vacation, taking an RV to various national parks in the Rockies in late June (we will drive out there from CA). We started thinking about it a week ago and over that time the campgrounds have become way more booked up, so much so that we had to drop the idea of going to the Tetons. That’s in line with what I’ve read elsewhere, that AirBnB and RV reservations have really taken off in the last couple of weeks. However, there’s still plenty of availability in the lodges which are usually completely sold out at this time of year.
H and I are going to wait before we do any air travel. H doesn’t travel very much for business, he may go to a conference now and then. I work in the office at a private school, I sometimes chaperone school trips and when I was a teacher at the same school, I traveled to conferences every so often and of course I’d chaperone trips, like the 8th grade DC trip and the choir trips. I don’t know if my school will be doing any of these trips for the foreseeable future. But, these trips aren’t frequent. H and I don’t travel for business as much as some of our friends and relatives do. We do enjoy traveling for pleasure, but we’ll hold off on flying for a while, we want to wait until things calm down! We may take a driving trip in the fall. H and his brother may go camping in September…
Hawaii will likely extend its quarantine requirements for mainland visitors throughout the summer. Also, based on what I saw in other forums, there are some talks about opening Hawaii to visitors from Japan and possibly China - really???