1. As a scrapbooker, it is easier to pick colors for the pages if the people I have pictures of are in similar colors (as my kids have gotten older, we no longer completely match, but we do try to coordinate in the same colors on the same days). So I pack the same colors in shirts for the whole family for at least the days we'll be taking the majority of pictures. This is also helpful, if God forbid, I should need to describe one of my children to a police officer. I know exactly what they were wearing.
2. Road trips. When going in and out of hotels each night in different cities, I don't want to take a suitcase for everyone in each night (nor is there usually room in the van for so many suitcases). So I have 1 suitcase for the kids and myself with pajamas, toothbrushes, medicines, etc. Anything we'd need overnight). Clothing is packed by the day in large 2 1/2 gallon zipper bags and put in a larger bag (coordinating colors of course=). Each night before we go into the hotel, I grab the next day's worth of clothes, put it in the hotel bag with the PJs and the rest stays in the van.
3.Activity boxes (also see In the Car post with other travel ideas). For each road trip, we use these snap on lid boxes. Each kid has their own and it holds notebooks, crayons, MP3 players, money, travel games, etc. If they get new stuff on the way, have some leftover snack (IN a bag), they can put it in their space and it's not spread out all over the floor.
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