Vacation Packing (Large Family Organization / Travel)
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- We're packing up for a 10 day trip! We're keeping things to a minimum and have fit all of the clothes for our family of 10 in one bag. Aunt Melanie is loaning us a portable crib when we get there.
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I’m so glad Andrea made these videos.
My goal in life is now to just be like 1/8th as organized as she is. She's seriously amazing!
I am so impressed with your packing and organization skills, I am horrible about over packing and it causes stress to the trip to have extra stuff to look through. you are a great example, thanks for all your videos.
I honestly can't believe you stopped to take a video of everything you did! Amazing!
We live in MN and just got back from a road trip to So Cal, where we grew up. Your organization is such a blessing to your family! I hope to learn a lot from you!
I live in mn too and we were planning a trip sometime to go to sandiego to visit my uncle :)
oh my gosh she is so efficient too.!! she's just a great person overall,her husband and children are first and lastly herself.!! just Love her.!!
So cool, calm and collected; an inspiration!
Aww little Sophia was so cute singing.
I always wanted to travel in a big van!
You are so organized! It just brings peace when packing goes so smoothly, with all the lists to help. and your girls outfits are so cute today! Have fun on your trip!
You are actually so organized!!!
Your an inspiration" good job Mom!!
U r a very good organizer. Hope u enjoy yr trip and time with yr family
Have a blast! We just drove to San Diego and back to Colorado Springs with our six kids in July to visit my parents. It was such a good time!! I'm really enjoying your videos!
Your so organised, enjoy your trip and arrive home safely 🚐
Wow very well organized. Travel safe
Hi Andrea! You most likely won't see my comment, but I find it helps to roll clothes instead of fold them, because it takes up a little bit less room, plus, it is easier to pull clothes out.
I do see it. Thanks for the tip!
Andrea Mills I stand by rolling your clothes, it definitely takes up a bit less room. :)
Such a beautiful family
you are super mom and wife!
Have a fun time enjoy your family
It’s fun to watch these older videos again!
A tip for when you are transporting liquids put cling wrap it will seal it in more once the lid is on to help reduce spilling
I was searching for a video on how to pack for a family. I needed good reminders on what to bring. I found it in your video. Thank you.
Have fun on your trip! My parents live in soCAL also (Mohave desert area). We did the trip two years ago (takes us about 25 hours to drive from where we are). We went to Knott's Berry Farm also! The tickets were much cheaper than going to Legoland, which we had gone to several years earlier when it was still new. Between that time and when we went back in 2014 the ticket prices for Legoland had almost doubled! So Knott's was a more affordable option, and it was not crowded at all when we went even though it was June. We rarely vacation when the public schools do, but my mom wanted us to be able to visit with my sister and her kids and so we had to work around their school schedule.
We did Disney world in 2011 when we lived in Florida. Since we've moved we actually live almost exactly equal driving distance from my parents in CA and Orlando for in either direction. So we are trying to decide which way we want to go for next time, lol! We only had seven kids last time we went to Disney
We've went to Disneyland several times, but it is so expensive and we spend most of the day standing in line. It come out to like $25 per ride! :) Knott's Berry Farm is so much more fun!
I want to go on vacation with y'all!!!!!!
Praying for safe travels for you and your family. I can't wait to see your Mills-ventures in California!
love your chanel...you are such a inspiration...God bless you
This was impressive! New subscriber! Adorable family! :)
Do you guys were the same color top together? If you do that's so cool! I like how organized you are
Yes, we wear matching clothes every day. If you'd like to know more about it, you can watch this video: th-cam.com/video/n52r0taoRIY/w-d-xo.html
Andrea Mills
Hope you have a great time!
My mom taught me a packing trick where if you fold your clothes normally and then roll them up you can usually pack everything much better.
Also I'm in love with your pink filling purse thing!
Very organized. I always pack too many clothes that I do not wear.
MY HERO!!!!!! Safe travels♡
I am coveting your lovely pink file bag, let me guess, Amazon or Office Depot? I'm going to go search for one. never knew they had them. we just started children's Sunday school at our church 2 weeks ago. we started our church on Easter Sunday of this year. this is the first time for a children's class. I teach and LOVE it. with al, my sheets I use and visual aids that bag would perfect, I'm in love and I don't even have it yet, haha,
enjoy your fun planned vacation! God is good!
How did you guess?! Yes, it's from Office Depot. :) I didn't even have a purpose for it when I bought it, but I really liked how it looked. It does come in handy!
+Andrea Mills I found one at Amazon. I love red! I told my husband about it this morning. haha. he thought it was a good idea.
I would love to see how you do your grapes and jelly!
Great organizing and simple packing tips. We only have 4 kids and I started colour coding everyone in the family when there were only 2. I get so many comments that it's a bit OCD of me, but it really makes it so much easier for the kids and even other people to help keep things sorted.
I was the same way! I read about color-coding before we had kids and I decided I was going to do that someday, so when we had two, we began.
she is a super Mother isn't she? and Tom is a great Father.
Lucky kids.!!
Safe travels! 🚗
So humbling to see.
Mind-boggling! lol!
Gosh I miss this woman!
If I had been knowing ya all was coming to Cali I woulda me up with ya all too and I'm in Riverside Cali not to far from rancho cucogamonga and Pomona and Fontana
great job
Do you have a video of the daily jobs for the kids and you?
If not, maybe you'd conceded making one ^^
Goals
Wow! You are amazing! I tend to over pack for everything, even for a day trip. I foster children and have 3 adopted of my own and it's so hard to get a pattern because there are children constantly coming and going. How many outfits should you pack? Also, do you have a video regarding how many items of clothing a child should have in their closet? I am overrun with clutter right now! Thanks!
I haven't made a video about how many clothes we have for each child, but I plan to do that next month when I do some clothes shopping. For this trip we packed 2 sets of clothes plus what we were wearing, so 3 outfits per person total. I've done a load of laundry each day, which is small, consisting of the previous day's clothes.
I wanna road trip with you 😂
SAME
Im only commenting because of your pfp. Thanks bye.
I miss how efficient she was. Made it look so easy!
where did you get your black bags and pink file bag? They are great for trips!! :)
Our black bags came from Thirty-One, but I saw some almost exactly like them at Walmart the other day. They were in the section with laundry baskets and hampers. My file bag came from Office Depot.
Would you ever do a full house tour?(of every room?)
I have done videos on most of the rooms of our house, but I haven't done the kitchen, our bedroom or my office yet. Here's a link the playlist. The first video is about the house in general and then there is a floor plan of the house. You can click the rooms to take you to the video of that room. th-cam.com/play/PLd2pt5YWp66Cm88KzsrrIL3qTiY9EYLe0.html
Do you guys color side your clothes? I noticed everyone was wearing brown in this video and that you packed "Navy and Green clothes"
Yes, th-cam.com/video/n52r0taoRIY/w-d-xo.html
wondering if your girls only wear skirts/dresses . and I live in north california hope to see you here lol sending you journey mercies on your adventure!!
Wouldn't that be fun to run into each other?! My girls wear skirts or dresses most of the time, but they each have a pair of jeans that they wear sometimes, too. We don't have a "dresses only" rule; we just prefer them because they are pretty, feminine and comfortable.
Thanks for responding. I myself only have raised boys so it's always been pants or shorts lol. I even forget to ear dresses/skirts.
I guess you're only in southern cal?? I live off interstate 5 but in north california. My sister lives about same distance as me off the interstate but in southern California so we can say we just live down the street from each other forgetting the over 500 miles in between hehehe
Tom is from Rancho Cucamonga so we're going to be in that area. I don't know how any place relates to another out there. It all seems like one big city to me!
+Andrea Mills really it's like 2 different states. I live closer to Oregon(5hrs) than Los Angeles area(6-8 hours)
What job does Tom have because he seems to be a very hard working person!
He is a wonderful, hard-working husband! We run a computer repair business out of our home. Tom does the repairs both at home and out at other homes and businesses. Our oldest son runs our little store while Tom is out. Our 3 oldest boys help Tom build custom computers for our customers. I do the bookkeeping. We all try to do our part!
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Curious as to where you got or what kind of TV mount you gave....we have a 12 seater for our family and would love to adapt a TV for long drives. Have fun :)
It's a computer screen/ tv wall mount arm. It's the kind that makes it so you can move the screen around. The brand is Rocket Fish. We got it at Best Buy. I think any kind would work. Tom took the plastic off the side of the van and then drilled a hole in the frame of the van. He used a lag screw to attach the mount and then replaced the plastic. The piece that attaches to the van stays there all the time. We leave the tv attached to the arm and lift the whole thing off the mount to store it in the attic until we need it. If you watch our van organization video, you can see what it looks like when the tv has been taken out. th-cam.com/video/X5_Jl33Fsrs/w-d-xo.html
It's a computer screen/ tv wall mount arm. It's the kind that makes it so you can move the screen around. The brand is Rocket Fish. We got it at Best Buy. I think any kind would work. Tom took the plastic off the side of the van and then drilled a hole in the frame of the van. He used a lag screw to attach the mount and then replaced the plastic. The piece that attaches to the van stays there all the time. We leave the tv attached to the arm and lift the whole thing off the mount to store it in the attic until we need it. If you watch our van organization video, you can see what it looks like when the tv has been taken out. th-cam.com/video/X5_Jl33Fsrs/w-d-xo.html
Thank you kindly! I got some good tips from the van organizational video to use in ours!
If you don't mind me asking where did u get your kids names from
A lot of them sound biblical
Mikayla Lockett They're biblical names.
what kind of a vehicle do you drive?
one thing we did for our vacation we just went on, was I had diapers shipped to where we were staying (with family) so I only needed to travel with diapers we needed for the trip.
We drive a 12=passenger van. Here is a video I did on how we organize it: th-cam.com/video/X5_Jl33Fsrs/w-d-xo.html
+Andrea Mills thanks so much! there are only 6 of us (plus a 100lb dog) but a regular van is tight!
How long did you guys go for
Hi Andrea I just wanted to know if you going to vacation for 2 weeks how many clothes to pack for three girls and for yourself.
I would probably still pack about 3 outfits per person total and plan to do laundry. That would mean 2 outfits each would go in the suitcase and we'd be wearing the third one to travel in.
I have a problem with looking for socks for them.some time I want to give up looking for them.
Where did you get the black bags and your filing bag? They are nice.
The black bags came from a Thirty-One party although since then I saw some very similar ones at Walmart in the laundry basket aisle. The file bag came from Office Depot.
WOW! I'm amazed! Keep up the good work Andrea! Is most of your cleaning supplies a d.i.y?
Hi there! Would you mind clarifying your question for me?
Andrea Mills she meant do you make them all yourself.
Yes that's what I meant do you make your supplies or buy them
We don't use very many cleaning products. We use water and microfiber cloths for windows, plain water and regular cloths in the bathrooms, we scrub the inside of the toilet with a brush without cleaner, a feather duster for dusting or a wet cloth, if needed. We use plain water and a mop on the floors. (I had never really thought about this until now.) I buy soap for laundry and dishes. Sometimes I mix up a scrub using baking soda, dish soap and citric acid for the stove top. We use vinegar sometimes because we have very hard water and minerals build up on stuff, but I guess we just use plain water for almost all of our cleaning.
Where did you get the black bags from, Andrea?
I got them from a Thirty-One party. I saw some almost exactly like them at Walmart the other day in the laundry basket aisle.
Thank you!
Welp im only having 1 or 2 kids only
Hahahahahahahaha lol omfg I totally agree
What does Tom do
We run a home-based computer repair business. Here's a video touring our little store: th-cam.com/video/YahShQoOw2Y/w-d-xo.html
If the kids expressed concern with matching outfits, would you let them wear something else? Not implying that they mind, just wondering.
We don't have a rule that anyone has to match. They wear different clothes any time they want to.
Where did you buy those black bags ???
I got mine at a Thirty-One party. I saw some recently at Walmart in the laundry section. They were the same size and shape, but they had pockets on the outside which makes them even better!
do you celebrate birthdays all at once for the kids or no!?
No, we always celebrate their special day on their birthday. Here's a link to our playlist of birthday vlogs. (The kids 12 and under have a themed party; 13 and up celebrate like "grown ups." th-cam.com/play/PLd2pt5YWp66CaQJlggR7D38zBAkLxk6Yp.html
On the hair combing bag list it said St what does that mean
That's private so I didn't spell it out.
Andrea Mills oh ok that is perfectly fine! Love your channel btw👍
Where do you live
why don't the girls to chours
The girls are younger
Our 6-year-old daughter does.
what religion are you guys 😊
We just consider ourselves Christians- no particular denomination. (We both grew up Southern Baptist, however.)
My car is sooo messy. I am sooo thankful to have removable rubber floorboards. And to have$60,000 car
Some people are just too organized for me. Not hating just saying for me it’s too much
All your biological kids?
Yes, they are.
Holy God! May I just say kudos to you! Would you add another child or nah
I'd be happy to have more. I love being a mom. We love being a family! Last night we were out for a walk and Tom said, "I'm just so happy with life..." That about sums it up!
Andrea Mills Aw how sweet. I don't know how ya'll keep up.
Don't ur kids have any choice in what they wear?
once they're older they get to wear what they want if they want, but the eldest has chosen to wear the same as the rest of the family
I honestly think its unfair. kids should be able to express themselves through what they wear st any age and should not be forced into wearing something they don't agree with or like
+Madison Gilreath No one ever said life was fair.
The kids have a vide variety of clothing styles in a variety of colors, its just that they wear the same color on the same day. Can you imagine how hard it would be to keep track of that many young people? Coordinating outfit color makes it much easier to see who is in the Mills' clan when they're out and about. Clothing choice is such a superficial thing to worry about. Maybe think of it as a school uniform instead. Homeschool uniform.
You should let them pack for them selves in there own suitcases and then have you check because then it would be easier in the morning. Also you should let your kids express themselves through there clothes, all I see in your videos are browns blacks greys and other bland colors unless it's your colorcoded pillows water bottles etc, you should really just let your children choose there own clothes, school supplies, pillows, water bottles, etc
Nora, I know you probably mean well... but it's like that awkward moment when the guy who makes microwave dinners for himself in his apartment every night starts telling the head chef of a busy restaurant how to run a kitchen.
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Andrea Mills actually I pack for myself everysingle time I go anywhere and I need a change of clothes. When I was Edens age my mom would check it to make sure I had everything and she still does today. It gives the children more responsibility to be able to be prepared for the real world. Just warning you, when they are 30 years old they will be living in your house and be depending on you when I'm gonna be in LA livening my dream because my parents didn't ruin my life by not letting me do anything accept for chores. Now if you'll excuse me I need to pack for my trip
Nora McNabb What she is trying to say is you are very quick to tell others what to do when you don't know how it's all done and she's been doing this for years. If you've watched her other videos or even just this one you'd know she is incredibly organized and packs for everyone because it is easier and faster that way (even if you don't think so). They also wear matching clothes, in the entire spectrum of the rainbow, for simplicity and ease. She has said many,many times that if her kids did not want to wear matching clothes then she would not make them AND sometimes they chose not to and it can be seen in her videos. Maybe consider the phrase next time " do whatever floats your boat, as long as it doesn't sink mine".
Kids, they think they know it all. 🙄. Nora come back in 20 years...