You can't overpack.

Yes. You. Can. To all those ladies who insist on packing 15 pairs of shoes and everything else, please, think again. Think about the store you bought all that stuff in.

This morning I took a grueling five hour shift at J.Crew to help with this spring's new roll out items. Holy, hell. 4:15 a.m. rolled around and I was up and hardly at 'em. After three hours of sleep (clocking out the day last night at about 1 a.m.), I walked the half-mile to North Avenue, which was actually kind of nice. No one was out, the moon was there and so was the sun — no rats in sight! Hooray!

Then I get to 929 North Ave., pop music a'blarrin', and smiling, tired eyes awaited. Tired eyes and the most ridiculously overpacked boxes of t-shirts, sweaters, cardigans, shorts, etc. etc. etc. Ridiculous. Picture cardboard boxes. Picture a load of clothes completely plastic-wrapped. Picture each t-shirt individually wrapped with that weird lightweight paper and protective foam. Picture hundreds of these.

Overpacking doesn't just apply to suitcases any more. Talk about a waste of paper and plastic.