We were each allowed two checked-in luggage and one carry-on each on the planes. I had a lot of packing and sorting to do.

We decided we would maximize our allowance. That meant 10 full sized pieces of checked luggage and 5 carry-ons. We had 1 suitcase, 1 duffel bag and 3 kids carry-ons and 2 backpacks in the house. We ordered 5 suitcases at $60 each online, which arrived a few days later. I didn't really think we were actually going to need 10. At that point, we had 7. I thought that would be fine.

When the existing bags were getting full, we picked up 2 more of the same suitcases at the Harbourfront Mall next door and walked home carrying them. No we had 9 suitcases - Plenty, right?

Potentially 15 pieces of luggage sounded like a bit of a nightmare with 4 locations to take them too. How do you even fit those in a car? Your options are basically 2 vans or limo service.

I decided to pack by location. The carry-ons would stay with us everywhere, with our activities, books, most important things, but the rest would be segregated. I did 2 luggage for "Singapore," which held 3 days, plus a spare of nice hot weather clothes, our swimwear and towels, our airport clothes, the kids little pillows and blankies, and MsC's roller blades and helmet, because she was still scheduled "skating" lessons. Then there was 1 suitcase for the "Quarantine Hotel" which held activities, more books, our Canada clothes, etc.

One of the Singapore bags, got a new label of "Quarantine Hotel" when we left the Raffles Hotel, because it had toys, bathroom stuff, little pillows and blankies in it.  Now we had 1 luggage that said "Singapore" and 2 luggage for the "Quarantine Hotel" in Vancouver.

The remaining 7 bags were labelled "Canada Home / Harbour Air." We were hoping Harbour Air would store the extra 7 bags for the 4 days before we took our Harbour Air flight to the island. In the end we just took them with us to the Hotel, it seemed too complicated to figure out getting them to Harbour Air at the time. I just shoved them in the closet and didn't open them, so it was well worth the sorting.

Jonathan bought a handheld luggage scale and I weighed every suitcase and shifted things around until they were just under the maximum weight of 23 Kg. I usually had to weigh them 3 times till I got them at weight. We still ended up with 3 bags that were overweight no matter how many times I tried to resort them.

The night we went to the hotel, I looked around the "packing room" and realized that we were not going to fit what remained in the 1 suitcase and 1 duffle bag remaining , even if I gave away a lot more clothes. I had to choose between loosing our pool reservation at the Raffles Hotel or going out to buy another suitcase to finish packing.

I chose to go to Raffles and left my packing problem for the next morning. The biggest problem was I needed the condo entirely empty for our Cleaning Crew who were coming the next morning at 9:30 am. The mall wouldn't be open yet to buy more luggage before the Cleaners arrived. I thought maybe I could run out after our carefully scheduled afternoon pool time and Covid tests, but before Jonathan and I went our for our anniversary dinner.

I ran out of time, and so I dumped out one of the suitcases that with us at the Hotel and took it back to the house empty with me the next morning.

I woke up really early and couldn't get back to sleep thinking about all the work that needed to be done before the cleaners arrived. At 4:30 am I got up, snuck our of our hotel room with the empty suitcase, and called a Grab. I got to the condo at 5:00 am. It's a good thing I did, because there was more to do than I had realized. That photo at the top is just what my packing room looked like when I arrived.

I needed to:

• Separate all desk from the bookshelf so that I could be picked up by a buyer at 9 am.
• Take the Give Away items to the basement. This ended up being 3 trips, because the pile got bigger.
• I discovered that the 2 bathrooms hadn't been packed, so I had to sort through them into take, garbage, and give away.
• Throw out the Garbage.
• I needed to pack the 3 suitcases and I was pretty sure it still wasn't going to fit. It didn't! When I thought I'd done it, I realized that I had missed MsE's clothes - She almost went to Canada with barely any clothes. Instead I had to re-sort some suitcases and give away other clothes to fit most of MsE's clothes in.

I gave away bags and bags of clothes, unopened bathroom supplies and my hair flat-iron, carry-on sized luggage that we couldn't use, and so many clothes hangers. I even sorted though MsC's home school work for the year to remove duplicates and only keep essentials. I had the kids year's schoolwork examples in our Airplane bags, because I still need to write report cards for this last term.

I had everything done with about 20 minutes to spare. After the condo was packed, the Bookshelf/Desk handed off, and the Cleaners had been let in, I popped into our friends house to give them some tools, which had not fit in the luggage, and drank a much needed cup of tea. It was now 11:30 am, so I went to the now open Mall and bought the last suitcase so I could re-pack the items on the floor of the Raffles Hotel.

Final total of all that luggage (carry-on and checked): 615 lbs.