To Do

[ewt]

Pack clothes
Confirm Flights
Wrap more gifts
Pack lunch/dinner for eating on the plane tomorrow (bagels with creamcheese), because buying airplane food is dumb.
Write postcards
Make up parcels to send to UK (stuff I've acquired here that I don't need for the next ten days)
Panic


I think that's everything.

You can buy ibuprofen in a bottle with 500 200mg tablets in for about $12 here. I'm considering getting a bottle to take with me, because in the UK it's a pain in the neck to get painkillers more than 16 at a time, but there's nothing illegal about importing the stuff. I use it probably once or twice a week depending on other factors, so that would be around a 3-year supply, which is probably even within the use-by date. Also, 500 tablets loose in a bottle takes up much less space per tablet than blister packs, which tend to get lost anyway.

Comments

[arosoff.livejournal.com]

I always do that. if you know someone with a Costco membership you can get the megasize containers ;)

[karen2205]

You ought to be able to get bottles of 100 ibuprofen tablets from Boots (never tried it in another pharmacy) by asking at the pharmacy counter.

Paracetamol tablets you can only buy 32 at a time - packs of 32 again available from the pharmacy counter.

But, exchange rate depending, I think $12 for 500 tablets sounds like a very good deal.

Other things

[columbiaist.livejournal.com]

What other things can you pick up in Canada and brink back to the UK? What have you found that is particularly expensive in the UK and cheap elsewhere?