"If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well"
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The detail about “longer than a week” is telling. It sets a threshold where spontaneity becomes logistics, a boundary between casual mobility and the more serious kind of absence. Checking a bag signals commitment to movement, yet she immediately reins it back with “light and quick,” keeping control over what could sound rootless. In a culture that romanticizes travel while also treating it as a status marker, Snowdon sidesteps the glamour narrative and sells the labor underneath it: the discipline of choosing, editing, and being ready on demand.
Context matters: for a working model, travel isn’t an aspirational lifestyle; it’s the infrastructure of employment. “Living out of a suitcase” lands as both shorthand for freedom and a polite euphemism for instability. She chooses the upbeat register, but the sentence carries a faint survivalist edge: repetition has made this normal, and normal has been turned into expertise.
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Snowdon, Lisa. (n.d.). If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-im-going-away-for-longer-than-a-week-i-take-a-114231/
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Snowdon, Lisa. "If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-im-going-away-for-longer-than-a-week-i-take-a-114231/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-im-going-away-for-longer-than-a-week-i-take-a-114231/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.


