Mothers request that the packers fit all the comforts of home in their children's luggage

May 23, 2014 13:58 GMT  ·  By

I used to think that mothers know best what their kids need both when they are at home and when going on vacation, but it seems that rich New York City women prefer to pay somebody else to get their children ready for summer camp.

According to the New York Post, there is a new trend among wealthy mommies in the Big Apple – hiring professional organizers to pack their kids’ luggage for summer camp, and help them be better mothers, I guess.

Apparently, the service costs about $250 (€183) an hour, and the job is no easy feat, as each packing session takes between three and four hours to complete. At least that's what Barbara Reich, a professional organizer of Resourceful Consultants, says.

She told the aforementioned publication that the service is so costly because high-paid career moms are trying to make sure their children are equally spoiled while on summer camp, that's why they request that the packers fit all the comforts of home in their luggage, including 1,000-thread-count sheets, scented candles and French-milled soaps.

Mrs. Reich says many mothers worry about how their kids would accommodate in a new place, away from home, and many times they are on the point of giving up.

“I talked three people off the camp ledge,” she states. “For a lot of mothers, particularly when their child is going away for the first time, it’s very stressful. Clients will say, ‘I need to touch and feel the sheets for softness’. But these are the kinds of things they can control. They’re paying $10,000 [€7,340] for sleep-away camp, so they shouldn’t feel so bad for their child.”

Requests to pack trunks for summer camps have increased gradually over the last few years, Reich said. Two years ago, she had one trunk request; last year, she had five bag-packing jobs, and this year, she has already packed 10 trunks.

Another professional organizer, Dayna Brandoff of Chaos Theory, says some clients have even more challenging requests, as they demand her to recreate their child’s bedroom and send all necessary materials to do the job.

“A lot of parents that I work with want to duplicate the bedding that they have at home. They’re sending plastic boxes and shelving to give their kids more space,” she explained.

Probably kids couldn't care less about what their parents, or professional packers, put in their trunks, but that's how the over-parenting craze works.